Comments on: All or nothing at all

By: diet food delivery

diet food delivery — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:35:54 +0000

By: Keelie@REAL FAT

Keelie@REAL FAT — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:14:56 +0000

Hey Kellie!
So glad to have found your blog! Funny–I have a very similar post on my blog right now. I think you are so right. We make the rules–we have to be accountable for making our rules and then sticking to them. You are doing such a great job! Thanks for the inspiration.

Keelie

By: NeutralMonkey

NeutralMonkey — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:23:14 +0000

I try to keep this in mind; today I accidentally ate a lot more sugar that I meant to, and it would have been really easy to say “screw it! Might as well eat what I want today!” Some days I’m better and seeing the stupidity in that than others.

By: Zan

Zan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:15:11 +0000

The all or nothing attitude really is the best way to set one’s self up for failure. Finally moving past that mentality is a large part of my success, I’m sure.

Great post!

By: Hot Mother

Hot Mother — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:49:27 +0000

Spot on, Kellie. Since we all know that diets don’t work (in the long term), the only way we can succeed at this for good is to realize that fit, healthy people eat healthy the vast majority of the time, but they allow themselves treats sometimes, too.

Act like fit, healthy people, and we’ll become fit, healthy people.

Great post!

By: Anonymous Fat Girl

Anonymous Fat Girl — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:34:20 +0000

Fab post Kellie!!! Your are so right about the “all or nothing” mentality. I have no idea to this day why I lived by that for so many years. In fact, I didn’t even realize I lived by it until I started blogging back in November.

I remember my past dieting experience would be this. I’d be golden and perfect until late afternoon or early evening; then I’d have something very, very bad or “off plan”. Then I’d tell myself, “Oh, what the hell. You already messed up, so have more.” Then I’d find myself had eaten an entire cheesecake or box of Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies (one of my vices). Then the next day it would repeat. Or if I never got back “on plan” I’d have a bad week. Or a bad month.

I think it’s so important to be able to eat healthy and realize if you have a little misstep or something “not on plan” then it’s OKAY. You will survive. It doesn’t mean keep eating crap. You just have to keep trying and make it work.

By: K

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:50:57 +0000

@WaistingTime: I think it happens to all of us at one time or another. I think that’s why this time will be different… because we all recognize it and are doing everything we can to succeed in spite of it!

By: K

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:49:28 +0000

@Brittany: Thank you for stopping on by Brittany! And thank you very much for the kind words! I am headed on over to your blog!

By: WaistingTime

WaistingTime — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:19:21 +0000

I can’t tell you how many times I cheated and then figured if I had blown my diet I might as well eat whatever I wanted that day. Great post.

By: tiffany

tiffany — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:41:39 +0000

You are a wise wise woman

Realizing things like this are even so much bigger than we understand; because it is positive and realistic thinking such as this that keeps us excercising and eating right for the long haul and keeps us from just relying on motivation alone- which as we all know, can’t be relied on for the long haul.

Muy bien!