How To Lose Weight With A Busy Schedule (Working Title)

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How to Lose Weight with a Busy Schedule (working title)
As a perpetually busy person, I never set aside time to lose weight.
While attending high school full time, I worked part time and attended musical rehearsals after school. I added to my busy schedule by squeezing in workouts after I finished my shifts at Subway.
And I lost weight.
While enrolled in the maximum college credits, I attended play rehearsals, worked full time and occasionally worked out in the morning.
I continued to lose weight.
After studying abroad, I traveled to three countries—the United States, Morocco and Spain—in 4 weeks. In those 4 weeks, I traveled to eight cities: Rabat, Marrakesh, Tangier, Madrid, Toledo, Valencia, Barcelona and Minneapolis.
Again, I still lost …show more content…

I can teach you how to lose weight with a busy schedule with my tips, trick, advice and learnings.
It’s time to sweat the small stuff
When we want to lose weight, we tend to have an all-or-nothing mentality. Like you either go on a 1,000-calorie diet of salad and carrots or you eat 5 pieces of chocolate cake. It’s hard to find a happy medium.
But that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. In fact, small changes to your diet can make a huge impact.
I first started to lose weight by making small changes to my Subway sandwiches, i.e. fast food. I ate everything when I started working at Subway. I didn’t care about how healthy it was. I wanted to try it all since I got a free sub whenever I worked. Chicken-Bacon Ranch, Buffalo Chicken, Philly Cheesesteak—I ate it all.
But then I started to think about how healthy Subway was. Subway marketed itself as healthy. But was it? I concluded that though some sandwiches could be healthier, it wasn’t healthy I decided to change my ways.
I started out by switching from the white breads to the brown breads. I also stayed away from the premium subs that packed on the meat.
Next I looked to my sauces. Instead of chipotle southwest, I used red wine vinegar, mustard and the sweet onion sauce. I opted for avocado rather than

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