My nutrition coach wrote an article recently about not letting small slips in behavior mess up your overall direction/plan. She's writing specifically about adherence to nutrition plans, but I think it's relevant for any sort of behavior or behavior change that one is trying to make. It really is so easy and so tempting to let one small error turn into an excuse to let the whole day/week go and just start over tomorrow. I think this is so tempting for me in the food arena because it allows me to indulge all the snacking/sweets eating that I want with at least a shred of (admittedly pathetic) justification (since I already screwed up, what's the point of trying any more.) This is truly counterproductive, as Jen points out, as my body doesn't follow this logic and a couple hundred extra calories in a small slip-up is going to have a way different effect than a few thousand extra calories in a day-long-snackathon.
I have been struggling a little bit over the last week to be as faithful to my nutrition plan as I was for the first 5 weeks. I think this is because I am on my last break between school and clinic and so don't have a regular schedule, which I know helps keep me on track, and I also have the "on vacation" mindset, which would be fine if I actually were on vacation for just a couple days and deciding to treat myself to some good food experiences, but it really doesn't work out so well when vacation is several weeks long and the eating is not unique food-while-traveling experiences but instead just over-eating after Whole Foods shopping trips (so guilty on that one.)
Acknowledging my mistakes helps me not make them going forward, so I'm hoping that for the rest of "vacation" (another two weeks), I will be able to enjoy my relaxed schedule and extra-fun activities (I've already seen two concerts, one ball game and spent time with a bunch of different friends in the past 4 days, so off to a good start), without using that extra time and freedom to justify trashing my nutrition plan. The RPS meet is only 8 weeks away and I still have pounds to shed if I want to come in comfortably in the 198 class. Every decision I make, big or small, will take me closer to or push further from making that weight class easily. The cumulative effect of all these small decisions really is significant, and I need to remember that.
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Training today was interesting. I ate my off-plan meal for the week in the morning at Veggie Galaxy - amazing gluten-free pancakes with berries and coconut whipped cream and tempeh-veggie-potato hash - all absurdly delicious. After the requisite carb-crash nap and a couple hours to digest, I went to train around 2pm. I'm trying to shift to later training times to get ready for the start of clinic, so 2pm is a good start. All the crazy carb ingestion made me feel sluggish as hell, but although I wanted to quit for most of my workout, I noticed that I was actually able to push through and get out quite a bit of work done. Lesson for the day: carbs make my brain lazy but my body into a pretty unstoppable, if somewhat slow-moving, force. Ah well, can't have it all, I suppose.
Training today:
Warmup: Is, Ts, Ys
Split Jerk: 6 sets working up to 110#x1,1. Supersetted with single-leg inverted rows (which I swear get harder, not easier, every week.)
Accessory: speed bench and single-arm rows, single-arm floor press and midback work.
Finisher: 1000m row (knee felt funky, but not painful, so progress there!)
Random P.s. Though less renowned than Voltaire, the author/business coach Jim Collins has the quote "Good is the enemy of great," which I think is also true on some levels, but more applicable to life/business aspirations (and maybe training?) than nutrition plans.
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