I am in chatty mood this morning!
WhooHoo - Last one for the year!!! OMG, what an year it has been!
I love my new workout program. Even after only week and half I feel it's already starting to work for me and it was exactly what I asked for!
This month
I pushed too much with exercise to try to earn calories
I was little overtired at one point (26th!)
I had too many calories 5 days, but I still didn't overeat to uncomfortable level
I tracked, I owned my actions, I kept to my minimums (10 000 steps daily, 2 lifting sessions a week, tracking even if I go over).
And I noticed the trend and I took the right correction - rest, plenty of healthy food to recharge and recover, stay under my calorie burn last few days.
It's the year that I decided no more on and off plans, that I need consistency, and it all counts, that I need a lot of flexibility to allow me to live in a way that supports my goals but also my happiness and this include the way I eat and I exercise. No more banned foods, no more 100 day challenges, no more putting a workout program ahead of how I feel. Learning to be aware and focus on how I feel, have changed the way I eat and the food I crave. As I want to eat tasty food. But I want to feel great too
It's the year I also decided I won't overeat! When you do a plan, and you let yourself loose after the plan you don't deal with the root of the problem. You don't tackle the true cause - overeating. It's I am going to stick to the plan, I will get to my goal weight, I will go to Disney (Spain, or my birthday party) and I will eat like it doesn't count! I will be good after. But doing so, you don't learn to dislike the over fullness feeling. And if you glamorize excessive eating as a fun vacation experience, it continues to be there as temptation. Learning to enjoy food, all food in moderation but dislike being over full have been challenging but so rewarding in the end.
Until this year, I knew how to loose weight and I knew how to gain weight. I never thought much about maintaining. It's new experience, new learning and I will continue to learn but I feel calm and content that I can handle it.
I googled quotes and this came out and I actually like it. For me, I stopped seeing myself as someone who will always struggle, I stopped comparing myself to my parents, I decided that I own my actions, and they come with consequences and it's me and only me that decides to get out of weight loss/regain cycles and find better way to live and who do I want to be.