The Excuse Bank

Deposit your dietary or no exercise excuses and rationalizations here.  Hopefully, nobody will need to make a withdrawal....

• It's only [insert event] once a year
• I had a salad for lunch, so a triple cheesecake double scoop fudge brownie sunday won't hurt
• I worked out yesterday
• It's Friday

I'll work out tomrrow.

A taste or lick doesn't count, right?

well, I had to finish it!

• I've been so good lately, so it doesn't hurt to splurge
• I have my period

I use these two WAY too much

My fave excuses include:

1. I'll make up the difference tomorrow
2. My weekends are not structured enough to stay within calorie range.

I think I will start saying... I will be prepared for tomorrow by eating healthy today - or something along those lines.  Basically my tomorrow starts today.

**Fantastic idea for a topic

"it's my period". I use that one way too much. It's way easier to just think that my hormones are making me eat, like a car without a driver.

and also "it's so cold outside, I can't eat salad, I'll just eat this jar of peanut butter." that's verbatim.

and "I'll make up the difference tomorrow." no, I won't. ; )

I'm too tired.

After this show.

It's too cold.

It's too dark.

It's too early.

It's too late.

It'll take too long.

My husband won't go to the gym with me today. So I won't go either.

I have a cough.

......and the list goes on and on and on. I have an excuse for my excuses.

No one wants to run with me and I dont want to alone

I have too much schoolwork to excercise (sometimes it really is the case, sometimes just an excuse)

I have no time between end of school and dinnertime to excercise

I feel guilty when people look accusingly at my kindly declining offered food, even when I really dont like the food.

Bad weather, don't feel like leaving my room.

I feel bloated today, dont feel like eating much --> therefore no excercise or I'll get a deficit

I almost forgot:

Today is my last day of eating bad, I'll start my diet tomorrow

Oh, yeah, "I'll start again tomorrow" or even better:  "I'll start again this weekend" or "...on Monday."  I spent YEARS starting any other day but today.

How about:  "I already blew it with [insert minor food program infraction] so I may as well [insert major binge activity]."  This typically is the sentence just before "I'll start again tomorrow."

"I'm depressed so I need to eat this to feel better."  Lie!  I always feel worse!

"I deserve a break."

"I'm too tired to fix a healthy meal, I just get take-out."

"It's genetically impossible for me to get healthy."

My favorite is not actually an excuse, it's a come-back by a friend of mine, who is very large.  She was in the grocery store looking at the candy shelves when a thin woman came up to her, put a hand on her shoulder and said, "Now, we don't really need that, do we?"

My friend (who has a lot more self-esteem than I could ever muster) didn't bat an eye.  She replied, "Oh, you don't understand how much I have to eat to keep this weight on!"

This is the same friend who refers to herself as "fluffy." 

Past excuses...

"I'm not in the right frame of mind"

"I've tried everything"

"I'm happy this size"

*I'm too stressed (working out would help, though!)

*Family/friends are visiting and I don't want them to have to cut-back or feel guilty that I'm not eating the same thing.

I've got a number of others, these are the two I have been using lately.  Ugh.

"But I really, REALLY want it"

"It would make me feel better"

"I'll work out harder tomorrow", followed by, "I'm just too tired today"

• I'll start working out when I hit the 200lbs mark (didn't happen)
• I'll start when I plateau (hasn't happened yet)
• I'll start when i lose 10 more pounds (been saying that for 40lbs now)

I am typing this as I am sitting in my workout clothes listening to workout music in my apartment. Gosh, I feel so guilty now.

I am horrible at 'peer pressure' situations.  and most people in my life (coworkers and friends)  don't know that i am 'dieting' or watching calories.  they would make a huge deal of it i think.

"everyone else is going out to lunch, they'll think i'm weird if I want to sit here by myself"

"Everyone else is going to happy hour - they'll think I'm weird if I just have water"

"it's the weekend"

"I earned it!"    (not usually true)

I gained a lot of this weight AFTER I had my son so the excuse then was:

"My body's ruined (depressed over stretch marks and saggy pooch), I'll never be caught dead in a bikini again so what's the point?"

Some other excuses:

- "He likes the new (60 pound heavier version of me) better this way."

- "My deficit was really low yesterday, I can use the extra calories."

- "It's  insert holiday, birthday (doesn't have to be mine), or special event here day so I should celebrate!" (with a few too many cocktails I might add)

- "I'll make it up later."

-"I have to do..."

- " I worked out really hard today."

- "If I eat or drink this I'll still have a deficit and lose weight this week."

- "I'll run a little longer tomorrow." (usually does not happen)

- "I just don't have the time." - as I sit in front of the computer surfing the net or on the couch watching TV.

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