Starting Out
The first few steps are always the hardest, but you have to start somewhere, right? Here’s the first 5 simple steps I’m taking:
1.) Eat Slowly.
It takes your body about 20 minutes to realize that it’s full!! How many bites do you take in 20 minutes? 20? 30? That’s about 20 bites extra than you really need. So step one is to eat my meals slowly. (Which some may argue I already do.) I will try to make myself eat over the corse of one 30 minute TV show. Hopefully, that will allow me to not over-eat and have that “I effing hate myself” feeling that you get when you eat too much. lol
which brings me to step two…
2.) Stop Eating When You’re Full!
Raise your hand if you’re guilty of finishing your plate because it’s SO GOOD!!!
Right, well, my second step is to train myself to stop eating when I’m full. My biggest challenge to this rule will be my first encounter with Chipotle once I start this, but we’ll deal with that unfortunate mountain when we get to it.
3.) Reward System!
Sooo… i’m the kind of girl that needs constant reminder as to why she’s doing something, and an incentive to get there. Sorry I’m not sorry, that’s just the way I function. Anyways, I read somewhere about this ingenious system where any time you finish a workout, you add a dollar to your workout jar. :]
The idea is pretty clear… reward yourself after every work out, and then when you’ve reached your goal, or a mini-goal, celebrate with buying something nice for yourself. In my case, although i haven’t officially decided, I will be buying myself a nice bathing suit… perhaps this one…
Which can be found here : http://www.etsy.com/listing/75716669/navy-striped-bow-bandeau
4.) Limit Caffeine Intake.
Soooo… I’m not going to lie… I drink caffeine (more specifically dr. pepper and coke) wayyyyyyyy too often. It’s an addiction, honestly. I can go through three large McDonald’s Dr. Peppers a day, or 4-5 cans of coke a day. It’s obnoxious. I literally have caffeine withdrawals if I skip pop for a day. So my goal (although this one will be accomplished in small steps) is to cut down dramatically on caffeine, or more specifically, pop. I’m a college student, so to say that I’m going to drop caffeine completely is not only ridiculous, it’s semi-suicidal (especially during finals week!!) I’ll start by cutting myself to one can of pop a day, then cut down to one mini can of pop a day, then hopefully end up to where I only have pop on special occasions (parties, holidays, ect.)
aaaannnddd finally…
5.) Eat at Home.
Whenever I go out, I tend to eat goooood. And by good, I of course mean awful and fattening but fucking delicious (excuse my language…but you should probably get used to that). I get extra sour cream, or extra ranch, or double bacon. yeah… I’m my own worst enemy. But I come from a long line of overweight people on both sides (minus my mom who is oddly enough the only twig in the family). And with two (kind of, might as well be,) family members being diagnosed with Diabetes just last year, I’m suddenly a lot more aware of what kind of food I put into my system. SOOOO my thinking here is, if I eat at home, and only keep healthy foods there, I can’t go wrong… right? lol
I’m on a mission (from God… lol sorry… too much Blues Brothers lately) to start treating my body like a temple.
