Sometimes, when you know something, but choose to ignore it or forget about it and then it all hits you all over again, it's like a DUH moment.
The past month working out with Chalean Extreme has been great. I wasn't able to continue on with it after the first 30 days as I went off to Transworld's Halloween Attraction show for almost a week and then had a hard time getting back into working out. I made myself do so today tho'. No April Fool's, I worked out this morning! :)
I kept thinking about this article that Tony Horton posted on his FB the other day, about how we are poisoning ourselves with all this fat food, processed and sugary junk. That tho' yes, you really need to exercise and diet, it's actually the diet that is the most important part of that process. People have told me this for years. I've proved it over and over again too to myself. Even take this past month for example, I worked out each day I was suppose to, not failing at all and giving it my best, sweating up a storm, etc etc....and yet? I ate bad. Junk, finishing Nutrisystem stuff...just making bad choices, processed choices. I didn't lose the weight. I did lose a few inches, but that was it really. Not to what I knew my body was capable of doing.
Ok, so with that on my mind the past few days, I woke up this morning thinking, that's it. I have to eat right. No candy, no junk, just more healthy food choices. That means salads more like I know my body is craving some veg and fresh fruit. I haven't been having that too much and I so need it.
So I made a promise to myself that for the next 60 days, which is exactly the amount of time left before I go on my trip back to the UK for 2 weeks, I won't eat junk. No candy, no cookies...no cakes or pies or nothing like that. I will eat healthy and workout and maybe even catch up on the workouts I didn't get in, the past 9 of them.
I have lost like 2 lbs since I started the whole thing. That's nothing. Granted, 2 lbs is a lot in some regards when you look at that blob of fat pic that I have posted. It's larger than my hand.Two of those!
But I want to lose at least 10 lbs more before I go on that trip. So that means 5 lbs each 30 days.
I think I can do that. :)
I know I am fighting age here. It's becoming harder and harder to lose it the older I get but I am not going to let that deter me at all. I will just keep pushing. I keep seeing all those success stories, the before and afters and I really want that to be me. But it comes with hard work and dedication and being disciplined with yourself. And yes, it's easier said than done when you have grown up with junk food. Terribly hard to break habits, break traditions even!
Yes...traditions. Traditions of eating bad, gorging on candy and junk. Yep, tradition of doing that. So what do you do? Replace those traditions, habits, of eating badly for holidays or yadda yadda and create new ones. So I talked to my kids' dad and told him, no more candy. No Easter candy.
I know shockeroo eh?!
But yup, no more.
I kept hearing Chalene saying that is "YOU" who buys that stuff and sets the tone for your family. Oh boy...yep, that is me. It is me who got the junk and brought it into the house. It IS me who is making the cakes and crap.
Ok so instead of buying all that Easter candy, which used to be way too much and we'd have tons of leftover that would last us a month or so, it went down to just 3 bags for each kid and they got to pick it out. This year? We won't be doing that. No more.
This year, we've decided to create a new tradition and that's going out to dinner instead. Forgoing all the candy and stuff. No more lemon egg shaped cakes, no more peanut butter eggs. No more Peeps. (which I never ate anyway but not buying them no more)
So it's to dinner instead and choosing something good for us. Or if we indulge, we do it once and not over the top. Just a piece or a slice and that's that. It's time we were kinder to our bodies and improve our health.
That's the plan. I think it's a good one too.
I keep thinking of when the kids are out of the house and living on their own, which is going to be soon once we move. Daughter goes off to college with her bf and my son gets his own place.
I will be alone then and no way I want to have that candy in my house. The food I have been buying has already been changing a lot as it is recently.
Self-sabotaging now ends. I need to take better care of myself.
Felt great to get the workout done this morning, sweating like crazy and then drink a Results & Recovery and then Shakeology and now water thereafter. Next up for snack is a nice juicy, ice cold Granny Smith apple. :)
Salad for lunch....nuts for snack....and something healthy for dinner....either a NS meal or time to pick up some salmon and steam it with some veggies.
Will check in again in a few days!
