One thing I want to make clear here is that my goal right now in my life is not to lose weight. My goal is to adopt a healthier lifestyle and feel better. Last year, I had got to the point that I was so sluggish that I could barely get through the day. I was eating junk all the time and eating pretty much large amounts of anything I wanted. So when this year started and I started my Happiness Project, one of my goals was to improve my health and energy. I started out doing that by doing the #walk20in20 challenge. For me personally, I find that exercise and movement tends to naturally lead me to making healthier food choices. In the past when I've lost weight, I've always done it through a "diet" of some type. Low-fat or low-calorie or Weight Watchers, etc. These all involved a complete 180 of my eating pattern and that is not sustainable for me. I"m not knocking any of those because I think each of us have different things that work for them and I'm not one to judge someone else's choices.
What I am striving to do this year for myself is to create a healthy lifestyle. For me, a healthy lifestyle means making mostly good choices in my eating plan. But it also means that sometimes I will go ahead and have a burger or fries instead of a salad. So I started the year by writing down what I ate (the good, the bad, and the ugly), and then I started changing small things (like adding a vegetable to my lunch and fruit to my breakfast). Now I"m to the point where I feel like I'm eating pretty healthy and balanced meals most days and I feel much better because of it. I want this to become my new normal and not just a "diet" I"m on to lose weight. I've also made a promise to Tom that I will keep on this even after he's gone. He knows my emotional eating patterns and he knows how hard it will be for me once his battle is over. So hopefully adapting these changes now and working on dealing with my emotional eating will lead me down a healthier path.
What I am striving to do this year for myself is to create a healthy lifestyle. For me, a healthy lifestyle means making mostly good choices in my eating plan. But it also means that sometimes I will go ahead and have a burger or fries instead of a salad. So I started the year by writing down what I ate (the good, the bad, and the ugly), and then I started changing small things (like adding a vegetable to my lunch and fruit to my breakfast). Now I"m to the point where I feel like I'm eating pretty healthy and balanced meals most days and I feel much better because of it. I want this to become my new normal and not just a "diet" I"m on to lose weight. I've also made a promise to Tom that I will keep on this even after he's gone. He knows my emotional eating patterns and he knows how hard it will be for me once his battle is over. So hopefully adapting these changes now and working on dealing with my emotional eating will lead me down a healthier path.
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