Hunger was not my friend today. I can tell I'm starting to clean out the system because the body doesn't like change and tries to hold on to all your bad desires (Hence my chocolate give-in at the end of the day. I'll be glad when I finish all of it off and there's none in the house.) Did you ever notice that; how your mind and body almost work together to thwart any effort of change you are attempting to enact? It doesn't matter if its chore oriented (conquering a pile of bills, cleaning out a basement...), habit oriented (quitting smoking, exercising more, drinking less...), diet oriented (eating healthier, abstaining from sweets...) or life style change oriented (ending a toxic relationship, leaving a dead-end job...). Accelerating into movement from inertia can be a real challenge.
Why is this? Is this human nature? If you ask around neither you nor I are exceptions. Nearly everyone I know suffers from this. Even though we often truly know that the change would be good for us. What is it about change? I think it's the fact that change is never a "sure thing" and often a struggle
. Familiarity is a hard foe to battle. When we become complacent we tend to stay complacent. I think this has been said before, though a little more eloquently.I give you Isaac Newton's first of his 3 laws of motion:
A body in rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, unless the body is compelled to change its state.What does this mean? This means that there is a natural tendency of objects (or people) to keep on doing what they're doing. All objects (or people) resist changes in their state of motion. In the absence of an unbalanced force, an object (or person) in motion (or not in motion) will maintain this state of motion (or non-motion).
So my good word to you is this - Newton was right and knowledge is power. If you know that
staying where you are and doing what you are doing will only lead to more of the same, miserable mess then there really is only one choice: Dance with an unknown devil. So put on your horns and let's Marcarena. After all, even Lucifer was an angel once...FOOD
Day 02
- Breakfast - Total cereal, walnuts, blackberries, almond milk
- Snack - Small banana and small apple
- Lunch - Salad (arugula, green leaf lettuce, tomato, garbanzo bean, black olives, red pepper, blue cheese, mushrooms) with soy and rice vinegar dressing.
- Snack - Mango, walnuts and greek yogurt
- Supper - Black Bean Soup and Dr. Praeger's California Veggie Burger on Sandwich Thins
- Dessert - 4 squares of dark chocolate
Day 02
- Leg workout
- Yoga: 1 hour of power yoga
No weigh in today
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