First of all I want to say that I admire your willpower to make that lifestyle change. I wish I had the same strength for that lol, but in my case, I have cut out caffeine and coffee completely (smoking for several years now after being a BIG smoker lol, and caffeine for about 6 months, lost count lol). These were two major steps for me and although I tried quitting smoking before, it never lasted. All these years I wanted to stop, but the real life stress events made me feel I would fail again and again, so I waited until a day came that I woke up with a cough and decided today is the day. I never touched any cigarette again. Even though my boyfriend left a few in the house for me that week when he went to work, in case I changed my mind as you can't walk into a Tabaco store here with a child and she wasn't attending kindergarten yet.
The caffeine was something I was very addicted to for many years. I really appreciate a good coffee, and I could not (at least my mind made me believe so) start my day without it. I just couldn't, until I did. Haha. I had massive migraines and I noticed that they started to appear when I skipped my coffee a day due to being away from home or other reasons. I saw the pattern very clearly and whenever I took it again, I got the headaches from that. A vicious cycle which I needed to break. I quit and only take very light iced coffee when I have the cravings for it, I can't even recognize that there's caffeine in it so I never have withdrawal symptoms thankfully.
The exercising is another story though. At some point we decided to do boxing at home, but my boyfriend needs to hold these punching gloves and his "meh, don't feel like it" attitude makes me feel like never mind. Which I'm trying to change btw. There's currently so much I need to focus on, it sounds like excuses but I have learned a lot about myself and I know that I will make that big effort to start exercising (I mean adding more than boxing at home in this case) when I feel I can achieve my goals. For now, it would heavily interrupt with the already lack of time I have and mentally I'm just not ready for it lol. Call me weak, it's fine :) I know, and I will change at the right moment. I just hate to start something and not succeed, makes me feel down and probably cost me many stressful moments that affect my work stuff and emigration stuff I need to research.
BUT reading posts like yours is very inspiring and I can't wait until I can add myself to the list of people that pushed through a healthier lifestyle. On another note, I did implement more vegetarian food days here and less junk food. It's not where we need to be yet, but it's a start!
That means more to me than anything. I hear or read a lot about how Tiffany and I inspire people just through our health and fitness journey and that is amazing.
Based on how you took the opportunity to provide guidance to learn and be better ListNerds users in such an impressive way; that it's inevitable you will crush your health goals.
At least it's in your thoughts and you are trying, that's a huge step @thisismylife
I hope you're right :)
Yes, it has been for a while but like I said, changing so many things at once is hard. And I know myself very well to know that's not going to work. I believe that this year will be the year though, once we're in an environment where we want to be it will be a huge change of mindset, I'm sure.
Until then, I will manage :) haha Thanks for your kind words!