Cleanse 🧘🏻♀️ Detox 🍋 Reset 🌟
Why?
You see, I have battled with my weight for YEARS!! Pretty much my entire adulthood. I’ve tried all kinds of diets (whole 30, keto, Atkins, paleo) and has temporary success, all kinds of quick fixes (lemonade cleanse, cabbage soup cleanse, 2 day fasting, working out in plastic🙈) literally EVERYTHING. Then I started doing these at home workouts that come with built in nutrition and accountability groups to lean on, and they worked… as long as I was on a program. 🤨
But the second I stop doing a program or even one of those fad diets, I would head right back into my old ways. Like ‘yep, that worked now I get to treat myself’ and those treats would turn into habits, and those habits would turn into problems, and then after gaining ALL the weight I fought to lose on my fad (most times plus a couple pounds), I’d start another program. 😳 see that vicious cycle?
It has taken me 20 years to see it clearly. Since being home under quarantine I’ve been reflecting on life, and me, and watching when I eat, even when it’s terribly late, and what I eat. I’ve been noticing how I feel after I eat certain things or drink certain things. When I finally got honest with myself, 5 weeks in 🙄, I realized I had been CONSTANTLY treating what should be a lifestyle, like a fad diet.
I’ve been a coach for 3 years!! 3 YEARS! It’s not like I don’t know what to do or have all the tools to do it. But I was missing a HUGE piece. I have to take my nutrition and all that knowledge I have learned as a coach and through experience, and apply it as a HABIT. A daily constant thing that I do, not some diet I do while I’m in a program. Most importantly I had to admit some serious truths:
I am a sugar addict.
I am a chip addict.
I am a chocoholic.
I am a drinker (it’s not social when you’re quarantined!!)
Recently, I found myself spiraling and headed for out of control with my using alcohol and processed/sugary foods to cope with feelings and stress and all things life.
I recognized that spiral and could feel myself on the verge of losing control. Addiction is not something I’m a stranger to.
So I decided I needed not just a program but a tool to bring me back to my core. And I found this cleanse and decided it was exactly what I needed to find my center.
I’m not doing this to lose weight, to get through another program, to take before and after photos yet again.
I’m doing this because my mind needs a cleanse to relearn how to cope with life’s stress in a healthy way.
I’m doing this because my body needs a cleanse to be refreshed from the abuse my bad habits have laid on it.
I’m doing this because my family deserves a clear headed, bright eyed mom and wife and sister and daughter.
I’m doing this for me, because I love me, and I want to be the absolute best version of me, everyday. ❤️
