Letsmakeitup1's Kaylee said she was really patient with herself and took her time making changes. One small change and then build on that. The example she gave was if you drink three large sodas a day, cut back to two, and once you've gotten used to two a day, you cut it down to one per day, and so on until you no longer drink your calories in a waste of sugar and caffeine. (It should be mentioned that as a part of my personal beliefs, I decline caffeine of any kind or form. Some of my faith do drink soda that has caffeine in it, and that's okay, but I have personally chosen not to, because I believe it has little to no health benefits. So no coffee, tea, Coke, or Mountain Dew. I have a personal vendetta with Mountain Dew, but that's another story.)
I continued that pattern of water intake at lunch by snacking on carrots, broccoli, and watermelon, for I'm not sure how long. I believe that you can't ever get enough fruits and veggies, so I felt fine about making it my mid-day snack.
I was tempting by the cake and chocolate around the house from cake balls we're preparing for my cousin's wedding next week, but was very stingy about sampling any, and resisted the craving. I did succumb to a half-spoonful of peanut butter though, which I feel is fine, because peanut butter has protein in it, which can make you feel full for longer, so in small doses, it actually can be beneficial.
After that... stuff got weird. A guy friend of mine, whom I dated in high school came by to drop off a game for me to play while he's gone on his two-year LDS mission. Long story short, he has a girlfriend, but we still care for each other, and we ended up talking for about eight hours. Yeah. That was crazy. So my family ate without me and I ate a small serving of peas and my mom's chicken enchiladas at about midnight. Yeah. That was unplanned.
Anyways. That's day one. Reflecting back, there are things I could have done differently, but that's why I'm writing all this, so I can know what I have to work on and what I can do to improve!
Thanks y'all for reading! It means a lot!
So I start my journey based on that approach, and the first thing I've chosen to change is my diet. I will choose fruits and vegetables before everything else, and use my knowledge from a short time of counting calories and paying attention to ingredients lists to make better choices. I will (or my mom will, since she's a part of this journey too ^^') home cook almost every meal, and cooking in such a way that a meal makes "meat on the side", as Nikki Dinky from Food Network Star likes to put it. I'm not going to take away all sweets at once though. Right now, it's physically impossible in my house, where we decorate wedding and birthday cakes. With all the stuff around, it's impossible to avoid, I feel. So that's where we start.
"Today" (actually yesterday) was weird. So, it started normally, I slept in (when I don't have school or a job... I don't see too much reason to get up ^^') and got up and had a homemade muffin my mom had baked with a small serving of vanilla yogurt, granola and fresh raspberries from our garden. My mom found this White Chocolate Raspberry muffin recipe on Pinterest (see original link here: http://goo.gl/8HG9KG), and we thought it was great. It's not necessarily the healthiest option, I'm aware; but I'm sure that you could adapt the recipe by leaving out the white chocolate chips and replacing the white sugar with a sugar substitute like Stevia. Here is a link to an article about some healthier sugar substitutes from a website that supplies diabetics with support and health products: http://goo.gl/1Q5keE.
With breakfast I drank a large glass of water, because from experience, water weight can make the difference of 5 pounds, and the more water you drink, the more water weight you can lose. Of course, this weight is bound to come back, but drinking water also assists in changing your metabolism.
"German researchers found that drinking 6 cups of cold water a day (that's 48 ounces) can raise resting metabolism by about 50 calories daily—enough to shed 5 pounds in a year" (http://goo.gl/BkOSYs).So that's one of my goals, is to drink a ton more water, at least one tall glass at every meal, because that is something I'm not good at keeping up with. Even if it mean I have to pee every five minutes. lol. ^^
I continued that pattern of water intake at lunch by snacking on carrots, broccoli, and watermelon, for I'm not sure how long. I believe that you can't ever get enough fruits and veggies, so I felt fine about making it my mid-day snack.
I was tempting by the cake and chocolate around the house from cake balls we're preparing for my cousin's wedding next week, but was very stingy about sampling any, and resisted the craving. I did succumb to a half-spoonful of peanut butter though, which I feel is fine, because peanut butter has protein in it, which can make you feel full for longer, so in small doses, it actually can be beneficial.
After that... stuff got weird. A guy friend of mine, whom I dated in high school came by to drop off a game for me to play while he's gone on his two-year LDS mission. Long story short, he has a girlfriend, but we still care for each other, and we ended up talking for about eight hours. Yeah. That was crazy. So my family ate without me and I ate a small serving of peas and my mom's chicken enchiladas at about midnight. Yeah. That was unplanned.
Anyways. That's day one. Reflecting back, there are things I could have done differently, but that's why I'm writing all this, so I can know what I have to work on and what I can do to improve!
Thanks y'all for reading! It means a lot!
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