The time has come. \u00a0You decided that for whatever reason you need to just shave off a few pounds. \u00a0You find a diet or lifestyle change, a workout routine, start meal prepping all of your salads and falafel and promise yourself to drink more water, but it’s not always that easy. \u00a0Here are the 6 stages of trying to lose weight:<\/p>\n
Tomorrow is a new year, or a new week, or something along those lines. \u00a0Summer is approaching and you’ve decided that you just can’t bear another year of all your skinny friends looking gorgeous while you feel crappy. \u00a0So you decide that just a little trim and tone is the trick, just to get to the stage where you are oozing with confidence. \u00a0Nothing too extreme or brutal, just 5 pounds or something will make the world of difference, right?<\/p>\n
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You wake up feeling refreshed, you may have prepped your meals, and you go into your day optimistic and enthusiastic. \u00a0You start off with your green tea (which tastes SO great, right?) and do some yoga before walking to work with your mason jar salad in hand. \u00a0You proudly tell just about everyone about the new you and how you don’t even\u00a0like\u00a0<\/em>cake anymore. \u00a0You finish feeling a little angry but ultimately like this is the start of something wonderful.<\/p>\n Everyone wants after-work drinks. \u00a0And you…can’t. \u00a0If you down 500 calories of wine then you technically can’t fit dinner in, which is absolutely not an option. \u00a0But you treat yourself to a small glass when you get home and remind yourself that you can sip all the cocktails you want when you’re a supermodel on a yacht somewhere. \u00a0Maybe you also have a bite of chocolate or two…you have been\u00a0so<\/em> good, after all.<\/p>\n \n The meal prepping, the exercise, the extra-early wake ups. \u00a0It all takes its toll and eventually you just have an overwhelming feeling that you need sleep. \u00a0Again, you remind yourself that all of the gurus say that the first week\u00a0or two is the hardest, after which the healthy and fit lifestyle becomes a way of life and you won’t find it even remotely difficult anymore!<\/p>\n All you want is a pizza. \u00a0But you don’t feel like you can have a pizza. \u00a0So you google ‘under 500 calorie super cheesy pizza’ and go to the first option. \u00a0When you discover it’s made of cauliflower, barely any cheese and is half the size of a normal pizza. \u00a0But surely it will fill that gap, right? \u00a0So then you spend 3 hours making your tiny pizza bite and question if it was all worth it, but also try to savor that reduced fat mozzarella cheese for all that it’s worth.<\/p>\n \n This is when you realize that everybody is a beach body and that you don’t have to look like every other person out there to look and feel beautiful. \u00a0You find a few inspirational people like Jameela Jamil to follow and begin to realize that you really\u00a0really\u00a0<\/em>don’t need that toxic diet shit in your life. \u00a0It feels so refreshing, so then you just turn to try to convince the world!<\/p>\n \n The time has come. \u00a0You decided that for whatever reason you need to just shave off a few pounds. \u00a0You find a diet or lifestyle change, a workout routine, start meal prepping all of your salads and falafel and promise yourself to drink more water, but it’s not always that easy. \u00a0Here are the 6…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25185,"featured_media":142474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[1808],"tags":[8237,8174,18787,15720,11230],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-142317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-loss","tag-weight","tag-weight-loss"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n3. The end of the week<\/h2>\n
4. The tiredness<\/h2>\n
5. The substitutes<\/h2>\n
6. The Epiphany<\/h2>\n
So there are the 6 stages of trying to lose weight. \u00a0Easy, hard or somewhere in between, we’ve almost all been there! \u00a0What were your experiences? \u00a0Let us know down below! \u00a0Also, remember that you absolutely don’t\u00a0need<\/em> to lose weight to be beautiful, you are gorgeous just as you are!<\/h3>\n
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