I have picked myself up from my latest dietary fuck-up, and now have a good solid week of eating healthy, juicing and working out under my belt...and have lost 7 lbs. To break that down, here's the math: lost 4 lb in February, had that last slip up during which I ate gluten and salt which caused me to bloat up 4 lb again but lost that during the 4 days after getting back on track. Then lost a further 3 lb this week which puts me at a net loss of 7 lb down since the beginning of Feb. Of course I'd be much further along if I hadn't had the 2 major slips in Feb, but the main thing is I'm back in the game.
One really big thing I realized the other day is that I now accept the fact that I am not perfect and I am going to slip up. But I keep getting back up instead of letting myself feel like a failure and using it as an excuse to let it all go down the tubes again! Lol. I'm starting to see that this is an ongoing thing, not a start, slip and then start over, but rather continue the next day the best I can and keep my goal in sight. Eating disorders and food addictions are not easy to overcome, and there are as many ways to be healthy as there are people in the world, so finding my own individual path is bound to take some time and trial and error.
So if anyone is out there struggling, don't ever give up because it may take 99 tries and fall-downs, and you just have to try again that 100th time because it might be the one that gives you a breakthrough and takes you that one big step further along in the right direction.
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