Today I treated myself to a new haircut. I really postponed this haircut and I know it sounds silly but I kept saying I want to lose this weight, I don’t want to keep hiding my face because it looks round and giving this illusion that it’s not as round as it looks because of my weight. But yesterday when I stepped on the scale and I hit into the 170s I said OK now is the time. while I am not done by any means losing weight yesterday marked 38 pounds lost since I started my weight loss journey at the end of August (weighing in at 210) one of those months was prior to diet bet. I have to tell you in that time was anything but simple. This is the second time I’ve gone through this journey. The first time a year and a half ago I lost a total of 75 pounds in roughly 4 months. The problem with that was I made such drastic changes and unsustainable changes that the second I stopped I gained the weight back and then some. The more weight I gained the more disappointed in myself I was the more I ate and then more weight I gained. I immediately went back to this extreme weight loss in August, cutting candy and soda and drank protien shakes, protien bars and low calorie everything.
Obviously I saw a little change quickly plateaued . And around September when I joined DietBet that was when I started making A lifestyle change. And it’s been a process, a gradual process at that. I hate eating green leafy vegetables, frankly I hate vegetables in general.
But the main thing I learned since September in making the lifestyle change has been that everything in the supermarket that isn’t fresh or frozen with absolutely no preservatives is pretty much a scam. From cereal, yogurt to the health food protein bars you name it, it’s all a scam. Taking our hopes and dreams and cashing them in to line their pockets with our hard earned money as we all search for the magic cure to our obesity. (Granted there are some really great options out there but they position themselves in such a way that is an astronomical cost that the average person like myself who has four kids and is on a pretty strict budget can’t even come close to considering those options.)
The better option: clean eating, planning ahead, prepare a head. Substitutes (never use imitation sugars ((I have swapped initially for agave which I love but a fellow trainer turned me on to organic coconut sugar which tastes exactly like sugar, same consistency) both low glycemic choices. In addition I got some measuring serving cups and figured out just exactly how much I should be eating and how much of each group. The more active you become obviously the more food you will get. Oh and I look at packages now. If I can’t pronounce it I put it back, genetically engineered or modified (put it back).
And number one ☝️ STOP STARVING MYSELF! I would think well I took 1000 calories today Great should be down x amount but what I failed to see was I burned 5000 calories in the day and put my body in starvation mode so everything I was eating was being stored as fat instead of used as fuel.
But today I got haircut because it’s been six months and I got to give myself a pat on the back for doing what I’ve done in six months. It’s a work in progress and I’m taking it day by day. Tomorrow I probably will change something in my lifestyle to help going forward in the next days and the days after that I will probably make a small change as well. Small changes instead of changing everything all at once makes this so much more realistic and so much more rewarding because I can feel like at the end of the day I can keep this up this time.