Justification
As I prepared my breakfast @ work this morning (we have big kitchen upstairs, so I can keep a lot of shit in the fridge), a recurrent comical thought resurfaced (ooooooooohhhh big words! LMAO) about how we justify things in our heads. For instance: here is a picture of my breakfast this morning - very healthy, right?
You got your strawberries, raspberries & blueberries (I freaking LOVE berries), grapes, throw in some carrots & cherry tomatoes and a 60-calorie yogurt smoothie and you got one frickin healthy ass breakfast. You see, the comical part is that I eat this on purpose to justify what I will undoubtedly eat for lunch, something like this:
Not the whole pie mind you (I used to, when I was in my teens, I could literally scarf down an entire pizza and the best part is I would not gain an ounce), just a couple slices. I figure I eat a nice healthy low cal low fat breakfast, go to the gym before lunch for 90-minutes (I come back ravenous of course - oops I did it again, another big word!), and hell I've earned myself some pizza goddammit! I am a bad eater, given my habits when I was younger. I had a super fast metabolism so I could stuff my face with shitty food all day and never gain any weight (I was a size 0 or 2 until I quit smoking in my 20's and put on an extra 10-15 lbs.; now I'm a 3/4 or 5/6 depending on the brand of clothes).
So, I through these spurts where I'll eat healthy (well, relatively speaking, throw the pizza in and it ain't so healthy anymore), then I'll justify that to 'I've earned myself a break!' and eat like shit for a few days. It's sick, really.
What are some of the things you justify doing?
You got your strawberries, raspberries & blueberries (I freaking LOVE berries), grapes, throw in some carrots & cherry tomatoes and a 60-calorie yogurt smoothie and you got one frickin healthy ass breakfast. You see, the comical part is that I eat this on purpose to justify what I will undoubtedly eat for lunch, something like this:
Not the whole pie mind you (I used to, when I was in my teens, I could literally scarf down an entire pizza and the best part is I would not gain an ounce), just a couple slices. I figure I eat a nice healthy low cal low fat breakfast, go to the gym before lunch for 90-minutes (I come back ravenous of course - oops I did it again, another big word!), and hell I've earned myself some pizza goddammit! I am a bad eater, given my habits when I was younger. I had a super fast metabolism so I could stuff my face with shitty food all day and never gain any weight (I was a size 0 or 2 until I quit smoking in my 20's and put on an extra 10-15 lbs.; now I'm a 3/4 or 5/6 depending on the brand of clothes).
So, I through these spurts where I'll eat healthy (well, relatively speaking, throw the pizza in and it ain't so healthy anymore), then I'll justify that to 'I've earned myself a break!' and eat like shit for a few days. It's sick, really.
What are some of the things you justify doing?
posted by Miss_Vicki at 9:44 AM
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