1. Eat before you leave.
Yes, I want you to eat more. Because when you go to a restaurant or a party, chances are, dinner will be later than normal. By the time you eat, you'll be starving.
Always ensure you eat a good healthy snack before you go, so you won't dive into all the unhealthy appetizers or chips and you won't over eat at dinner.
2. Start with a Perrier or club soda,
etc.
Make your first drink and maybe every other drink be non-alcoholic. This is a tip most of my clients say helps them so much!
If you start right in on the alcohol, on an empty stomach, maybe drinking a little too quickly without realizing it, the effect goes right to your head. Then, being a little tipsy, all self resolve goes right out
the window. Game over! By starting with a Perrier and saving the glass of wine for dinner, you'll be better able to make healthy choices all night long.
3. Enjoy your deviations, don't feel guilty but don't go overboard.
Obviously, we are never going for 100% on track 100 % of the time. That is completely unrealistic and impossible. Enjoy and savor the
foods you don't normally eat, have a small piece of the birthday cake. Just be careful of portion control and this leads us to tip # 4...
4. Back on track the next meal or the next day if it's dinner.
All too often, what might've happened in the past, would be that you would wake up the next day, feeling guilty. Maybe beating yourself up for
what you ate and the inner saboteur would take over.
You'd go down the rabbit hole of listening to the negative self talk and even believing those thoughts, "you can't do this, you've done it again, you're a hopeless case, why even bother trying, you'll never be able to do this!"
Say, "thank-you for sharing," to those thoughts, let them go and get back on
track. Right Away.
