Okay, I have finally found something that has worked for me! As I've said in my latest diary post, I have been following the SlimGenics diet for about a month now. The diet always had me eating whole, healthy foods. However, the downside that I see from that diet, is that I need to not only be purchasing their snacks and supplements for 'guaranteed weight loss,' but I also am quite limited to eating certain kinds of fruits, vegetables, dairy produces, and so on. For example, the diet allows for me to eat three 1/2 of fruit per day. I can eat apples, berries, kiwi, and most common fruits, but I cannot have my absolute favorites like mango, star fruit, and dragon fruit. If I DO consume them, then everything that I worked for goes down the drain completely. What kind of a diet does that?! Well, most of them... Being on this very constricting meal plan has me going crazy as I fumble around with the measurements for each food group. I'm always rushing around to not only help me, but my mom as well (who doesn't always like to measure things, which leads her to give up on things like this completely.) It's hard for a student to find the time to measure out and pack their lunch as well as to only be able to eat low sugar foods. Like, come on! Sometimes we need a little boost of (natural) sugar in our lives! I always hated feeling groggy and messed up when taking an hour-long exam for Uni, and the SlimGenics snacks that I could have whipped out to help me with giving me that extra boost of sugar would have cost me around $18 a box. A box with 7 bars inside. A box with 7 bars that are incredibly tiny inside. A box with 7 bars which, as stated before, are incredibly tiny and are NOT WORTH IT! Not only are they expensive, but they are, uh, ironic? Forget the fact that the SlimGenics people tell you to eat healthy foods because their bars are processed to the core, and they are packed with sugar! Not the natural kind! All of their snacks are! And why in the world would I buy a package of SlimGenics omega fatty-acids for an extremely large price, when I can buy ones with higher dosages and more pills for much less? Okay, I'll stop ranting about this because SlimGenics has taught me a few things. One thing that it really helped me see was the idea of portion sizes, or about how much of each food category I should be eating. Another thing would be consuming whole foods. I try to keep as many of my fruit and vegetable servings to be as raw as I can enjoy them. Now, after having my eyes opened to the fact that SlimGenics was being the hypocrite that I would say it is, I have made the decision to simply. Let. Go. Yep! I told myself that I can eat anything. I would keep my new-learned healthy habits of eating whole foods in my mind, but unlike the SlimGenics diet, I wont shove food down my throat just because 'it's time to eat lunch' or have the 'snack' just because it helps keep my metabolism working. I have made the (hopefully mature) idea of listening to my stomach. When I was hungry, I will eat. Same goes for when I'm full and stopping the consumption of food. It makes sense, right? I mean, if we were given these feelings, shouldn't it mean something? From changing the way I eat and really listening to myself, I have felt absolutely undefeatable! I stopped weighing myself and am starting to rely on photos more and more to help me see my progress. I may occasionally weigh myself, but definitely not everyday like I used to. Anyways, about a week into my new eating style, I can say that it's something that's maintainable for the long-run, for sure, and it has definitely helped me feel lighter on my feet. I am genuinely happy to be able to be eating healthy foods that I enjoy, and everyday for me is like a mystery on what I'll be eating next. Maybe I'll try a new fruit I found at the farmer's market, or maybe I'll come up with a new recipe to add in my cookbook, maybe, even, I can think of some no-bake desserts that don't have any added sugars to them! I'm excited for Saturdays because it's wheat I planned to be my 'cheat' days where I let myself have a little-more-than-usual sugary (either from some fruit or a healthy carb- or both) snack as I let myself relax from homework and watch a movie with my parents. This new lifestyle has taken the old, time consuming one and thrown it out the window. It doesn't belong with me in this household anymore, and I definitely hope it doesn't find another house and another family to negatively affect. I've gained so much time, now, that I use to complete my assignments with effort and to build on my family relations. Finally, I have found the balance that I've always hoped for when it comes to food, family, and school. Now, the only self-conflicting issues I'm facing right now, which I may post in my second diary, will be about who I really want to become once I graduate from Uni. Will I actually want to be part of the job I admired as a child, or should I choose something that has also been apart of my childhood that I never really noticed until recently? Thank you for those who have chosen to read this post, if anyone has any questions or thoughts, please share them with me. Thank you again!
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