I got new Asics this weekend.  It seems that’s what I needed to re-motivate. Something to excite me back into the gym. That, or the fact that Monday is the start of my diet week, and I could start with a clean slate today. I’ve had my week-and-2-weekends ’off’ and I’m not proud of it. Yes, I did enjoy good food and drink, but I feel I could’ve done that with healthy foods instead of chips and pizza.  I thought (and posted) several times that I was over my indulgences, but I was apparantly trying to convince myself instead of actually being over it. So I’m not lying to you (or myself) this time when I say, I’m back.

My husband tried to stop me from eating chips on Saturday. I told him, “I’m starting over on Monday.”  That’s been my M.O. with dieting. Once I’ve messed up for the day, week or month, I roll myself into an avalanche of excuses and end up feeling broken with a mountain to re-climb. I used to run a Diet Challenge with a bunch of my friends. We’d diet for a month at a time, comparing BMI (body mass index) Points lost at the end of the month. We’d stop a day or two before month-end, so we could get together for a reward dinner where the losing team bought dinner for the winners. Every month, I’d go off my diet at that dinner, and the next day or so until the Diet Challenge started again the first of the month. I would have gained some weight in those few days, making my starting BMI a bit higher, which would then be easy to lose and I’d help my team. I quit running the challenge because I got tired of tricking myself and I was steadily gaining weight.

I think if I can figure out how to stay motivated all the time, I would be set. Duh. I put the 3 Cheats into The Rule of Three Diet to keep me from going off track, but apparently, that hasn’t worked for me yet. I am going to make myself use my cheats on food this month, and not wine. Maybe that will help keep me on track by allowing small treats throughout the week, instead of ending up feeling so deprived that I take another full week off.

If any of you have any suggestions for how you stay motivated, I’d love to read them! Please add a comment.

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Posted: October 8th, 2007 under Daily Journal, Motivation.
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