You can tell when you're on the right road - it's uphill!
Living in the Adelaide Hills, I know about hills and how some are steeper than others, but if you put your head down and just keep going, you eventually make it to the top! Yeah! So that's Day 3 done and dusted and it wasn't such a big hill to climb. Physically I did struggle a bit after a bad night suffering from painful arthritis pain in my back and neck which kept me up half the night- thank God for hot water bottles and Nurofen!! The pain is a clear sign that I've been eating the wrong foods for my body for too long and neglecting to stretch and move my body. But it's actually motivated me even more to get my life cleaned up for the sake of my future health! I am not prepared to suffer unnecessarily with a lifetime of pain if there is something I can do to help myself. When ever I've made the effort in the past to stop eating sweet food and cut out most grains , my arthritis pain vanishes. It's probably the biggest reason why I need to do this. Weight loss is a bonus, living pain free in a healthy active body is my true goal. Mentally I'm feeling very positive tonight and happy. The weird depression that I felt yesterday has lifted.
The fuzzy head is slowly clearing, and I'm still unusually tired but I managed another 40 minute walk this morning in the sunshine and fresh air and felt better than yesterday doing it! This time last week I was out of control, eating about 3000 calories a day, visiting the pantry every hour. This week, my desire to eat has totally changed. I've shifted from wanting to eat anything in sight all day long, to not even thinking about food today. I only ate 4 times today, 3 small snacks and a big lunch which I really felt like and filled me up for the rest of the day. So I'm really letting my stomach dictate when and how much I feel like and it's amazing that I'm not craving any sweet foods at all. It will be interesting to see how I go when I start moving around more and living my usual busy life back at work. But at the moment I'm living a very simple, calm, quiet life. It's just such a wonderful feeling not having an uncontrollable hunger and being able to totally satisfy my appetite with simple, clean, protein rich foods and fresh veges. It's so simple. I can really see that it's not a diet, it's just a much better way of life.
Night every one!
Tam.
Hey mam, yay for FOUR days completed!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're feeling heaps better... my head-fuzziness is pretty much gone this morning... I may have slept in until 10.30... whoops! haha, no, I think I needed it.
Hmm, well so far this week I have been eating lots of carbs actually... Biscuits mostly. I have a lot of HABITS with eating, (like when studying, or on the way home from the gym, or sitting at my computer...) so I'm just trying to switch to eating sugar-less food at those times, and then I want to start switching to just not eating. It already makes a difference that I know I can't have sweet - that makes me rethink wanting to eat at all! My cravings are settling down I think... mornings are most difficult - I'm used to having a sweet coffee and banana and maybe even a square of chocolate. But I'm having toast and vegemite instead and thats going well. I'm also down to having half a packet of sweetner in my coffee and tea, whereas before I was having two full ones, so thats fun! But yeah, feeling okay... my stomach is doing WEIRD things, I don't think it knows WHAT is going on. Its either mildly hungry or just not hungry at ALL or feeling sick and making noises. LOL... poor thing. So confused.