5 Ways to Self-Sabotage After Weight Loss
1. Immediately eat a reward meal.
2. Tell ourselves, “Self, you’ve been good and one day off plan can’t hurt?”
3. Decide we’re all set, we got this knocked, we know how to lose weight, and can do it any time we want.
4. Expect that the second ten pounds will come off as easy as the first ten. (It is a little known weight loss fact that the fat layers that lurk beneath the first ten pounds are made of granite. That means removing them is more difficult than the first ten pound. The upside, you can put hot pots and pans right on that fat layer. It’s impervious to everything.)
5. Put on jeans from 1990 because we should be able to fit into them after losing some weight. (Nothing makes you want to give up your diet more than when AFTER you’ve been eating like an angel for months and your big toe doesn’t even fit in your 1990 skinny jeans.) Woot.
Oh, I’ve done all of these!!
Especially the reward meal, reward food-frenzy day. It’s the “Oh I’ve worked so hard all week…I deserve this entire pizza,”strategy. And then you get to lose the same two pounds the next week.
Too funny…but not really. I wish I had a pound for every time I told myself I could lose the weight anytime!
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