As I was walking down my stairs today I caught a glimpse of my cardboard recycling and in there is an old Tim Horton's dozen donuts box, it has pictures of donuts on the outside of the box.
I wasn't even phased by it!! I wasn't tempted in the slightest, nor did it set off any cravings at all. Usually when I even SEE something junk food like on a movie, or pictures or whatever I go wild and can't get it out of my head until I satisfy that craving.
My second victory today was when I was making my kids lunch and they wanted some burritos. As I was cooking them, they smelled so good but I didn't indulge in that. I made myself a caesar salad instead with a big bowl of grapes and my water. This was hard but it was a victory.
My third victory I noticed today was when I was tidying up my kitchen I noticed someone left a "lindt" chocolate on the counter above where my dishwasher is, that part of the counter gets quite hot and as a result the chocolate had melted. I wasn't even tempted in the slightest to eat it. I picked it up and threw it away. Lindt is my absolute favorite chocolate, and to not even crave a taste surprised me. I am shocked at how fast my body has adapted to clean eating.
I haven't had a craving for sugar in weeks or for any other bad food for that matter. I am making healthier decisions in all aspects of my life.
They say it takes 21 days to form a habit and 21 to 30 days to break a habit (which is actually controversial but still the consensus of it seems to be that it works for the majority). Currently I am on day 16 of my fresh start on clean eating and go hard exercising and I do feel that it is getting easier. I have all my "substitute" snacks at my disposal and so therefore I really have no need to go out and eat the crap. One bag of crispy mini's rice cake things is about 400 cal (give or take) if you look at the average bag of doritos (big bag to be comparable) is roughly 1350 cal. Pretty gross. Or if you take one of those 100 calorie bars versus an actual chocolate bar, you are looking at roughly 500 calories for a chocolate bar. All this to say you can still treat yourself but you don't need to eat hundreds to a thousand calories to do that!
Since I am giving my body everything it needs I guess it doesn't crave the bad stuff. I haven't had any pop since just after Christmas, I can't remember the last time I had a carb for supper,
Tonight I made the butternut squash soup again (less the red pepper flakes) and it was a major hit. My daughter (7 months) chowed down two "baby sized" portions of it. It feels so good to be eating clean and as a result I know my family is too. We have cut out processed foods by half! I try to make everything from scratch as much as I can.
Ok so I saved the best for last. It may not seem like much but since I am doing a lot of weight training in with cardio it actually is a lot. Today I weighed myself .... I am down a whole pound! which is saying a lot since muscle weighs heavier then fat and I certainly know that I am building muscle. For this reason I am actually glad I was unable to make it to my "biggest loser" weigh in today. I think that stepping on her scale (which isn't the same as mine) would have been defeating and it would have stolen that victory from me, and instead of celebrating it like I am I would have been beating myself up again and fighting against that "why do I bother if I am not even losing" mentality.
So yay! I count 4 victories. I'm so proud of the person I am becoming.
Tonight J texted me "please don't hate me after tonight's workout - its going to suck" so you can imagine where my brain was going with that text, needless to say I was nervous when I got to her house, and suck it did!
My workout tonight (we did this 4 times!):
- 10 burpees
- 10 push ups
- 10 single leg squats (per side) <-- that's right you read that right. SINGLE leg squats! ouch.
- 10 skaters (shuffle side to side like your a professional skater super fast)
- 10 sec single leg wall sits (per side) x3
- 10 mountain climbers (per side)
- 10 reverse crunches
- 10 shoulder press cross over (per side)
- 10 lunges (per side)
- 10 running men (basically instead of a jumping jack you just stiff leg run army like)
- We had to do 50 crunches
- Then ... 50 leg raises
- Finally ... 38 second plank
For the initial workout, again it was a different kind of exhaustion (I think I have said this about other workouts). My muscles felt weak but yet I still had energy, I just couldn't stand to do another squat, or another push up, and definitely NOT another burpee. Everything was like jello -- and after doing 50 crunches, 50 leg raises (which I DID!) I had a fire in my belly and my ab muscles burned and killed like a son of a gun, they were vibrating too. I am so sore right now in my legs especially from all those single leg exercises.
Well try some of these exercises out. You may feel like you are going to die but you will thank yourself later on, especially when you start to see the results!
Don't forget to celebrate the small victories, they are what will fuel your motivation on your journey.
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