It's all about the Food!
I have always thought I could outrun my food choices. I'm learning the hard truth about calories. They don't add up with the ones you burn busting your butt on the treadmill.
Not even close.
How unfair is it that I can work out for an hour and not even burn off one chocolate covered goo filled Donut.
Here's where we get to the reason weight loss is about 80% what you eat!
According to My Fitness Pal (MFP) a Boston Cream Donut from Dunkin is 300 Calories
I know I have eaten 2 of these in one sitting before. That's 600 calories, so my 300 calorie "butt busting" workout isn't going to make a dent in even half of my splurge.
But if I had abstained from the indulgent donuts from Dunkin, and opted for a 200 calorie egg white scramble with spices and spinach, I would have a 100 calorie deficit in my daily calorie count. Food makes all the difference!
But the way I have related to food in the past is like that of a RomCom love scene. (I'm just a girl, standing in front of a donut, asking it to love me).
But that's just it...it doesn't love me. It's FOOD! This is why food can't be the answer to my problems. I'm slowly learning that food can be enjoyed without being indulgent.
I recently tried eating the Whole30; a food elimination diet. It basically consists of eating whole foods (Meat, veggies, fruit). Making food using ingredients you can pronounce. I'm on day 26 and I've gone down and pant size and feel energetic and am sleeping better at night and don't have to fight cravings like I used to. But the best feeling of all, is the way I have enjoyed cooking food that tastes great, minus the side of shame.
I feel full faster, there's no crash and burn 30 min after eating, and I don't feel sluggish or have digestion issues.
It sounds simple, but I actually went to the Dr. to have my thyroid tested because I was always so tired and sluggish. It never occurred to me that the food I was eating was causing me to think I was genuinely sick.
Now that I've been eating real, unprocessed food for over 3 weeks, I can see it very clearly. My poor eating habits were stealing something from my young 38 year old body. Fuel.
I'm learning that weight loss is a race. When I finally understood that this was for the long-haul, I stopped shaming myself for backsliding. I just got back up on the horse (as they say), and I kept on cooking hearth healthy meals free of grain, dairy and sugar. This can be super empowering and I plan to make it my new reality!
Not even close.
How unfair is it that I can work out for an hour and not even burn off one chocolate covered goo filled Donut.
Here's where we get to the reason weight loss is about 80% what you eat!
According to My Fitness Pal (MFP) a Boston Cream Donut from Dunkin is 300 Calories
I know I have eaten 2 of these in one sitting before. That's 600 calories, so my 300 calorie "butt busting" workout isn't going to make a dent in even half of my splurge.
But if I had abstained from the indulgent donuts from Dunkin, and opted for a 200 calorie egg white scramble with spices and spinach, I would have a 100 calorie deficit in my daily calorie count. Food makes all the difference!
But the way I have related to food in the past is like that of a RomCom love scene. (I'm just a girl, standing in front of a donut, asking it to love me).
But that's just it...it doesn't love me. It's FOOD! This is why food can't be the answer to my problems. I'm slowly learning that food can be enjoyed without being indulgent.
I recently tried eating the Whole30; a food elimination diet. It basically consists of eating whole foods (Meat, veggies, fruit). Making food using ingredients you can pronounce. I'm on day 26 and I've gone down and pant size and feel energetic and am sleeping better at night and don't have to fight cravings like I used to. But the best feeling of all, is the way I have enjoyed cooking food that tastes great, minus the side of shame.
I feel full faster, there's no crash and burn 30 min after eating, and I don't feel sluggish or have digestion issues.
It sounds simple, but I actually went to the Dr. to have my thyroid tested because I was always so tired and sluggish. It never occurred to me that the food I was eating was causing me to think I was genuinely sick.
Now that I've been eating real, unprocessed food for over 3 weeks, I can see it very clearly. My poor eating habits were stealing something from my young 38 year old body. Fuel.
I'm learning that weight loss is a race. When I finally understood that this was for the long-haul, I stopped shaming myself for backsliding. I just got back up on the horse (as they say), and I kept on cooking hearth healthy meals free of grain, dairy and sugar. This can be super empowering and I plan to make it my new reality!
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