“I need to go on a diet”
You say as you get dressed in the morning to go to work.
You’re done with your pants squeezing your stomach and your shirt gapping down the front.
You’ve had it. Today is the day, you’re finally going to start eating healthier.
So you skip breakfast and think “I’ll just grab a coffee on the way.”
That coffee holds you over until midmorning, when your stomach is sick and you’re hangry.
Someone brought in donuts for their birthday today. Tempting ...but you can’t give up that easily.
You dig through your purse, find an old granola bar, which “should hold me over until I get to lunch” shove it in your mouth and you try to get back to work.
Lunchtime rolls around, and you hit the drive thru. But opt for a salad instead of a #7 and a coke.
2pm hits, and you’re exhausted. “That salad didn’t stick with me very long.” Time for another cup of coffee, bypassing the donut scraps in the breakroom.
5 oclock hits, and you’re speeding home to make dinner. “The first day is always the hardest.”
You spend over an hour cooking this low carb, low fat recipe you found on pinterest, which tastes like dirt, but you choke it down because you have #goals.
Bedtime rolls around, you can’t sleep. Your stomach is growling. Hunger. You ignore it, fight it, but ultimately you head out to the kitchen for a late night snack, since there’s no way you’re sleeping with that beast inside of you.
You open the pantry, start with some chips, then grab the cereal, move to the freezer have some ice cream, an old bagel, Halloween candy...
You go to bed defeated, angry, embarrassed and determined to do better tomorrow. Tomorrow you’ll skip breakfast to even the score.
To whoever needs to hear this:
You DO NOT have to skip breakfast.
You DO NOT need to eat sub 1200 calories to diet effectively.
You DO NOT need to punish yourself for eating when you’re hungry.
You DO NOT have to eat low carb meals or skip the donut to lose weight.
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“I need to go on a diet”