I feel like a new person. So far I've stuck with my lifestyle change for 5 days and can't wait for the next day to get here. I don't even try to talk myself out of exercising anymore. I look forward to jumping on the treadmill and walking my 3km's for that day. The last couple of days I even wanted to push myself further but had to keep myself in check because I am prone to shin splints. I decided that if I was going to stick with this plan I needed to progress slowly (but not too slow) and keep myself from getting hurt before I've barely started.
Yesterday my husband and I were out during the lunch time hour. He is on the Atkin's diet and needed to eat meat. His thoughts were on Wendy's. I hesitantly agreed and was thinking "I guess it's ok if I break my diet and eat some meat...I need protein anyway". Don't you love rationalizing your food intake, ha, ha. Then I remembered that they had salads. My caesar salad was so yummy and I felt good about the choice I made.
Keeping a log of my food intake has helped me so much to stick with my plan. Only 1 day did I go 100 calories over my intake need. My girls and I went shopping and decided to eat at Subway. My oldest daughter and I chose the turkey and ham sub (as we are both trying to lose weight), but we couldn't skip out on the yummy cookies :-) I also had my one and only glass of sweet tea for the week. I decided not to look on this as a failure, rather it was just a choice I needed to make in my journey (choosing between pizza/burger and Subway).
It's been a great week and I'm looking forward to continuing on this "lifestyle change" journey. Blessings. Marg
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