Week 10: Statistics

I guess eating too man sweets could contribute to obesity. Here are the statistics:

• 58 Million Overweight; 40 Million Obese; 3 Million morbidly Obese
• Eight out of 10 over 25's Overweight
• 78% of American's not meeting basic activity level recommendations
• 25% completely Sedentary
• 76% increase in Type II diabetes in adults 30-40 yrs old since 199

This week I really haven't eaten many sweets. I've been really stressed with exams, homework, papers so I haven't had a lot of time to go treat myself to sweets and I'm going to vegas this weekend too so I've been cutting down. I feel like I've been drinking more chai tea lattes, I think that has been my replacement.

Week 9

Week 9 means I'm down to 1 or 0 sweets a week, and instead I'm supposed to substitute with fruits. I think its safe to say that I met this goal. I really think the less I ate sweets, the less I craved it, and just reminding myself this mentality has really worked out for me. Especially because I had spring break in vegas to look forward to for the past months, I had to cut down on my diet and increase exercise so I could look and feel good. This guy also asked me back in February to go to his formal with him in Vegas which is happening next week. I bought a pretttttty tight dress a while back so I've been trying to tone up for that too for the past month. It really helped that I had events to look forward to and deadlines because it gave me motivation to stick to my goals. And now I rarely eat sweets. I do eat a lot of fruit, I also found that I really like organic strawberry jam on toast and that satisfies my sweet tooth.

Week 8: Challenging Situation

I haven't really been craving sweets lately which is interesting. After last week, I cut out a lot of junk and after a while I guess I get used to not having it and I don't crave it. But this week was my friend's birthday, my roommate bought girl scout cookies, and my other roommate came back from Canada with maple cream cookies. I was faced with many challenging situations this week, mainly because of temptation in a social setting. My roommates offered me cookies, and they were special cookies too, so I couldn't pass on them. On my friend's birthday, she wanted to get 21 choices with a bunch of friends. First, the day before and second, the day of her birthday. I couldn't pass it up because it was her birthday, and I didn't want to just sit there without yogurt while everyone else ate yogurt together on her birthday. We also went to saddle ranch, and at the end they bring out HUGE things of cotton candy, and I just had to eat it, and i ate a lot of it because it was in front of me and it was really cool looking. So basically, its tough in social situations and its hard to pass up on temptation especially when its a special occasion I don't want to miss out on.