We can all relate to wanting to have the perfect diet, but than something delicious and so not on your diet is placed in front of you and you kinda, sorta eat almost if not all of the thing you know you should not have. Then during the week you try on a outfit and you almost feel like you can tell in your arms or stomach or really any where on your body that you had a cheat day.
There are five stages you usually feel when you cheat on your diet:
1. Denial
If I don't tell anyone or maybe if I eat with my eyes closed it didn't really happen.
2. Extreme sadness
The heart wants what the heart wants and unfortunately most of the time it is junk food and after you have eaten enough of the food you know you were not supposed to sad, you just want lay down and sulk about it.
3. Anger
Now that you are over complaining and feeling sorry for yourself because you ate enough food to feed a small army, you are mad at yourself! "How could I have been so stupid?" "What was I thinking?" "This is going straight to my butt!"
4. Guilt
"Fat last longer than flavor..." "Maybe I should go run like five miles now..." "I just wont eat for the rest of the day..." "How could I have done this to myself?!" All these feelings and emotions of guilt... may just lead you to a tub of ice cream for you to eat your feelings especially since you already feel guilty, why not really make yourself feel guilty?
5. Acceptance
After feeling upset, angry, and guilty for a day.. maybe two... you accept it. You ate the donut? So what! No one cares that you had five times the serving size, but you. If it was good and you enjoyed it then you can consider your cheat meal/day/ week successful!
Being on a diet does not mean you can't enjoy food that is unhealthy, it means being able to have it in moderations, whether or not you stay true to portion sizes on a cheat day, that is up to you!
