...which means now would be a good time to start a few things I've been meaning to do for a while: Drinking 3 cups of green tea per day, and 8 glasses of water per day. Both these things really help weight loss for 2 reasons:
1) They fill you up, so you're less hungry and thus eat less. Probably everyone knows that most of the time you're hungry, you're actually just thirsty. I'm the best person to tell you that, too, because I drink the least water out of anyone in the world. And sometimes, (a lot of the time actually), I feel so hungry that no matter how much I eat, I don't feel satisfied- but strangely feel full at the same time. Then I figured out that that feeling is actually extreme thirst, and so now when I feel like that and then drink, I swallow a gallon in like one sip cuz I'm so dehydrated. And sometimes (I know this is weird), it's kind of unpleasant to drink when I'm that thirsty. Like it hurts. I don't know, I'm totally weird. But anyway, I think I really need to add hard core water drinking to my life.
2) The second reason is that both green tea and water literally do something to your body that makes you lose weight even if you do eat the same amount. With green tea, it speeds up the metabolism, and I don't know what it is with water, but I know it's true from personal experience. I know that water has nutrients in it that your body needs obviously, but I don't know how it helps weight loss. But this I do know: A while ago, I did perfectly with my points one week, but I still didn't lose any weight. So the next week, I ate the same amount of points, but added a lot of water, and I lost weight.
So! Since I don't have any extras left this week, it would be a good time to start drinking green tea and water, just for the purpose of filling me up so I don't eat too much.
AND: Now would also be a good time to start doing these things because guess what. I just realized how long it would take to get to my goal weight depending on different conditions. Check this out:
Losing 1 pound/week: April 19th
Losing 1.5 pounds/week: January 18th
Losing 2 pounds/week: December 7th
...Being realistic, I'm probably not gonna lose much faster than that. At least not at first. But I really don't want to have to wait till April. January 18th isn't so bad. But I need to speed this process up. And I'm moving soon to a house with a pool, so I'll do laps every morning. And I'm gonna get a job, so I'll have money, so I'l join a yoga class. So once I start exercising, Maybe I can even lose 3 or 4 pounds a week. And I feel more in control of how much I'm losing now that I have complete control over how many points I eat each week, so now I have to start losing 1.5-2 pounds a week. I'll start off just adding water and green tea, and a little exercise, and see how far that gets me.
By the way: I got the green tea from a friend who started drinking 3 cups of green tea a day, and lost a lot of weight.
Advice for the day: Drink a lot of water no matter what. It's way harder than it sounds. Not many people like to drink water all day long. I know it sounds like nothing, but it's been easier for me to go on a diet than to actually drink as much water as I should. But it really makes an eerie difference. Try keeping a hip water bottle with you wherever you go. Look for the really awesome aluminum bottles at Target. (Plus they're good for the environment!)...
...okay, it's now the end of the day. I am on my 3rd cup of tea, but I barely drank any water. I will do better tomorrow.
POINTS EATEN TODAY: 23
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