Day 2 of 9 Day Detox

I had a challenging day yesterday. I did good with the eating, I ate my intended fruits and veggies and drank 48oz's of water. I did my early morning oil pulling and drank 1oz of LimuPlus. What I didn't do was my 30 minutes of walking. It's not that I didn't have the time, I pretty much chose not to.

I feel that I pretty much went through a withdrawel stage last night. I've noticed when I used to binge eat it was usually around dinner time or late at night. I would snack on high-calorie food, eating chips, chocolate, drinking soda, etc. I had this urge last night to go raid the fridge. I can't explain it. But I was consciously aware that my mind basically was debating as to whether or not I should go get something to eat ( other than fruit or vegetables ). Seriously, I was even coming up with justifications or reasons why I should. Like, "it won't hurt, you can always get back on track tomorrow" or "you deserve it, you've been doing good so far... no one will know". That reminds me of the definition that I heard about excuses, which is; Excuses is a well planned lie. So that's what I felt that I was doing at the time. I was coming up with the reasoning or the excuse before taking the action so I can justify my behavior. It was interesting and i'm happy to say that I did not give in to the temptation. I could have easily, but it was also easy not to. I'm a victor!

So the thing is, if you can do something once... you can do it again. And I definitely feel that when I get these urges to eat from my list of no-no's I will know how to resist. Normally in the past I would have gave in and then feel guilty afterwards. I no longer want to return to those bad habits. Habits are developed over time, and by me removing my old habits and replacing them with new habits that will serve me and assist with me reaching my goal weight. I noticed also that once I distracted myself from thinking that I needed/deserved something sweet or salty... the urges disappeared. I was on a training soon after that episode and afterwards I was no longer wanting to eat.

My goals for today is to get my 30 minutes of walking in. I'm also going to continue having my fruits and veggies and drink 64oz's of water. I'm thinking about investing in some excercize equiptment to help me with excercizing at home. Maybe some dumbells or one of those excercize balls. I will also continue doing my oil pulling and drinking my 2oz's of LimuPlus.