Let's cut to the chase: I haven't been blogging because I convinced myself that it was yet another pointless project that no one wants to read and I was doing fine (health-wise) without it.
Yes, I have been doing okay health-wise, and am officially ten pounds lighter than when I first started this journey in the spring, but this isn't a pointless project.
Case in point: I had been contemplating baking cookies tonight when I started reading some of my favorite fitness blogs. After ten minutes of looking at some before and after pictures, I made the firm decision to not bake cookies because I would have ended up eating most of them anyway, let's be honest. I have lost ten pounds and am feeling better than I have in a couple of years, so why would I need to eat an entire batch of (gluten-free of course) cookies?!
The point is, I am doing okay health-wise, but I still can be doing better. Reading fitness blogs motivates me, as does tracking my own obstacles/progress/journey. It shouldn't matter if people read this or judge me because this is about doing all that I can in order to be my healthiest self.
Where I am currently:
I'm ten pounds lighter than at my heaviest, but I feel like I've lost almost double that. There are two reasons for this:
1. Eating gluten made me constantly bloated and feeling heavy.
2. I have been working out more and have gained some muscle back. There is nothing that makes me feel fitter than seeing muscles, even if there is still some fat around them :)
Because I'm on summer break, I haven't had a consistent schedule. This has been both good and bad. Good because I am eating less in each sitting since I don't have to rush my meals (mainly lunch). Bad because I haven't been forced to plan meals in advance and I tend to gravitate toward snacking (or baking cookies, like mentioned above) when I'm bored.
Eating gluten-free is second nature to me now. I have found some amazing GF substitutes which I will share later. Even when I crave a regular pizza, or fresh baked bread (my cryptonite) my brain immediately goes to the pain that I would feel if I indulged in that craving, and then the craving goes away.
I am struggling with eating later than I should, mostly because I do have more free time and my brain has somehow equated free time with eating. Tonight I bypassed baking cookies and instead had some pineapple and a glass of wine (hey, it's fruit). Ideally I will only have fruit (or wine--again FRUIT) after 8 pm, mostly because eating late isn't good for my GERD.
So that's my story, real or imagined readers, and I WILL be updating regularly, if only to keep myself on track.
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