Diets: False Advertising

I'm always fascinated on the amount of bogus diets there are out there. Don't get me wrong a lot of them will help you lose maybe 20lbs but the problem is they really don't hit the source of the problem. What happens when the diet ends? You go back to your old eating habits and gain all of the weight back. This may be fine for a person looking to just lose the weight for fitting into a dress for some occasion or looking great for an important date, but for those of us that actually have a big weight problem this is definitely not a solution. In fact it almost is worse than not losing the weight at all, to be at your goal and then watch it slip back is not only depressing it's devastating.
So what do you do? Well my plan is to find a way to incorporate good eating habits into my life instead of having my life fit around my eating habits. Right now my life is about food, I know that is awful but it's true. I go to school, I go to work and I plan my day around my meals. What am I going to have for lunch? When I get home what am I going to cook for dinner? Now these may seem like honest questions that anybody would ask but it's the fact that it is constant. I think about food 24/7. My goal is to change that. I can't and won't live my life like that anymore. So from now on I plan to keep myself busy. Always have a planned activity. I WILL NOT sit on my bum in front of the television or computer with a bag of chips. I WILL pack my lunch for school and work so that I won't think about lunch until lunch time. I WILL go to the gym at least 3 times a week wither in the morning or evening depending on my schedule. I WILL allow myself a bad day for food once in a while so that I do not go on a binge. I WILL NOT allow myself to think in terms of pounds but in terms of health.
All in all I hope that my confidence doesn't waver and my motivation keeps strong. One has to wonder though if my personal life will stay as stable and if not how that will affect my plan. Time will only tell I suppose.

Healthy Living,
College Fat Girl