My first week...in a nutshell

Good bye sugar. Cookies, ice cream, all the maple syrup in my "healthy" homemade granola, the glass, or two of red wine, and all the other things I ate uncontrollably because I was going for a run the next day, oh and watch out if something messed up my plan to go for a run! This first week is an eye opener! I quickly realized that preplanning my meals for the day is imperative! The funny thing about preplanning is that once I started planning ahead for my own meals, I started planning everyone else's. I started making Lily's lunch for school the night before, I knew what was for dinner at noon instead of at 6pm when everyone was freaking out. I also realized that like alcohol or drugs, sugar is an addiction. I went through withdrawals! But after all the sugar had moved out of my system, my moods leveled out! I was not as manic nor did I freak out about little humps in my day quite so much! I never thought I would eat so much spinach!!!

My birthday was this week. It was a sort of hard day. I had crazy sugar and salt cravings. It was my first social outing since starting. I wanted a glass of wine, I wanted apple pie (my all time favorite!), I wanted to eat the chips and salsa that were sitting on the counter. It was hard it pass up all the snack stuff that I would have typically eaten, before sitting down to eat dinner. There is no mindless eating with Genesis.

I have also realized that so much of the exercise in my life has been a direct correlation to the food going into my body and when I removed the sugar and crap from my diet, I was happy going for a walk and if it didn't work out, it was just fine! What a week. All in all it was fairly surreal. After thinking about the Genesis program for so long, to finally be a participant feels a little like I am living another life.