Saturday, April 20th, 2013

So last night at midnight (after I got home from work) my boyfriend and I celebrated the end of our trial/cleansing diet with pizza (not the best decision).
You would not believe the cravings I had all week. All. Damn. Week.
So many times I wanted to buy a bag of chips and eat the entire thing. I wanted to bathe in cheese.
But I was able to hold out for a week.
Knowing that I can do that, makes me feel more confident in myself. I believe in myself; I know I can totally change my lifestyle (mainly my eating habits).
My eating habits are what I am focusing on right now. Exercise is just as important, but I am a creature of habit-if I can develop healthy eating as a habit, then I can introduce exercise as the next step (in a few weeks, when school is over and I am not so stressed and pressed for time).

I decided after last night not to use food as a reward. I ate that pizza and enjoyed a glass of wine with frozen berries, but I think that food as a reward is part of my problem. So, it's the next step. :)

I love learning as I go; I started this with the idea that I was going to be stuck eating celery and spinach for the rest of my life, doing endless push ups and sit ups and running for miles every day, but I realize now that this is a rich and variant lifestyle. I spend (probably too much) time online looking up things and blogging (Tumblr) and it's amazing how much you can learn just from picking up those little things that people know. If everyone knows two different things, and they all collaborate, the amount of information exchanged is astronomically high.

I found this photo on Pinterest the other day, and I thought I would share it with you all... I think it definitely puts some things in perspective :)