Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Endless Cycle of Eating Habits

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I'm finding that my eating and health habits come in a cycle.

Week 1: I'm going to eat healthy AND work out because I deserve to feel better!!
Week 2: I can cheat a little..I ate REALLY well last week...and worked out...twice...
Week 3: Screw you all, I'm eating everything I see. Step away from my ice cream cone. I'm never working out again.
Week 4: I feel pretty terrible...I cheated all last week...what's another week of eating garbage?! I probably look fine. My pants shrunk in the wash.
*Repeat*

See the trend? Girls, you can probably understand where I'm coming from in that "Week 3" pit of emotion.

I'm currently in a "Week 1" mentality and kicking myself when I look in the mirror. Cellulite? Double chin....arm fat?Come. On. But, there's a major problem...today we packed 85% of our kitchen. I have zero pots, pans, knives or spices available. Not to mention, that whole Grocery Challenge 2012 thing is in effect for 4 more days (gasp). Not that it matters, because we will be eating all of our meals out for the next 10ish days until we move in & unpack our gear & can cook a meal. So, I'm going to start tracking my meals and counting calories *shivers* in these final days, to see how my eating habits are. I know this is a false reading, since I have no kitchen and typically we eat at home during the week...but I just need to get into the habit of tracking what I'm consuming.

Next, I need to find the motivation to work out. I tried that whole circuit training schtick twice and let it fade away like a distant memory. Kind of like the memory of how great I felt when I worked out everyday. Thanks to Pinterest, I have discovered a blog to inspire me. This particular "pin" grabbed my attention, because the left photo is (I feel) pretty accurate to how I am now, and the right photo is what I want to look like.

Muffin TopLess
So, who wants to be my buddy? I want to start tracking my meals and workouts using MyFitnessPal, and I want to share it with someone so on bad days I have someone telling me, "You are weak" and on good days, "You are strong." This blog isn't about health & fitness, or I'd just blog blog BLOG away right here. I'm thinking of starting an evening email thread. Who's in? 

1 comment:

  1. Jess come join our 90 day challenge on facebook! It is a bunch of friends keeping one another honest in our efforts to lose weight, shape and tone!

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