So...i'm doing a detox. and it is torture. I have been wanting more balance in my life and my eating, sleeping, and exercise habits are are all currently unbalanced. I am a night owl with *fairly* strong insomniac tendencies and my sleep schedule (or complete lack there-of) strongly affects my appetite, the food I eat, the energy I have throughout the day, and the amount of exercising I do. As you can imagine, these imbalances have created a significant problem over the course of this past year.
My New Year's resolution was to restore order to my body, so 10 days ago I went to see my physician and met with a nutritionist. My physician reported that I am in good health, but emphasized that I need to gain some weight (story of my life). My nutritionist, on the other hand, rocked my world. The look of horror on her face as I rattled off my daily sleep/eat schedule should have clued me in to the fact that MAJOR changes were about to be imposed.Major changes are as follows:
1. go to bed at midnight.
2. wake up at 9am...(no matter what time i actually fall asleep the night before).
3. cardio and resistance three times a week (which I already do, so no biggie).
4. eat an UNGOLDY amount of food everyday.
I won't bore you with the details of the food plan, except to say that I eat 5 times a day and can't remember a time when I've eaten this much. AND here are all the things I can't consume for a minimum of 4 weeks: alcohol, dairy, sugar, corn (apparently it's all sugar), bananas and apples (yep, again the sugar) or anything processed. This knocks out about 90% of what I had been eating. Oh, but I CAN eat all the vegetables that I want. awesome. let the torture begin.
2 comments:
Hhahaha, dear GOD this is RIVETING.
SERIOUSLY Tracy, that sounds like pure torture.
My sister recently went on a crazy high calorie diet recently - do you have any appetite or is eating just work?
eating is work. for my height, my nutritionist told me i should weigh between 120-150. i laughed in her face. i currently weight 116, and this is in the upper range of what i usually weigh. but, i have to say, over the course of this past week my body has been getting used to more food...and i actually feel hungry more than i thought i would.
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