That dirty 4-letter word

DIET, you weirdos. Diet.

Holy crap, I woke up this morning STARVING. Not just craving junk I'm missing, like legit feed me Seymour mode. I ended up getting into that leftover chicken Alfredo that I managed to avoid the other night and have been staring at every time I open the fridge. It wasn't a lot at least, its just a slight fallback from my cutting carbs plan and I've logged it and will still stay within my calorie goals for the day. Which brings me to a very good point and kind of my personal life motto:

  If you are hungry freaking eat something.  

It doesn't matter what diet you're doing or how healthy you're eating, if you're withholding food when you're hungry you're going to end up binging.

Let me start this by saying whenever I use the word "diet" in my posts, I'm simply referring to my normal food intake, not any particular diet plan. You will not see me take pills, use wraps, or hear the words detox or cleanse come out of my mouth or off of my keyboard, aside from this post. No matter how many hours of infomercials they air, it's not happening. Right now I'm just doing a calorie deficit figured out by calculating my TDEE (Google is your friend) and as mentioned before I'm trying to cut back on carbs a bit. I still eat brown rice a few nights a week because dh is in the Navy, we have a budget lol. But as far as pastas, breads, chips, refined sugars, etc those are getting cut back as I believe they'll help me with my biggest area, my waist. As you follow me in this journey though, you'll see me change my eating habits up a lot and when I hit the plateaus I'll lower or raise calories (believe it or not, your body won't lose if you're not eating enough) and mix up my macros to give my body a little shake up.

Here's the thing about diets, they all have science behind them that say that they work (well, most of them). That's because they all DO work! Every single persons body is unique and reacts to different stimuli in different ways, both physically and psychologically. What works for one won't necessarily work for another. You have to just find a *healthy* eating routine that works for you in your life, and you don't do that by trying something out for a week or two and then switching because you didn't lose anything. Give it a couple months, at least, before you make your decision on whether or not it's working out.



Today's update on me, I got 3 hours of sleep last night because I was up working late, when you add that with the 39 degree weather (in Florida) that I woke up to and it's usually a recipe for lay around in pjs all day. But so far I've managed to keep be steady with picking up the house and laundry, got my day 8 of BBM in. It wasn't pretty, or awesome, and I'm super freaking tired, but it was better than sitting on the couch. The real challenge will be forcing myself to get to the gym this evening.