Let me paint a picture for you…
It’s Saturday night. You’ve had a solid week of eating and training and are making good progress toward your goals.
You fancy a dominoes pizza (wouldn’t be my choice but hey ho).
You instantly think ‘I’ve messed up and went off track here’
So what do we do?
- Make ourselves feel guilty (which we absolutely should not do).
- We go overboard with what we order because we’ve ‘ruined’ it anyway.
In practice this is how this affects your fitness journey.
Let’s say we’ve been in a calorie deficit of 400 calories per day Monday-Friday. By Saturday we will have created a deficit of 2000 calories.
This is no mean feat and would have us well on our way to achieving our goals.
Then our Saturday dominoes rolls around.
Instead of a regular pizza which would be maybe 1750 calories and fit into our allowance (we may go slightly over calories that day but we’ll still be in a deficit overall) we think ‘I’ve f’d it up’ so get a 2250 calorie large pizza, 2 dips, some sides and chuck on a cookie for good measure.
Oh yeah, we then wash it down with a beer or fizzy juice.
Suddenly we’ve tanked 3500 calories and have knocked our whole weeks deficit off.
All because of a mindset shift…
*I am not food shaming. There are times you absolutely should go all out and enjoy stuff without calorie counting, all I am doing is making you consider the implications and how sometimes we do it for the sake of it.
