Starting Weight – 213.6
Current Weight – 212.0
Here we go again. ;) New year, new “diet”, new goals and plans.
Summing up the last three months of 2016 could be easily described as dedication and motivation in the gym, dedication and motivation to please myself food-wise outside of the gym. In addition to cigarette use and alcohol consumption…it took me a good month, month and a half to stop bitching about why I wasn’t seeing results, and surrender to the fact that I wasn’t doing all I could to succeed.
So the last month and a half of 2016, I made peace with my lack of progress and got real with myself on what it was going to take to make those results come. I knew I had to give up the smoking, the drinking and the obvious poor choices in food. My beloved took it a step further and found The Whole 30 program…basically eating nothing but meats, vegetables and fruits for 30 days. No dairy, no legumes, no grain, and most especially, no sugar. The idea behind the program is to remove these foods from your diet and allow your body to take a break from inflammatory substances which are 90% of the cause of stress/disease in our body. “You are what you eat” isn’t just a funny phrase…
No alcohol for 30 days, easy. I can go six months or longer, no problem.
No smoking for 30 days, and beyond…a little harder, but I’ve been very ready to quit for the last few weeks. I had two yesterday and two today, but I’m very close to being done done DONE done……….done.
No sugar/grain/legumes for 30 days. Easy too I think. It’s not fun, it’s not ideal, I’m not happy about it…but easy? I think it will be. My mindset recently has been in such a state of peace about “what is”. And when I think about “what is”, I get very clear about certain realities. They are, in no certain order, and certainly not the entire list:
The food I’ve been eating/craving is shit.
30 days isn’t forever.
30 days isn’t two months.
30 days isn’t six months.
30 days is nothing.
30 days to create a habit.
30 days to change a habit.
I’ve done the crazy 11 day diet, and that was with less appetizing foods, and controlled with specific meals at specific times. I am not controlled on this diet, and while I don’t have the two slices of bread I got in the 11 days, or the plethora of cheeses and dairy I was allowed to have…I feel like this is an additional perspective on the idea that certain foods just never need to be consumed. We’re meant to feel like they do…for sales…and the five minutes of bliss we’re in when we eat said shit…but as I read in an article about someone else who had done the Whole 30 diet…the sugar/food comas that follow the binging (or just general shit eating) are never worth the few moments of bliss.
So why do we do it? Think about it. Some of us (maybe most of us) have trained ourselves to eat the shit…so the “coma” state is familiar to us…we don’t know any different.
You don’t know different until you do something different. Until you make a different choice.
So that’s what the next 30 days will be for me.
This journey is still far from over…and yet…I’ve set myself up the last three months for great success. I’ve been in the gym every week day except two weeks when I got strangely ill (strange? or induced by the lowered immunity due to smoking, drinking and shit eating? :)) so the gym continues…and now the diet will balance properly.
I’m very excited and very committed and motivated. I intend to feel this same way on Day 30 and beyond. I’ll do my best to update every single day.
For reference, I’ll post my meals every post too…that should get me back here every day. :)
Day 1 – Monday
Breakfast – 3 eggs (pre-whole 30 shopping)
Lunch – RxBar, can of salmon, handful of cashews and almonds, banana
Dinner – Beef and Sweet Potato stew [FRIGGIN YUM] (Whole 30 Recipe)
Snack – Handful of cashews and almonds, slice of pear
Day 2 – Tuesday
Breakfast – 2 eggs, banana, one potato (hash browned, cooked in olive oil)
Lunch – Can of salmon, cucumber, handful of cashews and almonds
Snack – Apple, RxBar
Dinner – Beef Chuck Roast Stew (Whole 30 Recipe)
