I do this time and again. I fall off the wagon, spend a month or two wallowing in old habits, i.e. eating crap and no exercise. Then I go through the process again of changing my diet (and all the gastrointestinal issues that go with that) only to stay on a diet for a few weeks and fall of the wagon yet again. I've been doing this for damn near a decade now. They say the only way to make a diet permanent is to change your lifestyle. Apparently I changed my lifestyle to a permanent roller-coaster diet.
Sigh.
Anyway, the cars are crawling back out of the pit - clack! clack! clack! I did some groceries yesterday - something I really haven't done since I stopped juicing. I need to do more groceries tonight. (I want to go to the local fruit & veggie stand - it was stacked and packed with a Mother's Day crowd yesterday) I want to primarily do fruits and veggies this time around. A small amount of meat for dinner. I bought some chicken breasts, boneless & skinless. I bought some flat iron steaks. Both meats are low in fat. I want to cook them up ahead of time, chop them up and portion them out - that way it will be simple to drop them on some salad or nuke it just long enough to serve with some steamed veggies. The easier I make my meals, the more likely I'll stick with them. I mean, right? It's a good theory, right? Sounds like a good theory. If I can stay on a diet longer than 30 days we'll call the unproved theory a good idea.
This morning I found one of the drinks to the right; a Naked Blue Machine. Banana, blueberries, etc. It tasted pretty good - but the first drink really did remind me of the whole juicing thing. I want to drink more of these - the blueberries are good for my gout. I want to add more juice to my menu. I still have the juicer, might as well use it, right? Another good theory.
I told someone this morning that if you want to learn about diet or exercise, talk to a fat guy, he's been reading and thinking about it for years. I know how to diet, how to exercise, how to lose weight - I just have to do it. I have to do it. I have to get off the couch, I have to go to the grocery store, I have to get to the gym.
Best news of the day? In the 5 weeks of just eating whatever and no exercise since losing 20 pounds on the juice fast, I am only back up to 464. I was pretty shocked by that this morning. I didn't backslide all the way. Good deal - maybe that bodes well for this time out.
