Last week I didn't manage to complete one of my goals due to a physical reason which made not completing it so hard to accept. Mentally you know you could have done it but physically you aren't allowed to.... thus meaning sadly I couldn't have my reward!!..
But this week I have crossed, jabbed, hooked and ripped my way to victory. WOO HOO!! This morning I did my final of three sessions of boxing. It wasn't easy, in fact after the second round I was hanging off the side of the couch gasping for air, but I did it. AAAANNNNNDDDD I got my tea.. YAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!! Now I didn't just get one tea, oh no, I got 4 teas. As I have said, up to $15ish is pretty good for my weekly reward. $15 got me two teas, Pink Tea - this is made in such a way which makes it turn pink, (weird right) and I got a Vanilla Almond tea which I thought sound really interesting.
Now where do the other two come in? I was just lucky, during the week I won a tin of Mango flavoured White Tea, and I got another packet -I got ginger - from my loyalty card. Double Yay!!
An interesting thing happens when you make a decision to stop eating bad foods, you realise that bad foods are everywhere!! In everyday life you just pass it by and don't notice but when you do start taking note of it you see it in EVERYWHERE!! And if I am honest, its like torture!!!
When your sitting on the couch watching TV craving junk, every second ad is for take aways. When you get out of the car in the mall car park, all you can smell is KFC chips (what do the do to those chips, no matter what they smell amazing!) When your walking through the mall there are fast food places, cafes, food stands and they all smell great - just because you can't have it.
However I learnt a very good lesson this week. I was watching an episode of Jillian Michaels' TV show Losing It where go goes to a Native American community in attempt to change the was they see food and exercise. She went to one of their local community gatherings where they all cook food and bring it along.
The family she was working with made something called Fry Bread which they claimed was part of their culture - she made a great point of saying "now why is it that I don't think your ansesters used enriched bleached flour?" "Fry bread is 100% not part of your tradition". Anyway in the middle of the gathering, she took the whole lot of fry bread and threw it in the bin - wasting food is a cultural disrespect!! When an elder confronted her and said that we don't believe in wasting food, Jillian turned around and said, that wasn't food, it was poison, if I hadn't done that what would have been wasted was your communities health.
Her statement is so true. So many of the foods we crave because they taste or smell so good are POISON!! I grabbed a few foods from my fridge and cupboards to look at what actually goes into them and I found things like additives, extracts, flavours, emulsifiers, regulators, stabilisers and much more. Now it may just be me but that doesn't sound like stuff my body needs a lot of.
Your challenge this week is to look at the foods you are eating, read the packets, look at the ingredients and see what you are actually putting into your body. Real foods don't need all the extra crap in it. I remember looking at a bottle of juice one day and one of the ingredients that was in it was natural apple flavouring as well as apple juice concentrate - if it already had apple juice in it how do you add the natural apple flavour?? I thought it was a package deal....
I'm not saying give up all of the foods that you love but try to think about what you are putting into your body. Part of loving yourself is showing your body some respect and trying your best to keep it healthy!
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| Before you eat think, would this be spoiled after 80 days? If the answer is no, do you really need it? |
And remember "to give yourself a compliment doesn't mean you think you are better than another person, it just means you respect yourself"
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