Officially 1 Month without Fast Food!
Hooray! I did it!
So…it’s officially been a month without eating fast food, and I’m feeling pretty good. Now I’m not saying I haven’t had any massive cravings, because I have, but overall, it wasn’t that bad and the month practically flew by! However, I still feel like a fatty.
The past few weeks I’ve been exercising more, and doing more cardio, and I haven’t really seen any results at all – scale-wise…so I was getting frustrated.
But then, out of nowhere, last week I woke up and was taking the dog out before work and I noticed a package at my front door. When I opened it, it was a book that my Mom had ordered for me from Amazon. It’s a book called ‘The Spark’ by Chris Downie, and it’s all about a 28 day program designed to jumpstart weight loss and inspire changes in one’s life. Needless to say, I read the whole book in roughly a day, and subsequently I’ve been following the Sparkpeople way of life since last Friday.
It’s a pretty cool website, and the program’s based on eating healthier foods, drinking 8 glasses of water a day, setting short and long-term goals for yourself and tracking your calories eaten and burned each day through the site. I like that the program places a lot of emphasis on achieving keeping yourself on a “spark” where you continually achieve small goals you set for yourself (such as drinking enough water each day, exercising for at least 10 minutes a day, etc.)
Hopefully I’ll be able to stick to this and actually see some results this time. I’ll go ahead and note that at the time I started this weight loss journey I weighed around 130 lbs and I felt like I was well on my way to getting back to the weight I was a few years ago, 165lbs. So let’s just hope that this time will be different and I’ll be able to stick to the program in time for bathing suit weather!
