It is a little past the nine-month mark of my 12-month Lean Eating program. It has been a difficult experience for me in terms of officially staying on track with it. I did come upon many aha moments in terms of my issues with food, and learned a lot, and of course got into a lot more hardcore exercising than I'd ever done before. But I haven't felt too proud of myself....continuing to eat sugar, not strictly (or even close to strictly) keep up with many of the habits, falling way behind in the daily assignments, etc. And I have tremendous respect for the program, so I really felt like I dropped the ball. I'm trying to get back on track. The coaches are so nice, and I realize that everyone's got their own journey and progress and there's no comparing and all, but losing thirty or forty pounds it's not! Not for me.
But I just took my monthly photos and in a comparison of my very first pics from last July to this morning, I see...that I did lose some size. Not a major amount, and I could have lost a lot more, but it is noticeable to me with the pics as evidence.
The funny thing is, my weight's gone down only about ten lbs. from the starting point, and hovers in this range of maybe two pounds or so up or down.
Anyway, I've spoken here about getting off sugar, and that's been a real struggle even after the inspiration from Raisin and others to go primal/paleo. Of course I was in Italy, but even after that I was totally going back to old habits and, to be honest, really ugly food addiction.
Then a few days ago we had dinner with some friends. The wife has lost around 50 lbs in 3 months, just by quitting sugar cold turkey. Of course she's being careful in general, but has not given up bread and carbohydrates completely, and eats fruit. Anyway, I think something finally clicked in my head. I feel like, "Sugar? You're dead to me. Dead." I'm sick of having everyone pass me by with these stunning results. Even more, I'm really sick of being jerked around by sugar. I'm seriously over it, I'm pretty sure. The past few days haven't been a struggle. It's also been helpful to discover and follow along with this blog, that goes into the discussion fo reprogramming behavior (with a current emphasis on sugar addiction--it's really fascinating what the writer discusses): http://app4mind.com/why-sugar-.....-part-iii/
Anyway, I don't feel like I'm a great inspiration, but I'm glad that it's not quite as much a failure as I'd thought. Here's July '12 and May '13:
But I just took my monthly photos and in a comparison of my very first pics from last July to this morning, I see...that I did lose some size. Not a major amount, and I could have lost a lot more, but it is noticeable to me with the pics as evidence.
The funny thing is, my weight's gone down only about ten lbs. from the starting point, and hovers in this range of maybe two pounds or so up or down.
Anyway, I've spoken here about getting off sugar, and that's been a real struggle even after the inspiration from Raisin and others to go primal/paleo. Of course I was in Italy, but even after that I was totally going back to old habits and, to be honest, really ugly food addiction.
Then a few days ago we had dinner with some friends. The wife has lost around 50 lbs in 3 months, just by quitting sugar cold turkey. Of course she's being careful in general, but has not given up bread and carbohydrates completely, and eats fruit. Anyway, I think something finally clicked in my head. I feel like, "Sugar? You're dead to me. Dead." I'm sick of having everyone pass me by with these stunning results. Even more, I'm really sick of being jerked around by sugar. I'm seriously over it, I'm pretty sure. The past few days haven't been a struggle. It's also been helpful to discover and follow along with this blog, that goes into the discussion fo reprogramming behavior (with a current emphasis on sugar addiction--it's really fascinating what the writer discusses): http://app4mind.com/why-sugar-.....-part-iii/
Anyway, I don't feel like I'm a great inspiration, but I'm glad that it's not quite as much a failure as I'd thought. Here's July '12 and May '13:
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