Hey everyone. So this has been SUCH a crazy month with school and life in general. I have just been under SO MUCH stress. I’ve been working a lot, been pulling a lot of late-night/early-AM study sessions and haven’t really had time to devote to taking care of myself. I have been doing a LOT of stress eating… it’s like every time the organic chemistry book comes out, so does the junk food!! I try so hard to stay raw.. and I do well for a few days… then I just cave under the pressure. Tonight I ate pizza with actual CHEESE (ew), apple pie and Cinnamon Toast Crunch from the box….about the entire box. So gross. This is food I would NEVER EVER normally touch…. I don’t know what has been with me. It really frustrates me. I have been gaining (a LOT of) weight, my skin is horrendous, all of my G.I. issues have returned… and my disordered eating has come back with a vengence (think compulsive eating and bulimia). My question to all of you: how do you recommend getting back on track? I felt so much better when I was eating mostly raw. I just don’t know how to get back to that place and stick with it. Should I try some sort of cleanse or juice fast? I feel like I have to really DO SOMETHING to start fresh. I also need to start being more active…just making time. I feel sooooo much better when I excercise regularly and eat well. I think it has just been so easy to make excuses for myself lately.. what with deadlines and a crazy schedule (and the 2-4 hours I spend in the car a day ughhh). PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help. I have been hesitating to post something, but I feel I have nowhere else to turn. I really need some advice. Thank you all so very much.
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Hey there…how much time are you prepared to put into looking after yourself??? I know that was my biggest weakness… and once i settled in my heart and my head how much time i needed to sow into myself and as i started to work that out each day it became VERY EASY to stay on the straight and narrow rather that see-saw all the time…
The other technique i use is what i call ‘renewing my mind’ or re-training my thought life… so many thoughts go thru our heads each day.. something like 65000 images go thru our minds each day!!! I have got a few DVD’s (about Raw Recipes/or Health Nutrition Information) i put on in the background as im working/pottering around at home each day so that i am constantly associating with my NEW CHOICES rather than hanging around my old “stinking thinking”... does that make sense??? I think im trying to explain too many concepts at once perhaps…
But anyway… these 2 areas I have been working on the last 3 months to RE-TRAIN myself so that i dont “fall off the wagon”..
You can do this!!! You must choose Your Health every 2 hours in a day… if you dont you will choose Sickness instead…
Hope that helps… Invest some time into your Health :) :) YOu will be much happier :)
thank you all… this advice really helps. pianissima: if i was willing to get colonics, would you recommend a juice fast? i was thinking a “jump-start” might help, but i can’t really afford to feel run-down or wiped-out right now…would fasting make me feel like this?