Come with me, and we'll be in a wooorrlllddd of pure imagination...
Kind of ironic that I titled this post with a song from a movie about a chocolate factory.
I've decided I need to start to be healthier. I have put on some extra poundage recently, and have finally reached my breaking point. I'm not getting any younger, and I figure I should take advantage of my metabolism while I still have it. I'm not going to start off radically, since I think I would quickly lose my drive. But here is how I figure it is going to go.
PHASE ONE: For breakfast, a bowl of cereal. Eat one hot meal a day, at lunch. For supper, have a cold-cut sandwich. If I am going to snack, it will be before 4pm. After that time, I am only allowed to have the sandwich or a healthy snack, like baby carrots, fruit or yogurt. Try to avoid using the elevator and take stairs instead.
PHASE TWO: Cut WAY down on the Diet Coke. Drink water instead. Try to walk to and from school, as the weather permits.
PHASE THREE: Learn to cook and cut down my indulgence meals (read: frozen food) to once or twice a week.
Started phase one today, phase two will begin sometime after finals as the last two or three weeks of the semester is not an ideal time to go through caffeine withdrawal. I hope that by posting my plan here, FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE, it will keep me feeling obligated to stay on track. I will need this motivation since I have been self-medicating through food pretty much all my life, which makes the stress of dieting insanely difficult.
I've decided I need to start to be healthier. I have put on some extra poundage recently, and have finally reached my breaking point. I'm not getting any younger, and I figure I should take advantage of my metabolism while I still have it. I'm not going to start off radically, since I think I would quickly lose my drive. But here is how I figure it is going to go.
PHASE ONE: For breakfast, a bowl of cereal. Eat one hot meal a day, at lunch. For supper, have a cold-cut sandwich. If I am going to snack, it will be before 4pm. After that time, I am only allowed to have the sandwich or a healthy snack, like baby carrots, fruit or yogurt. Try to avoid using the elevator and take stairs instead.
PHASE TWO: Cut WAY down on the Diet Coke. Drink water instead. Try to walk to and from school, as the weather permits.
PHASE THREE: Learn to cook and cut down my indulgence meals (read: frozen food) to once or twice a week.
Started phase one today, phase two will begin sometime after finals as the last two or three weeks of the semester is not an ideal time to go through caffeine withdrawal. I hope that by posting my plan here, FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE, it will keep me feeling obligated to stay on track. I will need this motivation since I have been self-medicating through food pretty much all my life, which makes the stress of dieting insanely difficult.