Five days in and feeling great!

It has been five days since Ashley and I began our change in lifestyles.  Ashley has boasted about going down a notch inn her belt, I have dropped six pounds so far and the euphoria of seeing a difference has started.  The beginning of the journey is the easy part.  You can see the changes most then, you get drawn in by losing pounds quickly but it is imperative that you remember all of that is short lived.  Everything seems to jump light years ahead in the early days.  As time moves though your body will adjust to its new routine and a plateau will follow.  That is when the "dieters" will lose their hope and motivation.  To truly change yourself and make those changes stick you must realize that this journey is not a diet.  Although you may have those pesky extra pounds you want to lose, what is happening now is simply your body adjusting to new fuel and activity.  Keep the devotion and move forward.

I work in a restaurant.  It is hard cooking great food that you use to love and not be tempted to try it, knowing full well it is poison to your body.  Fried, smothered in cheese, bathed in cream sauce and topped with bacon.  All things processed, stripped of nutrients and convenient is what we have been taught to believe will sustain our bodies.  I was raised eating it all.  My brain is telling me daily, "a bite of that gooey mozzarella stick would be amazing."  Yeah, it does seem appealing to me yet.  I crave it still, but I know it is only a setback on the road to bringing my body to health.

I am trying to go all natural.  Living about 45 minutes from the closest Walmart is not at all helpful to me in this challenge.  I would love to be able to go to the co-op 60 miles away daily to get locally grown, organic or raw foods daily but that is just out of the question for me until I am in a different situation.  For now I am settling for fresh, not necessarily organic, but raw foods.  I make the best possible choices I can with what I have to work with.

I have been eating a lot of spinach, lettuce, onion,  tomato, nuts and boiled eggs.  I did make a tomato dill soup I have been working on eating the last couple days.  I have also made the green smoothie I found in Fit2Fat2Fit.  That's really good. Cutting out all bread and refined sugars are my next step.