Bring on the Guilt

I don't imagine that anyone ever starts a diet thinking that your cheat days will become a "guilty pleasure". I am here to tell you, they do. It's a little different for a competitor. Throughout the 12 weeks of dieting for a show we never feel any guilt for taking our cheat meal. But outside of dieting for a show, guilt can consume us. Take for instance this past week. I did good all week and then Friday came along. My kids each were very deserving of a little trip to Chucky Cheese. In my mind however, I had decided not to take a cheat day till my two weeks was up, which was today. I struggled with do I eat with them or wait....eat or wait....eat or wait. For crying out loud, I am not dieting for my show yet so why am I doing this to myself? Yep! Guilt was raising it's head up and I was allowing it to take the attention away from celebrating my children and making it about the food. I have to take back the power. I feel that I did. I decided to have fun, eat with my kids, and not to worry about it. Two out of three is not bad. I did think about it, but that was about the extent of it. I even had pizza again this afternoon when we went to the water park.....And why not? I made my goal of losing another pound so I am right on track.