It’s time for a challenge update!
Almost a month has passed since my last update (WOW!) and I have only lost three more pounds, but the key here is that I am still down, I haven’t gained any weight back even with some real cheating! I have decided to make some changes with the nutritional products I am using to help me achieve my goal. Not that I what I was using was bad, I think they are excellent products that have stood the test of time and research, plus I was making real progress with them. Still I have long been uncomfortable using nutritional products that are broken down into components such as individual vitamins, enzymes, minerals, etc. without a trained health professionals direction or more education than I have. I know there is research that shows (for example) that just because vitamin C is good for you that doesn’t mean that a lot of an isolated vitamin C is also good for you. Taking nutritional products is not the same as eating food. That doesn’t make them bad, I knew these products have been proven to be good overtime with research etc. But I think they should be treated more like medicine than food. But I also know that I need to improve my health including losing weight. I was doing both with them so I wasn’t really looking to change anything, but because they are supplements, I wasn’t totally comfortable either. Then I saw a post about what someone who is following my dream (Full time RV living) is doing and I decided to investigate it, and then make a change. Why? Basically because it made far more sense to me and it is backed by even more scientific research. These products are not breaking whole foods down into isolated, individual components such as vitamins, enzymes, minerals, etc. They ARE whole foods with all the trace and complementary components that whole foods should have in place. They have food product labels not nutritional supplement labels, because they are whole food! (why, oh why, didn’t I find this years ago?) It’s fruits and vegetables that I need available (thanks to science) in a way that I know I will consume easily with no fuss or muss. I have been terrible about eating fruits and vegetables, OK actually much worse than terrible. And I yes I know that I need them. But not being able to do nuts or seeds also makes that even more of a challenge. Now I am getting more than thirty fruits and vegetables a day in a way that is soooo completely doable, affordable, and convenient for me. I also know that what I am getting is far better because of how they are grown and processed then I could from ANY supermarket produce isle and probably better than if I grew them myself! I am still doing two shakes a day and I’m loving these even more! I keep hearing that to loose weight you should not eat after 6 pm, well since I work until 11 pm have my dinner at 8 pm and can’t seem to go to bed (typically between 1 and 2 am) after I get home without eating something, that not eating after 6 pm thing just isn’t working out for me at this point in my life. So my main goal right now is to take other steps I can to improve my health. I am NOT giving up on weight loss, but I think as my fruit and veggie intake improves other good things are more likely to happen. This improvement on getting my fruits and veggies is a BIG step. I think my next step will be more exercise. Over all I know I am doing much better, I am happy, and thanks for your support!
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I'm just going to start this post by quoting Mark. "That means the more something threatens to change how you view yourself, how successful/unsuccessful you believe yourself to be, how you see yourself living up to your values, the more you will get around to ever doing it"
"There's a certain comfort that comes with knowing how you fit in the world. Anything that shakes up that comfort - even if it could potentially make your life better - is inherently scary." Man, I read that and thought, yep, that's me. There are things I know that I could do to break free from the job I have and gain more freedom over my life, but I am not doing them. I love working on Tiny House designs but am not doing what I need to do to actually build a tiny house, etc. etc. I see this in my life a lot. BUT I also see that I have made changes in my life, huge tumultuous changes. And my life is better for it. So maybe I need to see myself more as someone that benefits and grows from change. As someone who embraces it. As Mark says: "that's what keeps you striving and discovering. And it forces you to remain humble in your judgments and accepting of others." So what are you avoiding? Wow, I post to Facebook everyday but haven’t posted here since I came out as Asexual! Many things have happened since including my being on Dr. Darrel Ray’s Secular Sexuality podcast. You can give that a listen here. Educating myself on asexuality and coming to terms with it, I feel helped me understand and accept myself more, and that is good. But I also thought it would help me find an online community of more people that I identified with. It really didn’t do that, because the communities that I found seemed to be largely filled with people who complained about how misunderstood they are, rather than people glad to understand and accept themselves more. Victims rather than Victors. Not liking what I saw there has helped me re-evaluate other areas of my life. Some time back I came across an opportunity that really fit me to help promote Solar Energy and sustainability. I love the purpose, culture, mission, and accomplishments of this company. Just one problem, I don’t live in a market they serve and personally don’t know people who do. So I became a victim of that situation. While I have great friends here, and there is much to enjoy, I have also felt stuck (like a victim) in Florida. It’s a great place to vacation in the Winter, but it’s not a place that has ever felt like home to me. For home I want seasons, mountains, valleys, waterfalls, walkable communities with good history, that are close to major cities with great culture. I am committed to moving from victim to victor. To getting unstuck. Such a life change can be hard, but I have been in the victim spot for too long, don’t like it when I see it in others, and for that to change, to get unstuck, I must move forward. So here’s to change and becoming a victor! |
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