Due to potential allergic reactions, I've been forced to clean up my diet over the past year. Dairy and gluten are a much smaller part of my diet than they used to be. I eat more veggies and less sweets. I still allow myself indulgences but nothing like how I used to eat. I definitely feel better when I eat better.
I still have moments of weakness when I'm craving the really bad stuff that I used to eat. I eat it and within minutes I start to feel sick. My body is getting used to the healthier choices. It is not taking the bad food.
I'd love to say that the solution is curing my unhealthy relationship with food but I don't think that is realistic. I think that I need to find new indulgences that aren't going to make me sick. I'm never going to sit down with a bag of carrots and hummus instead of a bowl of ice cream but there has to be something in the middle.
I recently met someone who lost half of herself on Weight Watchers. She used to be 300+ lbs and is now a very trim 150 lbs. When we go out to dinner she is extremely disciplined. She never gets the items with heavy sauce. Nothing fried. No desserts. I asked her what her food indulgences were. She said that she craved nuts. That in uncontrollable moments she could eat an entire jar of peanuts. I looked at her like she was crazy. She talked about peanuts like I talk about ice cream and Chinese buffet.
Clearly that wasn't her splurge when she weighed 300 lbs. How did she make that switch? How come people have to become morbidly obese to make major life changes that stick? Why can't those of us who need to drop 30 lbs go through the same transformation?
When I'm craving something bad I need to remember how I feel now. Dizzy, noxious, bloated, tired, etc. I need to remind myself that no piece of pizza is worth being sick for the next 12 hours. That a long workout might burn 2000+ calories but that doesn't give me an excuse to indulge in double that afterwards. Sigh. I might have just eaten my last egg roll.
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