Week 3: An Inspirational Person

I noticed the more I eat sweets, the more I crave it and the more I have it around in my apartment, the more likely I will eat sweets also. It is like an ongoing cycle, so I decided to get rid of all the candy and ice-cream in my apartment and that really helped. I remember freshman year, this girl that lived on my floor was trying to lose weight and she was telling me about this book she was reading. It wasn't a diet or exercise book, it was a book about sugar and sweets and how unhealthy it was for your body because it was so addictive. Sugar was her biggest weakness besides cigarettes, and she would tell me how she was training herself to rethink sugar as an addiction as if it were smoking cigarettes. It helped her cut down on sweets, lose weight, and get healthier. It inspires me to retrain my thinking each time I eat sugar. Also, I was reading Shape magazine, and I was reading tips that other readers had sent in. One reader said as motivation to help her cut down on sweets, she would visualize the terrible things that sugar would do to her body and how it would make her feel. This helped her pass on dessert. I thought that was a good idea, so I started to retrain my thinking as well and so far it has worked and I haven't eaten sweets for the past few days. Sometimes I like to treat myself to naked juice. Its so expensive, so i don't buy it as much. Instead of eating something sugary, I would have some naked juice and i would feel like I was splurging on something amazing. It is a good, but expensive, substitute. And every time my friends go out to yogurt, I've gotten used to not buying any froyo. I noticed this week was different in my sweets habit because it rained less. When it rains, its a lot harder for me to go workout because I have to bike in the rain to the gym on campus. Usually, I go to the gym just about everyday, and after working out, I don't crave sweets as much for some reason. I even bought a blender so I could make smoothies instead of buying expensive naked juice or eating some sugary dessert. It was a good week, mostly because it rained less.