Dieting is the second step

I have actually been keeping up with my exercise routine, save for Wednesday when I stayed after school for two hours and by the time I came home, I was too exhausted from too much school to do anything. Yes, I can be, as my mother calls me: a lazy bug.

But I’ve decided something new today. Now that I’m exercising relatively well per day, I’m going to start eating better, too. I’ve decided to do what I did two summers ago and eat exclusively vegetarian. Thus, I will no longer be eating any junk food or meat (except seafood). I will be filling my stomach with lots of tofu, rice, vegetables, and fruits. I’ve decided to eat at least two servings of fruit per day. I will also only drink water or 1% low-fat milk.

I hope I can manage to keep to that diet. This will be a challenge, especially during lunch at school when I always see many people eating all sorts of delicious high-calorie fatty foods. But their smells are quite tempting…. I also need to figure out something for breakfast. Usually, I don’t eat breakfast, but that of course is not healthy.

Last time I kept to a diet like this, I shed five pounds in a summer (no, I do not think it was the veggies cleaning out my system that made me lose weight). That might not sound like much, but I was pretty happy. Of course, I gained everything right back once school started. After summer this year, I’ll be going to college. That infamous freshman fifteen is just looming on the horizon….