Most dieters (studies say) see this as "bad eating" when really it is just eating. I don't mean this in the "You're Great -- We're all Great -- You get a ribbon just for Participating" kind of way. It is really true.
If you divide eating into three categories (ala Michelle May), you get restrictive eaters (dieters), over eaters, and intuitive eaters. All of us are all three. Even the most intuitive eater (that effortlessly thin spouse or friend) over eats sometimes. If they seem effortlessly thin, it's because they spend more time eating according to their hunger and fullness than eating in the other two styles.
Just like the most over- or restrictive eater will sometime eat according to hunger and fullness signals -- they just spend more time over- or restrictively eating.
Here's my point:
A "bad" eating day is no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. You will have more opportunities to make the kinds of choices you feel good about the next time you are thinking about eating.
Don't let a lapse (a short-term disruption in your mindfulness) turn into a relapse (a return to all of your former eating behaviors -- you know...the ones that got you to where you were before you starting being mindful in the first place)
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