Anyone who tells you it’s easier to eat healthier than to eat junk is lying.
It’s a lot easier to run through a drive-thru for an egg sandwich than to make your own breakfast at home. It’s easier to eat the first thing that beckons you from the pantry instead of searching for a fruit or veg in the fridge. It’s easier to run through the same drive-thru again or walk through a cafeteria line and eat a pre-made sandwich sitting under heat lamps than to spend 15 minutes constructing a healthy lunch that after finishing won’t make you feel like you still need to devour one of your limbs, especially when you’ve got a toddler clinging to one of your legs while screaming and trying to pull everything out of the refrigerator.
Bad food, most often, is easy food. Convenient food. Planning your meals and eating healthfully is hard work.
That said, after Day Four on my new controlled eating plan, I am starting to feel better. I don’t feel bloated all of the time like I did when eating was a free-for-all. I’ve worn pants this week that I haven’t worn in a few years, which could possibly be from the jumpstart I got from the E.Coli lettuce, but hey, I’ll take it. I’m starting to get used to eating a carefully calculated meal and stopping when it’s gone instead of eating until I feel sick. I’m back in the habit of weighing and measuring food, which I actually do not mind very much (I’m weird that way).
I'm totally not doing the "model in my underwear" for the Before shot, so this is the best you're going to get.
I also decided to sign up for WW Online after realizing my little cheat sheets and iPhone apps were missing key components I wanted for this journey. I am thoroughly impressed with their online interface and how it syncs with the app on my iPhone. They’ve come a long way since my last WW run. I’m actually excited to use the web-based tool, and when I’m at work I just keep the window open all day. There’s also the “if I’ve paid for it, I’d better use it” mentality. I think my chances of quitting are less now that I’ve signed up.
The first week is always the hardest for me, especially when it comes to cleaning out the fridge and replacing its contents with “good” food. When I did this six years ago, I didn’t have to worry about cooking for someone else. Most of what I ate came out of boxes — diet frozen meal boxes. I’m not going to do that this time. I am going to try to use as little processed food as possible, a challenge in itself. I do most of the grocery shopping and cooking during the week, which helps.
After four days on this new plan, I have yet to hurt someone or devour one of my own limbs. I call that progress.
