Year 4 month 1
January 2019
This month has been quite a challenging month. Over Christmas and New Year I just couldn’t stop wanting to eat. All the chocolates and Christmas treats were out and I have to say I couldn’t resist.
When January came I wanted to start being good again. That was easier said than done. The first 2 weeks I still couldn’t stop eating. If I saw it I ate it – chocolate, biscuits, cakes. You name it, I probably ate it.
I was starting to get a little concerned that I was getting into bad habits again and I probably was if I think about it.
Dieting for me now is not the same as it was in 2016 because back then I was desperate. I wasn’t very active, I had so many emotional issues, I didn’t really have the energy to do anything. Basically I lived on my sofa.
To try and lose weight now without the desperation, without the emotional issues and having come so far already is so much harder.
The last two weeks of January have been so much better. I have stepped up the exercise and I have started to control my eating again. It’s not perfect yet but I am getting there.
From my experience I knew that it would be 4 days of hardship before things start to get easier again. So I lived on that philosophy and really cut down for the first 4 days until all the sugar was out of my system. After that chocolate, biscuits and cake were not a problem because I’m not craving them anymore.
This healthier eating has already helped me lose the weight I put on at Christmas. Hopefully I can keep going!
