A small success worth mentioning

rthompson81

As I mention in my profile, my goal is to create a healthy lifestyle for myself that doesn't get pushed to the side when I have other "more important" things going on in my life.

Yesterday, I took my PhD comprehensive exams, and I am very proud to say that I did not let eating healthy and exercising fall by the wayside as I prepared in the months leading up to it. Did I celebrate my butt off last night and drink a lot of beer and eat Mexican food, hell yes. But, for the past months, since I got back from abroad, I have been counting calories and exercising. And I woke up this morning, a little hungover, happy to be done with my exam, and went right ahead and made myself a healthy breakfast and logged my calories.

This would have NEVER happened a year ago, so I am very proud of myself!

I haven't lost any pounds in the past few weeks, which I am perfectly fine with. I'm just happy that I am changing my lifestyle instead of dieting. Today I also decided to start strength training along with my cardio to help move those last 8 pounds along a little bit quicker.

Like I said, it's a small success, but definitely worth mentioning!

Amarillo_NDN

That is great. Your doing wonderful

SparkleShine

Congrats girlie! You are amazing!

FitnessChefJime

congrats on your success

Ravyn1982

That's the biggest hurdle in the weightloss goals!! CONGRATS!!!

rubysparkle

Well done, I understand what an important part of the 'lifestyle' change that is because I too become so swayed by things going on in my life and I would like my goal to be consistency, i just want to maintain a healthy lifestyle no matter what i am dealing with at the time. It is a very difficult thing to do, especially as you say during exam season - so well done you and I hope you get the results your hoping for both weight wise and academically xx