01Mar07
Welcome to a new month!
Today is a day of rest. I realized that since I’d actually done a 4-day bootcamp, perhaps I should start pacing back a bit and give myself every other day off. Even for an “off” day, I started my morning with PBS, and that felt like heaven (although admittedly awkward in jeans, LOL). I’ll be back to TWO tomorrow, and plan to really push it to MY max.
Foodwise, I’m still guzzling water, and today’s day two of no sugar. I was ravenously hungry all morning — until I finally hit my “enough, already” point at lunch with a big ol’ serving of red beans & rice with turkey sausage. YUM. The biggest problem I hit today was the 2-3pm lull. For some people, this is the time when they crave sugar. For me, it’s the time that I’m usually falling asleep sitting up at my desk! Since beginning T-Tapp (since getting the DVDs, at least), I’ve not had that issue, and I’ve stopped drinking coffee — the one thing that would prop me up during the afternoon slouch.
Today, not so much. I was reading and suddenly snapped to at my desk. I was asleep while sitting up. D’oh. From this, I’m thinking that even on my “off” days (at least the ones that fall during the week), I should do BWO+ for the energy boost. What that led to: I drank a diet soda (splenda, not nutrasweet…but still) around 4. While Maya and I shopped for snack (tomorrow’s our day to provide mid-morning snack for her class), I drank a Starbucks coffee. With half-n-half. Um, I’d say oops, but I did consciously think about it as I poured the lovely fatty creamy goodness/badness into my caffeine. It was delightful. Just the same, tomorrow, I’ll TWO in place of coffee — and no coffee means that no dairy will be an easier dietary change to follow.
Joy tells me that tomorrow will likely be my hardest day of trying to eschew sugar. So, what did I do at the grocery store? Bought a PILE of fruit. Seriously. I’d already picked up some grapefruit and raw almonds yesterday, so today, I added a couple more grapefruit (I’d forgotten how much I like them), a bunch of bananas, navel oranges, granny smith apples, and two (two!) pineapples. My body *loves* fruit…and with pineapples only costing $.99/pound (avg 2lbs), how could I resist?
Musing on food some more…I’m amazed at how quickly my brain is resetting itself to different ways of eating. Normally, when I’ve gotten into a good workout/food routine, it’s taken MONTHS to reach this stage. Instead, after a mere 1-1/2 weeks of full-blown Tapping, I’m looking at processed foods and thinking, “no way.” Coolness. By the time I left the grocery, my cart had almost exclusively fresh fruits and veggies in it, with the addition of hummus and a dozen roses (hey, $6.99 on sale)! I thought about some other foods, but knew we had enough meat at home, and I didn’t need to buy any processed junk. How the ^%$# did this happen so quickly? I just hope it continues.