Being at Peace With Food Is the New Weight Loss

As I move toward wanting to feel healthy and clear and away from needing to be a certain weight or look a certain way, I notice that my body is changing; I have a lot more energy to work out and I’m not looking to food to fill in the missing pieces of my day. I eat what is going to make my body, not my mouth feel good. I am really thankful that I pulled it together and did the five day Blueprint cleanse. I really needed it. I went way off the reservation this winter and was in food hell. Going on the cleanse was my last ditch effort to bring back some balance into my diet.

For those of you who don’t understand this syndrome here it is in a nutshell: You get a little lazy, you eat a little more and because you can’t dedicate your entire day to physical activity you start gaining weight. You get a little nervous and think, I should really start pulling back with the eating but you just can’t seem to get it together so you keep eating and then you start noticing that your clothes are tight. Very tight. Now you’re getting scared and you think, I’ve really got to get a grip. But you’ve got dinner plans with friends at a great restaurant and you decide to enjoy yourself and eat and drink whatever you want and boy, do you. You feel so bad about your discretion that the next day you just say “what the hell” and eat whatever you want because you feel like a pig. One day turns into the next, and the next and before you know it, a couple of weeks have gone by. A few more pairs of pants go into the “no longer fit” pile. You are headed for a brick wall. You now know that you’ve got to seriously clean up your diet because you don’t want to get to the point of no return. Only you’re almost there but you can’t see it. It’s getting harder and harder for you to work out because you feel so fat and disgusting that there is nothing to motivate you to go to the gym. The terror that you experience at the thought of not being able to lose the weight that you have gained has paralyzed you. You think more about the clean up and you decide that you have not had enough chances over the years to indulge in pancakes because of fear of getting fat so you will take the opportunity now before you clean up to go to brunch and eat 3 pancakes the are the size of dinner plates. So there you are in the thick of food hell, eating something because you think you should, and because you are trying to somehow make up for past deprivation. You know that what you are doing is neither giving you much pleasure or solving the issues of the past. You realize that you are in Food Hell and you are the only one who can dig yourself out.

10 Reasons to embark on a juice fast

1. If you make it through, you’ll feel so good about yourself for having the discipline you’ll forget why you went on it to begin with (lack of discipline and polluting your insides)
2. It wakes up your tastebuds. Flavors are really intense. Everything tastes really good.
3. You need much less food to feel satisfied.
4 You have tons of energy once it’s over.
5. It wipes out your cravings for sugar.
6. All your friends will marvel at your discipline.
7. You will be astounded by your discipline.
8. Bloated stomach--gone.
9. You think twice about what you put into your body
10. It can release you from Food Hell