I always get sucked in by those headlines in the news feed that suck you in and then severely disappoint. Am I the only one? Don't be mad, I really did eat a box of cookies and I really did cry. Let me explain.
I am pretty sure I am not the only one who does this, but maybe that too is an illusion. It doesn't matter if it's a box of cookies, gallon of ice cream or a bag of chocolate chips, if they are open, I will eat them! But not just eat them, I will devour them! Not always at once, the story usually starts out happy where I am able to control my bynging for the first few days and then one day, it gets to the "point of no return" where I might as well eat them all. I mean, why not, I have already eaten more calories than I should today, so let's just get this over with, polish off the cookies and then tomorrow, there will be nothing to "cheat" with - so it's a win win. Today is already a bad eating day so why not?
But I know better. Heck I spend most nights and weekends reading up on different foods and what they do / don't do for your body. I investigate different workouts and the latest Barre fads all for you! So why do I fall apart when it comes to my own health? I am convinced it's because the sugar rush has this effect on our brains that makes us throw away all reason! I literally convince myself that it is better for me to eat the whole box of cookies now, and then not have any tomorrow, because heck, it's the same amount of calories either way right? And today is already bad so just waste away and start fresh tomorrow! Yeah!
WRONG! You see, as we were taught in 6th grade health class, your body will burn only so many calories in a day (varies by person and their routine of course) and the access.... well let's just say the access calories find a nice place to live on your fanny!
Put into a real life example, my caloric consumption per day, with no extra workout planned, is 1200 calories or less. Now let's say that I consume 1100 calories over my allotted meals but then decide to use that extra 100 calories on cookies, but I really end up eating 600 calories in cookies, that's 500 more than I should have had which translates into 500 calories stuck to my thighs (pretty much, right? :)). Now if I had stretched that 600 calories over 7 days, I would have hit my 1200 calories without exceeding and would not have gone over, avoiding sending my body into sugar shock.
Our body is like a glass, it can only hold so much. So if you pour 2 cups of water into a 1 cup glass, the extra cup has to go somewhere, and that over flow, is fat. And the mess all over the floor from the extra water has to be picked up somehow. So now we have to increase our movement or decrease our caloric intake even more to make up for it. Conversely, if you go over your 1 cup limit by only a little bit, the mess is smaller and easier to "clean up" (AKA you can make up for it with one good workout versus months of torture on that stupid treadmill).
Morale of the story, eating a box of cookies makes me cry, because I stay on the treadmill a little longer tomorrow trying to desperately undo the damage I did tonight, when no one was looking!
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