Well, I hurt my back, changed job kept up my 4.0, my back is getting better, and I start student teaching tomorrow!
A lot has changed. For starters, hurting my back and being without a job for 5 weeks took its toll on me. I got hooked back on sugar and gained about 24 of my 30 pounds last all back :/
It is weird, knowing I was die hard about this just 5 months ago, and I have lost all drive and motivation. I think part of it was that I gave up too much, too fast. There is a lot to be said about quitting your addictions cold turkey - and that lot is that it doesn't really work out well without relapse. As soon as I transitioned from a sugar free (including fruits) into eating fruits and grains, I lost my mind! Within a few weeks, I was on a sugar bender, and the addiction was back. GAH!
I fear sugar - being in EVERYTHING, is not an addiction I will ever kick, but it is one I need to learn to keep in check.
By best childhood friend, Casey, said that she and her boyfriend - rather having one year long New Year's resolution- plan on taking a baby steps approach to resolutions, making a new attainable, but challenging goal each month to progress towards a better life style and more manageable weight and health sustainability.
For month one, they gave up eating out. So, they have replaced every single meal with home prepared meals. I LOVE it! For Jeff and me, this is pretty tricky. He has professional work obligations, his family loves to eat out, I work most evenings, and we are both pretty unmotivated right now.
However, I know we can do it! To keep a record, I am putting together a recipe blog - Expedition Wellbeing Home Made. Casey and I will be adding recipes of the meals we try out. We will include pictures, our notes on how it turned out, how we adapted the original recipe or might adapt it for the future and what not.
I think that this will be a very helpful tool for the rest of the year- and the rest of our lives. Like I said, Jeff and I are pretty unmotivated (aka Lazy) and we lack creativity in the kitchen. So, why put all this effort into making new meals that we will never remember again?! Far too often, I have made something truly delicious, and never thing of it again. This way, we can quickly decide on weekly meal plans and last minute meals!
Like anything in life, baby steps really allow you to develop a solid, well developed foundation for your objective without over loading you by thinking of the big picture.
I know WE CAN DO IT. I would rather just lose a few pounds a month and have the time tested preparedness to keep it off, then see what happened mid 2013 when I lost 30 pounds in a few months and gained it back even more quickly. No matter what happened in our lives, we have to be able to stay committed to keeping healthy and to not giving in to our addictions, what ever they might be. Not giving up everything in a day doesn't mean you're a failure. Having a few days of weakness here and there does not mean that you are a failure, but giving up does.
God Bless!!
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