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I just stopped eating so much junk food. I hate the word "diet". I prefer "changing what i eat" because "diet" implies that the changes I make are short term to loose weight, and then I will go back to eating the way I usually do. That's a bunch of bullshit. You can't loose weight and keep it off by going on a diet.

First, you have to be REALLY disgusted with how you look. Maybe you have a huge-a** stomach, and it freaks you out. [I feel this way after I eat too much junk food, as it usually goes to my stomach. xD] But, the thing about this is that you can't loose confidence in yourself. You KNOW you can change. I stopped thinking about how i LOOKED and started thinking about how i COULD look.

This got me going.

Before I stopped eating crap, I hated exercise. Which was a major problem. But I had recently discovered how much I loved fencing, and decided I would try to do that outside of school. So I started fencing once a week. And with high school not giving me a bus, I was forced to walk.

This helped a lot.

I had been eating pretty healthily at lunch, but I would eat junk food from my friends. This wasn't too much of a problem this year, because at first I didn't know anybody well enough to steal food from them. xD [Now that I know them, I doubt they will EVER let me steal their food. haha]
I also just stopped eating so much junk food with my friends. I mostly hang out with 15 year old boys, so I didn't realize that I couldn't POSSIBLY eat as much as they could. xD

SO. I started listening to my stomach, only eating when I was hungry and not more.

I like to weigh myself every morning and night, because it helps me see if I ate a lot that day or the previous day. It also helps me decide if I should eat a little less today or a little more. I'm not the best at listening to my stomach after ignoring it for so long. sweatdrop

So...those are my incentives! xD