Looking at my food journaling from today (see post below) I am wondering if you might be asking "Is this the menu of a woman on a diet?" Sure it is. Look people, this is real life. In real life, if I deprive myself all the time then I become a walking time bomb. I will drive myself insane. And just a week and a half ago it would have been a whole candy bar, and a huge bowl of ice cream. Not to mention probably 5 waffles. I know myself. I know that if I begin to have the mentality that I am suffering while trying to lose weight, I will fail. I am allowing myself more food than some might, but I am also cutting back on what I would have been eating had I not made the decision to work on my weight. This is the kind of mindset I can live with. I will not live the rest of my life on some kind of Spartan eating plan. Any decision I make now that is a better decision than I would have made a month ago is a victory. It's all progress.And I'm not looking for some kind of Biggest Loser weigh-in, workout, or diet plan (although I do enjoy watching that show for motivation). Effective weight loss and habit changes for me will came as I slowly modify my way of life to fit a healthy lifestyle. My goal is for exercise and healthy eating to become almost second nature to me. That they will just become part of who I am. So that if you could look up "Peggy Sue" in the dictionary, you would see something like this:
- wife and mother of 5
- homeschooler
- crafter
- regular exerciser
- healthy eater
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