What a great day it is! No, really. Think about it. Today is a GREAT day!
Positive thinking will get you places. I never really believed that until recently. I’d look around at people who were having a miserable day and wonder, why don’t they just make the best of it? Then I realized… I wasn’t making the best of what I had either!
Four weeks ago I decided to change that! Three weeks ago I began the process of creating a better life for myself. Well, I say three weeks… But I actually began this four years ago when I decided to go back to school and get a degree. It was three weeks ago that I decided I was going to better my life FURTHER.
When I was little, I was consistently under weight. Not for lack of eating. I ate constantly! I remember one morning, I was around 6 years old, my Grandmother had made pancakes for breakfast. I was so proud of myself. Why? I ate 6 pancakes! For a teeny tiny 6 year old that was a big deal!
Let me just say now, that I do not want to be skinny. I never have. I just want to be healthy.
Puberty was NOT my friend. Between 10 and 11 I had started to gain weight. I didn’t really notice it until I began taking dance classes and all the other girls were so much thinner than I was. I began to hate my body. The only problem was… The worse I felt about myself, the more I ate. It got to the point where I could eat an entire box of Cheez-it’s in one sitting. I just kept getting bigger and bigger, more and more unhealthy, and I really didn’t care about what I was doing to myself and how it might hurt me in the long run!
After high school I began working at a local fabric store. I started eating ONLY cereal and drinking only Hi-C Juice boxes, water, and the occasional Starbucks. I noticed that I was losing weight! I wasn’t trying to lose weight, but I was happy about it! What I didn’t realize is that, while I was getting thinner, I wasn’t getting healthier. In fact, I was even more tired and my immune system was even weaker than before!
I gave up the accidental juice and cereal diet, and started eating like I had been since I was 11. I quickly put back on all the weight I had lost, and then some. This only got worse when I began working in the food industry.
Now, at 26 years old, I can see the damage I was doing to my body. At 5’2” and 190lbs (as of 4 weeks ago) I was the heaviest I have ever been. I had a physical over the summer and blood work. The test came back stating that I was pre-diabetic and my cholesterol was on the rise. I spoke with my doctor about things I could do, but I never fully understood WHAT I was supposed to do!
I have tried other things in the past, from eating according to a diabetic diet, eating ONLY fruits and veggies, to extremes like trying out diet pills. Nothing has ever worked.
Four weeks ago I found this website: http://rabbitfoodformybunnyteeth.com/
I had a doctors appointment a week after I found this site, and by then I had written down everything I thought was important about it. This included, meals, serving sizes, recipes, and so on. I brought this to my doctors appointment with me and showed it to my Doctor. I didn’t want to start something that would lead to me being malnourished and even less healthy than before. She agreed that this would be a good way for me to get, and stay on the path to a healthy life style.
So three weeks ago I started eating according to the rabbit food pyramid.
Since then I have seen my Doctor again (Don’t try and stab your eye out, it’s painful!), I lost 3 lbs my first week! Not only that, I feel more energetic, happier, I sleep better, my skin looks and feels better! EVERYTHING feels better!!
I want to continue eating healthier for 6 weeks before I introduce anything else into my life style. I have never been able to stick to sudden changes that I have tried to make in my life style. Knowing this, I feel will help me, I can work with how I know I function!
February 17th I am introducing the next step of my journey to be healthier. I will be going back to the gym, no excuses.
The reason I felt motivated to write this post today was… In 2009 I took a trip to Seattle. While I was there I purchased an amazing belt, that I completely adore. This belt was fitted and cut to my size. I haven’t been able to wear this belt in three years, possibly a little longer. This morning, I noticed my favorite jeans were falling a bit more than they usually do. Having no other belts that would help with this situation, I decided to just try and make my belt work for the day.
The belt fits. I’m not being squeezed or pinched. It FITS. I danced around my house singing about my favorite belt fitting me again. And I came into work smiling bright, despite the single digit temperatures outside. This was a milestone that I had set in my mind that I wanted to reach. I kept the belt, knowing that it didn’t fit me, because I wanted to be able to wear it again. It has been my motivation and now a leaping point.
Now I KNOW I can do this! I can be healthy, which is all I have ever wanted!
Bettering my life is a long journey and it is not only about having a healthy body, but a healthy mind. I will continue to post about my journey and my accomplishments. This post was about the success I have already achieved and hope to continue to achieve for a healthy body. This WILL NOT be the subject of the majority of my posts. This is meant only to serve as encouragement. Even if you feel like nothing is working for you, keep your head up. With the right mindset you’ll find something that DOES work for you and you’ll be SO proud of yourself for trying. This is true for ALL things in life, not just being healthy!
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