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Does it anyone else find it hard to diet with a busy life?
No, because this IS my life. It's not about "dieting with a busy schedule". It's about making my LIFE work - which includes eating healthily.
Ok, so that sounds a bit smug.
The truth is, that it took me a while to get to that mental place where I realized I wasn't trying to fit my "diet" into my "life". It's one of those things that I can't tell you when or how I got there - it just happened. Like one day when I was a sophomore in high school I just suddenly "got" grammar. Or when I was a jr in high school I just suddenly "got" trig. I don't know why I "got" it ... and I don't know why it was so hard to "get" it before. But I did.
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I work 32 hours a week, and on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays I have class and work I wake up go to school, go to work, and I don't stop until late at night. I even don't have time to eat. On Tuesdays I have no time between school and work I go straight to work
I own my own business AND starting 3 weeks ago I took on a 30 hour a week contract job for the winter (slow season in my business). I get up at 7:30 every morning. I go to sleep at around 3:30 every morning. I shoot weddings, engagements, and portraits every Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I coordinate educational events for other photographers. I write databases for small engineering firms on the side. Plus I keep up with my bookkeeping, marketing, scheduling, etc. I average 75 billable hours a week (either to a client or to my business), plus keeping up with my house, shopping, exercising, etc., etc., etc., etc.
About once every six weeks or so I crash and sleep for an entire weekend. Then I wake up the next Monday and start all over again.
The thing is ... this is life. There will always be things that will mess up your "routine". Maybe it'll be a new job. Maybe it'll be a new relationship. Maybe it'll be kids. Maybe it'll be family. That's life. You have to figure out how you're going to live your life AND still be healthy. Notice, I never said "and diet".
The way I eat and the way I exercise is now part of my life ... it's not something that I have to work in or work around.
Now, mind you, that doens't mean I'm perfect.
I have my days off (whooo boy!) and the times that I don't eat so well. I have days that I'm exhausted and I just don't make it to the gym. But those days/times make up around 15% or less of my whole life. The rest of the time, it's just ingrained. It is what I do to live.
Part of being successful on this journey - I'm firmly convinced - is making these changes a part of your regular life, instead of a "diet" that you try to incorporate for some period of time.
Eventually, like grammar, like trig, like a lot of things ... it'll just happen. And you'll realize that you have a different life and you aren't really sure when you got there. But it's awesome being there!
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