Okay, I should have been asleep forty minutes ago but I wanted to get my thoughts out instead of letting them float around in my brain.
No free associating or attempts at metaphors tonight. THIS HERE IS REAL.
I had a nice spa day with a good friend, and while sitting poolside we started reflecting on our ambitions and our life goals. We realized we had one thing in common that we didn’t love to admit: we tend to coast by giving 80 percent, knowing full well we would be unstoppable if we worked at 100 percent at all times.
Anyway, it occurred to me, for the fifth time in this context:
“What if… I gave 100 percent to my weight loss goals?”
So the question continues: “What does giving 100 percent to my weight loss goals look like?”
I’m going to jaunt down the inconvenient truths to that answer and commit to them:
- Drinking water
- Eating more greens
- Putting all my energy into workouts
- Eating a calorie deficit
- Sleeping more than four hours a night (she said, at 11 PM on a Sunday knowing she should wake up at 4 AM tomorrow morning)
- Listening when my body says it’s not hungry
- Refusing the free food at work like Bagel Fridays and Coworker Birthday Cake
- Cutting out most dairy (it makes you bloat and your skin break out)
- Not ordering french fries with every meal
- Understanding “Everything in moderation including moderation” is a thing, moderation was a word invented by junk food merchandisers to convince the health-conscious to indulge in Cheesy Blasters
11. Live by these rules until weight loss goal is achieved.
12. Don’t starve yourself or limit yourself, just practice good habits and self-discipline.
13. Stay active or go to sleep. Lazing around on Netflix leads to eating for the sake of eating and not for any form of a need for nutrition.
Boom. Done. It’s 11:20 and I need to go to sleep. I love you, myself. “
