You eat something that you know isn't good for you. You justify it. I've had a bad day...maybe you don't justify it out loud...maybe you don't even realize what you've done. What have you put into your body today? A cup of coffee and a doughnut?
Oh, for the love of bad days. There will be many. You're not the only one, we've all had them...we all have them. And, you will have many more.
So, you ate crap...and it was a Tuesday.
It's ok.
You have three choices. 1) You can deny what you've done, justify it by saying that your diet was better than anyone else's that you work with even though it was crappy, and continue about. 2) You can shame yourself by making yourself feel even more horrible for doing what you did. 3) You can accept that you reverted back to your old ways, hold yourself accountable, forgive yourself, & move on.
I hope you made the third choice.
Along this journey of ours, we are going to have some bad days. We're going to revert back to old habits, eat emotionally...possibly even binge. Sugar addiction is no joke. Emotional eating doesn't just go away over night. The first step of moving from denial into acceptance has been done. Now, comes working through what put us here in the first place...and that takes time. It takes time to retrain our brain to eat nutritious foods. It takes consistency to rechannel emotional energy in a way that promotes balance and health. It is not going to happen overnight, but it will happen. We should accept what we've done, journal about it, acknowledge it, identify our triggers, and think about how we could have handled it differently....
...and forgive ourself.
Breathe. Tomorrow is a new day.
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