I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
– Dalai Lama
In the world of fad diets such as going keto, low-carb, high protein/ low fat, paleo, and much more it is easy to get lost in the mass of information of all these diets, especially post break-up. If you just got dumped by the girl you thought was the love of your life, I know how you feel when it comes to dieting. You don’t feel like you have the discipline, let alone the energy to maintain a steady and effective diet.
Rewind several years ago. I had just been dumped by “the love of my life.” In the worst possible way too. She decided to throw it in my face during a fight that she was seeing someone else, and then proceeded to dump me. Ouch. Thas hurt. So I went home and sulked for a good couple of months. I would eat just the bare minimum. Breakfast? Let’s eat 200 calories. Lunch? Who has time for that? Dinner? We’ll try to eat a little more, but it’s going to consist of something bland, and it’s not going to be much food. It will probably be a piece of chicken, and some brown rice.
I knew I should be watching my diet post-breakup. I knew I was in the “danger zone” of a post-breakup time period and watching your diet is key when it comes to getting over a girl, so I didn’t completely let me diet fall by the wayside, and at least tried to get in a good breakfast, lunch, and dinner everyday. Eventually, I healed. Eventually, I moved on. Eventually, I realized that the power of watching your diet was like the secret key to getting over a breakup. It was like the secret formula that I figured out worked in helping getting over a girl.
Of course, getting over your ex-girlfriend is not only about watching your diet and taking care of your awesome self, it involves a host of other strategies that I will discuss later in more posts to you fine gentlemen. One of the most important things to remember in your diet in my opinion is to remember to keep it simple. Think of the phrase someone else invented: “keep it simple stupid” or “keep it simple silly.” It will work wonders for you and it will catapult you into not feeling like you have to cry everytime you think about “the love of your life.” Here’s why:
- Keeping your diet simple will make it easy to follow
Seriously. It will do wonders. So many people complicate their lives with unnecessary B.S. – especially when it comes to meals. When I was a freshman in college I was getting over my hardest breakup I think I have ever been in, but I ate the same exact meals every single day. I know it sounds boring. But guess what? I didn’t go too off the rails. I was structured. I could eat without even thinking about it, and that was highly useful.
2. Keeping your diet simple will give you the ability to make gains.
There is a rule in weightlifting – it’s called progressive overload (by the way I didn’t coin this term). It involves gradually increasing the amount you lift every day so that you increase the load placed on your muscles everyday, so that in time your muscles will adapt and grow. This same principle can be applied to diet. If you eat the same amount and food every day, and just add 400-500 calories, then you will make what are called “gains” or muscular gains, and will grow. The same can be applied if you eat 400-500 calories less each day.
3. Keeping your diet simple will lower you anxiety
Think about all of anxiety and complications it causes when you have to decide on something different to cook for dinner, for every dinner, every night. Your mind and your body gets stressed out when there are more options, because it complicates your life and makes it more stressful. No one wants to have unnecessary stress, so why not cut it out and have the same dinner every night and it be something you find tasty? You are already going through enough stress as it is going through a breakup.
4. Keeping your diet simple will allow you to enjoy your food more
The one drawback of eating the same food everyday is that food might taste boring and things could get bland, but coincidentally when you do have food that’s not normally on your diet you will enjoy it more and love it. When you have eaten the same dinner every night for the past month and eat a piece of pizza, that pizza will taste amazing. Not only will it taste better when you deviate from your diet, but you will also be able to actually enjoy your food while on your diet, because you will not be stressed out about the decision process.
5. Keeping your diet simple will allow you to focus on what really matters
Have to study for six hours for an accounting exam that you have no idea whether you will pass or not? That’s ok if you are on the simple diet, you can just shove food in your mouth while not thinking and get the fuel in your body you need. Going on an adventure date with your new girlfriend? That’s ok too if you are on the simple diet. Just grab your food and go. Have to go to wedding you already don’t want to go to because of a family obligation or to be there for a family member? That’s ok too, just eat your simple diet a little early before bed, so that you can wake up in the morning and get there on time.
6. Keeping your diet simple will keep you from ultimately falling apart, and will preserve what little self confidence you have left
The one thing that kept me together I think in two of my hardest breakups in the past was my simple diet. Just eating simply, and not complicating. Eating the same dinner, eating the same lunches, eating the same breakfasts. Consistency breeds results, and nothing can be more true about this than when it comes to your diet. Keeping it simple, and falling into a routine each and every day will give you the tools and confidence to overcome life’s greatest obstacles. I truly believe this. I also believe you are a man that is capable of using this tool of maintaining a simple diet to get over your breakup, and become a better man.
If you enjoyed this post, I highly, highly recommend you check out my first post on this subject matter, which goes over the six reasons you should even eat healthy post-breakup anyway, and how that will help you get over a breakup: https://howtogetoverabreakup.travel.blog/2019/08/26/diet-for-a-breakup-why-you-should-watch-your-diet-during-this-time/.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor or medical professional. Please do not take my advice as if I was a doctor or medical professional, as I am not qualified to give that kind of health advice. Please be smart, and use your best judgement when starting a new diet/health/exercise plan and consult your doctor before starting a new diet/health/exercise plan. Thank you.
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