Food to live on
My Journey to Healthy
Diet is a word I have come to really dislike and avoid. To diet suggests a temporary change. I'm not on a diet. In fact my goal is not to loose weight but rather to become healthy and stop feeling sick and tired.
To add to that I have the blessing and curse of working at home. Blessing for many many reasons but curse for one: I don't get any exercise. None. Not at all. I go up the stairs a few times a day but that amounts to nothing substantial. So I sit and paint my paintings and my body is going to pot.
I really feel it when my motivation to paint suffers. Energy level sucks and I just don't have any ambition. Thats a dangerous place to be if you are your own provider of income.
So I continue on my new journey, to get healthy in sixty days. What? sixty days? No. Thats not the timeline. My timeline has to be one day at a time and sometimes one meal at a time.
Getting healthy means avoiding the garbage we all consume every day and doing a complete about face. Realizing that it is all going to kill me eventually. So I have made the change (see prior post).
Today I am on day 11 of my change. The first three days of healthy pure vegetable/fruit juicing was pretty rough. I was feeling listless, sapped of all energy and I was in the washroom every 30 mn. I had headaches and stomach cakes. I now know through research that my body was reacting to the absence of caffeine as I had sworn off of caffeine as well. The listlessness was a result of the water loss as my body was kicking out all the crap I had in my system.
The lack of energy was also a direct result of the lack of anything in my system. The vegetable juices were literally cleaning out my entire digestive system.
One thing I knew and know is that I loved what I was consuming and felt no desire to return.
On day five I had an urge to have an old fav. I poured myself a bowl of Rice Krispies and milk. at first it was so wonderful, but as the moments wore on I began to feel very nauseous. and my stomach was not a happy camper at all. I have been lactose intolerant in the past and this was not that. Rather I feel that it was just my taste buds and body telling me that compared to the pure juices I have been drinking, this was the true flavour of the Rice Krispies and milk and that I didn't enjoy it anymore. I have not felt that craving ever since.
Last night I was a part of a major Fund raising Gala in my home town. They served Braised chicken and grilled veggies. Oh how I salivated at the thought and as I didn't want to disappoint the host I allowed myself to indulge. Not going to lie to you, I loved every morsel. The deeper truth was that the serving size was tiny, probably the right size but in the past this would have been an appetizer for me. Last night it felt right. I was wonderfully satisfied with just a small amount.
The last note for today is this: Although I am not on a weight loss diet, the fact is that I have lost 9 lbs since I started ten days ago. My face is smaller, and my skin is clearing up of the pimples and blemishes I had. It's a remarkable change.
Stay tuned. I will update this with subsequent blogs in the days ahead. Follow my journey to healthy.
RM
To add to that I have the blessing and curse of working at home. Blessing for many many reasons but curse for one: I don't get any exercise. None. Not at all. I go up the stairs a few times a day but that amounts to nothing substantial. So I sit and paint my paintings and my body is going to pot.
I really feel it when my motivation to paint suffers. Energy level sucks and I just don't have any ambition. Thats a dangerous place to be if you are your own provider of income.
So I continue on my new journey, to get healthy in sixty days. What? sixty days? No. Thats not the timeline. My timeline has to be one day at a time and sometimes one meal at a time.
Getting healthy means avoiding the garbage we all consume every day and doing a complete about face. Realizing that it is all going to kill me eventually. So I have made the change (see prior post).
Today I am on day 11 of my change. The first three days of healthy pure vegetable/fruit juicing was pretty rough. I was feeling listless, sapped of all energy and I was in the washroom every 30 mn. I had headaches and stomach cakes. I now know through research that my body was reacting to the absence of caffeine as I had sworn off of caffeine as well. The listlessness was a result of the water loss as my body was kicking out all the crap I had in my system.
The lack of energy was also a direct result of the lack of anything in my system. The vegetable juices were literally cleaning out my entire digestive system.
One thing I knew and know is that I loved what I was consuming and felt no desire to return.
On day five I had an urge to have an old fav. I poured myself a bowl of Rice Krispies and milk. at first it was so wonderful, but as the moments wore on I began to feel very nauseous. and my stomach was not a happy camper at all. I have been lactose intolerant in the past and this was not that. Rather I feel that it was just my taste buds and body telling me that compared to the pure juices I have been drinking, this was the true flavour of the Rice Krispies and milk and that I didn't enjoy it anymore. I have not felt that craving ever since.
Last night I was a part of a major Fund raising Gala in my home town. They served Braised chicken and grilled veggies. Oh how I salivated at the thought and as I didn't want to disappoint the host I allowed myself to indulge. Not going to lie to you, I loved every morsel. The deeper truth was that the serving size was tiny, probably the right size but in the past this would have been an appetizer for me. Last night it felt right. I was wonderfully satisfied with just a small amount.
The last note for today is this: Although I am not on a weight loss diet, the fact is that I have lost 9 lbs since I started ten days ago. My face is smaller, and my skin is clearing up of the pimples and blemishes I had. It's a remarkable change.
Stay tuned. I will update this with subsequent blogs in the days ahead. Follow my journey to healthy.
RM
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