Day 21 - 28: Checking In

Good evening everyone.  I know I've been getting messages from people asking what's going on.  I kind of cut off abruptly in the middle of the attempted juice fast last weekend.  Well to start off with, I'm fine.  It was a bit of an emotional setback to find out that the juicing thing just wasn't going to work for me.  No matter how hard I tried the green juices just were not happening for me.  My body had involuntary and violent reactions to them in very unpleasant ways.  I just couldn't see putting myself through that much suffering to try and get healthy.  If doing the juicing made me miserable then I would never be able to keep it going and make it work.  I would have failed at it and probably ended up totally ruining all my work with a severe bout of emotional eating.  So instead I kept control of what's going on and made the decision to come up with a Plan B.

Day 13 - 19: Ramping Up

So this past week has been the "Ramping Up" week for our first all-juice Reboot.  Following the guidelines on the Reboot Your Life website this week was about trying to get our bodies ready for what's going to be a very drastic change in diet.  Even though we're starting easy with a simple 3-day juice fast it's still going to be a shock to our systems.  And so the point of the ramp up period is to give yourself every advantage you can in preparing your body for the change. The recommendations include reducing and then eliminating things like dairy and caffeine, and also completely eliminating junk foods and processed foods.  And of course along with that is the need to increase your water intake.

Days 7 - 12: Going Strong

Good evening everyone.  Just checking in with a blog post to let anyone whose actually reading know how I've been doing.  Things are going well, but not too much has changed.  The Plan is proceeding.  This was a pretty calm week without much new going on in the way of diet or health.  My girlfriend's birthday was this week, so we did have one night with a slice of cake for each of us.  But I figure if you're going to be so rigid you can't even enjoy a birthday cake you're setting yourself up for failure.  Passing on the ice cream after the play last week was one thing, but birthdays are at a different level.

Day 1: No Juice For You!

So a bit of a snag in the plans for today. It's funny that I can walk into a Safeway store and find apples, ginger, and carrots any time I want, yet apparently the people that pull items for the home delivery orders are not able to find them. My girlfriend was at work with the car today, so I ordered groceries to be delivered. The guy showed up with most of my order, but missed the apples and ginger. So the juicing will have to wait another night. We'll stop at the store on the way home from work tomorrow and get the stuff, and then tomorrow night we'll try out the juice for dinner and see how it goes.

Just an important note for myself more than anything else. I'm not putting anything off. This is going to happen. The next step of the plan wasn't going to happen for a couple of weeks anyway, which is when we'll be able to take a Friday or Monday off to do the three-day "Long Weekend" plan on the Reboot website. So one more day doesn't derail anything. Meanwhile I will continue to work on portion control and smarter choices with regular food.

And So It Begins...

Introduction:

So this blog entry will hopefully be the first of many to chronicle my journey to a healthier life.  I'm trying two things with this blog that I've never really tried before.  First, I'm going to be completely open and honest about just how messed up my health and habits are.  This is going to be painful for me, and it opens me up to be mocked, but I need to get myself out from behind my walls and admit to what is dragging me down.  I might make it even easier for all the immature people on the internet to insult me, but I can't live in fear of that.  Too much of my life has been defined by how others treat me because of my weight.  I won't let those people kill me, and I know that if I don't make these changes then I likely won't make it to see another 10 years.


The second thing I'm doing is making this blog, and trying to get people to read it and share it with others.  I want people to read, comment, and share with others.  Not because I want some kind of fleeting internet fame, but because I need people to be accountable to, but also people to support me.  I'm not looking for negative reinforcement because I don't respond to that.  I've been beat down so much in my life growing up that all negative reinforcement does is push me deeper into the dark places in my mind that have caused me to get to where I am now.  So I will be removing any comments that don't contribute to the positive atmosphere of support I'm trying to make here.  I'm trying to do everything I can to give myself a fighting chance at this.


I plan on using juicing as my catalyst to change.  I hope that I can use juicing to retrain my pallet to like vegetables, and from there can lead to making healthy choices when not juicing.  That should then get my losing weight and getting energy so I can start with cardio exercise to really get to work on getting healthy and keeping it off.  That's the grand plan at least.  But I have a long history filled with failures to overcome in order to make this work.