Different foods affect us differently. I had to change certain recipes and swap them with friendlier ingredients.
I loved pizza before. I still eat pizza on some occasions—but a chicken-crusted, homemade pizza so I can consider the ingredients I put in there. A lot of pizza sauces have more carbs or sugars, and I had to stay away from sugar as much as I could.
Mental Journey
Another thing that helped me lose a lot of weight was having the right thinking. I wasn’t just on a weight loss journey, I was on a mental journey, too. It’s important to heal your mind as you go along the weight loss journey.
You could go on this weight loss journey, and lose all this weight, and if you haven’t done anything mentally to heal from past hurts, there’s a good chance you’re going to gain all that weight back.
I had to understand why I was overeating in the first place and what caused me to overeat. That’s why I highly recommend people talk to a therapist, a counselor, or a good life coach.
It’s what I’d been doing for 14 years. I had to foster a lifestyle change, not just a diet. I see diets as a temporary means to get to your goal weight, but you want to maintain that weight loss. So, to me, it’s a lifestyle change. I haven’t gone back to my old way of eating.