A few thoughts:
- I have decided I love oatmeal with banana.
- Also edamame.
- I seem unable to eat the right foods/portions based solely on a desire to be healthy/lose weight.
- Yet I am more than capable of doing the above out of sheer pride.
The regime is going well. I weigh less now than I ever have in my adult life, by a few pounds, and I'm excited about that. I'm quite sure if I wasn't in a summer-long bet with Julie I would contentedly stop now and just try to maintain the level I'm at, but a competition is a competition, so the careful self-control continues.
Despite eating only 1500 cals/day for about a month and a half now, I'm still not entirely used to it. I've gotten better at it, but I think hardly a night has gone by that I haven't fantasized about just letting it go and eating a giant bowl of fettuccini. (My food fantasies tend to be about huge amounts of carbs.) I don't do it, of course, but I can see how easy it is to fall off the wagon, even after having been on it for awhile.
Working out has been a bit easier. I enjoy the sweat and the pride afterward. And the music, and the adrenaline! If I don't really want to work out I still do cardio for 45m-1h, but I don't push as hard. I have only missed one daily workout since April 30, but we'll see if that can last the rest of the summer.
Lastly, I find lately that the most inspiring factor is when other people are inspired to work out/eat healthily and tell me about it, especially if I helped motivate them in some way. Then I feel like we're in this together, and I have to workout so that they also know we're in this together. I think it's awesome that I live in an age where people in totally different states can basically be my workout buddies.
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