Oh. Hay, Livejournal.
I totally forgot you were there. Whoops.
It's almost been a year since my last journal entry. Things haven't changed much: still at art school, still struggling with diets, same song and dance. I'm just another year older.
One would hope for "wiser" too, but that hasn't been the case so far, especially when it comes to how I've been treating my body. I don't sleep enough, eat well, exercise enough, or even just appreciate what I do have that's working for me. Sad. Anyways, this year I'm thinking in terms of baby steps. Last year was a bust. I tried too many times to just START OVER COMPLETELY FROM SCRATCH AND GET RID OF ALL MY BAD HABITS ALL AT ONCE ASDAFSFFF. That's been my battle tactic for the past 4 years and obviously it's doing a bang-up job.
So, yes. Baby steps. I'll start out with limiting the carbs, especially the ones I don't actually like that much (white bread, crackers, potatoes, refined sugar etc.) I've managed to adjust to using Splenda in my coffee and tea, so I'll mainly be focusing on the bready stuff. I've noticed when I snack, it's always for crunchy, salty, totally-no-nutritional-value goodies. Problem. In the past, I've managed several times to stop eating carbs all together. However, I realize that no carbs at all is pretty unhealthy, especially since that's what my body is burning up when I exercise. I'd rather eat the whole grains and not lose the measly muscle I've managed to gain.
For now, I'll do my best to avoid:
-white bread and pastas
-salty crackers and chips
-deep-fried nonsense of any kind
-cookies and cake
It'd be nice if I could flush all this current binge-crap out of my system. I'll try to keep drinking lots of water. Need to start that habit up again.
I won't make any promises to update this with any regularity. But, I know it would keep me motivated that I'm making these pledges public, even if no one actually reads them.
It's almost been a year since my last journal entry. Things haven't changed much: still at art school, still struggling with diets, same song and dance. I'm just another year older.
One would hope for "wiser" too, but that hasn't been the case so far, especially when it comes to how I've been treating my body. I don't sleep enough, eat well, exercise enough, or even just appreciate what I do have that's working for me. Sad. Anyways, this year I'm thinking in terms of baby steps. Last year was a bust. I tried too many times to just START OVER COMPLETELY FROM SCRATCH AND GET RID OF ALL MY BAD HABITS ALL AT ONCE ASDAFSFFF. That's been my battle tactic for the past 4 years and obviously it's doing a bang-up job.
So, yes. Baby steps. I'll start out with limiting the carbs, especially the ones I don't actually like that much (white bread, crackers, potatoes, refined sugar etc.) I've managed to adjust to using Splenda in my coffee and tea, so I'll mainly be focusing on the bready stuff. I've noticed when I snack, it's always for crunchy, salty, totally-no-nutritional-value goodies. Problem. In the past, I've managed several times to stop eating carbs all together. However, I realize that no carbs at all is pretty unhealthy, especially since that's what my body is burning up when I exercise. I'd rather eat the whole grains and not lose the measly muscle I've managed to gain.
For now, I'll do my best to avoid:
-white bread and pastas
-salty crackers and chips
-deep-fried nonsense of any kind
-cookies and cake
It'd be nice if I could flush all this current binge-crap out of my system. I'll try to keep drinking lots of water. Need to start that habit up again.
I won't make any promises to update this with any regularity. But, I know it would keep me motivated that I'm making these pledges public, even if no one actually reads them.