Monday, January 2, 2017

Reset in 2017

As the New Year begins many are starting their New Year resolution "diets".  For me, I am not going on a diet, but a journey to find FOOD FREEDOM.  I am sick and tired of being held hostage by the food I eat.  I am fed up with being unhealthy and feeling guilty for eating. I am OVER binge eating.  I want a way out. I want freedom from this personal dungeon I have built around myself in all of this food and weight.

As I stated in my video post, 2017 I want to focus on falling in Love with Me.  Just the way I am.  I pray God will help me find my freedom when it comes to food and my "sugar dragon" .  I pray he helps me to see what he sees in me.  So where to begin....for my Food Freedom journey, I am going to begin with the Whole 30.  That is 30 days of eliminating the foods that literally hold me hostage to myself.  Sugar, bread, chips, chocolate.... YES I am cutting it out.  Have I done this before.. YES!  Has it worked NO!  Why didn't it word?  Because I was doing it for the wrong reasons. My mindset was on dropping the weight.  This time.... I am doing it to understand why these foods hold me hostage.  I did not step on the scale.  I did not measure myself.  I am not taking a before picture. I am simply cutting it out. I am going to write about it, pray about it, and try to understand why I love these things so much more than I love myself.

In 30 days, I am not going to finish and binge eat every ounce of candy, cake, and sugary item I can get my hands on.  I am going allow myself Stevia to sweeten my coffee.  If I don't lose it at that point, I will wait a week, and allow brown rice back in my diet.  If that doesn't leave me dying for a piece of bread, I will allow whole grain break back in my diet.  I am excited to redefine my relationship with food, and myself.

In the mean time, I want to continue to work out.  My goal is to work out at least 4 times a week.  This is for me... because I deserve to feel good and have the ability to move. I love to dance.  CIZE it is!

Here is to a year of Encouragement! Here is to a year of falling in LOVE with me.