The hardest part of my journey that I started a year ago was finding something that not only worked for me but to find something that I could keep doing for the rest of my life. The graphic above this blog is a screen shot from my fitness pal app that I have been using to track my progress. As you can see I have gained and lost the same weight several times this last year. There are several reasons that this happened but I can kind of boil it all down to two things. First, I would get discouraged and I would just give up. Second, I could not maintain the restrictions that I placed on myself because they were unrealistic.
When I started my journey I tried to make a lot of changes very quickly and I was somewhat successful. I quit drinking soda, I stopped eating fast food and I started exercising. All of that sounds simple enough but when you add-on that I also was trying to not eat any processed foods, I was trying to drink smoothies with mostly vegetables and I was also cutting carbs you can see how all of it can stack up quickly. I tried to go from zero to a thousand real quick. Of course, it worked, it shocked my body and I began to lose weight very quickly. But as you can see it was short-lived, I couldn’t keep up with it all, my weight loss slowed and I eventually gave up. Continue reading If you don’t get it right… Keep trying!