Lose weight the fun way.

Ack! Halp! I'm lying here in a ditch covered in Cheetoes dust and I can barely see the wagon disappearing into the horizon...

I did a very, very modified juice cleanse for a couple weeks. (Cleanses are stupid and I carry no delusions about purging "toxins" from my body. This was basically a way for me to restrict my diet to make it easy to limit calories and say "no thanks, I can't eat that, I'm on this diet..." without missing out on key nutrients. By making a lot of food groups completely "off limits" it helped me get comfortable saying "no" and removed a lot of the psychic stress of making decisions and trying to figure out when, when, and whether to eat.) It was highly effective. I felt fine and the pounds felt like they were just melting off!

And then I went on a business trip and it just wasn't feasible to continue the diet. So I temporarily went back to eating like a normal person for two days. And then I continued eating like a normal person when I got home. Which meant I paid less and less attention to what I was eating, and stopped logging my meals, and stopped weighing myself daily and...

I gained it all back. And then some. I'm up ~10 lbs in ~2 weeks. Woof.

So I need your help getting back on track.

And I need to find some bolt of epiphanic lightning to change my brain and body so that I don't promptly re-gain all the weight just as soon as I've lost it, as has been the case for me for the last...entire life. I feel like I'm on the worst carousel ever, going round and round and feeling slightly nauseated...

Ugh. I hate how predictable this predicament is.

LizzyinJapan

11/10/2015 5:05PM

You know what though? "Normal" people I know who are healthy and have never been overweight don't make food choices like we do. Sure they might have a desert one night. But they dont have as many bites as we do. They don't have to force themselves to put the spoon down. We order a fried starter dish, they by choice chose the healthier soup or salad. And they wanted to eat it! They didn't choose it because its low calorie. It's years of routine and discipline that make being healthy a way of life.For us, we're leaving behind years of bad choices and bad routines. Like an addict quitting drugs, alcohol or cigarettes, we are fighting against suger and salt! Those cravings won't ever go away, we just have to make our minds stronger than the urge to splurge! We have to clear our houses of the temptation and make our friends stop peer pressuring us to "have fun" and give up on our personal health goals! For us, its a life long battle and maaaaybe someday we won't crave to eat an entire pizza all by ourselves. But for now, we have to keep fighting! I think we can do it! ;)

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