Year 3 week 40
1st – 7th October 2018
When I first started this journey in January 2016 I lost so much weight. My eating habits changed dramatically. I just became a much healthier person.
Since the first year I have not lost any weight at all. In fact it has been going up and down the same 6lbs for a while now. It has taken a while but I think I am starting to figure out why it’s so much harder now.
When I first started, my eating habits changed so dramatically that it was impossible for me not to lose weight. Now though, when I try harder there isn’t too much of a change.
I have also had stomach problems for years mainly due to my bad eating habits in the past. I have learnt to live with it over the years so I hardly noticed I had a problem.
Since losing the weight it has been brought to my attention again. Jenny has helped me try and solve this problem. Over the last few months my food intake has changed again and Jenny has changed my diet so I can start to heal all the problems in my gut.
First she told me what foods to eat to heal my lower gut and now I have started another food diary to try and heal my upper gut (it’s called the Sebo).
For the last 2 weeks I have not been allowed to eat any fermented foods. Things like garlic, onions, tomatoes, chilli, pulses and a few other things were cut out too.
It sounds weird because most of these food items are healthy but I have to say it is working. I am actually losing weight again.
This has made me think back to when I caused all this damage in the first place. If I knew then what I know now would I have still eaten that food that was bad for me. If the bad food had ‘hazardous for your health’ written on it, would I have still eaten it?
Back then I had so many bad habits that I’m afraid to say I would have still eaten it and paid the consequences later. Well, now I am definitely paying the consequences!
If I was to ask the same question now I think I would think on it a little and then say ‘no I wouldn’t have it’. But in all honesty, I do know that I can sometimes be weak and if I was having a bad day I can easily succumb to these temptations. So it’s just about trying to be strong each day and have the will power to do the right thing.
The problem is that it appears that food that is bad for you is so much more appealing and accessible than things that are healthy.
I do try my hardest to stay as healthy as possible most of the time but it is really hard to have such willpower 24/7 and I think that’s why sometimes I slip.
I just need to constantly keep reminding myself what it’s doing to my insides and hopefully I can improve.
