What to do if You Cheat and Eat a Lot

lol, yesterday someone found msfatty.com asking Google what to do if they cheat on their diet and eat a lot.

If that someone is still here, or comes back, baby, this post is for you.

If you’ve cheated and eaten a lot there is nothing you can do. You’ve blown your diet. What you must do right away is get back on the wagon and set your mind firm on the path of not cheating, and not deviating from your exercise, not one bite, not one lazy day in a chair doing nothing.

Here’s what I do when I am tempted to walk into an ice cream store and start plowing my way through a half a gallon of ice cream:

Tell yourself, NOT RIGHT NOW. Tell yourself: This wonderful, fatty, sugary food will be there for me after I lose all my weight; it’s not going to go away, it will still be there IF I want it WHEN I lose all of my weight. I don’t need it right now, I can wait. The day I weigh 135 lbs is the day I go looking for a huge cake or a half gallon of ice cream…

But guess what? I’ve got a while to go to my goal weight, and I have to be honest here, because I do not cheat on my diet, not one bite, I honestly am not craving this crap food like I used to. I can walk past the ice cream store many times without giving it a thought. Of course, I am human, so there are times when visions of sugar plums start dancing in my head, but guess what? Since I do not cheat on my diet, EVER, not one bite, EVER, the sugar plums aren’t as entertaining as they used to be, sometimes they are downright boring and I want them to go away so I can enjoy my damn salad in peace.

Losing weight is in your head. You must work with the brain you have right this moment. When a Dr. cuts you open and gives you bariatric surgery, he’s really messing with your head by making your stomach smaller so that it stops signaling your brain to eat. I’m going to discuss more about this in another post; but one Dr. actually told me the big secret to fooling your brain, to resetting your brain to accept smaller amounts of food and that is to injest smaller portions of food. This flies right in the face of all those diets out there that claim you can “eat all the raw vegetables you want!” No. And how many times I have failed on diets like that, keeping my stomach stuffed full. Vegetables or not, this does not work to solve the root problem of overeating and that is your brain. Your stomach MUST stop signaling your brain for food and the only way to do that is to give it less food, period.