Episode 37: Evaluating Why I Got Punched in The Gut aka Re-evaluating Your Stratgeies
Posted on February 15, 2016
Before I get into the meat of this show I want you to know I am not against getting together with friends or having parties or even occasionally making regrettable food and drink choices even though it may sound like that by the end of this show. I just wan you to know that. So like I said,
I’m writing and recording this the Monday directly after Super Bowl Sunday and for me it was quite the epic weekend, where I really didn’t take care of myself. I went out Friday night had a beer and 5 or 6 slices of pizza and stayed up a little bit late. I woke up early to work on Saturday then Saturday night I had 3 beers and a tonne of Take Out Indian Food at a friends place and we played games until 2am and I ate half a bag of Chicago mix the giant bag from Costco and a dozen of some of the most delicious homemade chocolate chip cookies, thanks Katrina, plus half a bag of kettle chips. Even if I had run a full marathon that day it still wouldn’t have come close to burning the number of calories I consumed. I’m not going to get into the food from the Super Bowl party because by now you’ve got the point.
It’s food I know I shouldn’t be eating, but I still ate it because my rule is I can eat whatever I want on weekends, except when I made this rule 5 years ago the weekend really only meant Saturday night, Friday’s a week day and Sunday was a day I made myself busy so eating was not near the top of the list, Because I work most Saturdays during the day, eating would basically be the same as any regular weekday, but I would splurge a bit with a dessert on Saturday night. So overall I still wasn’t over-eating that much.
But this past weekend I went hard and today I’m trying to recover from the salt, sugar, and fat amongst other things, like not sleeping enough. I’m a real person and I believe everyone’s entitled to have a good time, but today I’m forced to re-evaluate what a good time means to me and whether or not my rule of eating whatever I want on the weekend serves me, because I feel awful like I’m in University again and I drank a case of beer yesterday.
Before I know how to modify it I need to take a couple of steps back and evaluate what I think happened, so I’m going to lay it out here. I decided I could eat whatever I wanted on weekends, which was fine at first, it was basically Saturday night, then I started having Sunday Brunch with my wife, which was usually crepes with Nutella and berries and fresh whipped cream, which was fine because it was relationship building and a nice Sunday morning together, then we started getting together with family for Sunday dinners on a very regular basis, which always had a lot of food and of course desserts, all good because it’s the weekend. Then Friday night would come around and we would have our little treats already set up for the weekend, so I would break into those and tell myself it’s alright, Friday is basically the weekend and you can just eat healthfully on Sunday, then when Sunday would roll around I would conveniently forget about that deal I made with myself on Friday night. This slide didn’t happen overnight it happened over the course of a couple of years, but I lawyered myself up and found the loop holes in my contract to suit that way of living.
Now that I’ve re-evaluated this rule I can modify it, I can eat whatever I want on Saturday night and that’s it, because I don’t want to feel like this anymore, I want to feel good, I value my productivity during the week I value my health too much to feel like garbage all the time. So what are my strategies going forward no junk food in the house until Saturday and I will buy small bags to ensure it will all be gone when I was up Sunday morning. For Sunday Brunch we’re going to use recipes that are for 2 people instead of 4 people, and I will eat a light snack before we have family dinner so I don’t gorge on the appetizers. I will have to willpower it for dessert because I can’t control the environment there, but all I have to do is ask myself what would batman do?’
This is my plan so we’ll see how it goes.
