30-day
Challenge
Hello
Lovelies!
Today’s
post is a personal one and about a challenge that I made to myself. All my life I have been overweight and have
struggled with this. However, in the past 12 months, since having my second child,
I decided to educate myself because all this diet fads were not working for me.
I was even working out but still didn’t lose weight because you can’t outwork a bad diet. So for the
past several months I have changed my diet to mostly plant based foods, because
of this I lost 48lbs.
I
am so proud of this accomplishment because it was not through diet pills or a
diet fad but through consistent clean eating and making right food choices every
day.
Nonetheless,
I hit a Plateau and needed to refresh my eating habits since I was starting to
pick up old habits again. This is where the 30-day challenge comes in. I
realized that I wasn’t pushing myself hard enough and I wasn’t acting like I wanted
“it” bad enough. I gave myself a pep talk and decided to cleanse and purge
myself for good from all the bad food habits I carried around for the last 33
years of my life. I challenged myself to eat and drink only fruits and
vegetables for 30 days, be it in form of a smoothie, juice, cooked or raw fruit
and vegetable. This was all I was going to allow my body to ingest.
Below
is a little of how the past 4 days have been for me since the challenge began.
Day 1 – I felt good
and strong. I made a mental and physical choice to push myself to new weight
loss heights and transform my body and mind for good.
Day 2 – I felt exhausted
and woke up super hungry even though I was drinking my juices and smoothies. I
had a massive headache (body purging itself of all the additives and junk). I
caved in around 3pm and had 2 coconut and almond KIND bars. Later on that night
I had 2 bites of my husband’s pizza.
Day 3 – I woke up
feeling strong again and not so hungry. I realized my mistake on day 2. I needed
to ingest more WATER. I filled up on plenty of water and felt pretty full for
the better part of the day. That is until I got home and my husband cooked
white rice (he makes it so good!). I had a few bites of that and a Chobain yogurt
with chocolate and almonds. I felt guilty but I wasn’t going to let that stop
me.
Day 4 – I dusted
myself off from last night’s “binge” and woke up feeling strong and determined
to keep going. I also looked in the mirror and absolutely loved what I saw –
Glowing skin, flatter tummy and tons of energy.
I had to get over my mental and physical (hunger pangs) hurdle and keep pressing forward.
The
point of this is to show you that even though you fall off a day or two, KEEP GOING! Never give up! There is no
progress without struggle. It has NOT
been easy and very intense at times. I am constantly trying to renew my mind, I
get lots of cravings but instead of reaching out to grab some potato chips or a
chocolate bar, I grab a banana or a plum or apple. It’s all about choices. I hope this honest account of how my challenge
has been going thus far inspires/motivates you to push yourself. It is never too
late to start new healthy eating habits.
Jesus said to him, “If you can believe,[a] all things are possible to him who believes.”
Mark 9:23
~Ruthy Xxx's
