I think I have dieting ADD. I get started on a good roll then.... well.... ummmm.... donuts, cookies, pizza, oh how 'bout that greasy bacon cheeseburger cravings come my way... Suddenly it hit me driving to my a friends house on Saturday.. I am not a failure if I crave the bad food that I love and have become addicted to. Somewhere in my 38 3/4 years of life I have translated cravings into failure and then I just give in to it. As you know my husband and I quit smoking one year ago... (hold the applause please :-) )... but I had cravings to smoke and bad. I wanted to chase a woman down the street at one point as she drove past me with her cigarette hanging out the window just to get a whiff of that nasty cigarette. You know what though... I didn't have one slip up this entire year, not one I say. And I never thought of myself as a failure because from time to time I had the cravings for one.
I have fallen off this dieters wagon so many times I am worried at some point I won't get back on. So I start my healthy endeavor yet again. I am going to let myself crave the food, acknowledge the cravings, remind myself to stay strong and see what happens.
Keep ya'll posted on this adventure.
Biz you can do it!
ReplyDeleteA couple of years ago our dinner plates had a piece of chicken or fish, frozen then cooked veggies and some sort of potato or rice. Now we still eat chicken or fish but with fresh veggies that are steamed or roasted and NO POTATOES OR RICE! That has made a world of difference. You could say we eat "paleo".
There are so many books out there on this way of eating! We truly love it.
And a sincere congrats on giving up smoking. That was hard for us too. But 10 years later and the shit makes me sick!
Right now I'm doing "The Whole Life Challenge". Which is clean eating, without dairy, grains or sugar. Day 4 and I love it! Day 3 was a little rocking I was craving something sweet. But I'm down 3 lbs!