I've been wanting to post about this for awhile. I was hoping to do a He Said / She Said but He isn't saying much around here these days and I need to get these words on out of my head!
I'm reading more and more weight loss blogs these days. Its one of the reasons I'm not posting as much, because I can't stop reading! One thing I see over and over is people not wanting to use the word diet. It is a four letter word after all!
To me, this phase of my life is about a diet.
- 1 di·et
- Pronunciation:
- \ ˈ dī-ət\
- Function:
- noun
- Etymology:
- Middle English diete, from Anglo-French, from Latin diaeta, from Greek diaita, literally, manner of living, from diaitasthai to lead one's life
- Date:
- 13th century
1 a: food and drink regularly provided or consumed b: habitual nourishment c: the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason d: a regimen of eating and drinking sparingly so as to reduce one's weight 2: something provided or experienced repeatedly diet of Broadway shows and nightclubs — Frederick Wyatt>
I believe you just HAVE to look as this stage as a different place. This is like no other time in your life. I'm leaving the denial phase. The eat whatever I want and flat ignore what its doing to my body and spirit phase. In this diet phase I'm making the hard choices. Every choice I make these days is with the thought "how will this affect my weight loss for the week?" I'm not consciously making choices if I think it may even just keep me from losing. My entire focus is on dropping this weight. I don't have that one drink with dinner for fear that it will set me back by screwing up my metabolism. I don't have that piece of dessert because I know it will start those sugar cravings all over again.
Maintenance will be a whole other phase. It will have struggles and rewards just as my current phase. But I'll be able to have that occasional drink because I won't have to worry about not losing that week. I'll always have to fight the sugar cravings, but its not something I can just give up forever, I'll just have to figure out how to fight that demon when I get there.
Do you call it a diet or is this a lifestyle change?
I believe you just HAVE to look as this stage as a different place. This is like no other time in your life. I'm leaving the denial phase. The eat whatever I want and flat ignore what its doing to my body and spirit phase. In this diet phase I'm making the hard choices. Every choice I make these days is with the thought "how will this affect my weight loss for the week?" I'm not consciously making choices if I think it may even just keep me from losing. My entire focus is on dropping this weight. I don't have that one drink with dinner for fear that it will set me back by screwing up my metabolism. I don't have that piece of dessert because I know it will start those sugar cravings all over again.
Maintenance will be a whole other phase. It will have struggles and rewards just as my current phase. But I'll be able to have that occasional drink because I won't have to worry about not losing that week. I'll always have to fight the sugar cravings, but its not something I can just give up forever, I'll just have to figure out how to fight that demon when I get there.
Do you call it a diet or is this a lifestyle change?