There's always a good excuse

Everyday I hear some "good" reason why someone in the gym broke their diet. Among my favorites is the classic line " I was good all week but it's hard for me to diet on the weekends." Or, "I was at my first football game and I had to eat the sausage and peppers, the 5 beers that I drank, and the popcorn." This may sound ridiculous but I hear these excuses pretty much on a regular basis. The problem here is very simple there will always be a a very good excuse to cheat on your diet.

Let's list some good excuses shall we? How about it's August 8,2008, it won't be 08/08/08 in a very long time so pizza sounds pretty good to celebrate this phenomenon. Or, the American's won the bronze medal in gymnastics breakout the Haagen-Daz. Hey they were running a special on Krispy Kream doughnuts and it was my grandmothers, sisters boyfriends, son's birthday on my fathers side of the families anniversary of his death from diabetes during the second world war in Sandusky Ohio during the July 4th weekend.

Sounds pretty silly doesn't it? I hope you get the picture. In order to be truly successful in making a healthy change in your life style and in your level of fitness, the change has to be permanent. Does this mean that you'll never have ice cream again in your life? No, but not right now when your trying to make a life style change for the better. We can always find a reason to cheat and in your mind you can pretty much justify anything you want.

The truth of the matter is that your only cheating yourself and really the only person affected by it is you. The next time you feel like cheating on your diet think about the "good reason" why your doing it and remember that the only person your justifying your slip or in some cases a major fall to is yourself. If your cool with that so am I...thats all I have to say about that...

See you in the gym