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My behavior change focus will be on losing weight. But in a healthy way by going to the

gym and eating healthy. I have never really felt good in my body, its not that i am obese, I am

just not skinny like all the others girls. I have tried all of the crazy diets and weird tricks that I

found on the internet. I also have Snapchat and Instagram, which don’t really help me feel good

about the way I look. Nothing has worked for me to be able to lose weight, but hopefully this

will work for me.

My progress this week on improving my behavior change is eating better. I have been

eating less junk food all of this week with my suitemate Emily. We go to the dining hall for

breakfast and dinner together, lunch is hard because of our schedules. But we watch what the

other eats to make sure that we are at least trying to eat a bit better. We can’t meet for lunch

because our class schedules don’t line up. It has been really good for me to have someone else to

go with, it makes me want to try harder.

I think right now I am still at the uninformed optimism stage because I still haven’t left

the honeymoon period of my behavior change project. I am more focused on the actual act of

seeing the junk food in my room and not eating it in my bed. So I am not thinking of all of the

good that this will do for me and all of the bad the junk food will do. I’m not thinking about how

much work this is going to take to get to where I want to be mentally. Hopefully it stays like this

and I don’t get to the part where I hate doing this.

What is helping me to work towards my goal is that if I can get to that goal. Then maybe

I can actually feel good about the way I look on the outside and inside. Also, my suitemate Emily

has been a really big help so far. If I didn’t have her to be on this journey with me, I don’t think I

would have even tried to eat better. I think that the only thing that really pushes people are other

people, the social support you get when you tell other people what you want is amazing.

I think some challenges I might encounter and are encountering this week on my weight

loss goal is junk food. My roommate and I have so many snacks in our room, it is crazy.

Temptation is a terrible thing because it isn’t something that you can control, it is just a terrible

feeling you always have. So that is going to be the hardest thing for me to overcome in this

journey. But I think with a lot of trial and error, also some really high eﬀort.

I am going to try and combine the two of them next week because I haven’t really worked

out this week. I think that actually might be harder for me to do because I have to really want

this. More days than not my food consumption consists of more snacks than actual meals. It is

just really hard some days with class, work, homework, the gym, and eating healthy meals. So

that is going to be next week's goal, maybe with this it will give me a better idea of how to eat

well while being in college.

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