Last night the facilitator basically stated that she expected people to lapse. Wow. Give permission or what?
Here is my views on lapsing.
This program is so regimented that it is hard to cheat, lapse, eat something accidentally that you are not suppose to eat, basically it is fool proof. So if you do lapse, that is a conscious decision not an oops. For example I am hungry I don't have a bar so I stop at KFC. I will eat something low calorie there and get back to program tomorrow. No harm no foul. Right? Wrong, that is not this program, if that is how they want to diet they should choose another program.
It should not be expected that you will eventually lapse. To me it is pretty black and white. You are dedicated to losing weight and you are willing to work at it because losing weight is very important in your life for whatever the reasons. Or you want to lose weight, but it isn't as important to you as you thought it was and that piece of chicken looks mighty good. If you don't want to spend four months eating 970 calories of the same food over and over again, then this really isn't for you. There is no variety and the food never will taste as good as that low cal KFC meal that you just had.
The facilitators should make it clear -very clear that we should not lapse. They should say that lapsing is not expected. At least not during the diet phase. Lapsing is a maintenance issue and should be addressed in maintenance.
Ah maintenance - the bane of my existence, if only it was as easy as the the dieting.
Here is my views on lapsing.
This program is so regimented that it is hard to cheat, lapse, eat something accidentally that you are not suppose to eat, basically it is fool proof. So if you do lapse, that is a conscious decision not an oops. For example I am hungry I don't have a bar so I stop at KFC. I will eat something low calorie there and get back to program tomorrow. No harm no foul. Right? Wrong, that is not this program, if that is how they want to diet they should choose another program.
It should not be expected that you will eventually lapse. To me it is pretty black and white. You are dedicated to losing weight and you are willing to work at it because losing weight is very important in your life for whatever the reasons. Or you want to lose weight, but it isn't as important to you as you thought it was and that piece of chicken looks mighty good. If you don't want to spend four months eating 970 calories of the same food over and over again, then this really isn't for you. There is no variety and the food never will taste as good as that low cal KFC meal that you just had.
The facilitators should make it clear -very clear that we should not lapse. They should say that lapsing is not expected. At least not during the diet phase. Lapsing is a maintenance issue and should be addressed in maintenance.
Ah maintenance - the bane of my existence, if only it was as easy as the the dieting.
I can personally testify that T3 is the most lapse free dieter I can imagine. Once she decides to do something, it gets done! Go speed racer!
ReplyDeleteI agree, no lapsing should be the expectation - GO Tanya!! You are an inspiration!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should become a facilitator when this is all over. You'd be good at it.
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