I thought that incorporating exercise would be the hardest thing, but a year later, while not easy, I'm really all about the back patting on my accomplishment. I am proud that I was able to figure out how to make this a part of my life.
To do this, it was not easy. It's expensive. It's time consuming. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome and I can now say a year in, I have figured out a way to at least get four days a week in and am working on a fifth.
Somehow, I fell in love with the process of making this happen. I didn't look at any big goals. There was no final outcome that I sought that would tell me I "won." When making a change to your lifestyle, I do believe that it is THE PROCESS that you need to focus on and not the result.
The question is,
CAN I DO THIS WITH MY EATING HABITS?
Why is changing my eating lifestyle so hard?
Here are some excuses:
- I have a busy schedule.
- I have to feed picky children.
- I have to feed a somewhat picky husband.
- I LIKE the social aspects of eating.
- I love to eat.
- I love to cook.
- I feel deprived when I cannot indulge.
- I feel like my approach to eating and enjoying food is part of my identity.
- I feel that there's no point to trying to lose weight because I'm just going to gain it back again.
- I feel that the only way to achieve weight loss is to not eat and especially not eat anything worthwhile.
- It seems that the amount of calories I need to lose and then maintain or just not a lot.
OK, so let me break some of this down. Which of these can I easily throw out?
The first three. I can't use those excuses. I eat a lot of weird stuff and I'm experimental and my attitude is SCREW them. So, if I make elaborate, not-so-healthy meals without caring what the family will eat, there shouldn't be a change. The busy schedule is an issue, but I overcame that with the exercise, so we know that I can't use that as an excuse.
Also, I love to cook should be an asset to this whole endeavor, so let's throw that out. Now I'm left with:
- I LIKE the social aspects of eating.
- I love to eat.
- I feel deprived when I cannot indulge.
- I feel like my approach to eating and enjoying food is part of my identity.
- I feel that there's no point to trying to lose weight because I'm just going to gain it back again.
- I feel that the only way to achieve weight loss is to not eat and especially not eat anything worthwhile.
- It seems that the amount of calories I need to lose and then maintain or just not a lot.
The other ones are way more difficult to sort out and to overcome, I think.
I'm very concerned that if I don't make some significant daily lifestyle changes to my diet, I will be diagnosed with Type II diabetes in the next couple of years! My bp is still on the higher side (123/84 this morning) with medication and age will only make that worse.
Time is NOT on my side.
Ideally, I'd love to find a daily eating plan that wouldn't have me give it all up. Whole 30, Paleo, anything that asks me to just fully give up sugar and carbs DISTRESSES ME!
WHY IS THAT?
Am I some sort of addict and I'm in deep, deep denial?
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS? DO I HAVE IT IN ME TO CHANGE?
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