Avoid Guilt And Suffering When On Diet
Anonymous suggested in a DM on my Detox Diet post that I’m detoxing because I feel guilty about eating the muffin, so I want to make myself suffer. Now, this is an exciting thought, and I felt like exploring.
Guilt — yes! I do feel guilty.
I felt guilty about not riding last Sunday because it was raining, and I couldn’t muster the motivation to get on the rollers.
I also feel guilty that I took a baby sparrow from its nest almost thirty days ago and brought it home. I lied to my parents that it must have fallen out of its nest and that I had found it in the grass, abandoned. I so wanted a pet, and little did I know that I wouldn’t be able to keep up collecting little worms to keep it alive.
I cried a lot when the little bird died. There are some hearts I carelessly broke in my student days, and I feel guilty about that (a little … maybe), and guilt is definitely a constant feeling when I think of my parents some 12,000 km away (I am in Canada and my parents are in India)…
It is correct that I make myself suffer quite a bit (when I’m well enough), and if you are a competitive cyclist, you’ll be with me on this one.
If I wouldn’t make myself suffer in intensive training sessions, then others will make me suffer in races (more often than they do already…
