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Have you ever eaten or drank something and felt guilty after?
Immediately?
Or later?
Or both?
I would assume most people have.
Why is that?
The definition of ‘guilt’ is;
“The fact of having committed a specified or
implied offence or crime”
What crime have we committed?
What rules have we broken?
We’ve just eaten some food.
Or drank something.
Something we do multiple times per day.
Every day of our lives.
What has to happen for some eating to be be ‘innocent’ and some ‘guilty’?
What line has to be crossed?
Whatever line it is, it’s a made up one.
Some lose definition in our head.
But……….
What if I told you there was a way to eat or drink anything and not feel guilty about it?
A simple way you could take all the emotion out of the eating and drinking?
Well, there is.
Just track what you’re eating and drinking on an app like MyFitnessPal.
Punch it in before hand if you know (or have a rough idea) what it’ll be.
Or during.
Or after.
And adjust elsewhere in the week to make the numbers work.
Simple as that.
If the adjustment becomes impossible (or misery inducing elsewhere), maybe question the extent of what you’re doing.
But if you can make the numbers work, you’re good.
No guilt needed.
I was out for a friend’s 40th a couple of months ago.
Had a chicken burger and fries at the venue.
Then some chicken nuggets and a Diet Coke from Burger King at the train station on the way home.
No biggie – I’d saved back enough calories by padding out the earlier meals with low calorie density veg.
At no point did I go (overly) hungry – ready to eat at most.
At no point did I feel guilty.
If it had put me in a surplus, I would’ve just adjusted the next morning.
No.
Emotion.
Needed.
Much love,
Jon ‘Was quite taken aback how much more expensive (financially) the station Burger King was’ Hall
