The Fat Chronicles: Sometimes You're Off the Wagon

 

Don't be fooled friends. You will not always be on the wagon. It's true. There will be times when you fall off. There may be days or even weeks when you are simply running beside the wagon, or walking behind the wagon.

 

But sometime, you will get off the wagon. Life will be particularly stressful, funds will be low, your mood will be bad, you will be on vacation or whatever number of things that can knock your ass off your wagon seat.

 

You won't forget about the wagon. You won't rip up your ticket, but you will get off for a while. You will eat things more often than you know you should, at times and in quantities that you know are insane. You won't weigh because you know what the scale will say.

 

The point of me saying this is to remind you of a few things:

1. You didn't gain the weight in a day, you won't lose it in one

 

2. Just like it will take more than one day or week to undo the damage from you not caring about what you eat, it will take more than one day or week to undo all the hardwork. Don't let it get you down if you are off the wagon for a day or a week or even two weeks. THOSE TIMES WILL HAPPEN. But you cannot let them begin to define you as your eating habits did before. Just roll with it.

 

3. Having these off the wagon times DO NOT make you a failure, or make you weak, or make you any other horrid thing that you can think that you are. It makes you HUMAN. It makes you someone that has good times and has bad times and has to deal with them. It makes you a work in progress. It makes you someone who has to relearn how to deal with stress and heartache and anger and fear and the other emotions that can drive you off the wagon.

 

4. The wagons follow a circle. Don't drive yourself crazy with slips. The wagons go in a circle, it will be back around. If it isn't coming soon enough, go after the em-effer.

 

5. Don't EVER GIVE UP. I have preached and preached that I DO NOT advocate for 'diets'. Again your diet is what you DO eat, not what you do NOT eat. Obtaining a healthier lifestyle isn't like obtaining a new coffeemaker. You don't just go to the store and get it. A healthier lifestyle is something that you have to work for a learn and practice and sometimes you will be uber successful about it and sometimes you won't.

 

6. You are still a FUCKING ROCKSTAR! You are still moving forward. You can still do this. At least if you are off the wagon you can move along side it and then jump back on. KEEP MOVING. That is exercise.

 

Sometimes you will be off the wagon. But that doesn't mean that you need to set the wagon on fire and rob the other people on it then execute them and leave them for dead in the middle of the desert. Just get back on.