Moderation! Why Is This So Hard?

Up one pound, down 2 pounds, up 3 pounds … the roller coaster never stops. It can be so incredibly frustrating. I often want to through that scale out of the window. Many people tell me to stop weighing myself. I hope to get there one day. I’m just not ready. I use to weigh myself every week. Now I am now weighing in every 2-4 weeks. I guess that’s progress right? Anyway.. I digress …

So let’s talk about moderation. Something I have ALWAYS sucked at. In every aspect of my life. When I do something, I do it at 100%, FULL OUT. Or, I simply don’t do it. I was always taught, if you are going to do something, always give it maximum effort. The thing is, it doesn’t work that way with food. I am slowly figuring that out. I am figuring it out by trying to do things in a moderate manner. Let me explain.

Usually if I have some chips (my favourite thing in the entire world), I start with a bowl and I say, that’s all I will have. But guess what? After the bowl is done, I go back for a second bowl, and then the second bowl turns into a bag of chips. Anyone else have this problem? I thought so … LOL.

So here is what I have been trying. I’ll give you an example. I have these low carb crackers that I adore (link in my favourite things), it is 80 calories for 25 of them. So when I have a craving for something crunchy and salty, I actually have 25 or 50 of them, AND, I don’t consider that a cheat. In the past I would have said “screw it I messed up the day might as well eat the entire box”. I am really trying to change this mentality.

I am trying to be ok with “everything in moderation”, I am not there yet. But I am making really good progress. Example: Sunday night, usually a non wine night for me, but I felt like a glass, so I had 1 glass. NOT 3 GLASSES!

Terri xo