Happy New Year!
For a little update on where I’ve been and why the former blog stopped, please click the “about” tab…but long story short, Jenny and I were both in a very vulnerable time with our families and personal lives going through a lot of changes, but we have made it through stronger, happier, with a new perspective and new year!
You may ask what happened to the Dukan Diet? It failed. I gained the few pounds lost (plus a few more) back over the holidays, a short vacation, and a family who believes that “the holidays” means baking a cooking amounts of food only conceivable for an entire army to finish. Not cool with me…I am a throwing away food phob. Therefore, the bowls of leftovers thrown in the trash makes me feel extreme amounts guilt (there are starving kids in Africa you know) go into my mouth. Besides the food overload, I find that when coming off of extreme dieting it leads to an all or nothing “cheating” mentality, which was such poor planing to come off of one prior to the holidays. You dieters know what mind set I’m talking about…it’s the “well I already cheated with that one piece of bread, why not have the whole loaf, I’ll start my diet again on Monday” mentality. It is such an unfortunate “side effect” to dieting and a hard habit to break.
So what now? Is the question I found myself asking after yet another failed diet, and another year passing with the typical “I will lose ten pounds” resolution. I mean, I’m only 24, how many more years and pounds is it going to take before I truly make a change? Now, if you are thinking “psh, she’s 24, she so young, she doesn’t even know what it’s like to really diet and it matter” please keep reading, because you are so wrong. I have spent countless hours studying the human body and it’s functions in college, I have wasted so much time and money buying into the next fad diet, I have put in multitudes of hours in the gym training, learning, and teaching others to do the same, I have been on a “diet” since I was 14 and adjusting to having a figure, and I am still trying to squeeze into my skinny jeans, so bear with me and see what we have in common.
My resolution…my own “diet” plan. Created by me, for me. Diet is in quotations, because in no way is it truly a diet, it is a gradual lifestyle change, and can be modified to anyone who would like to join me. The program is 12 weeks long, the results are to be determined, and when the time frame is up, guess what? You are going to continue everything you did for those 12 weeks (in moderation of course). So here’s the deal, 12 weeks, 12 things you are willing to give up, one at a time. Simple as that! I must tell you, I am already on week 3 and I feel much better. Caffeine was the first to go for me, because of all things it is truly the thing I was the most addicted to, in terms of withdrawals, so I needed to tackle it head on, and alone. My second week was sweets, which had to happen because I was close to ODing on them, and the past week was bread. Now you are totally hearing from this in hindsight, but so far so good. I’m never going to lie to you, I have had my moments, and will continue to, but I’m back in control of what I put in my mouth, and it feels good.
What to look forward to in upcoming posts: my bitching and complaining as I give up more and more things, my full 12 week plan, some tips in both the health and fitness realms, a little bit of humor to make light of this very serious problem in America, and some religious inspiration from my one and only strength and thing to which I owe anything good about me, God.
Thank you to all of you friend and family who have stayed on me about bringing this blog back, 2012 is looking like an amazing year of change and optimism for me, so let’s do this!!
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