I feel like I did really well this past week. I ate tons of whole grains, beans, and my daily green smoothie, not to mention lots of fruit and green salad. My digestive system thanked me and has been working like a well oiled machine! Ok, that's weird to share on the world wide web, but seriously I have been feeling great. I have been strict about not eating sweets and I haven't even eaten any meat and I really cut back on milk and cheese. I exercised really well Mon.-Fri. doing aerobics and some strength training mon., wed., fri. and some yoga and strength training tue. and thur. I have had lots of energy and just felt good. These are the positive side effects.
Now, for the negative side effects. I have felt hungry. I mean like it hits me out of nowhere, where I'm fine and then suddenly I'm starving and very cranky until I get some food. For instance on Wed. night I made my family some dinner and then I had a huge plate full of green salad covered in black beans. It was delicious and surprisingly filling and I felt great. For about an hour. And then it just hit me and suddenly I was starved! I ate a banana and was still hungry, so that night I ended up eating a bowl of cheerios before bed. By Friday night I was tired of eating all this healthy food and feeling so hungry so after the kids went to bed I made up a batch of banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, and let me tell you, they were delicious! I ate quite a few, and you know what? I realized that I'm really not missing out on much by not eating so many sweets. The cookies helped me get over my little craving, but then my friend brought me some delicious chocolates today that I devoured, and then we had dinner with some friends tonight and I ate ice cream and cookies, and my body is screaming WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME??? We were doing so well! Ok, so I don't feel too bad because today is my day of rest and tomorrow we will start again and it's all good. It's good to see how the junk food makes me feel after doing so well, because it makes me want to keep doing well, and it also shows me that in moderation, it was fine to eat some sweets. I just need to control myself!
The other negative I'm experiencing is my hip pain. The exercise has really irritated it to the point that I could hardly walk yesterday. It's feeling a lot better after resting it for two days, but is still very sore. This is really discouraging for me and part of the reason I have felt the need to eat a lot of sweets this weekend. It's frustrating when you love doing something so much, and the something you love doing is a good thing to do (like aerobics, basketball, etc.) but it puts you in so much pain to do it. I'm not trying to complain or get sympathy or anything because I know so many people have it so much worse, so I will move on. I'm glad I am turning to better nutrition because even without exercise it really helps me feel a lot better to be fueling my body with good stuff.
So, as if this post isn't already long enough, my goals for this coming week are to pretty much keep up what I already did this past week. Eat pretty much only whole grains, have some beans every day, continue with the green smoothies, no sweets, and not be afraid to eat lots of fruits and veggies when I'm hungry. Another goal that I made with my family is that we will try at least one new very healthy meal each week. Thank you so much Mom for the wonderful cookbook you sent me. We will be trying a meal from that this week and I'll post about it then.
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Hey, we all had to do our part with those chocolates. I am going to be huge by August, I don't want to be massive. (It was at least dark chocolate...)
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