Write it all down! That’s it, simple as that!
Even if you don’t have a training diary (which you should) you should really take on this practice now.
You see, logging what you eat will make you aware of the mess you are making of yourself!
It’s ok to eat and forget but when the amount you ate is there staring at you it’s very hard to go really overboard!
If you document what you are eating and write down the quantity and time you last ate and when your next meal is due you will not eat nearly as much! Align your eating plans through the days that you are only allowed a meal every 3-4 hours! I know it’s not ideal but it’s realitstic and you save yourself 3-4 snacks through the day that may add up to 1000’s of calories!
Lapse-Relapse-Collapse Prevention!
As we have mentioned many times already your journey will not be perfect. You will make some mistakes along the way. Whether these mistakes are nutritional mistakes or skipping training sessions, we refer to these as a lapse.
Usually when things are going well and you are doing great, something might happen and you’ll be tempted to stray away from your nutritional plan and or skip a single workout you had planned.
This is bound to happen at some stage for most of us over the summer time but the problem is when you keep having regular lapses and this results in a tota ‘collapse’ and you give up on training and nutrition.
Not only do you start adding unfavourable behaviour (drinking excess alcohol/fast food) into your life but you also cease performing the favourable (exercise, eating your green vegetables).
The problem then grows exponentially! You must learn how to deal with small lapses so that you don’t get to the point of collapse.
The best thing to do is to keep a journal.
Detail why you had a lapse. What events lead to it and write down how you could have responded better to the situation.
