Weight: 126.4 (-1.2 since yesterday's catastrophe, -11.6 since beginning the blog, -13.6 since the Oscars, and I am quite confident that I am as hydrated as I can be)
Okay, given today's decent weigh-in, I feel like I might have overreacted a bit to yesterday's set back. I ought to know better than to think that you can gain a pound and a half from going roughly 400 calories over the limit in one weekend because I know that a pound of body fat is equivalent to about 3500 calories--incidentally, I don't like to use the blog to preach weight loss tips (at least not the scientific kind) because I am by no means an expert, but thermodynamically that's just the truth. If nothing else, I probably should have saved my "Oh Fortuna" clip for when something worse happens. Oh, well.
Today's topic: Diet Abandonment (or "DA").
You might be wondering: what is DA?
Well, similarly to "cheating," DA involves deviating from the BBR in its strictest form. Indeed, both cheating and DA involve consuming more calories than the BBR permits. However a major distinction between cheating and DA is that DA typically involves planned-ahead, unavoidable splurginess. Cheating, on the other hand, is a momentary loss of willpower in the face of--usually unanticipated--temptation. For example, attending a "wedding cake tasting" is a case of DA; it's unavoidable and expected that you will eat cake at the event. The only issue up for debate is how much cake you will eat. By contrast, when attending a run-of-the-mill BBQ if you succumb to the chocolatey goodness of a platter of cupcakes, this is a case of "cheating."
It's a subtle distinction. Some might even say it's a pointless distinction. So why make it? Well, as the big day gets closer and closer I am beginning to realize that there might be events that call for some high calorie indulgence (the Rehearsal Dinner comes to mind...so does this week's Moot Court Banquet for that matter). I don't want to consider enjoying those events "cheating." I just don't. It doesn't seem fair to consider enjoying truly special occasions "cheating." So I have invented the DA concept to allow me to face situations that are bound to call for calorie excesses without feeling like I am some sort of a failure.
That being said....with all this DA coming up, I really, really, really need to start the Shred.
*whimpers....*
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