My recent health kick has me conscious (obsessive?) with what I’m eating for each meal and over the course of the day. I am the candy and chip queen and I’ve been blessed with kind enough genes to allow my addiction to carry on for 20 odd years without any serious repercussions.
BUT all good things must come to an end. I’ve gone cold turkey and cut out the junk. It has been extremely* difficult but, the competitive nature in me has me pushing myself day by day to prevent myself from cheating.
It has only been a few short weeks on the new and improved diet but, I cannot believe how great it feels. For any of you out there considering a new eating style- it’s totally worth it! I recognize I am saying this a week before Halloween (however I refuse to recognize how difficult it will be for me to not eat candy over the next two weeks) but, there’s no better time to make a change than the present.
I’ve had several people ask me at work how I’ve made the switch so smoothly (ps. it hasn’t been smooth AT ALL!). It boils down to 3 easy points:
1. Be organized: this means have your meals planned out on a day to day schedule. That might mean you work on a variety of 5 types of meals and circulate through, or, as I have done, have a meal assigned to each day of the week. Prepare these meals before you wake up!!! Eating right is only 40% of the difficulty, finding the time to prepare the meals has been far more difficult
2. One is too many: Do not allow yourself even one dirty treat. It cracks open the sweet tooth and spirals into uncontrollable situations
3. Drink lots of water: and by lots I mean a GALLON A DAY. Yes, a gallon. Yes, that’s a 4L milk jug. Yes , I get up to go the bathroom 10+ times a day
*by extremely, I mean I’ve been incredibly bitchy and irritable and I often have headaches from sugar cravings (not exaggerating at all).
