So terribly sorry the month of March completely ate me! We are doing well here, we've strayed a bit from our super-healthy eating, and are excited to get back on track. Thinking of joining a gym, not really sure. I got glasses in March, we painted for our anniversary, I took a lot of classes for work. Now it's April, and we are excited about some new things coming up.
Hope you guys are well and happy spring to you all!
peace, x.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
I'm Still Trucking...
So we gave up on the Whole30 itself. Though we learned a lot about ourselves. I can't really do dairy much at all (except for a little cheese). Andy can't do ice cream... We both feel bloated with too many grains, don't really like the feeling... but aren't restricting ourselves so much anymore... but we don't bring junk into our house. So, that at least is a huge helpful thing.
However, we are both still going with our healthy journey, I still find the book "It Starts With Food" a crucial read for anyone undergoing a health journey. I also will be registering for The Color Run and Pretty Muddy this year- my first two 5ks. Hopefully I'll be able to jog them, but we'll see... it all depends on my foot pain, and what I need to do about that pain this year. Overall, I am down 9 pounds from when I began, Andy is down about 18 pounds. Men lose weight quicker- sigh!
God is very good to us! We are really embracing this lifestyle change in so many ways- learning so many new things... for instance (I know this will look silly), but did you know you can make your bed in 3 minutes or less- and that just one SMALL change like that can make your room more inviting? Yes, I was always a chronic messy bed person (anyone that knew me from college would know this too). But I just... had enough. So I've started to be more organized in many different ways... And really enjoy them.
Okay, gotta go make lunches for work! Later guys and dolls...
peace, x.
However, we are both still going with our healthy journey, I still find the book "It Starts With Food" a crucial read for anyone undergoing a health journey. I also will be registering for The Color Run and Pretty Muddy this year- my first two 5ks. Hopefully I'll be able to jog them, but we'll see... it all depends on my foot pain, and what I need to do about that pain this year. Overall, I am down 9 pounds from when I began, Andy is down about 18 pounds. Men lose weight quicker- sigh!
God is very good to us! We are really embracing this lifestyle change in so many ways- learning so many new things... for instance (I know this will look silly), but did you know you can make your bed in 3 minutes or less- and that just one SMALL change like that can make your room more inviting? Yes, I was always a chronic messy bed person (anyone that knew me from college would know this too). But I just... had enough. So I've started to be more organized in many different ways... And really enjoy them.
Okay, gotta go make lunches for work! Later guys and dolls...
peace, x.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
It's Truly Possible...
It's possible to mess up for four days, yet jump back into the healthy eating cycle... it's more difficult than just reasoning the continual poor choices- but you can do it too if I can do it.
I took a look at the scale yesterday, VS today- and I'm so glad I didn't get discouraged and give up. There was a 4 pound difference- and I know that it had to do with junky food, MSG, etc. but I normally would use that excuse as a reason to do whatever I wanted, instead of stick it out.
I'm so glad I'm sticking it out- eating the way that makes my body feel best, and doing this!! I won't look back on this W30 and think 'Hey look, I did it perfectly!' but I hope to look back and think about how 'I had to start somewhere...' and glad that I did start.
It would have been easier to give up. But I'm in this for the long haul.
Suck it, failure... you really are redefined!
peace, x.
I took a look at the scale yesterday, VS today- and I'm so glad I didn't get discouraged and give up. There was a 4 pound difference- and I know that it had to do with junky food, MSG, etc. but I normally would use that excuse as a reason to do whatever I wanted, instead of stick it out.
I'm so glad I'm sticking it out- eating the way that makes my body feel best, and doing this!! I won't look back on this W30 and think 'Hey look, I did it perfectly!' but I hope to look back and think about how 'I had to start somewhere...' and glad that I did start.
It would have been easier to give up. But I'm in this for the long haul.
Suck it, failure... you really are redefined!
peace, x.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Redefining Failure...
So it started controlled. A date on Saturday night. Then Sunday came with eating too many dried banana chips and cashews. Then Monday's late class resulted in a McDonalds run. Now Tuesday held promise of Chinese food.
