Happy Sunday everyone! It was another gorgeous day on the Goldy today and I hope that you have been taking advantage of it! I spent a few hours catching up with some friends for lunch and something that we talked about is going to be the topic of my blog for this week – cravings for bad food!
As most of you know, I have been on my weight loss journey for 7 years now. Successful weight loss journey I should say. I have actually been on a weight loss journey for my whole life, but finally got it all together over the last 7 years. Well……mostly together! Anyway, I have come to the realisation very recently that my life has changed in so many ways since I began 7 years ago and some of the ways totally amaze me, because 7 years ago I could never have envisioned where I am today. One of those ways is how my eating has transformed.
Have you ever heard people say that the more you eat healthy the less you crave the unhealthy foods? I have. I have heard that many, many times over the years. I know going back even maybe 2 years ago, whenever I heard that I would think to myself, “Well that is NEVER going to happen to me!” I love naughty food. I won’t lie about it. I love cakes and biscuits, pies, sausage rolls, alcohol, lollies, icecream. I can honestly say without a doubt, that if I ever had to give up wine and chocolate forever, I would struggle. I don’t have it all the time…..well, I don’t have the wine all the time…..but I do really enjoy it when I do have it and I don’t ever want to HAVE to give up those pleasures entirely. Whilst I love all those yummy things, I have learned over the years, that to remain a healthy weight, I have to limit the amount of bad food that I eat, which is definitely not a bad thing. The concepts of everything in moderation and sometimes foods versus everyday foods definitely come into play.
So that was me as little as 2 years ago. I had come a long way from when I started back in 2010. I had changed my eating a lot over that time. Not all at once of course, but one change at a time and 5 years down the track I had lost 100kg. Some would think that that is where the story ends. Fortunately for me, it wasn’t. It is a continual learning experience for me and I like to experiment with things and see how it works for my body. So over the past couple of years, my eating has changed even more as I would learn about a new concept, try it, if it worked for me adopt it into my routine and if not, discard it. My nutrition today is totally different not only to how I ate 7 years ago before I started on the weight loss part of my journey, but it is even totally different to how I ate to lose my 100kg. There are a couple of reasons for that, but that is for another day. Rather than keep rambling, I best get to the point of my blog today!
Let’s get back to those crazy people saying that the more you eat healthy, the less you crave the bad food and me saying that that ain’t never gonna happen to me – don’t you love my grammar?!! Well it may have taken 7 years in my case, but I have to admit that I was wrong. My daughter is the cook in our house these days. Quite often I will message her through the day if I have forgotten to find out what we are having for dinner. It doesn’t happen very often, but occasionally I will find out that we are not having salad for dinner. My reply to my daughter on finding that out is usually this:
Shari no salad for dinner sad face!
You see, while I have always liked salad, even when I was 180kg plus, I didn’t always LOVE salad, but now, I LOVE salad. I absolutely freakin LOVE my salad for dinner. My salad takes up my whole dinner plate
My yummy salad!
and I take so long to eat it, that whatever protein I am having stays in the pan to keep warm until I am finished savouring every bite of my salad, and THEN I eat my protein. I am even salivating while I am writing this! Yes, I still like foods that aren’t good for me and I indulge in them from time to time, but I can honestly say that I don’t crave them like I used to and find it a lot easier to say no when I know I should. Most of the time…..I am still human after all! So if you think, as I used to, that you are never going to stop craving the bad food and really look forward to eating the good food, I hope that this helps you to keep persevering. There is obviously a tipping point and I have finally reached it! It took 7 years, but I got there and you can too!
Have a wonderful week everyone, and I would love if you would subscribe to my blog – that way you will never miss out on any of my “pearls of wisdom”!!
Shari
Xoxo
PS – No……I am not having salad for dinner…..but luckily I am having something that I don’t have often but that I love just as much as salad!