{"id":3306,"date":"2013-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/weight-loss-i-made-smart-restaurant-choices-and-lost-35-pounds\/"},"modified":"2013-04-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T00:00:00","slug":"weight-loss-i-made-smart-restaurant-choices-and-lost-35-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/weight-loss-i-made-smart-restaurant-choices-and-lost-35-pounds\/","title":{"rendered":"I Made Smart Restaurant Choices and Lost 35 Pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"
Grace Hernandez – AfterIn high school, I was nicknamed Grace "Are You Gonna Eat That?" Hernandez. I was the 110-pound cheerleader who ate everything without gaining weight. It was a bacon, egg, and cheese bagel sandwich for breakfast, a burger and fries for lunch, and fried chicken for dinner. This routine didn't change much in college or my early 20s.<\/p>\n
About six years ago, I started dating my amazing boyfriend, Joel. We ate out almost every day during the first two years of our relationship, ordering appetizers, entrees, and, of course, dessert.<\/p>\n
After almost three years of this lifestyle, I started to notice my jeans were forming holes and rips at the thighs. Crossing my legs, going up and down stairs, and getting in and out of my clothes was a struggle. I was 147 pounds at 4'11". It didn't hit me how much I had changed since high school until I saw a picture of me at a wedding almost popping out of my dress.<\/p>\n
Something had to change. Luckily, my building has an employee cafeteria. I started to buy salad every day for lunch. For under $5, I could fill myself with vegetables and white meat chicken breast. At the same time, I changed my daily commute to work so that I would walk 10 minutes to and from the train station.<\/p>\n After about two weeks, my clothes started fitting better, and people began to notice my face getting thinner. It was a big motivation for me to push myself to do more. After doing a little research, I taught myself how to portion my food, find healthier snacks<\/a>, and make smart substitutions<\/a>. One of the biggest substitutes for me was choosing fish instead of red meat<\/a>. I no longer felt stuffed after a meal or depleted of energy.<\/p>\n Joel gave me a pedometer for Christmas so I could count my steps and be motivated to stay active. Even though walking is one of my favorite exercises, I challenged myself to run in the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge and finished the three-and-a-half mile run in 44 minutes by jogging and power walking.<\/p>\n Now when Joel and I go out to eat, we usually order a healthy appetizer, share an entree, and, if we're still hungry, split a side of vegetables or a salad. We don't finish our food if we are full. Now dessert is a treat for the weekends, as a reward for doing so well during the week.<\/p>\n I am still obsessed with going out to eat, and will always be, but I am even more conscious now of my eating habits and activity levels. Today, from all of the changes I made, I can proudly say that I am 112 pounds and have maintained this weight for almost two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grace Hernandez – AfterIn high school, I was nicknamed Grace "Are You Gonna Eat That?" Hernandez. I was the 110-pound cheerleader who ate everything without gaining weight. It was a bacon, egg, and cheese bagel sandwich for breakfast, a burger and fries for lunch, and fried chicken for dinner. This routine didn't change much in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} grace-before-150<\/span> . My family had a history of hypertension, and I needed to change my diet. Although my doctor was skeptical, I began a popular diet that delivered food to my doorstep. But I didn't like the food or having to pay so much for it.<\/p>\n