A New Beginning Part II
Previously I mentioned my fresh start, giving an overview of the many ways in which I am beginning anew, and wrote a little about exercise. To date, I am sad to say, I have done very poorly in this first initiative. I need to work a good bit more on getting to sleep early, so I can wake up and do what I have decided I want to do. I also need to just go ahead and wake up and force myself to get through it on those days when I don’t manage to get enough sleep.
So, on to the next beginning. Eating habits. I decided this week that it is time to go ahead and bite the bullet. Time to do away with my extremely poor eating habits and work on feeding myself in a way that is straight up good for me. To this end, I swore off sweet for 30 days. Not just sugar. Sweet. No sugar, no sweeteners, not even fruits. If it is at all sweet, it is subject to getting skipped entirely for the next 30 days. This isn’t a quick and dirty attempt to lose some weight over the course of the month, though. This is forcing myself to go without the sweet flavors that I can’t get enough of, and trying to break out of my habit of grabbing anything sweet and chowing down on it. Thirty days is only the beginning.
After a good bit of consideration, and a couple days of doing rather well with this, I decided that I was going to push this even further. So long grains. So long dairy. So long legumes. I am even considering saying so long to another group of vegetation that I have heard called nightshades. In short, I’m going all in for 30 days.
I am tired of being fat. I am tired of being tired. I want to see that I can make it through this, and then consider where I am going from there. I know it won’t be easy. Beyond the simple reality that I want things that I am not allowing myself to have, I have a wife and kids and that means there will be food in the house that doesn’t fit within my personal restrictions. It also means my time is that much more precious as I need to take some of it for them. As much as possible. More exercise and more food preparation means less time. I said it in the past about my kung fu, though. No excuses. Maybe I haven’t done as well as I could there, but so far I have done well. I can do this.