A Thin Line

“I don’t suppose potato chips are considered a vegetable;” I thought to myself .  Then went on to wonder how many people make excuses like that to eat crap.

Vitamin “enhanced” carbonated beverages came to mind – but that’s more big business trying to help you  justify your junk food.

There is only a thin line separating what we EAT from making us FAT. 

EAT >> FAT

See it?  One thin line.

I walk that line  daily.  Justifying junk food – “I did a two-hour workout yesterday”, “I’m doing a two-hour workout tomorrow”, “It’s a special occasion”, ‘Just this once”, “I’ve been good for the last little while” – the actual size of the “little while” becomes smaller and smaller as the excuses grow.

It’s only with conscious and concerted and consistent effort that I manage to either lose weight or keep the weight off. 

As the excuses climb; so does the weight.

To the degree that I should almost keep track of my excuses as much as I keep track of my eating and exercise.  See a bad trend and change it.

I write this now because I have noticed the excuse frequency rising of late and it is reaching an almost alarmingly exponential trend.   Hopefully by “outing myself” it can lead me to being more honest and help me see the excuses for what they are – poor justifications for counter-productive behaviours that undermine my forward progress and my ultimate goals.