Looking back my eating habits were horrible. Nothing was consistent, ate whatever was quick, and often times would over indulge on junk. I didn't learn to really cook until my 20's. Around the time my parents divorced I had put on quite a bit of weight. Sure the bag of Reeses peanut butter cups would disappear in a matter of a week, and as for the Cheetos Puffs, consider them gone. Then junior high came around and it was not a pretty sight. I started becoming very self conscious about people seeing me eat. Not that people were watching, but they might. Logically it doesn't make sense; however, I nearly stopped eating lunch. I dropped to a very nasty weight. I was too thin.
In high school, I still had horrible habits, but started getting comfortable eating in front of people. Usually lunch consisted of 2 cookies and chocolate milk...healthy? Wrong. Then after high school and in parts of college, I started gaining weight. I was a home owner at 19, still going to school full time and beyond stressed out, without healthy eating habits. By 22, I was probably at my highest weight in the low 130's. I turned my life around and ended a relationship with my boyfriend, let him keep the house and in turn I lost a lot of stress. I started working out on a regular basis and found running. Again, trying to live making the same crappy food decisions and trying to burn off the calories was not producing the results I wanted. By 26, I ran my first marathon and many half marathons; however, I still had not changed my food decisions. Got up to my all time high in April of 2012 at 133.8.
July 2013 I decided the week of my birthday, that it was time to take a drastic leap forward. I joined CrossFit Valley Park and haven't stopped since. It was in December when Stephanie Teague started a conversation about Whole30 and how the gym was going to do a weigh in, measurements and baseline testing. So I downloaded the book to my Kindle and was enthralled with "It Starts With Food". I started December 26th by trying Paleo, and January 1, I started my Whole30 Challenge. Ever since, my life has been turned upside down. I'm preparing healthy food that tastes amazing, I've been in contact with my Whole 30 buddy Laura, who has been absolutely amazing throughout this whole process. I'm at the weight I want to be and I think I'm shaving off substantial amounts of time in my workouts. I've set some goals that I'm looking forward to crushing this year, and some of them are about to be accomplished ahead of schedule.
My skin has done a complete 180, I don't feel sluggish and bloated all the time. I've even noticed that my pallet has changed. I went from eating cookies and cakes to loving the natural sweetness of fruit and the amazing world of sweet potatoes! My first "experiment" after day 31, was to eat YoMy Goodness with my husband since he just got home from training. In all honesty, all I could taste was this sugary syrup taste. That next day, I didn't feel HORRIBLE; however, I did not feel great like I had the past 30 days. Frozen yogurt has definitely made it to my "Not Worth It" list. This journey has been amazing so far. I'm going to keep on the Whole 30 until after the CrossFit Open. After that point, I will be following a Paleo diet only to venture outside of the Paleo realm for special occasions. I mean really.special.occasions.
I have to say thank you to Stephanie for introducing me to a new life, Laura for helping me overcome these insane cravings, and my husband for putting up with me during my transition and listening to me on my soap box about why cereal is crap (as he eats a bite of dinner in the form of Lucky Charms).
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