TL; DR: Slowly acclimate yourself to your new lifestyle.
Today marks 30 days for me, getting my health together and I feel really good, great even. I have always been a habitual quitter when it comes to weight loss and anything health related and I think I figured out why and wanted to share what I found to work. I failed every time before now because I always jumped right in and burned myself out within the first week, complained that everything sucked and stopped.
I started recording calories on April 17, but I started developing habits before that even. The first thing I did was cut soda out of everything and switched over to just water and occasionally, milk at dinner. That was around mid march.
After about two weeks of no soda, I bought a nice scale and started getting into the habit of weighing myself twice a day and accepting what I needed to do.
The next two weeks after that, I started to walk more at work and stopped going out to lunch on my lunch breaks, also stopped ordering take out during this time.
April 17th came around and my wife and i started counting calories and making our lunches, using apps like MyFitnessPal. This is also the week we started to exercise at home. (We have a treadclimber and some SelectTech weights) I worked out every night, but only for about 5 minutes, sometimes 10 and on low intensity.
The next week my wife and I started on Hello Fresh (for controlled meals) for dinner and started upping our intensity of our workouts to 10 minutes.
This next week is when my rowing machine was delivered, and now we have two machines, plus weights at home. We gradually upped our time by another 5 minutes, giving us 15 total, every night but also upped our intensity, as we are feeling better about exercising, but now we also switch between the machines to "rest" each other.
Now we come to last week, where me and my wife are both up to 20 - 30 minutes a night, with now 1 rest day with moderate intensity and we're both noticing differences in our physique and overall health.
We both feel really good about what we're doing, though it's still exercise, and honestly, it still sucks, but we're seeing improvements. Since we made slow, incremental changes we got used to the changes, instead of dropping right in the middle of a new lifestyle and getting overwhelmed and quitting. We are both at a point where neither one of us wants to disappoint each other and we feel guilty on the rest day because it feels like we should be exercising or watching what we eat. (We don't go crazy on rest day, but we aren't as strict)
I know a month isn't a long time, but this time is different for me and hopefully I can provide some insight for people that are like me and find it hard to get into this kind of lifestyle. Before, I've usually quit after a week, but now its a habit for me.
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