Are You Too Hard On Your Diet?

Have you ever felt like your diet was consuming your life? A few years back I made it my New Year's goal to do a bikini competition. Now, a bikini competition is not like a figure or bodybuilding competition. You don't get judged on your athletic endeavors or how big your muscles are. You are being evaluated on the overall package of how your body looks symmetrically while having long lean muscles. I thought it would be a good goal to work towards because I had never tried anything like that before. Prior to that, I had run marathons and other races, but I had never entered anything where I was being judged off of how I looked. I started this goal in January and didn't stop until September. Over those next 9 months, I learned a lot about myself and my diet that I never knew before. For nine months straight I... -logged my calories everyday -only went over my calorie allowance 9 days the whole time -became obsessed about what I was eating -had to know where I was going out to eat, so I could prepare and plan my food ahead of time -refrained from all food that made me happy -didn't eat my friend's delicious dishes ...did not go a single hour, minute, or day without thinking about my diet.   I was in diet hell.   I'm a very goal driven person. I've also discovered through counseling that I'm a 0-100 person - I'm either all in or all out. During those 9 months I was all in and no one was going to stop me. I can go into deeper into how those 9 months affected my body another time, but for now I want to stick to how those 9 months of diet hell affected my mind. After the competition was over I... -ate everything I felt like I had deprived myself from -didn't keep track of anything I was eating -felt like 'I deserved' all food because of how hard I worked IF you want to know more about whether the 'I deserve it' mentality is sabotaging your diet then click here for my blog about this. Over the next 3 months, I undid a lot of my hard work I did in 9 months by gaining 25 pounds and gorging myself on a weekly basis. Have you ever done this? Maybe this is extreme from you. However you do feel like you are in diet hell. You feel like you can never eat what you really want to eat and you think about your food a lot. Here is my biggest 'aha' moment on how to get yourself out of diet hell and into diet heaven...   Links To Additional Resources: Do You Suffer From ‘I Deserve It’ Mentality: http://www.michellerosefit.com/do-you-suffer-from-i-deserve-it-dieting-mentality/ Social Media Shame: NEED FUTURE LINK The Biggest Secret To Sticking To Your Diet: http://www.michellerosefit.com/the-biggest-secret-to-sticking-to-your-diet/ FREE Game On! Challenge (Diet and Fitness Program): www.michellerosefit.com/challenges What To Eat And When To Eat Blog: http://www.michellerosefit.com/what-to-eat-and-when-to-eat/ Wanna Get My VIP Coaching Calls? Sign up here! I love my VIP Coaching Peeps!! When you sign up I give you my best tips and tricks before everyone else!! My goal is to take your diet from frustrating to fun and create the body and life your love. Loved What You Heard? Leave A Review Here!! (It’s like leaving me a tip in my tip jar)