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Counting Calories Struggle

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I am still in the process of making my diet work for me with 1st Phorm. Unfortunately it was so easy for me to copy and paste almost 2 years of myfitnesspal that I'm struggling to keep up and maintain sanity while changing everything in my diet. Did you know that 56 grams of tuna is 14 grams of protein and really only 54 calories?! But chicken is like, 130 calories for 24 grams of protein. I'm guestimating. And it makes sense. But in the moment I feel like I could only eat 56 grams of tuna even though 4 oz of chicken is sometimes not enough. Now I get it, why people laugh when I ask if they count macros. If every day is different, there's a little bit more time involved. I'm still on myfitnesspal, but as school takes up time and work and meal prep clash, all of my social media time is eaten up just when I want it to take off. So please, if you're so interested in my struggle: myfitnesspal maryanderson01  snapchat maanderson9 (body/booty

Fresh Start Monday

One of the most important things I have learned in the last 2 years is that restarting cannot be attached to a person, place, or thing, because those things are not constant. So I titled this fresh start, but truly the fresh start happened a couple weeks ago when I realized that I was beginning to get unhappy with my inability to stay on track. I always came up with an excuse like, "I'm living for now," but the truth is that I lost my motivation for greater things. So how did I get the motivation back? Unhappiness. Unfortunately it is not a disease nor can people around you tell you that you are unhappy. You have to be available to yourself and comprehend your emotions well enough to understand that unhappiness can be fixed - but you are the only one with the prescription. When I said no to the cake I knew I was back. My father's cake on special occasions was my last sugar craving. (Tortilla chips were the last carb craving, lost that after about 8 months at the pea