Thanks gals! :heart:
I'd love to be your personal trainer, but some of the ideas I have...
I stopped using an excuse for anything I could change, and accepted what I couldn't. For the diet... it helped that I had someone else to cook for, that actually had the self-discipline to reduce carbs, which I wanted to do.
In my old apartment during the school year, I made excuses to avoid cooking, like the lack of freezer space(I think I showed you that once?), and how it was so tough cooking for one, so much leftovers you get tired of a food and whatever.
When I moved into a different apartment with the guys for the summer, I cooked 2x daily for me and one of them. It helped since he was was determined to avoid carbs wherever possible... which kept me thinking, "how can I still have what *I* love, and still make sure it isn't too carb-y for him?" Stuff I KNEW was better, but I wasn't able to push myself to do it on my own.
I think my body needed that "shock" from going so low-carb over the summer. Since I've been home, carbs are everywhere again. I don't have any control food-wise right now really, so I when I have options, I pick the lesser evil. It works though... I haven't undone the success I've had thus far, slowed definitely, but not undone. I think it the low carb thing helped reset me in a way.
Exercise-wise... Anything I have to get to is at least a 30 minute walk. Bikes are out of question since there's so much snow, and sidewalks are uncleared, which means half climbing over snow banks.
Other things are just body weight exercises, or with resistance bands.