It's interesting that I'm starting a food and weight-loss related blog right now. The one thing I was looking forward to this weekend was making a "traditional Filipino breakfast", an urge brought on by my roommate's purchasing of real eggs rather than egg substitute. Also, starting a week from today, my wife and son and I will be visiting by parents on the East Coast, and you all know what vacations mean.
My wife says this blog will be a good way to keep me honest while we're away. I hope she's right.
Especially because I did indeed make that breakfast, and I'm already one Point over for the day. Ha.
Anyway, the reason I mention that is because of a philosophy I've come to embrace (perhaps a little too fondly) from Weight Watchers: the program isn't a diet, it's a lifestyle. When you mess up on a diet, it's a failure. When you don't maintain your lifestyle for one instance, it's okay-- you've got the whole rest of your life to maintain. Basically, days like this when I have one meal-- a meal I haven't had in ages, and that makes me feel good simply by association-- that nukes my day's worth of Points? Is just a part of life, every now and then.
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I think you're absolutely right, but we just have to be careful about how liberally we take the philosophy into account. :)
ReplyDeleteSo what constitutes a "traditional Filipino breakfast??"
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree. Everything in moderation, and I don't like the idea of completely eliminating something I enjoy from my diet. I might have dessert less often than I used to, but I still treat myself!
Jo: Yup. "Every now and then" is the trick.
ReplyDeleteVicki: Rice, fried egg (for me, pref. mushed into the rice) and some sort of breakfast protein, plus coffee. And exactly! You can't stick with something that's nothing but denial.