…NOT BIRTHDAY! I will be 43 next week.
Today, I have officially lost 60 pounds!
Yay me!
I know I eliminated many of my favorite foods, but that is fine. I have had to make fundamental changes with my relationship with food more for health reasons than simply losing weight. Many people think that my diet sounds boring…and it is! But, for now, it is so freeing to not have food on my brain 24 hours a day. I no longer eat refined grains, almost all sugars and sweeteners, meat and dairy. I even limit the amount of whole grains due to gluten issues. I predominately eat fruits and vegetables, nuts and other rabbit food. Occasionally, I will have some fish and yogurt.
But I honestly have never felt better. I have suffered from gastic distress, dermatological issues including pyoderma gangrenosum as well as VERY painful and even more embarrassing cystic acne as an adult. Those have MOSTLY disappeared. There is no medically proven association between food and some of these issues, but if I feel OK for now and am clearly getting all the nutrients I need to stay alive, then who cares if science can prove it? (Listen to the atheist making choices without using science! Hypocrite!). Not to mention that I LOST 60 POUNDS!
I am also running a lot and secretly planning on a Fall marathon this year (shhhh! Don’t tell anyone!). I even did a12 mile run a couple of weeks ago.
Of course, I know that I could easily fall back into more destructive eating habits again, but I am allowing myself to ride this wave for as long as I can. It is not a struggle right now and who cares if it is a struggle. That’s life.
Thanks for listening.