Last week, I had more blow it days than perfect days. And that hurt to admit! I have lots of excuses for why we ate out so much last week and why neither I nor Sam ordered anything even remotely Thrive approved, but I won't bore you with any of them. I must say that I am beyond shocked at how quickly those bad habits can re-emerge! For 8 weeks we did great...rarely eating out, following Thrive religiously with very few blow it days. Then last week, life happened, and instead of using what we learned with Thrive to get through it, we just reverted back to our bad habits. You would think that after the first day of eating bad, when the heartburn set in, when the gas set in, when the stomach upset set in, we would have got a clue and started eating right. But no, it turned into another day of eating junk, followed by heartburn and all the rest. We talked about it every night, how miserable we were, how did we eat like that every day in our "past life", and yet we woke up and did it again the next day....and the next...and the next.
I am proud to say that I have now had 2 perfect days and am finally back in EFB. I feel 100% better, and hope that by writing this here, I can look back on it when I am tempted to blow it again and see that it really wasn't worth it. I am afraid to step on the scale and have decided to give it a week so that I don't fall over in shock when I see the number, LOL!
So to you Thrivers out there who may be tempted...it ain't worth it. The stomach upset alone is enough to make you wonder how on earth you lived this long eating food that bad for you, LOL...
As for me...I will just subtract these bad days from my allowed blow it days and move forward.
