Hi my name is Danielle and I like food...

So here I am again. I've lost 5 pounds so far, which is not really as much as I'd have wanted, but it's at least a loss and not a gain right? I joined 24 hour fitness with my mom because I can go to any of their locations, so when I'm traveling if there is a 24 hour fitness in the area I can still use my membership. We joined over a month ago and have gone exactly twice now. Things keep happening, first I went to washington where there was no 24 hour fitness around, then we passed around a stomach virus, and now my mom has bronchitis. So I am going to have to get my butt in gear and start going even when she can't or I'm just wasting my money and effort.

However, the reason this post was inspired is because I am sitting here eating a bowl of leftover fried rice for breakfast. I've realized I just love food. and not all of the foods I love are unhealthy, but some of them are. If food was a man I'd probably marry it, I just like to eat. And the whole dieting thing, it just isn't going as well as I hoped. I really enjoy drinking my odwalla juice and I love fruit and veggies, but I also love things like cheese and rice. So I've decided that I'm not going to give up eating what I want. Oh I'm still going to track it. I only get so many points a week, plus my extra splurge points and when they are gone they are gone, but something I learned recently is WW gives you extra points when you workout. So this clicked in my head, not that I'm going to workout so I can pig out, but that I can eat what I want (within moderation) and exercise more. If I bust my butt at the gym then I don't have to feel so guilty about having a bowl of fried rice for breakfast once in awhile or for eating three pieces of cheese in one day. I really have to learn about incorporating the foods I love into my new lifestyle, because that's what it is a lifestyle. And if I stop eating everything I love to lose weight on a diet, eventually I'm going to have a binge and feel guilty about it. So then the two things I need to focus are moderation and exercising and I think that will work better for me than starving myself but not making it to the gym because of any number of reasons.