There's a trick I use, and it might be a bad idea for some people, but because of the way my brain works, it's very useful. basically what's more important than anything else at this point for me is always staying within my points exactly. And since I eat weird portions of stuff (you know, like 1/3 of a pretzel here, 3 chocolate chips there), I end up doing a little bit of estimating. Now, as much as it is important to count correctly, at this point in my life, if I do count up my points at the end of the day and I've gone 1 point over my 35 extras or something, I go back, and try to re-estimate to squeeze it into the correct number of points. Totally cheating, I know. But again, my brain is weird, and if I find a way to convince myself that I really do eat only 35 extra a week, and not 1 more, I won't slowly inch towards eating 65 extra a week. And it's better this way, because even if I AM lying to myself, probably I end up eating 38 extra at the end of the week at the most. And physically that doesn't make any difference at all, but mentally it keeps me from slipping like I did before. Of course this doesn't happen every day. Most of the time I'm completely honest with my counting, but if it comes to the end of the week and I'm like "oh CRAP!!!" -that's when I "recount" a little. Now if you're going to try this strategy, really make sure you use it for 1 or 2 points, not 10. Because when I recount, it's on the stuff I'm not that sure about anyway, so there's a very good chance I'm not lying to myself at all. Plus also... be careful, because I might be the only person in the world this works for.
POINTS EATEN TODAY: 23
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