Day Five Check-In

Monday morning, my husband and I started the “Body Reset Diet” by Harley Pasternak. I’ve first learned of this diet from “Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian”. If you haven’t seen her show, I HIGHLY recommended it.

The “Body Reset Diet” is broken into three, five-day phases and mostly involves drinking smoothies for your meals during phase one, which is what hubs and I have done the last five days. Smoothies for breaksfast, lunch, and dinner. We were allowed to have two “crunchy” snacks in between the meals.

The idea is that eating a low-calorie plant-based diet made up mostly of smoothies over the course of 15 days, you can train your body to use energy more efficiently and burn calories faster, even while you’re asleep. Combine this with Harley’s recommendation of walking a minimum of 10,000 steps a day and resistance training can kick start your metabolism and help you loose weight.

I will say at the end of the first phase, my husband is down 7 pounds (and a lot more in inches!) and I am down 3 pounds (as well as a lot of inches!). We didn’t work out like we were suppose to, but we stayed active. But most importantly, we feel amazing! We feel cleaner and healthier, have more energy, and the desire for junk food isn’t in our mindset.

The hardest part for me was the cravings. I never realized how bad my cravings were, until now. In between lunch and our crunchy snack, every day, I would crave something salty or sweet. It was very overwhelming. I learned if I drank some water it would eventually go away, but it was intense. Imagine being pregnant craving pickles and ice cream and not being able to have it… yeah like that.

But come Friday (day five of phase one) the cravings were gone. I was able to incorporate nuts in our crunchy snacks which seemed to do the trick!

Now, today, we start phase two. This consists of two smoothies, two snacks, and one meal. It’s kind of exciting to add a meal. You don’t realize how much you miss chewing until you’re not chewing your meals!! Haha

Here’s to the next step!

Why diets fail… in my opinion.

Over the years, I’ve done countless diets. From extreme diets to diets as simple as just cutting out sugars. I’ve always gone in with the intention “to loose weight”. That’s my ultimate goal, right?

When I first started dating my husband (in high school, mind you), I was skinny. 115 pounds, 5 feet 6 inches tall. I was skinny. I loved my body cause even that skinny, I was curvy. Hourglass shape with a nice booty. And did I mention skinny?

But I also wasn’t healthy in any way.

After I gave birth to my oldest, I was at the heaviest I have ever been. I wanted to get back to my old high school self.

That wasn’t realistic.

Over time, and lots of failed diets, I gave up. I finally started to grow. I stopped the diets, took that pressure off of me, and just started loving. Today, I am finally able to look in the mirror at all my imperfections and love them. That has never happened! I finally have jeans that fit just right and make me feel good! Honestly don’t even know what size they are 🤔

I FEEL GOOD.

About my body anyway.

I know I’m far from healthy. I skip a lot of meals, add too much creamer to my coffee, drink a lot, eat sweets, and I don’t work out as much as I should. I feel it in my sluggish ways and moody attitude. I’m far from healthy.

So now, it’s the new year, and my husband and I face a new chapter in our lives and try to battle the continuous battle these strokes have left us. We’re starting a “diet” tomorrow. But it’s different. We’re going in with the intentions of being healthy, not skinny. We want to live a long, healthy life, hopefully free from dementia. If we loose weight along the way, great! But that’s not the goal.

I feel good about this and what this means for our family. It’s going to be rough, for sure, but so worth it!! I’ve learned that going in with the mindset to loose X amount of weight in X amount of time doesn’t always help, and why most diets fail. Going in with the mindset that you’re changing your ways to be healthy, period, makes the difference.

Hope you’ll be along for the ride! If you haven’t yet, go follow me on Instagram! I’ll be posting more of what we’re doing there. Instagram – Anchor Mom

Hello 2019! 🎉

2018… in one word… emotional.

We went into 2018 recovering from my husband’s strokes. Doctors appointment, PT appointments, CT scans… It was an emotional rollercoaster, to say the least.

Our lives were so insanely busy all throughout 2018 that I felt as if I was failing as a mother and wife. I was overwhelmed and became disorganized, making me more overwhelmed. Emotions went into overload.

Then October hit. We get a call about my uncle, my hero, being back in the hospital. My father and I drove down to see him one last time. November 7, 2018, he gained his angel wings.

I cried more than one should cry. I yelled more than I ever have in my life. I lost control of my house, my sanity, and my self.

I vowed before New Years that 2019 will be different. And I have a plan…

Starting the New Year with celebrating. If the last few years have taught me anything, it is that life it too short and so precious. Cherish every moment of it!

2019 will mark my husband and I being married for 10 years. 10 YEARS! And in those 10 years, I can count on one hand our fights. We have conquered so much in the almost 15 years we’ve been together. Family troubles, loss of loved ones, loosing our childhood homes, 4 pregnancies (3 babies and 1 angel baby), financially struggling, moving from our hometown, starting a new life in a new place, suffering two strokes… that’s just the gist of it.

But no matter what we have been thru, we’ve always come out better and stronger! Life has thrown everything it has at us, and we stood up, hand in hand, and smiled. The strength of our love, being best friends, and our faith in our glorious God has allowed us to be where we are today.

New Years Eve was busy for us. We threw a family celebration for our community to ring in the New Year. It was a packed house! We went home that night (well, 1am), with the biggest smiles and full of joy. We gave our community something they longed for, all while raising money for our beloved Fairgrounds. It was the best feeling.

As we walked up to the house, my husband asks, all concerned “What are those lights on the porch?!” We inched closet and closer finally revealing my surprise.

A big lit up sign reading “Will you marry me… again?”

He was beyond ecstatic! He said “YES!”

2019 we will renew our vows that we said to each other 10 years ago. We will celebrate the strength of our love and where we started to where we are today. We will celebrate with our family and closest friends, most importantly, with our children. To make it 10 years and love each other more than we did that day at the alter is a reason for celebrating.

And celebrating we will!