Not kidding.
It's like a double life! Eating healthy ALL day just to blow it on a ridiculous craving.
But we're done with that...
Now hardcore Whole30 people will tell you to restart. So, my Whole30 would become a Whole48 or something ridiculous... We're not.
This is not failure. I was chastising myself tonight in my typical way- when I just suddenly stopped. Is it merely "cheating" the plan if I'm LEARNING something each time?
The lessons we learned last night and tonight were that those "food like substances" were not food. They did not look, taste, feel, or smell anything like what our bodies wanted.
I had one glass of diet pepsi tonight, the first in 17 days- I feared before that it would set me off and I wouldn't be controllable... I "refilled" with WATER. Me! Refilled with WATER!
Yesterday, I barely could eat the 10 piece McNuggets and Shamrock Shake (no fries).... ME! The girl who several weeks ago could EASILY destroy 50 McNuggets, a large french fry, a huge diet coke, and some kind of milkshake AS A MEAL.
...that's not even the worse part... I could eat all of that, and think it tasted good.
I guess the point of this post, and me showing my failures to the world- are that they are only failures if I pick up another bottle of diet coke, drive through McDonald's, or Chinese, or anywhere that I know doesn't support my healthy eating lifestyle.... They are not failures if I learn and move on. My 30 days is not going to restart. Perhaps in a year, I'll do another Whole30 (or whenever really), and look back at this first time and think about how goofy I was thinking ____ was okay, and really it's not... but I'm not there yet.
I'm at the point where I realize a McNugget is a sponge between two pieces of cardboard, Chinese buffets don't have any real flavor, a Big Mac holds nothing to my homemade meatballs, bread doesn't taste like anything at all.... and more than all of that- that those emotional bonds that I held so dearly for all of my life really are the root of the temptation/cheat. The flavors I thought should be there were really the spices of Sadness, Joy, Rejection, Excitement, Loneliness, etc... and those emotions masked the fact that those foods are not real food. They are "food like product".
So, cheat every once in a while... but if you do it, STOP and TASTE. Taste the food you are actually eating, and separate it from the emotion you are trying to feel- or trying to push away.
For Andy and I- we're giving up on "chEating Out" (haha, get it?)- because even after the tummy aches and digestive pains, we realize that while there ARE good choices and places to go- the places we WANT and MISS most, don't hold the flavors and tastes our bodies crave.
peace, x.
Not kidding.
It's like a double life! Eating healthy ALL day just to blow it on a ridiculous craving.
But we're done with that...
Now hardcore Whole30 people will tell you to restart. So, my Whole30 would become a Whole48 or something ridiculous... We're not.
This is not failure. I was chastising myself tonight in my typical way- when I just suddenly stopped. Is it merely "cheating" the plan if I'm LEARNING something each time?
The lessons we learned last night and tonight were that those "food like substances" were not food. They did not look, taste, feel, or smell anything like what our bodies wanted.
I had one glass of diet pepsi tonight, the first in 17 days- I feared before that it would set me off and I wouldn't be controllable... I "refilled" with WATER. Me! Refilled with WATER!
Yesterday, I barely could eat the 10 piece McNuggets and Shamrock Shake (no fries).... ME! The girl who several weeks ago could EASILY destroy 50 McNuggets, a large french fry, a huge diet coke, and some kind of milkshake AS A MEAL.
...that's not even the worse part... I could eat all of that, and think it tasted good.
I guess the point of this post, and me showing my failures to the world- are that they are only failures if I pick up another bottle of diet coke, drive through McDonald's, or Chinese, or anywhere that I know doesn't support my healthy eating lifestyle.... They are not failures if I learn and move on. My 30 days is not going to restart. Perhaps in a year, I'll do another Whole30 (or whenever really), and look back at this first time and think about how goofy I was thinking ____ was okay, and really it's not... but I'm not there yet.
