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It’s so easy to get complacent with your diet – you fall into an everyday routine with your food and exercise, you lose some weight and then you loosen that tight grip of control that you’ve worked so hard to keep on said food and exercise.
In the beginning, you were counting your calories at every meal, writing down every piece of food that entered your body and making sure to get some form of physical activity every day of the week.
And then a point comes when your dedication to the diet wanes.
You start exercising every other day, instead of every day. You start snacking more throughout the day. And, you start eating things you probably shouldn’t be eating too often, like fast food and candy bars.
Let me be honest: I’ve had this happen to me before.
When I first started dieting in high school, I was extremely dedicated to monitoring my diet and exercise. And it worked, because I lost almost 45 pounds! But there came a point when, for some reason or another, my commitment to losing weight diminished. I was still conscious of the food I was eating and I was still working out nearly every day, but I wasn’t devoted to losing weight anymore.
And that’s why I gained my “freshman 15” once I got to college, because I let myself get complacent with my diet, exercise and body.
But I’m not about to let that happen this time around.
Because I’ve caught myself a lot this past week making some not so great diet decisions. I skipped working out on Tuesday and Wednesday. I ate out twice yesterday (granted the food that I ate wasn’t too terrible, but still). And, I caught myself eating a cookie that my roommate had baked earlier in the week.
I’m not saying that it’s not okay to do these things while on a diet, because it is. But what I am saying is that if I want to lose those last two pounds (and maybe even a little bit more to get down to my goal weight), I can’t get complacent with my diet.
I can’t let myself let my diet and exercise guard down. So I’m using this weekend as an opportunity for me to remind myself of why I first started this journey: to lose weight, to get fitter and to find happiness with my body and myself.
I’ve been wanting to get rid of some weight for a long time, but I’ve never done anything about it. And now that I’m on this journey, I need to finish out strong.
I know that I’ve come a long way in almost eight weeks, but my hard work doesn’t stop here. I’m keeping my eye on the prize, and the prize is saying that I’ve lost my “freshman 15”.
It’s go time.