My wife is more of a blogger than I am but here are my week 1 thoughts on our pretty awesome journey with Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating. When I saw pretty awesome i mean it. I think the idea is pretty awesome, not sure how the practice will be but, it's time to make some changes. I can't out work a crappy diet. That's what I've been trying to do for over a decade. Time to change.
Day 1: From the start the food has been awesome. Now, this is called "Project Real" and if I said I loved all the food from SSHE I'd be lying. I'm not a big fish person so the fish wasn't my favorite. BUT the Asian Stir Fry & Granola cereal are REALLY GOOD! I mean I'd eat that every day good!
Today was a two pronged test, No soda & pizza for lunch. I am/was a heavy soda drinker. Maybe 4-5 cans a day or so. I drank water too, but pop was my default. Lunch, get a pop, afternoon snack pop, dinner pop, after dinner pop... See a pattern here? Also guess what was brought in for lunch, yep. My nemesis pizza! So, I sat in the back and ate my SSHE answered a few questions and heard a lot of the same answers. I couldn't do that, good luck. Damn right good luck, Angela & I are going to rock this thing, then enter the migraine!Ah crap...
Day 2: Hello Migraine, how I have missed you. Oh wait, you didn't go away yet. So this is the caffeine withdraw. Yeah this sucks. Ok on day two I couldn't handle the migraine, I ate my breakfast and lunch(mozzarella tomato chicken very nice) and I'm drinking a TON of water, I mean bathroom every hour or more type of water and still have the migraine. That sucks. It just does. Going home for a nap before the kiddos come home and I need to function again. Come on day 3! See above video for how I feel today.
Day 3: Hello Migraine, how are you today? Yep still there, but not as bad. Today we had a video crew invade our peaceful home. It felt very "60 minutesish" but cool to tell my story and share it with Angela and our kiddos as well. Awkward but good. It also gave us the opportunity to see what we actually ate for a week. When you eat a hamburger for lunch (no breakfast) a few soda's and pizza for dinner, and then look at it from a day to day level it's not that big of a deal. But, when you have all of the stuff you ate for a week laid out on your kitchen table, and you have to extend the table because you need more room, that's not a good thing. It was actually quite eye opening and scary. Oh and they left it on the table during a lunch break, PLEASE test me again! Had the SSHE pasta bean salad and filled me right up. Take that piles of pizza!
Day 4: Today was the turning point for me. The migraine is gone! I crave soda, I don't think that will change, but the pain is gone!
Another challenge today, all employee meetings with snacks, I know this is crazy, but decided to test myself a little bit. I had 1/2 a brownie. Normally I would have 1 brownie at the beginning, 1 at the end and then take one (or two) up to my desk for later. Fully knowing I"d eat them before I left for the day. I took a brownie and I ate it. Two glorious bites. I'm going to be around brownies, crappy snacks and soda and I need to be myself. I enjoy chocolate, I don't need to have 4 brownies. But it's ok to have 1. Boom mind blown.
Day 5: Frickin Food. Employee round table today and local sandwiches for lunch. But no biggie. I've got my SSHE salad and fruit. I think this would be much harder if the SSHE food wasn't so filling. The big difference that I've noticed is that I'm not stuffed anymore. I think I started to feel like I wasn't full until I was stuffed. Now, I eat the meal and I'm not hungry. I feel good, and the really cool part is I just pick my meal out of the fridge and I'm good to go!
Day 6: Went to a great cycle class and I actually had energy. Class was earlier morning (8:30) and I normally don't eat breakfast. I felt always felt good coming out of the spin class, but tired. Today, I ate some SSHE granola & Yogurt and felt great after the class. Oh, and for fun I jumped on the scale, because I was there and why not.
I changed 2 things for the last 6 days. No soda and I ate Seattle Sutton's meals. If I got hungry I ate a cheese stick or apple. It didn't happen often but it did happen. Picture one is 1 week ago. Picture 2 is today day 6. WOW, this stuff is no joke. I'm game. Let's go.
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