We have eaten “healthy” for the last year and a half since Jimmie’s surgery. I’ve been using Kaleb’s death as an excuse for the last 4 months to not eat as healthy. I’d started eating candy again, and sweet treats. I have stayed off of Coke, unless there was Crown in it, because that was my deal to myself when I quit Cokes. And while I have been indulging my sweet tooth more often by eating ice cream, cookies and pancakes and syrup. Tyler’s upcoming wedding has given me incentive. I’d already started the exercise class “Fit Body Bootcamp” in January and I’m loving it. If you want a challenging fun, different exercise every day come out and join me at 5:45 am each morning. I plan on getting back into running when it’s not freezing outside (I’ll still use that excuse because I don’t do winter). Getting my diet back on track is a whole other problem to wrangle.
The other boys were in at Christmas time so we bought foods they enjoy. Needless to say when they left to go back to school we forgot to pack it up and send it back with them. So boys if you are reading this, we have some groceries for you, first come first serve. We got our meal plans last week in class and I’ve decided to embrace this. While I may not go 100% Paleo, I do like the clean eating aspect of it. I like meats, vegetables and fruit. The things I’ll have the greatest issues with are no grain and no dairy. I like my grain and I like my milk and cheese. Nothing better than a big bowl of cereal. But this is a lot like the Atkins diet I stuck to mostly to lose the weight before, just stricter it seems. And while everyone told me how my cholesterol would go up and all my blood work would suffer from doing the Atkins diet, it was the opposite. So I’m hoping this eating plan will have the same type of affect.
So if you see me posting pictures of my food, it’s sort of like when I would randomly post my runs. Or when I spent the first week of class posting about how I was dying!! It holds me accountable. If I’m owning what I eat it’s a lot harder to “cheat” myself. I think I get more upset letting other people down than I do myself. That’s probably something I need to work on. I’ve removed my excuses, and I’m taking back my life. I will be healthy again, I will be strong again. Having my fit-bit has really helped with this. When I first got it in 2014 I didn’t know many people who had them but over the last year I’ve found more and more people who do and I’m always in some kind of daily challenge, or weekend warrier, or work week hustle. And I’m pretty competitive. I don’t like to lose. I’m like those posts on facebook of the person standing at stove running in place. I’ve been known to do squats and jumping jacks while letting the dogs go out to pee, or doing squats in the bathroom at work (don’t judge me, it’s a way to get a few squats in at a time throughout the day). I didn’t have a medicine ball over the weekend for my sit-ups so I might have used a 2 liter of coke. No more excuses. If anyone wants to join me on my journey send me a message and we can be buddies to hold each other accountable. I’m sure there will be a few detours, and bumps in the road but it’s the not giving up that will get me the long-term results. None of the boys are having kids early so I have to do something to stay young so I can enjoy grandkids when I finally get them.
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