I think I've mentioned it before, but it's always dangerous to start a diet when you've still got junk food left in the house. I had half a bag of chips leftover from having friends over on Monday. After getting back from running though, I was craving a snack and happened to notice the bag of chips. Before long I was sitting on the couch, watching some Hulu and snacking on chips. I did cut it short of eating them all, but I still picked up a lot of extra, unnecessary calories because of it.
It's not the first time that's happened to me over the last six weeks, and I'm sure others have had a similar problem themselves. It ties a bit into the discussion of diet failure as well. A lot of times in the past I've ended saying, "Oh darn, I've pigged out too much today. Guess I'll start the diet tomorrow instead." Of course as everybody knows, when you think like that, tomorrow never actually comes. Instead, the next day you grab five Reese's Peanut Butter Cups out of the candy bowl at work, shrug and say, "Tomorrow's when I'm really going to start the diet."
So just like success and failure can't simply be a matter of how much weight you've lost or gained in comparison to an arbitrary reference, a diet can't fail just because you've pigged out on a day. This isn't to say it's okay to got to 5 Guys three times a week and still claim to be on the diet, but there's no point in losing hope just because you've given into a craving a time or two. The next time I go to the supermarket I'll pick up some healthy snacks, and I won't buy any more chips. The diet didn't fail today just because I ate some chips, but it will fail if I lose hope about what's going to happen "tomorrow."
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), turkey sandwich for lunch (500 calories), granola bar, a hershey's kiss and some chips as snacks (600 calories), lasanga and garlic toast for dinner (1000 calories).
Exercise was a 3 mile run around Roger Willams Park (400 calories).
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/232168763
Daily Food Total: 2400
Exercise: 400
Points Earned: 1000
Total Points Earned: 2882
Points to go: 47118
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