Post by lizlor on Dec 2, 2023 5:51:57 GMT
Prepare for Travel
Today’s Thoughts:
Once I accept that I have to follow through with my vacation diet strategy, dieting will be easier.
Making a Travel Plan
Beck writes: create a diet strategy. I want you to think about this in advance so that you can remind yourself of it every day before you leave. Decide how closely you’ll follow your diet, specifically what exceptions you’ll make and how much weight, if any, you’ll allow yourself to gain. These decisions are individual. There are no right or wrong answers. Some people do better if they try to follow their diet as closely as possible when they’re away, so that they don’t gain any weight during this time. This strategy, however, is totally unrealistic for most people. If your eating rules are too strict, you might get fed up and abandon your diet altogether. A better strategy might be one of the following: Allow yourself a few hundred extra calories every day. (This is what I do.) Follow your usual plan every day but add minor splurges on a few occasions. Follow your diet every day except for a splurge on the last day. Using any one of these strategies might cause a small weight gain (assuming your splurges aren’t too big), which is reasonable and certainly much better than gaining a lot of weight. You’ll feel better about yourself if you decide in advance that this is what you want to do. You won’t feel very good if you try not to gain weight, eat more than you’d planned, and end up gaining weight anyway.
How Not to Gain Too Much
Try to think of specific situations that might arise while you’re away that will test your resolve. Then figure out what you’ll do about them. Consult your diet coach, if you like. These are some solutions dieters I’ve counseled use to help prevent gaining too much weight while they’re away from home:
-Exercise more
-Eat brunch instead of breakfast and lunch.
-Carry food with you. If you have a long trip ahead of you, consider bringing along some favorite foods permitted on your diet plan.
-Use the strategies you’ve already learned.
Tell us about a past travel experience where you’ve gone off plan and why.
Compare that to a time when you travelled and stayed on plan and what worked for you.
Today’s Thoughts:
Once I accept that I have to follow through with my vacation diet strategy, dieting will be easier.
Making a Travel Plan
Beck writes: create a diet strategy. I want you to think about this in advance so that you can remind yourself of it every day before you leave. Decide how closely you’ll follow your diet, specifically what exceptions you’ll make and how much weight, if any, you’ll allow yourself to gain. These decisions are individual. There are no right or wrong answers. Some people do better if they try to follow their diet as closely as possible when they’re away, so that they don’t gain any weight during this time. This strategy, however, is totally unrealistic for most people. If your eating rules are too strict, you might get fed up and abandon your diet altogether. A better strategy might be one of the following: Allow yourself a few hundred extra calories every day. (This is what I do.) Follow your usual plan every day but add minor splurges on a few occasions. Follow your diet every day except for a splurge on the last day. Using any one of these strategies might cause a small weight gain (assuming your splurges aren’t too big), which is reasonable and certainly much better than gaining a lot of weight. You’ll feel better about yourself if you decide in advance that this is what you want to do. You won’t feel very good if you try not to gain weight, eat more than you’d planned, and end up gaining weight anyway.
How Not to Gain Too Much
Try to think of specific situations that might arise while you’re away that will test your resolve. Then figure out what you’ll do about them. Consult your diet coach, if you like. These are some solutions dieters I’ve counseled use to help prevent gaining too much weight while they’re away from home:
-Exercise more
-Eat brunch instead of breakfast and lunch.
-Carry food with you. If you have a long trip ahead of you, consider bringing along some favorite foods permitted on your diet plan.
-Use the strategies you’ve already learned.
Tell us about a past travel experience where you’ve gone off plan and why.
Compare that to a time when you travelled and stayed on plan and what worked for you.
