I don't have much activity in my day to day life as i work in an office. Catch the train into work and back. So i need to go to the gym.
My biggest downfall is when i lose motivation to be good, I LOSE MOTIVATION. I will eat junk and crap, not exercise and eat some more because i felt guilty for eating the junk and crap in the first place.
I eat because i am bored. I eat because i love the taste and texture of food. I can't be bothered to prepared lunch for work, so i eat crappy foods. I hate exercise but know that i have to do it.
I want a few weeks of 7 days exercise and food plans. I loved Lite n Easy but it got too expensive for us for me to keep it.
I can be very focused and determined when i want to be. But i can't do it 24/7.
I hear you TD. I'm not trying to say that it IS easy, just that in theory it is easy.
The thing is, the theory doesn't change, so it's up to you whether you're going to live the theory, there's no magic bullet - if that makes sense.
Things that work for me:
Get on/off a train stop earlier to build a bit more walking into the day (I catch the train too).
Go to somewhere further away that I wouldn't normally go for lunch.
I have started making my own lunch, after 20 years in the workplace, mind you, mainly to save money.
But really, just much smaller portions work for me because I know that I can't sustain going to the gym to burn stuff off so I have to eat less.
Oh, and by the way, from all accounts you are a COMPLETE domestic goddess. Put a pedometer on and see how many steps you walk a day. I bet it's heaps. I can walk 10,000 steps a day even just being at home and running after DD and putting countless loads of washing on! So I bet you get loads of incidental exercise anyway.
You're right TD. I wish it was easy too. The thing is, it's not that EASY but it's not that HARD either. It's somewhere inbetween, called manageable.
As I said before, I look at it this way. I'm not prepared to do heaps of exercise and go to the gym for the rest of my life. I'm prepared to build lots of incidental exercise into my day and that's about it. Which means that I have to have smaller portions of food than I would have liked a few years ago, and far less wine ... but thats the deal.
Also, think of it this way - you know that Lite n Easy helps you lose weight. If you eat similarly to that, maybe with slightly bigger portions here and there and with the odd cake, you'll maintain your weight. Not lose, but maintain.
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