whole30

I am sick. Like actually sick with the flu. I never have the flu. Seriously, it has been a while. How did I happen to get this? People will say, "Well everyone is sick these days!" "Were you around that one person?" "Oh well something is going around...... "

No. 

This may be a factor, but lets be honest here. I ATE and UNEXCERSIED and STRESSED and UNSLEPT my way here. 

It was a lovely weekend in Portland with a bunch of my besties - just a couple weeks ago. I was GORGING myself again, thinking, whatever - it is the holiday season... and BOOM. I come home sicker than ever. 

My gut, its like it finally said "I'm outta here" and my appetite left. Dairy was hurting so good. Sweets were just all too amazing and the abundances of cookies at work were making me nauseous but excited.

Now, this didn’t just all happen at once. It has been building for a year now. Thinking, "nah this can't hurt. You only live once! I am young! I can work it off Monday. It won't matter. It won't do anything. What’s a little pain....”?

STOP IT. 

So, enough is enough. Taking out cookies or just stopping fast food isn't working for me. I have fallen into a groove of convenience and forgotten about healthy choices. I have lost my sense of direction - I used to pick HEALTH over food pleasure. Now I am not saying I will not enjoy food (because GOOD FOOD is something I enjoy EMENSLY), I have just decided to eat for sustenance and not consistently for pleasure. 

I am not into dieting. I am not into RULES or NO NO NO NO NO..... but something about this WHOLE30 craze got to me. I am like " you can't have WHAT?! And you feel like what when done???!!"

I am amazed that so many people, and many with diseases and illnesses, are being cured! And all they are doing is simply changing what they put into their body. How INCREDIBLE. If all it took for me to feel 100% on the inside and also feel amazing on the outside was simply cutting out all of the convenience and junk, then COUNT ME IN. Easy. 

SO with all that in mind, I have decided to take the Whole30 challenge. It is something I have never done before; something I believe is going to be one of my biggest challenges of my life. I am going to use food to heal my body and strengthen me for the future to come. 

Starting January 1st, I will be blogging everyday, keeping myself in check but also keeping whoever wants to listen informed on what is happening with my body, emotions, feelings etc. What really happens to someone who is so saturated in not-so-good-food-choices decided to cut it out and start anew? 

The book. The plan. The new life. 

No weighing. No measuring. Focusing on health rather than weight. To just feel better. That's really what I want - complete health - to feel good in every situation. So follow along! I promise you won't be bored. I can already sense this is going to be a rough road. But if I am able to change the way I look at food - as being a life giver than a boredom solver, I can't lose.