Let's start with this monumental something. I confessed once that I have a terrible sugar addiction. As in dessert for breakfast, lunch, and dinner addiction. As in my scrubs were getting tight addiction. And, well, we all know that being healthy is 60% what you eat/ 40% exercise. Would you like an example: I trained for a marathon and gained weight. How? Because I eat too much. And of that too much, 90% of it is bad for me. So with a true "baby steps" mentality, I gave myself 2 food rules to follow.
1. Write it down in the food log.
2. If it doesn't taste awesome. Don't eat it.
Basically, I work in an office where every time I walk in the break room there is some kind of platter of goodness. And I'll eat it, just because it's dessert, and it's there. Well guess what? I don't really like chocolate ice cream, so why did I just eat that chocolate ice cream cake? Or I took a bite of that brownie, and it's dry. Throw it away. And I think Hershey's chocolate taste like wax, but I'm bored so I eat 3 pieces.
I think you have a pretty good idea what I'm up against. Soo... drumroll please.... today while I was eating my perfectly healthy lunch, a woman walked in and said, "oh, thank you so much for all you do! here is a platter of whoopiepies.cookies.brownies.lemonbars.pumkinbars." Then she set it on the table and walked away. And guess what I did? (If you guessed ignored it, you seriously overestimate me)
I finished eating my meal, and grabbed a cookie to eat later. One cookie! And then guess what. I took a bite of the cookie, and it tasted like cardboard with chocolate chips in it. So I threw it away (and possibly scoffed under my breath that if they are truly thankful for my work they would give me a decent tasting cookie, but that's neither here nor there really).
THIS. IS. MONUMENTAL. PEOPLE.
I'm on the road to recovery and it feels good.
In other news, I only ran once this week, the 80 minuter, because my knee is really bothering me. Hopefully the rest helped, because I'm going to abuse her this week!
M: 40 MIN
T: rest
W: 55 MIN
T: yoga
F: 35 MIN
S: 25min /25min
S: Group 10k
3 comments:
GO YOU! Sometimes I can be the queen of no sugar, and other times I'm just like you. I like your rule -- don't eat it if it doesn't taste good. Simple, but so often ignored. I'm going to write down your rules and try to follow your example. :)
IF THERE WERE A SONG ABOUT INSPIRATION I WOULD SING IT!! i just ate 2 cookies...not 3! Maybe you will make me a bigger person!
You just killed me. I laughed so hard when I read this post. Okay, I have a confession to make too! It's my fault. You got the sugar addiction from me. We should make a pact and keep each other accountable. No sweets, we get to treat ourselves to something at the end of the week and I don't mean a whole chocolate cake or pie or something to that effect. A 'treat'.
You in? Hehehehe! And, I say this as I ate nearly an entire bag of Salt Water Taffy. I am going to hide the rest from ME!!
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