back on the wagon guilt?

Round this time of year, we get lots of both new and returning members to LCE. People think about how they want to change their lives around the new year, and "loose weight" is one of the all-time-favorites for resolutions, after all.

But a lot of times, it seems like the back-to-LCers are just feeling crummy about themselves. So much self-recrimination...it's not always spoken, but you know, there's the vibe...

I get it. I do. Sometimes I eat well. Sometimes, I don't. I don't talk about when I don't as much, both because I'm not especially proud of it, to some degree, true, but mostly because I don't want to emphasize it. That's not the part of my life I wanna grow, you know? What you feed grows. There's a bad pun in there somewhere...

I get it because this is my life as much as yours. The quality of my eating habits come and go-and vary depending on lots of things in my life- but even when I'm not eating very well by any sort of objective standards, I still call and consider myself a "low-carber." I still know that LC is the best, long-term choice for me and whether I stray a little for a minute or more for longer doesn't really matter.

I am happy that even during my "less focused" times, as I like to call them, it's still not the same as it was before. I'll never be hit with that sense of agitation when there were no more "Little Debbies" in the fridge, you know? A "carb blowout" by my standards now would have been a "restrained eating experience" by my old standards.

I dunno what I'm getting at. I guess maybe it's just "give yourself credit" where credit is due, and forgive yourself any lapses where you don't do as well as you believe you could have.

To me, it's all part of seeing LC as a way of life. Life has ebbs and flows, every little bit of it. You can make a conscious choice to emphasis the flows and reap the rewards of that. But when you don't, let it go. It doesn't serve you and it only makes it harder to ride the flows when you're obsessing over the ebbs, you know?

Peace out, fellow travelers.