A Healthier Goal: Update

It's been an entire week since I made my healthier goal.

Sticking to the running plan has been easy enough. I genuinely enjoy running (call me crazy). Sidenote: I had to switch some of the days around to work with my schedule, but that iss perfectly acceptable.

Eating healthier has been an entirely different challenge. I'm going to be completely honest: I am in a  committed relationship to sugar {especially chocolate}. We've been going steady now for about 17 years. The relationship has come to that awkward point where you try to avoid meeting up, but you inevitably do. Then, you're together and it seems wonderful, until he's gone, and all you're left with are chocolate stains on your shirt and a belly aching from a sugar overload. It's time to break up.

HOLD ON. I can't just completely eliminate sugar from my life. Plus, I'm being unfair- sugar isn't the only problem with my eating habits.

So, what am I going to do? I have to make some sort of change or else all of this running will be a waste.
Here's the plan {a lot of these ideas came from Lauren Conrad's Get Fit Quick Plan}:

• Remember it's not a diet! It's a lifestyle change to make you feel better.
• Only drink water. I already pretty much do this, but Starbucks can be pretty tempting sometimes.
• EAT BREAKFAST. A real breakfast.
• cut out the fried foods
• Break up with sugar. cake, candy, poptarts, ice cream: they all have to go. Replace them with a fruit.
• Watch out for foods high in refined or processed carbohydrates (white bread, sugary cereals, chips, pizza).
• No eating after 8pm.
• Don't eat foods that you have easy access to. I have a tendency to mindlessly grab handfuls of chips, or stand in front of the pantry and eat cereal out of the box. In other words, plan meals.
• Use MyFitnessPal. MyFitnessPal is an app that helps keep track of the nutritional information of foods you've eaten for the day.  It's a good way to stop and think about what you're doing before you go on a sugar binge.
• Treat yourself! I've tried completely cutting things out of my diet before; it just leads to a lot of stress and cravings.

*One week challenge: no chocolate for one week {beginning tomorrow, October 15th, and ending October 22}

Now the challenge really begins. I'm going to continue towards my 10k goal and work on establishing a healthier diet.
 
I'll update my progress every week or so.

A Healthier Goal

It's not a secret that I really enjoy sweets (just look at my last post). But lately, I've taken my food addiction to a new level. {I pretty much eat everything in sight}. That's all fine and dandy while I'm actually eating but, it kind of sucks afterwards. I don't feel good. I don't have energy. I CAN'T WORK OUT.

I love sports, but, with school and work, I just don't have time to commit to any sports right now. Therefore, working out is the only way I can stay active.

You've probably also noticed that I love making goals and plans. So, I've decided to make another one.

The Goal: Be healthier. Feel better.

The Plan: I want to eat healthier and becoming more active. As far as my atrocious eat habits go, I'll have to look up how to make a well balanced meal and control portions (and cravings). To be more active, I want to run more. I love running, but I want to be able to run farther. I'm setting my running goal for a 10k (6.2 miles). I'm going to use Hal Higdon's 10-K Training Guide to give me a schedule and a timeframe to reach a 10k running level.

http://halhigdon.com/

I'm not trying to do this to lose weight or to completely cut out eating sweets (because we all know that would never happen). I really just want to feel better. I want to feel more active and healthy. It's important to create healthier habits now, before I'm thrown into college, where junk food and laziness will be everywhere.

Hopefully by actually writing down my plan, I'll be motivated to stick to it. 

I'll keep you posted!