Wednesday, April 05, 2006

My new favorite diet term

Rationalie

For an accidental typo by a friend of mine, this pretty much perfectly describes the things I tell myself to make non-diet food seem okay. Rationalizing is almost by definition lying to one's self, but rationalying makes it that much more obvious.

Rationalie: "I've blown it by having xxxx, as long as I have yyyy before bed and be good tomorrow, my body will forget the extra calories"

Rationalie: "100 calories worth of popcorn won't affect the diet"

Rationalie: "Adding bacon and parmesan to the salad won't hurt"

Rationalie: "I've only had 500 calories today, but my BMR is over 2800, so anything less than 2300 calories will be positive"

Damn, I'm a sick puppy.

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