Archive for December 5th, 2009

Regrouping After Pig Outs

Man, is it hard to get back into the swing of things after you go on vacation, when considering your diet. My now husband and I typically eat a pretty healthy diet, but we also enjoy a little gluttony in fattening, salty and sugary foods that are a diet no no as well. Hey, what can I say?

We love food in general, and we find that eating a variety of foods is fun and makes life more interesting instead of always denying yourself the pleasure of indulgence. While that may not be the best attitude for our waistlines, and admittedly we do tend to fluctuate between certain weights a lot, it’s a simple fact of life for us.

As long as you can always reign it back in after you have a bad day or a bad couple of days is the key to maintaining a somewhat healthy weight and maintaining that weight. If you start going on multi-week or month pig out periods though, that’s when you know, you have some serious recalibrations to do when it comes to your mental state and also to the foods that you’ve become chemically accustomed too.

After all, it’s not just all psychological, when you pig out for a period of time, your body becomes accustomed to heavier tastes, and when you begin to eat healthy again, it can naturally rebel against what tastes like more bland food, craving things that have more flavor, and resulting in a misstep or two.

One of the ways I like to get back in the groove is listen to one of the self hypnosis cd’s for weightloss that I have. These can really dig into your subconscious mind and help you to overcome those cravings and desires for fattening and weight gaining foods. They attack the desires at a level where you don’t even necessarily understand what’s happening.

After I listen to these cd’s, I have a renewed commitment to myself and to my body, and it makes me understand again, on a deeper level, that eating badly is actually an act of contrition against my body, which is my “temple” so to speak. It really reinforces being kind to yourself and treating your body right on a deep, subconscious level that cannot be easily altered.

I also like to try to focus on things in my life other than food. I try to laser focus on my outside interests and my job, for instance, so that food takes a backseat to the truly more important things in life, and I actually find myself being more productive. You’d be amazed with what just taking the focus off food can do for your creativity and productivity, that alone is a huge incentive to get off the pigout wagon and get back on the track of eating right for your body and mind.