Week of Nov 27- Dec 3, 2016
Journal
Well, I am pretty sure that almost every person knows that you "eat" on a few more pounds then intended, especially over the holidays. Shockingly, I was faced with that reality that it was gonna happen to me this week since Thanksgiving was on arrival. But, I told myself that I don't have to worry about it as long as I get on a serious diet to lose some pounds now and lose some more after the holiday.
So I told myself, why not go to the gym, after all I have a membership. I can go whenever I please for how long that I please. So, that was number one on my list. I set my mind to have that as a priority. I then told myself, what good does it make if I go to the gym and eat everything loaded with sugar in sight. Although I had two goals, I think that these were the best I could do to my ability.
So, as I said before my first goal was to go to that gym. So, all this week I went on that treadmill. I saw all the calories I burned on the treadmill's screen. I was in shock in noticing how terrible it felt since the last time sweat went down my face and back just to loose like 500 calories at the end of each day I went to that gym. So, everyday for about an hour and ten minutes I walked and walked and walked. It felt like the more I walked the more tired I felt.
Once I got home, I felt like my legs were going to come apart. I thought o myself for that minute, what is the point of this? I then realized the importance of exercise and keeping fit the more I went to that gym over the week. I remembered that according to my former health instructor, walking is the only original and real working workout. So, my last day of working out came with a few sacrifices I had to make, again over the long week that seemed endless. I stopped eating sweets and over the holiday, my stomach was so sore I didn't feel like eating so much.
In addition, my second goal was to stop eating the sugar "killers". Since I was going to the gym, eating sweets wasn't gonna do me any good. I had a nearly full cabinet of sweets and it was such a pain to throw all of it in that garbage can. I got so upset after I came out of the gym, opened the cabinet and there was no way for me to reward myself with something sweet. After all, all that working out deserved a "good job" from those sweets.
Finally, the last day with no sweets along with working out came with a price, a reward. I turned to be 15 pounds lighter then when I started. And remember when I said I didn't have much of an appetite over the holiday. Well, that is because since I gone off with sweets for so long, I know longer desired it. I had so many accomplishments done by doing this. Not only did I lessen my appetite but I can tell myself one thing, "the struggle was real". But, it was all worth it at the end because I made real goals that I could actually keep. Sure, it was tough but I was happy with the end result
