Back on track

wow it’s been ages since I posted. Once you get out of a habit it is so easy to slip off track and even harder to get back on! Until I was introduced to big mo but more about that next time 🙂
After a very bumpy year last year I am finally feeling more like the old me. I would love to say that my hormones have balanced themselves out but it is down to going back on the oral contraceptive pill. I have been on Microgynon for three months and I feel so much better. This wasn’t the option I wanted to take but I knew I couldn’t carry on feeling the way I was.
So for me, for now, it’s a solution I have accepted and will roll with. To help my body deal with the synthetic hormones I am taking a milk thistle supplement to help my liver and I have just started taken DIM (diindolylmethane) which is naturally found in green vegetables and is superb at helping the body get rid of excess xeno estrogens.
Because I have been feeling better hormonally, emotionally and mentally I am also back on track with a clean diet and training. I actually woke up the other morning and wanted to train. I haven’t felt like that for a long time.
So now my goal is to lose the 20lbs I gained last year and get back into my jeans. The days of striving to be the leanest I can are gone. To be honest it’s just too much like hard work these days. I would rather spend more time with my family and friends. I want to look after myself again, look ok in a pair of jeans, feel healthier and feel better in myself. I am being kind to myself and taking it slowly and that’s working for me just now.
It’s very easy to slip into self pity, negativity and focus on what we haven’t got or can’t have. I am very grateful for all that i have, life is a gift. Gratitude, even on the bad days, keeps me in a much better frame of mind.
SO if you are in a dark place, don’t give up hope. I have been there and it’s an awful place to be but it will pass. Keep taking baby steps.
I’m not beating myself up for gaining the weight as that just makes me feel worse and then I want to ‘comfort’ eat. I have realised that comfort eating has stopped working for me now. It makes me feel worse. I now stop and listen to my body and ask myself is this true hunger or head hunger? if it’s head hunger I sit with the feelings and generally it wears off.
The whole process is trial and error. I am working out what works for ME. This is something that I am really working on with my clients. Finding their solution, not using the latest fad. We are all as different on the inside as we are on the outside. Yes it takes a bit more perseverance and detective work but in the long run it’s much better than jumping from one plan to the other.
So for now I’m happy ticking along feeling much more level. No dramatic highs and lows. I’m focusing on my family, health and my business.
have a great day x