I’m now starting to get settled into my routine with work. Now onto phase 2…taking control of everything else!
I was doing some research on why people were so obsessed about CrossFit. These people are a trip! But great that they are so passionate I guess…anyhoo…I came across this blog and next thing you know I’m following it all around. Everything this guy Kevin was saying so made sense to me! It was so nice to read something that didn’t seem full of crap. So I decided to give the program a try. (yes I did all kinds of research to see if I could find ANYTHING negative, and I couldn’t…so good deal!) I started the “Rebooted Body” program today. Day one in the books. The next 30 days are going to totally suck ass. But I’m going to take it day by day. So for the first 30 days of the program is detox mode. Time to get rid of all that nasty crap and get rid of cravings and hopefully addictions! This means…No sugar, grains, starches, fruit, sweeteners, processed, nasty otherwise unnatural food. What does this leave? Meat and vegetables! Just going to take it one day at a time. Some of the fun activities I did do…hid the scales in the house! NO SCALES! I also busted out those jeans a few sizes too small to give me something visually to shoot for.

Now I didn’t think I was really that addicted to sugar or anything. I mean I can always just stop, and I don’t eat sugar that much anyway….or so I thought! I’m a total sugar/carb addict!!!!!! I made eggs this morning. I wanted to put syrup on them. (1st sign) As the day progressed, I could feel the cravings and urges come on. As I was cooking I realized how much I taste things and snack on things while I cook (this also includes the glass of wine..because how can you cook without a glass of wine!)

I realized that the worst time for me is between 4 and 5. That’s when the cravings were the worst. I found myself reaching for the nuts. Now I had already had my allotted serving of nuts today, but an additional 1 serving of nuts (cashews) would be much better than falling off the wagon on the first day and diving into a bag of chips! Now that I’m aware I have to figure out what I’m going to do when these cravings come on.

I was reading some articles and they all talked about addiction. Well yes I realize and admit that I do have a food addiction (which is specifically why I’m doing this program) and then I thought well heck….I quit smoking…that was addicting (and I didn’t think I was addicted). I made it through that cold turkey…I need to apply those same tactics to this addiction. Now here is the problem. I took up eating to compensate for smoking….let me rephrase that…I took up eating really bad things for me because “I deserved them” “I was stressed and it was okay” Well, I certainly don’t want to take up smoking again to replace the food. So what addiction can I now substitute for the food? Walking, exercising, tea, my lemon/lime/cucumber/mint water!!!!!!

People don’t realize how hard it is to be me sometimes!