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Originally Posted by T-Put
You have tended to extremes before.  You really get into the things you're interested in and learn a lot and then you become hard on yourself for not adhering to best practices. Maybe this contributes to losing perspective and maybe some specific, realistic, achievable, measurable, time oriented goals would help. It takes dedication to be so committed and we all know that you can't get anywhere valuable in life w/o being dedicated. |
I wanted to mention this because you reminded me of something - Lyle McDonald has a book titled
Guide to Flexible Dieting that I found really helpful. He talks about planning and refeeds and how they provide physical and psychological breaks to help with dieting over the long haul.
A snippet is here -
Lyle McDonald - Flexible Dieting Excerpt
I've enjoyed his stuff. I need a mental break from the fitness/nutrition/numbers stuff i've been reading lately (hence the photography) but will read his Ketogenic book next. Looks really interesting.
John's been doing Lyle's Rapid Fat Loss and I'm just so impressed at his dedication/adherence as well as results. He looks fantastic and he helps me feel inspired to keep on keepin' on. Initially I thought there was no way I'd do the rapid fat loss plan but now I'm thinking I might do it just to lose these last 5-7 pounds of fat and get it over with, so I can focus on strength. I'm still mulling it over because I have SUCH a hard time mentally on VLC diets. I don't know if I want to do that to myself. But it might be better to push through it for a few weeks rather than spend the next 2-3 months wading my way through these last few pounds of fat loss.... we'll see.