The End to the Ultimate Reset and the Beginning of Everything Else!


Today I am one week past my end of the Ultimate Reset.


What is the Ultimate Reset:  

To me it was truly a complete nutritional and mental way to change the way I eat.  It was also just a nice break from having to think about how I eat.  The Ultimate tells you how to do everything, down to what to eat and when.

 Why would you do the Ultimate Reset:

I did the Ultimate Reset for a few reasons.  One simple one was simply the challenge of doing it...however the real reason I did it was because I hit a plateau...I lie.  I hit a straight up increase in weight.  Every day I weighed more than the day before.  I needed a jump start.  I had been paleo and even though I was eating healthy I wasn't eating enough.  I was nursing and frankly my body was out of whack.  I planned to stop the nursing and thought what a great way to reset.
Look at what I got to eat for breakfast!

And so, what happened?

Well, I know what everyone wants to know.  Did I lose weight?  Yes!  Did I lose as much as I wanted to?  No.  Did I start losing and keep losing?  Yes!  But that doesn't really answer the full question.  I felt energized and exhausted and really like I was giving my body a jump start.  I took the extra time I had from not exrecising and spent more time with my kiddos in the morning.  I also did a LOT of food prep.

  

What did I learn during the Ultimate Reset?


The most delicious salad!
1.  I attach food to events.  Its Cinco de Mayo.  Must make Mexican Food.  Its the Kentucky derby?  Must have good appetizers.  The list goes on and on.

2.  I love coffee.  I drink coffee when I'm sad.  When I'm happy.  When I'm hungry.  When I just ate.  When I'm tired.  When I'm excited.  I always want coffee.  I don't even drink caffeinated coffee.  I just want it!

3.  Making a beautiful fantastic salad does not take that much time and can be delicious.

4.  I require a lot less food than I thought to be able to function.

5.  There are a lot more ways to make my favorite vegetables than I thought.  I need to add more vegetables to my life and to every, single meal and snack that I eat.  Also, making a beautiful salad like the one above is not hard to do.

6.  I missed being hungry.  I just was not hungry enough before the Ultimate Reset.  I wasn't eating enough and I was exercising too much.  My body was so out of whack.

What did I learn now that I'm a week out from the Ultimate Reset?  

1.  I don't crave food like I thought I would and the food I was sure I would miss I don't really want much.  My husband sat down with some ice cream tonight.   I LOVE ice cream but its not a special occasion.  I had a spoonful, was more than satisfied and moved on.

2.  The Ultimate Reset provide fantastic recipes and for 5 days after the reset I stuck mostly to those recipes.

3.  I like eating cleaning.  I like eating lots of vegetables in big bowls without tons of processed food and so does my body.  My body runs better that way and I am going to continue to eat that way.

My food to go.
4.  I can eat healthy anywhere and with any distraction.  During this 3 week period I traveled and visited family that I normally look forward to partly because of the phenomenal food.  I just packed my food and ate what I needed.

5.  I still need to drink more water!  I thought I drank enough until I was drinking a gallon a day and felt great!  Time to start tracking my water and eat a lot more of it.


Biggest Takeaways:

I have had two huge takeaways.

1.  If I heard it once I've heard a thousand times.  In order to lose weight you must eat.  You eat to lose!  Not starve to lose.  My body is happy when I nourish it with whole foods.  Even in the last week I feel light.  My weight hasn't change since the day after the reset but I feel better.  My exercises are stronger and I am stronger.

2.  I am an emotional eater.  I want to wallow and celebrate with food.  That's not foods purpose.  That is what a good book or a good workout is for.  Food is to nourish me.  End of story.

And that is the end of my Ultimate Reset story but really it is just the beginning.



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