OK... So today is my 2nd day, I only decided to make this today.
BUT good thing the 17 Day Diet makes your journal!
I'll start by telling you about me and my weight loss situation.
Lets start when I was 16...
I was about a size 8-10 (NEW ZEALAND) and weighed about 58kgs.
I loooved myself!
I got a boyfriend that December. THEN...
From my senior onwards I just started piling on the weight, a whole 20 kgs in 4.5 years.
It was a multitude of factors.
- Me and my boyfriend ate out all the time to be together and away from our parents.
- My boyfriend ate all the time, being a boy. So I would eat with him.
- Graduated from school so graduated from school sports and PE.
- Finished puberty, slower metabolism, but still eat same amount.
- Emotional eating with the changes in life, like leaving school and starting university.
- Cooking and baking became a hobby and a bonding time with me and my boyfriend, we also love to go out for dinner.
The list could go on forever!
But here we are today at 75-78kg (depending on the day) a size 12 - 14 (NEW ZEALAND) and not getting smaller, also 2 months from summer.
There are a lot of reason why I want to lose weight too.
- To look more attractive
- To feel more attractive
- To not be the only big girl when out with my friends
- To make a better impression on people I meet.
- More enthusiasm about life.
- More energy.
- Better health.
- Easy Breezy Shopping Trips.
That list can go on forever as well!!
I actually haven't really tried any diets before, just healthy eating and exercise (neither of which last long - a week?)
Another shocker - At university I studied Exercise Science and Nutrition! I know bucket load of information about how to lead a healthy life. Yet I do not practice it.
I saw an ad on Facebook one day and thought, "OK, 17 Days doesn't seem bad. There's a book and a work book and a work out dvd. Let's take an Amazon Peak.. not bad, BUY!"
After reading the first part of the book and getting to know the pattern I thought "OK so it makes you diet, but it doesn't leave you as soon as the time period is up, lots of veges, I need more of them... Chicken and Fish... I eat alot of that already. It's a long process, reasonable, provides lots of tools, I like the cycle idea, Let's start"
So I made my menu and food list, went shopping (veges are soooo expensive here but oh well!)
prepared all my food... then all I had to do was START EATING!!!
