Hi all!
I have my weekly killer workout coming up, as soon as I've digested my oatmeal.
I recently discovered that Candace Grasso (she did one of the Cardio Coach workouts) has a little fitness segment on the local news station on Saturday mornings. A couple weeks ago she suggested this little strategy for keeping your eating on track:
If you find yourself about to engage in mindless eating, (like with a spoon and a jar of peanut butter, leaning on the kitchen counter), put the food away for two minutes. She had a sort of mantra that you were supposed to say out loud, which I don't remember, but it was something like, "I can choose to eat the peanut butter if I want to. But I understand that I am choosing NOT to meet my goals for another day. I am deciding that the peanut butter is more important than my (specific goal)".
Maybe peanut butter is a bad example. Sometimes PB really IS more important than my goals! But the idea is that by consciously acknowledging what you're doing, you talk yourself out of it. It probably sounds dumb, but it's actually been very helpful to me over the last few weeks. I also make myself do some push-ups or sit-ups, not many, just enough to reconnect with my body and focus on fitness.
Didn't mean to write a novel about it. Happy Wednesday everyone! Good luck!