Taking a Break?
As I mentioned on Monday, I decided to ‘take a break’ from the diet so I could well and truly enjoy my anniversary.
While I didn’t automatically go out and eat all the pasta, bread, and death by chocolate cake I could get my hands on, I did enjoy little indulgences. My husband surprised me with a little cake that we both shared and on a different night, we both enjoyed dessert. (I’d never actually had a proper chocolate sundae.)
The whole weekend was a lot of fun and I don’t regret a bit of it. (Ask me again next Monday. Haha.) I stayed away from a lot of the bad things out of habit and didn’t go crazy on other bad things.
Still, as I get back into the diet (back to phase one for a while!), I am reminded how much easier it is to just eat all the stuff I’m not supposed to eat. Funny how it took only a weekend to forget the difficulties in cutting bread out of your diet.
Bread is everywhere! Burgers, sandwiches of all kinds, dinner rolls… I don’t consider all bread evil by any means, but try getting something other than white bread and rolls when you go out…
I don’t mind it too much because I know it’s all worth it in the end, but it is a bit annoying. I think I was sticking closely to the diet so long that the break made me want to rush back in all my bad habits. It makes me wonder if I should have taken a break at all…
What do you think? Do you ever take breaks? Have you ever had a break backfire?
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