When the going gets TOUGH..

When the going gets TOUGH..

It was easy for me to follow the diet plan when I was kept indoors. But following a specific food plan outside home was troublesome. It is difficult to know how much of salt the hawker sprinkled on the nasi goreng that was served to me and it was not appropriate for me to ask for some other food when my friend’s mom cooked a pot of delicious beef curry for me. This year is a very special year; my best friends and I are turning 21 and we unanimously decided to celebrate our birthdays respectively. Can anyone imagine the amount of sugar I will be consuming this year? Birthday cakes, chocolates, flavored water, etc. I have been for four birthdays in the past two months; I found myself facing temptations to an extent that in a blink of an eye I was gobbling five to six pieces of chocolate cake.. who wouldn’t?? I realized how difficult it is to face temptations, and that self discipline is the key to success. I salute to those vegetarians who have such ease with doing away with meat, I wish I could be like them; discipline is what I need, and not forgetting some self motivation :)

I spoke to a couple of friends about my situation, and their encouragement to work this diet plan was an energy booster on my side. Following this program was not an easy thing to do. As a matter of fact my goal was to stick to the plan for approximately 2 months, but I only began two weeks after that. At the very beginning I was not keen on following this program simply because I did not have the urge to do so. As time went by, my behavior slowly began to change in ways that suited the needs of the plan. According James Prochaska, Carrlo DiClemente and John Norcross (1992, 1994), the transtheoretical model theory assumes that people progress as well as regress through five spiraling stages in making changes in behavior. These stages are the precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance. The two weeks that I shook my legs not thinking little about the plan was during the precontemplation stage. During the contemplation stage, I was slightly worried about the delay in beginning the diet plan because skin rejuvenation does need a long time before the effects are visible. When I began speaking to my father and mother about a diet program that I needed to alight and what are the steps that my family needed to take to support this plan, I was going through the preparation stage. The effort to change my ways and follow the plan was during the action stage. As for now, I am still holding strong to the diet plan and this stage particular stage is called the maintenance stage.

I have learned much about myself in these two months. I have figured where I stand in terms of discipline and how strong my will power is to achieve a particular goal. Overall, the experience has been amazing and I am glad I went through it with much support from my family.

Rejuvenated Skin! (make up was not applied during the shoot;)
Lots of love!