RE: Day 640: 5 Minute Freewrite: Monday - Prompt: awry
Bought it! Even though I have 20+ diet/Healthy Eating books already: The Wahls Protocol (9 plates a day! Heaping! Feed the Mitochondria with fruit, veggies, lean meats, NO grains, no sugar--meh!); Keto; Mediterranean; 72-hour Fasting, Paleo, Fibromyalgia-anti-inflammatory diet, Migraine Triggers to Avoid, Don't Feed Your Inner Pig (Binge eating), blah blah blarg. Maybe this time I'll internalize the message. I've read so many books. The recipes are not easy for me. The ingredients can be hard to find. I hate broccoli, salmon, kale, all that. I gave up beer and pizza, bread and cheese, and all that, but I still eat gluten free tortilla chips, and that must be the catch. And the one-a-day red wine. What is left! Thanks for the offer to help me stay on target with some goals. :) Yes, I've read psychology of eating books before, but one of them has to stick, and soon. I have ten or twenty pounds to shed. #SaveOurKnees!
My whole plan @carolkean, is to stop the cycle of all those insane diets. I will help you take what you eat now and improve it. Whatever it is - adding NUTRITION and removing TOXINS is the key to getting better health, and when you are stronger, the weight loss will come.
Trust me, I tried 1000 diets too. None worked. Start where you are, with what you have, and take consistent steps to improve.
It's not psychology. It's that your poor body is starving for what it needs. When you get it - woo hoo!
I love your book - read it already - and find I am already doing a lot of these things (stretching in bed morning and night, e.g.), avoiding toxins, cooking from scratch, choking down broccoli and caulifflower (cooked India style, it's tolerable). Spices and saute-in-olive-oil can make a lot of things palatable. My downfall is the tortilla chips (salt! carbs! crunch!). And the red wine. And not upping the intensity of workouts. Your personal anedcotes on making excuses may be the best part of the book. Don't we know those by heart! Thank for the offer of help and inspiration. The #1 thing must be to hire a personal trainer. That, I should do - learn the correct way to lift weights and do pilates. I can't see when I'm "off." Thanks again!
You're welcome, @carolkean. I would ask you to review my book, but I know you are a bad guy over there, lol.
Getting someone to work with really helped me. I would still be obese - or dead - without his help.
Try my ideas about upping nutrition to fight cravings. I was just having this discussion in a coaching group. When people start tracking and getting over the usrda of the essential nutrients, cravings fade.
Do you have a nutrition tracker - not calories - nutrition. Fiber, Vitamin C, Selenium, Iodine etc.
Amazon banned a book review I tried posting yesterday--because some of the authors in the anthology are Facebook friends. Amazon also knows all my Twitter friends/followers, and they banned my review of @kaelci, who I know only from Steemit. So, yeah, they're not gonna let me review your book.
Nope, no nutrition tracker, but I do eat nutrient rich foods. Like lentils. Meh. I'm trying to learn the art of cooking foods my mom never cooked (and never would). Like, stir-fry, Asian, Mediterannean, Indian: it's never good when I make it. I need a private chef or a class at a culinary institute. Or something.
One thing I should have been doing but wasn't: drinking endless water. You mentioned it, so I've taken that up. (Yeah, I live in the bathroom!)
SO, today, it was potatoes, onions, rice, lentils, mixed nuts (cashews, peanuts, etc) - and I wasted an afternoon on the sofa with a worse-than-usual headache + fatigue (I blame the nightshades I ate), despite the CBD oil drops. (Need larger doses of that. And ever larger.) But THANK YOU for not giving up on me @fitinfun!
A nutrition tracker would help you, @carolkean. Based on the foods you list, you are missing a lot of nutrients. Once you get more nutrition, everything becomes easier. Sparkpeople has a good free one, but there are many for your phone or computer.
The places I usually start people are Vit C, iodine and fiber. If you start getting 100+ of the daily RDA's for them, things improve.
Generally people I work with - including myself - are not getting enough of MOST of the 31 essential nutrients and not even enough calories until they binge. .
I won't give up on you, but I am selective in my work until Friday - I will travel to Singapore starting Monday and am already juggling everything to get ready.
One thing about your book: all those hyperlinks!!! For people like @wakeupkitty and me, with slow internet connections, it makes an ebook less useful if the information you want requires a click on a URL. A summary of the main points would help.
What I need is not just a personal fitness trainer, but a chef - someone who can teach me how to cook these non-toxic recipes. Oh, and a place to swim! That'd be awesome!! I hate chlorine and would love to be near a beach with clean water (who wouldn't!). Walking uphill and upstairs, and lifting weights, is my best bet for now. And drinking all that water, as per your recommendation!
Links I do not like either, also not here. Those posts are meaningless to me if there is no text. I can already not see the puctures and videos so the posts look empty to me.
Good tip, we are not the only ones.
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Most of the books I bought seems logical and sensible to me - including the ebook that makes a metaphor of an inner pig demanding that we feed it junk food, and conditioning ourselves to say NO to it. Why don't I internalize what I read?
The list of inflammatory food is so daunting, I'd have to live on kale and salmon. Ugh. Raw fruit ok, some veggies ok, but oh how I miss beer and pizza, cookies, cupcakes, hot dogs, burgers with buns!
I never miss cookies etc. Can it be you have a lack of (the right) sugar? Eat more fruit if it's allowed, and see after 3 weeks (it takes that long at least for your metabolism to change).
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Oh Dear! I do not like that idea, @carolkean. If you are not aware and watching it, you are eating all kinds of addictive poison in US food. So much of what is allowed to be sold there is illegal in other countries.
If 20% of people were overweight and obese - ok - maybe it is their fault. But the percentage is 80%! This is not the problem of the people, it is the problem of the system and the food and the govt that allows these toxins to be eaten.
You gave up on cheese!
Do not give up on cheese. Models stay alive by just eating cheese.
Only 2 diets once helped with me.
I was shocked to find out how less carbohydrates I could eat to loose weight (less as 7/day) 😫
I have a problem too buying fruit/vegetables. Perhaps we should try to live on the air/oxygen-only diet 😀
And do those steps with actifit (even Actifit is sloooow with me) 🐌
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