Why am I gaining weight?
This is a question I've been asking myself for the last couple of months. Why am I gaining weight? I'm working out. Okay, not every day but still I'm working out. Why am I gaining weight? I don't eat that much. Well yeah, I have dessert almost every night, but I eat good the rest of the day. Sure maybe I overeat at dinner and my stomach hurts a little, but during the day I'm really good. Alright, I had a big plate of fried food for lunch the other day, but that was only the 2nd time this week….The other days I ate good. Why am I gaining weight??
Those were the conversations I had going in my head. Seriously. The worst part is that I was buying that crap. Seriously. For a long time I had been eating really clean with only a treat now and then. In my mind that's still the way I ate. Unfortunately that was only in my mind, reality was much, much different. Last week I went back to eating clean and immediately started feeling better. I had more energy and I was sleeping better at night. Awesome.
Over the weekend I decided to go back to working out. I've been doing it very sporadically for a couple of months and felt like now was the time to get back to it. I spent Saturday getting the studio ready because it had been taken over with boxes to move and to throw away. It needed to be organized and stacked nicely before I could workout in there. So I did that. This morning I got up on time and got ready to workout. I was a little nervous because it's been a while since I'd done a Jillian workout, but I'm ready to get back on track. So in the dark of the pre-dawn morning I head out to the studio. One of the first things I noticed was my calendar on the wall. I have a calendar with big squares that I would write my workouts in. I thought to myself, "I need to get a new calendar since that's from 2009" then I looked over at it….. It was from September….September….. I have not worked out with any consistency since September……WTF???? Why am I gaining weight??? WHY AM I GAINING WEIGHT???? Duh!!!! Not moving – hardly at all, eating like I'm a linebacker….. no wonder I'm gaining weight!!!! Jeez, I feel like such an idiot!!! Mainly because I was buying those lies I was telling myself.
On a positive note, I am feeling fabulous from the improved eating and my pants were just the slightest bit loser today. Even yesterday at the Super Bowl party we went to I didn't pig out. I ate and got full but I didn't pig and I had no sweets at all. Yea me!!!!
I have also discovered that dried fruit is really all I need to satisfy my sweet tooth. You have no idea how excited I am about that discovery. When I get a craving for something sweet I can grab a handful of dried pineapple and papaya and I'm good.
The moral of the story is – don't believe the bull you tell yourself and little changes really add up quickly.
Those were the conversations I had going in my head. Seriously. The worst part is that I was buying that crap. Seriously. For a long time I had been eating really clean with only a treat now and then. In my mind that's still the way I ate. Unfortunately that was only in my mind, reality was much, much different. Last week I went back to eating clean and immediately started feeling better. I had more energy and I was sleeping better at night. Awesome.
Over the weekend I decided to go back to working out. I've been doing it very sporadically for a couple of months and felt like now was the time to get back to it. I spent Saturday getting the studio ready because it had been taken over with boxes to move and to throw away. It needed to be organized and stacked nicely before I could workout in there. So I did that. This morning I got up on time and got ready to workout. I was a little nervous because it's been a while since I'd done a Jillian workout, but I'm ready to get back on track. So in the dark of the pre-dawn morning I head out to the studio. One of the first things I noticed was my calendar on the wall. I have a calendar with big squares that I would write my workouts in. I thought to myself, "I need to get a new calendar since that's from 2009" then I looked over at it….. It was from September….September….. I have not worked out with any consistency since September……WTF???? Why am I gaining weight??? WHY AM I GAINING WEIGHT???? Duh!!!! Not moving – hardly at all, eating like I'm a linebacker….. no wonder I'm gaining weight!!!! Jeez, I feel like such an idiot!!! Mainly because I was buying those lies I was telling myself.
On a positive note, I am feeling fabulous from the improved eating and my pants were just the slightest bit loser today. Even yesterday at the Super Bowl party we went to I didn't pig out. I ate and got full but I didn't pig and I had no sweets at all. Yea me!!!!
I have also discovered that dried fruit is really all I need to satisfy my sweet tooth. You have no idea how excited I am about that discovery. When I get a craving for something sweet I can grab a handful of dried pineapple and papaya and I'm good.
The moral of the story is – don't believe the bull you tell yourself and little changes really add up quickly.
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