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.
