Week 5 – Down 10
It’s hard to believe it has been five weeks since I started my diet. The goal of course is to lose 50 pounds in 25 weeks.
I am happy to report that I am exactly on course, having lost 10 pounds in 5 weeks.
So far, all the weight loss can be attributed to changes in eating habits, as I haven’t got the desire to actually start exercising yet.
I think one big factor is drinking lots of water too. From the very first day, I have been trying to make sure that I drank the recommended 8 glasses of water each day. The first couple of days, it was kind of hard to drink that much, but now I drink even more than 8 glasses a day.
Being hydrated helps you in many ways:
• Regulates your appetite
• Increases your metabolism
• boost your energy levels
• helps you retain less water
• helps reduce high blood pressure
• helps reduce high cholesterol
• eases joint pain
• releases toxic waste products
• improves skin
One other big change was staying away from the fast food lunch everyday. Not having a cheese burger and fries really cut back on the ole calories! I do really like cheese burgers and fries, but so far I haven’t really missed them at all. Could be that by eating healthy and drinking lots of water, my body doesn’t crave anything!
Another big plus is that I actually like all of the healthy foods that I am eating now, especially yogurt. I make my own yogurt because most the yogurt in the stores has way too much sugar in it. It is not good for the diet and it is just too sweet to eat.
More on the health benefits of yogurt coming soon.
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