I'm at the point where I realize a McNugget is a sponge between two pieces of cardboard, Chinese buffets don't have any real flavor, a Big Mac holds nothing to my homemade meatballs, bread doesn't taste like anything at all.... and more than all of that- that those emotional bonds that I held so dearly for all of my life really are the root of the temptation/cheat. The flavors I thought should be there were really the spices of Sadness, Joy, Rejection, Excitement, Loneliness, etc... and those emotions masked the fact that those foods are not real food. They are "food like product".
So, cheat every once in a while... but if you do it, STOP and TASTE. Taste the food you are actually eating, and separate it from the emotion you are trying to feel- or trying to push away.
For Andy and I- we're giving up on "chEating Out" (haha, get it?)- because even after the tummy aches and digestive pains, we realize that while there ARE good choices and places to go- the places we WANT and MISS most, don't hold the flavors and tastes our bodies crave.
peace, x.
Monday, February 11, 2013
The Learning Cycle...
We have been doing SO well this entire journey. Until we decided how unfair it was for Valentine's Day to be smack in the middle of our Whole30. So on Saturday evening, with free tickets to see a great comedian, we had an "I don't care" dinner. Andy didn't get sick. I did. For hours and hours, my stomach got rid of things it didn't like as fast as it could, and any way it could.
Lesson learned- I might just have to keep these changes, if my body isn't digesting certain things well...
Mind you, I went into Sunday not wanting to eat a single __________.... ever again (insert my meal there). Friends came over last night, Andy had been munching most of the day on cashews and banana chips... and we brought out those same snacks to share with our friends. I ate WAY too many banana chips, and nuts. To the point where my sugar was buzzing around in my head and I needed to go lay down.
Lesson learned- I still have my emotional eating dragon lurking around waiting for a poor choice- or for a good choice in a poor environment to strike.
We fall down, but we get up- right?
Here's to day 16, today!
peace, x.
Lesson learned- I might just have to keep these changes, if my body isn't digesting certain things well...
Mind you, I went into Sunday not wanting to eat a single __________.... ever again (insert my meal there). Friends came over last night, Andy had been munching most of the day on cashews and banana chips... and we brought out those same snacks to share with our friends. I ate WAY too many banana chips, and nuts. To the point where my sugar was buzzing around in my head and I needed to go lay down.
Lesson learned- I still have my emotional eating dragon lurking around waiting for a poor choice- or for a good choice in a poor environment to strike.
We fall down, but we get up- right?
Here's to day 16, today!
peace, x.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Mail Time!
An open, honest letter...
Dearest Double Chin,
I know we've had a long run with eachother. You were kinda cute when I was a baby... less cute the older I got... and now you're just not cute at all. I hate how I look when I take a profile picture of myself, and thankfully myspace taught me how to angle from the top down to minimize your evil effects on camera. But guess what?! You're not so double anymore!! If you look at yourself in the mirror as critically as I look at every part of this body- or refer to the level-shot photo I attached... You're going away. Also notice that awkward look of peace on my face? I don't have to try so hard to "smile" to feel good about me. It just kind of happens these days. I wanted to wish you the best, because eventually you'll just be a distant memory in photos and scrapbooks.
Dearest Double Chin,
I know we've had a long run with eachother. You were kinda cute when I was a baby... less cute the older I got... and now you're just not cute at all. I hate how I look when I take a profile picture of myself, and thankfully myspace taught me how to angle from the top down to minimize your evil effects on camera. But guess what?! You're not so double anymore!! If you look at yourself in the mirror as critically as I look at every part of this body- or refer to the level-shot photo I attached... You're going away. Also notice that awkward look of peace on my face? I don't have to try so hard to "smile" to feel good about me. It just kind of happens these days. I wanted to wish you the best, because eventually you'll just be a distant memory in photos and scrapbooks.
Love,
Sarah
Day 10
So we've made it ten days! I've done really well. Strangely NOT missing soda yet, or anything super sweet yet. Maybe it's because I know that #1 this is not forever, and #2 my body feels amazing without it. I guess I'm trying to break those emotional food bonds... that's all really. I should write more soon. I'll try.
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