Hi everyone. This is new to me so sorry if I write too much/little.
I'm a 20 year old university student. I'm 5'7.5" (I never know whether to say 5'7" or 5'8"..) and weighed 138 lbs when I decided I wanted to shed a couple pounds about 2 weeks ago. I'm aiming for a pound a week, and my target weight is 132 lbs (I'm now at 136). I already eat really healthy and drink pretty much only water and green tea. My only problem is that I live with my family and they tend to buy junk foods sometimes and I lose my willpower and end up eating them, which is fine, but I eat them more often than I'd like sometimes (especially if I get home around 8 p.m. or later, I seem to overeat a lot at that time!
Within about a year or 2 in high school I put on about 10 lbs and have held pretty steady at that since, I don't think I was growing height-wise at that point though! I realize my weight isn't unhealthy, its a BMI of maybe 20 or so (not that BMI is the best indicator, especially for athletes).
My goal is really to get a lower body fat % (if I'm building muscle the weight loss may not come but I figure I'll at least look leaner
), I'm pretty active (I exercise minimum 5 days a week for at least an hour of cardio usually - biking, running, swimming, rowing, etc). I've also started doing weights a bit more now that I find that area of my gym to be less intimidating My motivation for exercising really has nothing to do with weight loss though (its fun, amazing stress relief during school, and just gives me so much more energy, and I'm all about leading a healthy lifestyle). I'm wayy more active than this in the summer cause I absolutely love being outside.
I think I'll use this diary to try to motivate myself to eat less junk food, maybe if I'm writing it down for others to see I'll be able to better motivate myself to reach for the veggies or yogurt instead of the cookies.
Any tips you have that have helped you succeed with avoiding the junk food are also welcomed
I'm a 20 year old university student. I'm 5'7.5" (I never know whether to say 5'7" or 5'8"..) and weighed 138 lbs when I decided I wanted to shed a couple pounds about 2 weeks ago. I'm aiming for a pound a week, and my target weight is 132 lbs (I'm now at 136). I already eat really healthy and drink pretty much only water and green tea. My only problem is that I live with my family and they tend to buy junk foods sometimes and I lose my willpower and end up eating them, which is fine, but I eat them more often than I'd like sometimes (especially if I get home around 8 p.m. or later, I seem to overeat a lot at that time!
Within about a year or 2 in high school I put on about 10 lbs and have held pretty steady at that since, I don't think I was growing height-wise at that point though! I realize my weight isn't unhealthy, its a BMI of maybe 20 or so (not that BMI is the best indicator, especially for athletes).
My goal is really to get a lower body fat % (if I'm building muscle the weight loss may not come but I figure I'll at least look leaner
), I'm pretty active (I exercise minimum 5 days a week for at least an hour of cardio usually - biking, running, swimming, rowing, etc). I've also started doing weights a bit more now that I find that area of my gym to be less intimidating My motivation for exercising really has nothing to do with weight loss though (its fun, amazing stress relief during school, and just gives me so much more energy, and I'm all about leading a healthy lifestyle). I'm wayy more active than this in the summer cause I absolutely love being outside. I think I'll use this diary to try to motivate myself to eat less junk food, maybe if I'm writing it down for others to see I'll be able to better motivate myself to reach for the veggies or yogurt instead of the cookies.
Any tips you have that have helped you succeed with avoiding the junk food are also welcomed
