I am home! After an amazing two weeks in Utah at The Biggest Loser Resort, I am now on my own. Let me tell you there is nothing like jumping right back into real life. While I was gone Rex turned 3 years old. We had a party before I left, he went to a Mariner’s game for his actual birthday and yesterday was his party for everyone.
I got home late Saturday night. Sunday I made breakfast from the resort cookbook. After breakfast, Suzy, myself, and the boys walked to the store to get the things I would need to prepare meals for the week. One of the benefits of me going to Fitness Ridge is that Suzy now has an extra chef in the kitchen. This week I am making all the meals.
We got back from the store and put the boys down for a nap before the big party. I had been preparing myself mentally all morning for the birthday party. I knew that there was going to be food there that wasn’t that great for my calorie count but I knew I could survive.
I am writing down all my food so I can track my calories now. I knew that I had budgeted in for the hot dogs that were going to be served as well as any other “incidentals”. I did pretty good compared to my past bbq antics. This time something felt different.
Rex blew out his candles, for the third time in a week, and the cake and ice cream were served. I had a small piece of cake and a little ice cream. When that was done I grabbed a cupcake and bit the top off it and threw the bottom away. When I was done eating, I went and sat by my brother in law to talk a little bit. I had been sitting there about 5 minutes when my eyes started to water and my stomach started churning.
I jumped up and ran to the bathroom because my cake, cupcake, and ice cream were on their way up. I got in there and it was all over. I vomitted. About ten minutes after that I had another round. This time there was someone in the bathroom so I had to go throw up outside.
I’m not telling you this to gross you out. When I sat there afterward, I realized that I had only been putting healthy and nutritious things in my body for the last 2 weeks. My body had gotten use to those things that quickly and that is what it wanted. My body was telling, and showing me, that it doesn’t enjoy the cake and ice cream like it use to and that it would rather have the nutritious food I had been fueling it with the previous 2 weeks.
That is what I will be doing. It is definitely not worth it to me to feel how I did yesterday. To top it off, I woke up this morning feeling like I had a hangover similar to the ones I use to get when I spent a night out drinking. Will I never have cake or ice cream again? Of course not. I will eat those things again just not like I have in the past.
My body learned how to crave healthy and nutritious foods while I was at the resort. I am going to give my body the foods that I know are going to help me reach my goal of being lean and fit. To do anything else is a disservice to myself and my body.
See you tomorrow!
#1 by Connie - June 28th, 2010 at 16:10
Sometimes we have to learn the hard way about putting unhealthy foods in our bodies. I think if our bodies could talk, we would be getting yelled at when we eat thinks that are not good for us. Glad you shared that experience though, because I’ve always said that my body is more sensitive to junk food after it has been cleaned out with healthy foods for a period of time. Your experience prooved that I was not imagining it. Glad you are home and cooking for Suzy this week. Bet she loves it!!!