It's a Lifestyle

When you start a lifestyle change it takes willpower, want, and support. When you are starting a lifestyle change, be serious and dedicated and call it a lifestyle change, not a diet. I know diets don't work; you have to make the commitment to make a change for you, for life! Eating is one of the hardest things to change; especially when you have a family to prepare dinner for, a husband that won't embrace the healthier foods you are choosing to make. I make 2 dinners sometimes, I make what I want and what my husband will eat. I do 2 different types of pasta, rice, tortilla, or whatever side I make. I made a choice to not do regular pasta, bread or tortillas. Everything I eat is whole wheat or whole grain, I only do brown rice, and I prefer high fiber breads. I rarely eat red meat anymore, it is mostly chicken and occasionally fish that I choose to eat. My husband is pretty supportive, when he grills steak he always throws chicken on for me, he knows I won't eat red meat. He will set aside veggies for me before throwing butter and salt on them. He understands for the most part that I am doing this for me and that I choose to eat healthier for my life and he can choose what he wants to eat. I want to lose weight I have lost nearly 75 pounds and plan on losing at least 75 more (100 more is my ultimate goal). Because I want to lose weight my willpower has been one of the best kept secrets, something I did not realize I had. I would love to have a slice of pepperoni pizza, but I made a deal with myself that I wouldn't eat any until I lost 25 pounds, when I got to 25 I decided I needed to lose 50 before having any pizza. I got to 50 pounds and I had 2 slices of pepperoni pizza, it was good, but not enough to sit and eat the whole pizza. (Which I would have done in the past). To maintain my willpower I set goals, I let myself have a treat every once in a while, something small, something I would have sat and ate 2 maybe 3 times the amount that I now allow myself. The only person that will hurt from your indiscretions is YOU, you decide to make a lifestyle change for you, not your kids, not your husband, and not your sisters or parents. I used to let my husbands pressure gets to me when he would tell me how hard he worked on dinner, and he would make me feel guilty that I wasn't having what he made. I would give in and eat it, it made me mad, so I would eat too much of it and stuff myself. Now I just tell him no, I choose to make my own dinner, I choose to change me for me. I made a lifestyle change and with the support of friends and family this lifestyle change is working for me. It is part of me, it is my life, not looking back, only looking forward to a happier, healthier and a sexier me! Make your lifestyle change today, make it for YOU, and in the end it will benefit all around you!