Well the journey continues and I am so excited that this time the reason for me not blogging has nothing to do with me not working on saying goodbye to ‘fluffy’.
The last few months have been part of an amazing journey that I am on to rediscovering self, getting healthy and feeling confident in my own skin. And folks the most important thing is to feel confident and happy in your skin, no matter your size. No point being thin and unhappy!!!
So I’m definitely not at my ideal weight yet and I still have a long way to go. However I’m excited…my clothes are fitting better and my mom is no longer stressing me about by weight, which is definitely a plus! In fact she’s been brilliant over the last few months. You see we had a little chat and I even sent an email, explaining how I was feeling and how her ‘helpful’ comments that were sometimes not so helpful. My mom is an amazing woman and I’m glad to say that not only did she get it, she has been extremely supportive. It helps that she created an environment that was conducive to talking openly and building trust.
So what have I been doing? Well my mom and I went on a ‘RAW diet’ yep that’s right. Admittedly it was more for identifying food allergies and intolerances than losing weight..that was a great added bonus though!! It was really helpful in getting me to look at my relationship with food and how my body reacted to certain things. Since returning to live in Jamaica and getting ChicV, my body has been doing all sorts of funny…including swelling. I was tired of the swollen ankles and knees and had to do something about that and the weight. So going on RAW helped as it isolated foods for me and the swollen ankles and knees….they all but disappeared.
I’ll be honest it was hard to doing the 21 RAW diet challenge…there were times that I was really emotional and so so so sad!!! The minute I reintroduced meat, I was happy again 🙂 It was interesting, instead of craving chocolate and sweets, I was craving meat and I’m not talking chicken. I wanted steak, oxtail, liver. I spoke with a nutritionist briefly and they mentioned that the craving to meat could be associated with my blood type…I found that really interesting. If you like me have battled with weight, you would have heard of the blood type diet…might be worth investigating.
What I realise for me though, is diets don’t work for me because life happens. So instead it has to be a complete lifestyle change…and that’s what I’m working on…..