Day 1 weight

Picking a diet, sticking to it

Jess
Jess
Jul 24, 2017 · 3 min read

First steps to a happier me.

Last night I couldn’t sleep.

It was, as you may already have imagined, one of those nights of self-deprecation and “what I’m going to do with my life?” kind of insomnia.

I was feeling depressed and anxious at the same time. I was feeling physically ill. Dizzy, weak, with a terrible headache. My legs hurt too. And I feel fat. Really heavy, uncomfortable and unhealthy.

Plus, it was a hot summer night. Plus, I share my bed with my snoring husband and hyperactive 3-year-old son. Hyperactive in his sleep that is. Ugh.

Going back to my existential mid-night crisis. I decided, for the eleventh time this year to start a diet.

I’m still figuring out solutions for the rest of my problems but for this the solutions is quite simple. There’s no workaround. To feel healthy, you have to eat healthy and move. Let’s leave exercise for a different post.

I don’t want to try anything crazy like a cleansing green juice diet or a high fat, low carb experiment. I just want to feel progress, soon. So I summoned an old friend. Scarsdale. Not because it’s super easy but because I know it, I’ve tried it. It’s hard but it’s worked before, for me and for many relatives. I’ll give it a try. Another try.

Off course I used my phone to reach that decision. A little Google search. Play Store app search. I picked Dieta Scarsdale. The shopping list on the app was the decisive push. I’m not getting pay, it’s not publicity. it just what I found. I don’t know how well it will work. I’m just in.

Before eyebrows go to high. I’d like to stress that it’s not the first time I do this diet. I know the pros and cons. I know there’s no fast track to a slim healthy figure. I’m not pursuing a model career. Just to be comfortable. What I need is a good start, seeing numbers drop fast at the beginning as a motivation. Hopefully, after a couple of month I’ll be out of it. I’m planning on changing my habits.

I guess I’ll write more about that later on.


So I’ve started!

I wanted to get up early and go to the grocery store to get everything I need but I fell asleep way too late. Sleeping is important, right? Breakfast is coffee and fruit, I have it in my kitchen, so that will buy me some time.

I still have to talk to my family about doing the diet. Their support is key, especially because I don’t cook my meals, they do.

My mom will be thrilled. My brother and my sister in law will laugh hard “let’s see how long you hold on… I bet one day… I bet it will be until the next time we make Arepas.” We’re from Venezuela, we just can’t resist an arepa.

My husband will roll his eyes, laugh a little, remind everybody that this was the diet I was doing when I got pregnant and didn’t lose one gram. But he enjoyed cooking for me, it tasted good. Oh well.

I’ll do my best. I’m sharing this to make sure I am. You know, accountability. Maybe no one will ever read this but I’m still going to try and be committed :).

It would be awesome if you’re going through the same and decide to share it. We could do it together.

For the record I’m 158cm, 72,9Kg. (5'1", 160,717 lb.)

Let’s see in two weeks.


PS: I’m trying to improve my English and my writing too, so any comments about that will be more than welcome.

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