Day 2: Plant-Based and Hungry

Welcome back everyone and thank you for joining me once again on this crazy journey life has brought to me!

I am happy to announce that I didn't sleep as late this morning (go me!). I was however, quite sore from yesterday's workout, but still completed the one for this morning anyway. After my morning coffee, I scarfed down an orange pepper and my family all walked up to the store together with our wagon to refill our water and get groceries. What was the first thought that went through my mind? "I am going to be so tempted to buy something I am no longer eating."

Have any of you made big changes in the way you have eaten? Perhaps you have been diagnosed with diabetes, high cholesterol, or one of the myriad of other illnesses that would cause a doctor to prescribe altered eating habits. Perhaps you, like me, just longed for and needed a change. Whatever the case may be, if you have ever made any big change in your life in ANY department, you know how easy it is to fall back into old habits! It's like thinking you're a bird, diving off a cliff all ready to soar and then looking down at your hands and realizing you're not, in fact, a bird.

It wasn't like that at all! I was so surprised! It may be because my husband and oldest son went and got everything they wanted, and my youngest and I went straight to the fruits and veggies and got all of that stuff, but the hardest part for me was after we returned home.

I ate like a traveler who had been stranded in the desert for a month! Consuming a plate of cucumbers, strawberries and watermelon like I hadn't eaten in days, then still feeling hungry and diving into the oranges and nuts (haha). It seemed I was insatiably hungry!

That's when I got a REALLY strong craving for salty steak. When I say a really strong craving, I mean my mouth was watering. I could all but taste it and I've never eaten much steak to begin with!

Chugging water was not helping at all, so I consulted the chapter in my book on cravings and found out that I was simply feeling stress. To YouTube I went in search of the most relaxing music I could get my hands on. With my kids turning my living room into a parkour area to try out their new flips and handstands, and my husband all but losing his mind from all the noise and disaster, there I sat, eyes closed, palms up, embracing every single note of the music I had chosen, willing the cravings to subside.

Shockingly enough, in only two short minutes, the cravings were completely gone and didn't return for the rest of the day! I felt so relieved that I didn't give in.

After that, the day went pretty smoothly...Netflix for the kids, my husband tried to get some work done with slow internet (which didn't work, so he gave up), and I racked my brain about how to create more income selling books and courses to purchase our new home, which seems to be a CONSTANT thought on my mind. Mom's worry about EVERYTHING!

In full transparency, I fear the day the we have to leave where we are, because we will have to get towed out of the spot we are in and park on a street, more than likely facing bylaw officers almost every day as our rig is not roadworthy anymore, but I have to have faith.

Nearing the end of day 2, I realized how overwhelmed I felt. Knowing that it was already after 3pm and I had 2 blogs and a chapter of a book to write, I still had to shower, do the dishes, clean up the recycling, walk to the bank to take out money for the septic truck tomorrow, and finish this website so I could publish it.

Luckily, my husband rocks! He did the dishes, recycling, and walked to the bank so I could focus on my writing. I did, however, try out a new recipe I've been longing to for quite some time now, and made an almond flour wrap with lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers for dinner (my family had pizza). Let's just say that in the past I have a HORRIBLE history with recipes that taste so disgusting they are deemed inedible! Surprisingly enough, I loved it and am already planning on making it again! Let me know if you'd like the recipe I used and I'd be happy to share it with you all!

So all in all, day 2 was a total success. I feel great, am very full, and am proud of myself for not giving in to my cravings or my desire to buy a Rockstar energy drink at the grocery store (haha).

Let's see what tomorrow brings!

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