Crash Diets and crack Almond Butter
After work I called a pal who is on a diet for some infomercial (ah, good ol’ Hollywood). We chatted about what she’s eating – or rather not eating, and how much weight she’s lost. let me be open and sincere (as always), I am absolutely jealous of her weight loss and would love to lose 6 pounds too. But, I am not Camiseta Montpellier HSC jealous of being on what I consider, a crash diet.
I feel like I’ve done every diet in the book – Cabbage Soup, Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, that odd one where you eat hot dogs and eggs all day… I could go on.
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And while I lost a few pounds on each, it always came back because I wasn’t changing my day to day reality once the diet was over.
I think crash Diets are something you do when you’re young and unaware. Like, a crash diet is something silly you do in college up there with unprotected sex, binge drinking and taking BioChem and Chem in the same semester – very bad choices you make before you decide to treat yourself well.
As much as I really want to lose 12 pounds from the very deep depths of my little Mexican heart – I have absolutely zero desire to starve myself. I have learned my lessons (some of them a lot more than once).
In the past, when I still felt like dieting was a good idea, I would have grilled my pal on what she was eating and what her workouts were like so I could lose weight fast too. But, I really wasn’t interested in that today. As we talked all I heard was a tale from a place I don’t want to visit.
I had a complete light bulb moment. I acknowledged to myself I want to lose weight, but I also realize that I don’t Camiseta Bayern Munich want to make myself miserable or anti-social in the process. I really believe you can lose weight with small, healthy changes that you Camiseta Stade Rennais FC can live with forever ?
I dunno, often I feel I don’t have the will power I used to and that’s why I can’t diet any more. but I’d like to think that now my body has even a lot more will power and will no longer tolerate starving myself and the resulting binge later. No thanks.
Working on intuitive eating has made me realize how much what I eat affects my mood, my running and my day to day. I want to eat cleaner to feel better and be a better runner.
I don’t want to starve myself. I don’t want to binge. I want to eat yummy food when I’m hungry, exercise when I am jumpy and treat myself well. At least I know that much.
Dinner: I considered saving the other half of my tuna sub for lunch tomorrow, but I wanted to eat it after work. So I did.
Then, I took a walk while I waited for Ben to come home. While he ate dinner I had dessert. I heated up a Vitatop…
and added Justin’s chocolate Almond Butter.
Ben caught me eating it straight from the jar. Busted. I have no shame, it didn’t stop me.
For those that don’t know, Justin’s chocolate Almond Butter is what would result if Almond Butter and crack had a baby. and that baby cured cancer. and the cure for cancer came in nut butter form. except better.
Ben was dipping his chips in it! He’s busted too.
Now I need to return to school work and trying to piece back together the friendship I potentially frayed from my crash diet rant above.
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