•  Torty   ( @Torty@beehaw.org ) 
    11•1 year ago

    Fuck it man, indulge, it’s not the end of the world ya know?

    You’re too tired to brush your teeth before bed one night you don’t stop brushing your teeth forever.

    It’s okay to mess up, just get back on track the next day. It’s not all or nothing, it’s not a short-term fad die, it’s a lifestyle change, for life.

    If your CICO was a line graph and yesterday was normal, today was a big spike, and tomorrow was normal, none of that shit matters when you look at the line over the length of a year of good habits.

    You won’t even be able to see this one-off, single-day spike, blip, what have you. It’s a drop of water in the middle of the ocean.

    Let yourself make mistakes, just acknowledge it was not the norm, and learn from it. If you bastardize failure you’re setting yourself up to fail harder due to unrealistic expectations, unsustainability, etc.

    So I say fuck it. Blow your CICO up today. Just do right by yourself for the rest of the week.

    •  andrew   ( @andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ) OPEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      Yeah, this is what I’m trying to get better at. Same with hitting lower than my PR one day at the gym. Fortunately I can graph all of the above thanks to a few apps I like and it’s easy to see that history is full of misses while the trend is still overwhelmingly upward. Gotta remind myself better of that kind of thing everywhere in life.

      Thanks for the reminder! 💪

      •  BarrelAgedBoredom   ( @BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ) 
        1•1 year ago

        Out of curiosity, and don’t feel obligated to answer, what is your daily schedule like? I work 48-60 hour weeks (12 hr shifts, 4-5 days a week) and I have a hard time working up the motivation to exercise. Even things I enjoy like riding my bike or swimming. I just can’t wrap my head around how people feel like exercising. It’s always a burden and as a result, I rarely do it. But I feel great afterwards and want to incorporate it in my routine but it just never happens

  •  Grimfelion   ( @Grimfelion@lemm.ee ) English
    11•1 year ago

    This is why I do CICO. Let’s me adjust what I eat based off what I’m feeling that day… and it’s nice because ultimately it’s about eating at a deficit over a week, in my case at least… since I’m targeting 1.5 lbs/week it’s just about being at a deficit overall… so if I have a rough day I can theoretically “make up for it” throughout the rest of the week.

    Of course I still need to exercise control and not just eat whatever whenever… but I love the flexibility and it’s allowed me to stay on track for 50 lbs over 6 months…

    •  andrew   ( @andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ) OPEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      Yeah, I’m technically also doing CICO, I’ve just added a grams of protein target too, which is really more of a guideline much like the pirate’s code. But when it’s 6PM and I’ve hit 60-70% of my calories already, and I’ve spent the day bashing my head against an immovable object, that leftover pint of ice cream that will leave me feeling full for all of 30 seconds sure does look like a great use of my last few calories and then some. 😅