I need a pep talk! I had so many "why I am doing this again?" moments this weekend. The biggest problem for me is not so much the food--because I've really been liking what I'm eating--but the social implications. What I'm eating is different from everyone else. We went out twice this weekend and I had to bring my own food, and I just felt "separate," not to mention fussy/high-maintenance. Food is such a social thing for me, and it's important for me to join the group in eating and say things like "oooooh, these ribs!" Plus, it's just a nice way to end the day with some Dairy Queen. I'm serious.
I'm also not feeling any differently/better. I haven't read Quantum Wellness yet, so I need to run out and get that and really understand everything behind what we're doing. Why haven't I done that already? Well, because I like to complain.
Thank you for letting me complain.
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i hear you - i had some moments where i was like --- why am i doing this?
maybe reading the book will help? she definitely makes some points that help.
she also hits on "living a more examined life" which is interesting and may help you rationalize why you're doing this.
and think - its only 3 weeks. that's it. its not forver. you have the rest of your life to eat whatever you please. this is an experiment to see if you can walk away with a greater awareness for what you're eating, where you're getting it, how its made, and how it makes you feel. that's all. just two more weeks and then you can do whatever you want!
there are other books that will make you think more about what you eat than quantum wellness. like fastfood nation or skinny bitch, or anything about veganism and healthy eating.
environmentally, eating the way we eat is horrible for the earth. there are several new books on that (i cant think of one off the top of my head). so if you are into environmentalism that should help you.
also all the chemicals in processed foods have been linked over and over to cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure (just list any really horrible diseases here..). diet soda additives cause tumorous growths throughout the body of 2+ year old exposed mice at alarming rates, however, the FDA (whose rules are lobbied by the soda lobbyests) only look at animals for up to 2 years after exposure.
learning stuff like that, might make you rethink about what you are putting into your mouth. and especially what you are putting in your childrens mouths (they are exposed to MUCH MORE crap than we were).
also what i did was kept a food journal starting BEFORE and now DURING and its like ALARMING how much LESS I EAT in general and how healthy what i eat is now that i am thinking about it. if you write down what you are eating it really makes you thi nk about the nutrition of what you are eating.
also i would say that if you are eating really healthily you should be feeling it by now. your poop at least should be changing.
oh if some of you cant poop in the morning because of lack of coffee. try eating a citrus fruit like pineapple or an orange (or orange juice) on an empty belly and wait at least 30 minutes to an hour to eat. this should stimulate defecation.
good luck .
Yeah, I get you too. I have found that I eat less because there isn't as much stuff to eat...that is good for me, anyhow.
I discovered this weekend that my "natural" peanut butter at home has sugar in it...as do my fall-back cashews with salt and pepper. Now, why do those things need sugar in them? I was pissed, and frustrated.
I do think that I have become a better eater, and more conscious of where the stuff comes from (I am reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle at the moment). I plan to finish out the cleanse, and then will continue to make better choices about what i put in my mouth, but will not become a vegan. I need the very ocasional food induced orgasm, from a cheesy enchilada or maybe DQ.
me too amanda. i won't become vegan, but i will be much more aware of what i'm eating, and i'm positive that 21 days will have shifted my habits, like snacking etc on bad stuff, to better things.
I'll come clean about my motives: two years ago, when I got pregnant I was 140 pounds, 6 feet tall. Two years later, a premature baby and 3 months in the hospital, postpartum depression and moving to a new town, I am 180 pounds.
Chocolate and cookies and crap had been my medicine not to go insane about...... about the weight I had gained, mostly. yeah I know it makes perfect sense.
Anyway, I really joined the cleanse because it was easier for me to stop indulging on shit every other hour if I had someone to respond to other than myself. And well so far it has worked.
I live in Europe and I have a different set of obstacles than you may have, i.e. here they don't put sugar everywhere, and if you want a boiled potato you have to boil it yourself because no one has one canned ready for you. So I'm not so much into the vegan thing which I think is a great cause but not my cause.
I want to clean not only my body but my mind! I want to stop thinking about cake all the time, dreaming about puff pastry, and go back to my usual, healthy balanced self.
140 lbs! jesus thats tiny. i am 6'2" and have lots of friends over 5'10" and i think ONE of us 145 and she is by far the very smallest. and she thinks she looks too skinny.
so count yourself lucky for those years you were that tiny. maybe we are all just giant americans.
i haven't weighed 140 since i was like 13! 180 is in the "healthy range" for your height. but i understand how you feel! it's hard to feel heavier than you are used to being. hopefully this will inspire you to make better food choices and maybe exercise more when you make poor ones so they won't add up. i am sure you are beautiful at 180 or 140!!!
i can tell you that your body will respond very quickly to exercise if you were 140 for a while before having a baby. i didn't have a baby, but i did lose weight a few years ago and kept it off. it was just extra graduate school weight that wasn't "normal" for me.
good luck.
Thanks you guys. :)
that girl: I just checked on google, since we use metric, I was 154 pounds and not 140. So I was ok. Not a skinny one, but right. Now I feel awful mostly because my clothes don't fit, damn.
And now I'm 195 pounds, at least last week before I started the cleanse. Must weigh myself again.
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