We've been WAY off track for a few weeks now, and sadly, both Cristian and I have gained back most of the weight we chiseled off over the last little while. I do a really great job of making healthy meals for us. Breakfast, lunch and dinner and even our snacks throughout the day are whole, and healthy. We are golden, but then about 10pm hits and we both get the munchies and end up caving in and eating too many treats right before trying to go to sleep. And I mean, it's a big enough problem as we've put weight back on. We certainly need to get back on track.
Starting tomorrow we're cutting out the late night bad snacks, with good snacks to slowly ease back into what we were doing before. We'll have fruit and nuts, or vegan ice cream, or something of that sort instead of the processed sugar food we've been binging on.
That being said, we've been doing much better at getting outside and being active which has made us feel a little better, even if the real goal is to get back down to optimal weights. Lots of fishing, we've biked up the canyon with Violet a few times, we plan on hiking more and more over the following weeks as weather permits, and we'll get back into our daily workouts.
I've been feeling for the last couple of weeks like taking a break from social media. I dunno. I'm wondering if just signing off for the summer is something that would help me with these other goals I have. Blogging is really important to me, this is essentially our family journal (though we do plan on podcasting in the near future), and I love putting our photos on here. I dunno. Maybe I can make it like a once every 2 weeks kinda thing and just abandon FB and IG for a few months.
I dunno, bouncing the idea around in my mind.
Anyway, tomorrow is a new day and we'll continue this journey to creating a healthier, lasting, lifestyle. It's a journey, it will never be "over", but I know we can make tons of better progress if we keep on trekking.
Cheers!
The Next Morning
Monday June 8th
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So after some thinking last night I think I've decided to do a challenge for the next 24 days. No processed sugar, at all. We do a pretty good job of not eating anything processed in general, but I know it will help clean up my diet a little bit more if I strive for no processed sugar at all. I did this a little while back and it took my body 5 days to get over the withdrawals. I had headaches, dizziness, irritability, and sometimes even a little bit of unexplained anger. It was a rough couple of days, but after the withdrawals eased off I felt amazing. I knew that time it would be hard because our sugar intake was WAY over what it should have been. I'm hoping since then and the changes we've made it won't be that bad, this time around, but I guess we'll find out!
I also had a goal last night to get up at 6 this morning to get to the gym. I couldn't get to sleep until about 3am so that didn't happen but I'll be able to get there after Cristian gets home from work tonight so....there's that.
Anyway, thought I would document the challenge of no processed sugar for 24 days and note the results and differences in how I feel. It's early into day one, and I've got a headache which I don't think has anything to do with diet, but everything to do with little sleep.
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