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| This is from Florida last year! :0 |
The reason I'm super excited for Florida (not just the fact I have a week off work to relax, but....) because I will still be on the 'strict' part of my lifestyle change as I mentioned in a previous post, so that means I will really be testing my limits as to my own willpower. As if I haven't been tested already, food is becoming something in my life that is there for me to survive not for enjoyment. I know I've talked about how much I love food in the past and don't get me wrong I still enjoy food, but because I have to pass up all the things I really enjoyed eating it's brought me to different light. As I walk past the pizza at the gas station I just *sigh* because I know it's not good for me and that it's not something I am 'allowed' to eat at this point.
So long story short, I'm super excited to actually focus on all the good things happening in my life right now instead of what I am eating for what I can eat (cause really I can't eat like anything!).
The thing that I'm enjoying the most is that each day if I want to step on the scale I can because I know that it will either be at the same weight or I will have lost. At this point I'm losing about 2lbs a day, minus the weekend I think I was just bloated so I didn't lose but I stayed at the same weight all weekend. I am down a total of 7lbs since starting this new lifestyle and I am down almost 20lbs total since I decided I needed to change. "Never underestimate your power to change yourself."
I'm learning so much willpower from this and it's super exciting to be able to say NO to certain foods, at first I was a little upset when my boyfriend would come home with pizza or when he picks up 'junk food' from the store and I have to just sit and watch him eat it, but it doesn't bother me as much anymore, maybe because I'm seeing results in what I'm accomplishing by giving up that stuff or because I just don't have an appetite for that stuff as much. At this point I want to be healthy and look good SO bad that I'm willing to suffer in order to get there, I don't really see it as suffering anymore though, I'm embracing that this has to be a lifestyle change because if I just go back to the way I used to be then I will be back at that weight I dreaded seeing on the scale.
On another note I have found a recipe for pizza that I can actually eat! :)
Cauliflower Crust Pizza
4 cups of riced cauliflower
2 or 3 egg whites
handfull of mozerella cheese
garlic powder
basil
parsley
cook the cauliflower on the stove for about 7-8 min, then mix all the ingredients together oil up a pizza pan, spread the mix on the pan until it's the crust thickness you prefer, then cook at 400* for about 10-15 min and then flip over and cook for another 5-10 min. or until looks crispy,
then I take it out and put on my toppings usually sauce, turkey sausage, red pepper flakes, and mozerella cheese, then bake again until the cheese melts completely.
This is actually really good! I love pizza and I'm not really big on changing the way I eat my pizza but this is actually comparable to regular crust pizza, often times I use just a whole wheat tortilla shell as the crust and put the toppings on that and bake it, but on this cycle of my lifestyle change I can't have tortillas so I improvised.
One major thing I am figuring out since starting the '17 Day Diet' is that you have to find recipes because you are very limited on the food choices you get so you have to get creative in order to be successful, I tried eating the same things because that's all I could think of to do with the food choices I was given but they offer so many recipes in order to mix up the way you eat your protein or vegetables. Now I'm actually embracing this and really giving it my all!
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