This morning I was working on cleaning out some of my email accounts and I came across one of the first emails I sent to my nutritionist. I thought I started working with Linda last September but it turns out we actually started in late June. This was the first time I almost came to tears and felt very depressed. Where did the time go? I remember the first session very well but it seems like there are several months that just seem like they are “missing”. I know that I am not as far along as I would have hoped but at the same time, me a year ago would never have imagined I would be this far.
Linda has told me over and over that we have moved in steps and that is ok. When I met with a trainer I plan to work with this week, she kept saying to me that I have to forget about the past and just live from today. But it’s hard, I can’t believe 10 months and this is all I have done I kept saying to myself. WTF? But the truth is if I really think about it, I have come pretty far in those 10 months especially when I try to keep saying to myself that for 30 yrs I have eaten horseshit and never ate a salad.
Some of the things I’ve changed in the past 10 months:
- completely removed fast food from my life – and I was a 2x a day average fast food eater for 20+ years
- completely removed the sugar lemonade – I drank about 48 oz a day on average
- basically removed the red meat (this is something I changed in the last month)
- removed all the sugary processed snacks and the muffins and cookies
- introduced salads to my life for the first time ever
- drinking green smoothies every day
- eating lots of vegetables and not just the corn that was the only vegetable I ever ate
- eating lots of fruits including apples, peaches, strawberries, pineapple, mango – all things I never ate before
- heck I even tried two green juices!
I wonder if I am pretty close to being a vegetarian lol – if I just remove the chicken I assume I would be there? Now that is crazy!
There are two quotes that I heard from Jack LaLanne yesterday:
- “i dont care how long i live but i want to live while i am living”
- “it’s what you are doing that controls what you are going to do”
I went for a walk around Whole Foods and now I feel better. I am sitting here drinking a green smoothie and realized as I was walking around the store that I really have come a long way baby.
It’s like the first 10 months working on this plan were the trip to get to the starting line and now the gun has sounded and the real race has begun.
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