Going to New Orleans

If I may give some of my own advice.

I’m not sure what you drink throughout the day but the very first thing I’d suggest is kick soda if you drink it, even if it’s diet. There’s nothing good in it for you, it doesn’t hydrate you, and some studies are now showing it’s bad for your nervous system. I will guarantee you here and now if you start drinking nothing but water, you’re going to lose at least a little weight. My boyfriend credits the loss of most of his extra weight through doing nothing but switching to water. it worked very well for me too. If you want to, drink fresh, pure juice along with it, or even V8. I get bottles every so often in the morning from a gas station and drink them.

Secondly, one of the things that make dieting so difficult for people is they stress themselves out from the get go and try to do everything at once. You don’t want to do that. Take it in steps. That’s not to say take forever making changes, but changing your habits is of course a life altering thing. Do too much at once and you overwhelm yourself. Make a change every week. One week, start with the water. After that, start cutting white bread for wheat. Slowly ween yourself off eating cheese on everything (I had that problem). One thing I started to do was I did all my food shopping in one day once a month and psyche myself up only to buy healthy stuff for the most part that day. Then if I wanted a particular treat, I’d have to go make a specific extra trip for it. I found that usually stopped my craving because I’m lazy and didn’t feel like going out for one thing .

From what I’ve found, after a couple weeks the cravings and desire for overeating starts going away. Sometimes it’s sooner than that. I’ve gorged for a week and after making myself stop for one day, I found the cravings ended almost immediately. Just try to stay motivated and surround yourself with signs of what you could look like or how you could feel. I covered a lot of celebrities and models and while some of their personalities are question, I used their looks for motivation and I kept telling myself I wouldn’t mind having a body like that and I’d just need to work for it. That helped get me into exercising more too. The most important thing you’ll get however is the energy boost, it’s like another world. Won’t be as sleepy, won’t be as lethargic. That and of course the health benefits.

That was probably pretty long winded but hopefully it’s at least useful to someone .