My Work Out Less and Occasional Beer Weight-Loss Success Story

It seems ever since college I was always concerned about my weight to be perfectly and pathetically honest. I would work out a ton, lift a bunch, and try to eat 6 mini meals a day of food that really lacked in flavor. However, I was never really happy or ever where I wanted to be at. Then I would go on these silly kicks about doing a fitness competition because I believe that I would finally get the body I wanted. I told myself the whole egg white and plain tuna with lemon juice wasn’t that bad. Oh how I was lying to myself. Initially I would slim down but then all the weight-training would make me look thicker. It was always a battle I just couldn’t seem to win.

After this New Year’s I decided to do a bikini competition…HA! I am sorry but I just don’t have the discipline to eat egg whites, forgo wine, and lift 6 days a week. Frustrated I said to hell with it and that’s when I came up with a plan that initially scared me at first because I was so stuck on the 6 meal thing, so stuck on lifting, so stuck on spending hours in the gym, so stuck on never drinking beer on the weekend. I was going to do the unthinkable….

Let the whole diet thing GO! I just ate a high protein diet with veggies and fruits. I ate only when I was hungry. No tuna, no egg whites, oh no delicious yet still healthy food. And on the weekends because during the week I wasn’t depriving myself, I stuck to just one cheat meal and yes I would take a bud-light with it or maybe even two!
I decided for my workouts I would just train for another marathon and regardless what the program said I was only going to lift twice a week if that. At this point I had it with the calorie counting, bland food, frustrating results, and occasional binge eating escapades that left me feeling guilty and disappointed.

At first I was nervous; it was going to be new to me, all this doing less I was afraid I was going to put weight on…….
3 months later I am back to my lightest weight and I did it without the stress, without the worry. I write this in hopes of anyone who is battling the weight can start to take it easy. It’s simple so simple I over thought it for years, and it’s not rocket science. Protein and natural foods all in moderation paired with some good cardio. Above all don’t think so much about it. Don’t be a prisoner like I was for years it was awful! Eat, Drink, and Be Merry! Life is just too short not too! Smile!