A few weeks ago, I announced on Facebook that I was going to be putting myself through the “Be Less Fat By Xmas” challenge. This isn’t a formal challenge, there are no memes being passed around by female recent college graduates like most of the memes I see. It is really just my challenge to myself to look better when I arrive in Detroit on December 20 than I did when I left on July 31.
Me on the second day I lived in Jeju. Look at my little belly!
When I left I hadn’t done a proper workout since I stopped working out in preparation for joining the U.S. Army. The Army didn’t pan out so I didn’t really have a reason to workout. My arms got skinny and I developed a little paunch. It didn’t help that I was constantly eating out when I worked at EMU as I didn’t really have time to go get lunch or workout.
That has all changed now that I’m in Korea. It’s almost impossible to eat out. There are no fast food restaurants near my school or my apartment. There are plenty of pizza places but even I have my limits. The school has two gyms that I can use (only one where all of the equipment works but I survive.), tons of healthy options for lunch, and water fountains EVERYWHERE. There is no reason for me to remain fat here.
AND IM NOT!!!
It’s only been 2 weeks of being disciplined with my diet and exercise and Im already down 6.5 pounds as of this morning. Im being very careful to be healthy and get enough calories. The biggest change is that I cut out flavored drinks. I was pretty successful getting pop out of my diet when I first came here but I quickly substituted the pop for gatorade/poccari sweat. When it comes to carbs and empty calories, those aren’t a good replacement. There was a short stretch of 2 days where I went a little overboard and gained back some of the weight but it’s again and staying gone!
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