Why we call it learning a Healthy Lifestyle
Because sometimes as adults we need to re-learn how to eat correctly. Just because we eat what we like doesn't mean it should cause us to gain 10lbs like it's nothing. And trust me, I've been there.
Learning to eat healthy means making good choices every single day. It's not a diet. It's not never eating a piece of bread again. It's just making good choices.
In the last year I lost AND KEPT OFF 30lbs. That is the big part for me - keeping it off.
I wanted to lose 50lbs, and that didn't happen, but I kept off all that I lost, and I have to see that as a positive. I kept it off eating stuffing at Thanksgiving. I kept it off eating cookies and potatoes at Christmas. I kept it off over a bad three weeks in February that happened right at Valentine's day (so there was chocolate in the house, which we never have in the house). I was depressed and sad, and I ate. I ate EVERYTHING I could find. I wasn't proud of my choices, but they were just that - my choices. As soon as I could see through the fog, I went back to making sure I drank my water (and believe me, that's tough in the winter), I had my shake for lunch, and stopped snacking on crackers and things.
The result? I didn't gain any weight. But I didn't lose either.
But that's learning to be healthy. When you can maintain your weight while going out to eat. Maintain your weight over Valentines day and eating chocolates. Or even maintain your weight when your husband makes you an entire chocolate cheesecake...and you eat it, lol.
You learn how to eat (eating half your meal at a restaurant, or just a small amount of a dessert that you really want) but control your other meals while enjoying those little things.
This isn't a race, it's a lifestyle. I don't want to gain the weight back in a month, I want to still be keeping it ALL off in ten years from now.
I see those commercials where you can lose all your weight in two weeks (or there's even one that you can lose it in DAYS). That's not how I see it. I'm in this for the long haul. I WILL be that fifty year old who looks damn good! I refuse to say "oh well, I'm old so I'm just going to sit back and gain weight" NOPE.
I also think I need to get to they gym. I think it will give me the kick in the ass that I need. I'm lazy by nature. Not beating myself up about it. But if I start going and see it working, that will serve as my motivation.
A Healthy Lifestyle is all about making good choices. One bad meal doesn't ruin all your hard work, just get back at it the next meal, or the next day (if necessary) but just DO IT. Do it for YOU.
Because sometimes as adults we need to re-learn how to eat correctly. Just because we eat what we like doesn't mean it should cause us to gain 10lbs like it's nothing. And trust me, I've been there.
Learning to eat healthy means making good choices every single day. It's not a diet. It's not never eating a piece of bread again. It's just making good choices.
In the last year I lost AND KEPT OFF 30lbs. That is the big part for me - keeping it off.
I wanted to lose 50lbs, and that didn't happen, but I kept off all that I lost, and I have to see that as a positive. I kept it off eating stuffing at Thanksgiving. I kept it off eating cookies and potatoes at Christmas. I kept it off over a bad three weeks in February that happened right at Valentine's day (so there was chocolate in the house, which we never have in the house). I was depressed and sad, and I ate. I ate EVERYTHING I could find. I wasn't proud of my choices, but they were just that - my choices. As soon as I could see through the fog, I went back to making sure I drank my water (and believe me, that's tough in the winter), I had my shake for lunch, and stopped snacking on crackers and things.
The result? I didn't gain any weight. But I didn't lose either.
But that's learning to be healthy. When you can maintain your weight while going out to eat. Maintain your weight over Valentines day and eating chocolates. Or even maintain your weight when your husband makes you an entire chocolate cheesecake...and you eat it, lol.
You learn how to eat (eating half your meal at a restaurant, or just a small amount of a dessert that you really want) but control your other meals while enjoying those little things.
This isn't a race, it's a lifestyle. I don't want to gain the weight back in a month, I want to still be keeping it ALL off in ten years from now.
I see those commercials where you can lose all your weight in two weeks (or there's even one that you can lose it in DAYS). That's not how I see it. I'm in this for the long haul. I WILL be that fifty year old who looks damn good! I refuse to say "oh well, I'm old so I'm just going to sit back and gain weight" NOPE.
I also think I need to get to they gym. I think it will give me the kick in the ass that I need. I'm lazy by nature. Not beating myself up about it. But if I start going and see it working, that will serve as my motivation.
A Healthy Lifestyle is all about making good choices. One bad meal doesn't ruin all your hard work, just get back at it the next meal, or the next day (if necessary) but just DO IT. Do it for YOU.
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