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The Flat Tyre Diet
19.09.08You know what it’s like…
You’re trying to eat more sensibly and cleanly, and you manage it for a while, but then you have a big night out, everything goes to pot and you end up giving up completely for several days before getting back on track.
Well, Scottish Fat Loss Expert and Master Trainer Alwyn Cosgrove couldn’t have expressed this point any better when he compared people’s dietary lapses to a burst tyre on a car.
If you’ve ever had a puncture while driving, or you’ve come out to a flat tyre one morning, what do you do?
Do you go round the car and burst the 3 remaining good tyres to make up for the fault in one?
No! Of course you don’t! You either change the tyre yourself, and then carry on your way, or you call a breakdown service to come out and change it for you.
Either way, a temporary blip that halts your journey gets fixed and forgotten about.
So, why do so many people feel the need to make things far worse for themselves when they have a temporary lapse of control with their eating?
Why does a sneaky bottle of red turn into a weekend of take-aways, unhealthy snacking and skipped meals?
In other words, why does 1 flat tyre become 4?
Look at dietary hiccups as one-offs.
At your next meal, get back to healthy eating.
Don’t punish yourself or your hard work in the gym, by sending you crashing further!
Assess the damage, deal with it and then go along your way as before, by patching up the faults.
Otherwise ‘spare tyre’ will take on a WHOLE new meaning, as you battle the bulge!
September 19th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
thanks for this article! you’re so right!
September 21st, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Sooo, WHY is it so hard to be good straight after a Hiccup????
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
an exellent comparison.