No seriously!!! If you eat crap, you will look like (and feel like) crap! Like I said in my last post, I am totally all for a cheat meal here and there. We are humans, we shouldn't deny ourselves some of the great food there is to taste! But within reason! Food is amazing, no doubt, but unless you are a food critic, or married to a chef, you aren't getting the top of the line meals all the time. You're ordering the same mediocre pizza, eating the same thing at the same restaurant, or chinese buffet every week. I give myself some cheating room if I'm in the city with my friend or on a mini vacation, and that's ok. But it's a split, heavily in favor of eating right. Everyone has a different philosophy about it, some people say 80-20, some say 85-15, I'm more of a 90-10 kind of person. Maybe it's because of the way I see myself fall off the wagon or lose results quickly depending on what I eat.
I'm not saying I'm perfect, because I definitely am NOT! I not only fall off the wagon sometimes, but I roll down the hill hitting every rock on the way down. When I fall off the wagon, boy you better believe I just straight get a running start and just jump off. It's completely frustrating and I kick myself every time, but it's all on ME. It's no one else's fault that I couldn't keep my will power in check. That's why I prefer such a drastic split between eating clean and cheating a little. Because my will power is so weak, and gets even worse when I'm overly tired like I have been since I added school into my already crazy schedule. So having an entire cheat meal is a will power killer to me. I try to just have a small dessert or something and not an entire meal, because then I just crumble. I have to keep a smaller split so I don't give myself too much room for my running start off the wagon.
So basically, I just got off on a whole tangent there, but I know that some people look at me and think, "you're tiny, you can eat whatever you want, shutup, don't talk to me about struggling with weight or diet or whatever" But it's so untrue. I know that I am in no way, shape, or form someone who struggles terribly to lose weight, but there is still a struggle. For instance, a couple of weeks ago, I fell off the wagon for about a week, I had good meals here and there, but not too often. I over indulged and as a result, I gained 4 pounds, and not the muscle weight I am wanting. Some people may say oh big woop, but that's a big thing to me, that's about 14,000 calories I had to burn on top of my normal exercise routine. That's 4 more pounds of fat that I have to get rid of so I can be more defined in my midsection and back side (because you know that fat isn't nice enough to go to my chest : P) So I guess I just want people to realize that no matter how skinny, fat, toned, built, whatever, MOST people are in some kind of struggle with their diet or exercise routine.
Yet another tangent there so here's my point: FOOD IS IMPORTANT!!! Nourish your body, don't punish it! I know when I eat clean for a while, if I have pizza or something, my stomach just about kills me trying to digest that junk! I told you guys that a couple weeks ago I slipped big time, for about a week or so, gaining that weight and looking at myself in the mirror thinking, what are you doing, you are going backwards, don't do that!! Because once you start it's so easy to just keep going. Very rarely does someone straight up just gain 20 pounds, it all starts out small. 4 pounds here, a couple pounds there, and before you know it, it has gotten out of control. So don't let a few pounds here just be a nonchalant thing. Make it a big deal to yourself, maybe not to the world, but to yourself. Make sure you don't let things like that just slip by, I'm not saying punish yourself and be overly hard on yourself, but look at the gain and say ok, it's done, now what am I going to do to fix it. I just added an extra 30 minutes of cardio into each of my 2 cardio days and ate super clean until I lost it, and guess what, I'm almost there. after only a week and a half/ 2 weeks, I'm seeing the loss, and I'm seeing my abs again. THAT is how important eating clean is, a small increase in workout and huge clean up of diet and I'm always amazed at the difference in my body in such a small amount of time when I change my eating habits. But very importantly: I didn't beat myself up about gaining the weight, because that's done and over with, I DID come up with a plan and stuck with it! And you can too. I know it sucks and it feels like it's so time consuming but you can do it! I know there are a million excuses but you can do it! Look at the problem and come up with a solution. If it's well, I have kids or I don't have time, I totally understand. This summer was killer for me with having connor home all the time I couldn't just leave him to go to the gym, so I turned my computer on and I did my workouts in the living room either alone or using videos from youtube. Little kids who can't occupy themselves can be a problem when it comes to workout time but that just means maybe you'll have to stay up or get up 30 minutes, an hour, or however long later/earlier. I know it's hard, but if you make a plan it's so much easier to stick to it. Your body will adjust, it may take a while but push through and i promise you will adjust. I didn't think I'd be able to do it, but I am! I'm doing it right now!! You can too! Don't get discouraged, just do what you can and be proud of the efforts you make!!
I get on such long rants here and I think I will go back and read through this because sometimes I think I'm just rambling about whatever comes to mind and not making sure this makes sense lol. So hopefully I'm making sense, if not...well I'm sorry, I'm only half through my coffee, but hopefully you get the gist. And hopefully I helped a little with some type of inspiration or helping you make feel better and know you aren't alone in your struggle. so that's it for today : )
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