Oh Dear - The Red Guy In Tights Came A Knockin’! (Or should I say A Crashin'?)

Well it’s accountability time. And I was so happy and so proud but I slipped a little. At least I was responsible about it.

There’s just something about some big fat red dude with a huge face wearing tights who crashes through a big wall yelling, “Oh Yeaahhhhh!” Because we’re all thinking, “WTF? I want me some of that! What’s he drinking? I want it too!”

Now you know I’m talking shit and there wasn’t literally a big red jug of juice flying through my wall; it’s more of what he represents. Today I wanted crunchy sugary carbs, the wrong kinds of course. So I had a bowl of multigrain cereal. Coulda been worse right?

So am I fired? Ha ha, I hope not. This is real and if you are actually reading this hopefully I can somehow support you and make you feel normal through the hard times. Especially when the juice man comes a knockin’…he’s like a drug you know! Very hard to say no to the Juice Man. He represents so many things that will keep me from my goal and I’m sure your goals as well.

I mean let’s look at a few things – he comes crashing through a wall for crying out loud! So if his sugary drink or an equivalent snack makes us feel like we can do that, well, that’s just stupid! Who thinks like that: if you don’t like to eat vegetables, then just become one instead haha!

And of course we know the sugar is just no damned good for us. Refined sugar is surely not going to give us that energy burst they’re trying to advertise! In fact, it’s going to give us the opposite effect in the long run.

Then there’s the whole argument of – “Oh you can control how MUCH sugar you put in it!” Oh brother, give me a break! Part of the whole problem with the North American regular diet is how we’ve bastardized the form of our food. Chemicals, crap and more crap.

Seriously. It’s bad enough that they are genetically changing fruits and vegetables (I mean come on-Grapples? Let’s get serious here. Why would you why would you why would you????) – Yes that’s one thing, but to completely change it and refine it is just creating fake food (even some of the foods we are supposedly told are good for us!) – This fake food is what is partially responsible for killing us. Our bodies don’t really know what to do with it…or so I’ve been reading in the past 10 years or so. Let me know if you want some titles.

So the next time good ‘ol Juice-in-tights-man comes crashing through your walls (an expensive house reno to go with it too!), THINK about what you are doing to your body, your brain (yes it’s affected too!), and your self-esteem after the fact. Get a buddy whether in real life or online that you can turn to. Have a glass of water with lemon juice in it to try to cut into your cravings. Eat some fruit. You’ll feel so much better for it!

 What went well? Where do I need to improve this week?

My Treat Day meal, so good!

My diet wasn’t perfect. I still had coffee, which to be fair, I kinda need in the morning because I am taking a highly sedating medication at night and the effects are not finished by morning. I can’t take it earlier in the evening because I’ll be knocked out in a matter of minutes, no joke!

So what I’m going to do about this is see my doctor, since I need to update her on how it’s going with me cutting my dose in half. What I want to share with her is what I’ve been doing with diet and exercise and how tired I am before bed now BEFORE taking my medication. So since she approved my dose reduction, would she support a total cut of it? Might be interesting. Then we’ll see how I am with my daytime medications in a few months.

Dinner Jan 9

Other aspects of my diet were that I did at times skip meals. Bad thing to do on this type of journey. At least I wasn’t cheating much if at all. I need to drink more water. I think I would have had better results if I had taken in a lot of water.

Well I exercised 4 days in a row. Awesome, but may have been a little bit too much too soon. I’m one of those people that gets addicted to it very quickly. One of my famous distorted thinking patterns is the “all or nothing” thought process. And I AM working on that but I think it’s a part of me so it may not be a good idea to get rid of it completely.

I also gave it my all when I exercised last week. I really went for it with the resistance training. I counted swimming with my daughter because making sure she doesn’t drown is actually work when it comes to my out of shape body. This week I’m going to aim to take rest days along the way rather than at the end of a huge energy burst. Every other day would be better than what I did last week.

All round more veggies are needed. I did great eating lots of produce, but it was heavy on the fruit, which I’m not going to knock, but more greens will be beneficial to me this week.

Dinner Jan 10

What are my measurements like? Well here it is: I lost a total of 4 pounds and I kept it off on my treat day (yay). I lost one inch around my hips and butt, one inch from my belly and half an inch from my boobs. As much as I kinda like the size of my boobs since having a child and gaining this weight, it’s going to have to be something I sacrifice in order to get to where I should be.

As Tony Robbins says, “Nothing tastes as good as good health feels!” And let me tell you, how I have been feeling this past week is FANTASTIC, once I got over the original withdrawal from junk. At the end of my treat day feed, I had to run to the bathroom several times, had tummy aches and lethargy had come back. Hmmmm…I wonder why?