Cheat Day
The Holidays rolled around and comparatively speaking to any other year in my life around the holidays I did fantastic. Prior to this year from Thanksgiving until Jan 1 was an absolute crap show. Treats would start rolling in the house and I would circle around them like a vulture looking at carnage until I gave in. Sometimes I would eat without a thought about it, other times I would nibble at the foods little piece at a time like a goldfish eating it’s flaky food at the top of the fishbowl. Either way, I would consume countless calories. Lord knows I wouldn’t count calories those days!
This year was different. Yes, I ate too much on Thanksgiving day. The beauty of my overeating was the day after Thanksgiving I was right back on target. I didn’t continue to pick at the high calorie, high sugar left overs. Same for my December birthday and Christmas.
I don’t want to overwhelm myself with change. Logging my food and beverage intake those days I was “off” was out of the question for me. Not a possibility. Was not going to happen and may not ever happen! The ability to say “no” the days surrounding these celebratory days was a huge victory to me. Last year I had to stay 100% food sober during every holiday and birthday! I was not strong enough to get off plan and return cleanly. This year, I was! That is HUGE for me.