Happy….. THURSDAY!!!
I love all you guys so much. You leave some of the best comments ever! I especially love the ones that make me giggle. Too fun.
So I think this post might be more on the serious side of things because I want to talk about some pretty cool/inspiring/motivating/serious stuff. If you’d prefer to not go down this rabbit hole with me, than simply don’t take the red pill and leave after reading about the muffin and awake tea I had for breakfast. No hard feelings.
A pretty simple little breakfast. Tazo awake tea with almond milk and a Udi’s GF Lemon Streusel muffin.
I’m obsessed with the Udi’s blueberry muffins.
I had the cinnamon rolls on Christmas and they were alright but not that great….
So I branched out and tried these Lemon muffins today and holy cannoli they’re amazing. So moist and doughy, just how I like ‘em. 
On my 1/2 Marathon training agenda today……….
3 mile run and strength training.
I loved all your ideas on how to do weight training on days with longer runs. So here’s what I’ve decided to do. I’m going to do total body training on Mondays when my schedule calls for ‘stretching and strength training’ and on Thursdays when I have both the run and strength I’m going to focus on upper body and abs. HAHA! I totally kicked this dilemma’s bootay… with the help of y’all of course.
I’m hoping to use the Nike Training Club app. The Get Focused portion of the app has a list of categories that are 15 minute circuits that focus on a specific area of muscles. I can chose between 3 arm/shoulder circuits, 1 abs circuit and 2 back circuits. It’s perfect.
Now, if you took the red pill………….. here we go.
I started reading this book last night and I couldn’t put it down. No, I haven’t read the entire thing cover to cover but I’m pretty darn close.
I’d be lying if I told you I’m a completely healthy eater because I’m not. I’ve dieted every single day since my senior year in high school (7 years). From all the stresses of college, dieting, and a few other things that I like to keep pretty vague here on this blog I became a binge eater. It’s how I dealt with—well, with everything. I think when someone gets hurt like I did it’s easier to not feel anymore. I chose eating because I could cover up my sadness, hurt and depression with food. And after that I started using food to cover up all feelings because it was safer to just skip them all together. I’d eat to cover up happiness, sadness, stress, anxiety, frustration, exhaustion.
I deleted my food diary app last night.
I also deleted my various calorie database bookmarks on my computer.
I’ve known I needed to ‘heal’ from my emotional eating for a while and most of last year (2011) was geared toward me starting that process. I went through a phase of eating everything I wanted and not counting a single calorie, which turns out to be one of the stages leading toward becoming an Intuitive Eater. And I’ve started attempting to become more attune to when my body is hungry vs. when it’s full, which turns out to be another stage in the process.
I’m ready to just be normal. Dieting is so exhaustive and I’m tired of being preoccupied with it all the time. Last fall I started just being me, goofy, overly excited about little stuff, and ultimately trying to take my focus from how I looked compared to others to simply living a happy life. This turns out to be another stage. Here I’ve been becoming an Intuitive Eater for the last year and I didn’t even know it.
I really hope this book can simply guide me in the right direction, like how it pushed me to finally let go of that last piece of dieting that was holding onto my life through my iPhone.
This book is amazing and I’m planning on doing a whole series of posts based on various topics in this book. Maybe we’ll have Intuitive Tues. or something. Even if you don’t intend to become an Intuitive Eater and you just really enjoy leading a healthy lifestyle I recommend reading this book. It’s a great way to open up a few new windows on how to have a wonderful relationship with food.
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Proud of you for talking about this! So, class of 05? If so, we’re both class of 05! very cool.
I think the idea of intuitive eating is great. Seems so much healthier than stressing out about calories and what-not.
I would def. be interested in reading more of your thoughts as you dive deeper into this.
Class of ’05 baby! Whoo hoo.
I’m so happy for you, that you’ve found some inspiration in healthier eating. I’ll definitely keep my eyes open for this book!
I hope you can find it. Its so interesting and brings up some really cool ideas on how to look at food/eating.
I have heard a LOT of good things about that book. Super curious, but a little addicted to my bodybugg right now. Haha.
I would be too! I’m Lady Gaga over your pink bugg!
Okay, when I first read this book it was at the tipping point between my anorexia and binge eating. I hated it when I first read the book. I though no way will this ever work for me. The idea of trusting my body seemed so foreign. Fast forward a year spent eating whatever I wanted then beating myself up for eating too many calories and too much junk. I’m starting to discover that IE might be the best way to keep my sanity.
You’re NOT the only person who has struggled with dieting and binge eating and negative body issues. And I think that developing IE approach to food can be healing and theraputic but you have to be ready. And from reading this post, I think that you are!! Good luck
And feel free to email me or anything if you ever need a chat buddy. I’m sending you a huge internet hug!!
Thanks, I’ll definitely e-mail you if I have a freak out moment. They happen ALL THE DARN TIME!! I think you should think about reading the book again when you’re in the right place. I definitely couldn’t have gotten anything out of it a year ago but now it’s all really resonating with me.
I think it’s so great that you are doing this Maren. It takes so much courage to let go of things and put one foot in front of the other. I commend you for doing this! I can’t wait to see your progress and see the posts that you are going to put up! In turn, we get to learn about where this journey is taking you
Yay!
Thanks, it was a hard post to write but I’m so glad I did. It’s all the truth and the truth always sets you free.
I’m glad you read it! I read it almost in one sitting – and it’s been hard for me to do. Even harder then I thought. Today’s been the worst so far – I’m ravenously hungry, but only brought the food I normally in a day. I know I’ve been underconsuming during the day and then overconsuming to make up for it, but I think that eating regularly (like I should) has kick-started my metabolism so I’m WAY hungrier than usual!
I wonder if this will be harder for us because we have so many foods that are off-limits? What do you think?
I’m following the idea of if I’m hungry I’m eating right now and I feel pretty good. I was really hungry yesterday afternoon and I ate cuties and a few chips and it kicked my hunger until 7pm! I think you’ll do great just listen to your body.