Getting past "the same 'ol, same 'ol ...

Since beginning my most recent weight-loss journey (of which this blog often refers to) I have just felt like I'm right back into the same old song and dance (geez, that line really ages me, doesn't it?!). I felt the joy and excitement of beginning another journey, that feeling like "this is it!! This time I'll do it!!" But unfortunately I've fallen back into the same rut, after losing some weight, life has gotten in the way, and I seem to have lost my steam ... my get-go ... my motivation ... my willpower. I have been having very difficult "bouts" of fibromyalgia over the last few weeks, and it's dragging me down ... but I swear, it WILL NOT keep me there. The weather is beautiful, I've been out walking, and my Wii Balance Board FINALLY came Monday! I'm so excited!

So knowing that feeling was back of being "stuck in a rut" again, I decided to go about doing some research. Not just about dieting. But about Fibromyalgia. Well, I hit the motherload. I found some amazing information about both, that ties in so closely, that I feel it's already beginning to work. I've literally had my 'AHA' moment.
For the last 15 years or so I've been eating "low fat". But I'm still fat. I'm not burning off the fat, I'm keeping it because the "low fat" products tend to contain more carbs, sugars, junk, whatever. I've been eating for years what I thought was "good" carbs ... low fat, high fibre. So I'm fat from eating low fat ... go figure. But what blew me away even more is what I learned this week from a webinar ... that fibromyalgia sufferers should avoid wheat. Basically, it's recommended that we eat a gluten-free diet. Wow ... didn't see that coming. And no milk. Of course I'm addicted to skim milk (low fat, yet again). Yogurt and cheese are to be eaten in moderation if tolerated. And soy ... didn't realize how much food contains some form of soy. It just blows your mind! And ... drum roll please ... the WORST food for dieters that keeps them fat, and the WORST food for fibromyalgia sufferers: artificial sweeteners. Aspartame. Diet pops. Poison city. Worst thing ever invented on the planet. Someone out there is getting richer by the second by making people incredibly sick. Our livers can't process the stuff, it's working so hard to rid our bodies of all the toxins from this crap that it can't work to burn fat. So all us diet pop drinkers continue to get fatter. And all those toxins make fibromyalgia symptoms worse ten-fold. And I can prove that ... the days I drink diet pop, my trigger points, especially in my arms, hurt like hell. And my hands are useless. Now I know why.
So I've been working diligently over the last few days ridding our house of all those sins ... of course it's going to be a gradual process, can't go cold turkey on this or my body will go into shock mode. And yes, I have discovered that eating a gluten-free diet will take some work, but I'm willing to put in the effort to feel better. Two weekends ago I had the worst crash and burn I've ever had, and I don't EVER want to feel like that again. And now I've had my AHA moment, I'm determined I'm getting past that "same 'ol, same 'ol.
Bye bye, rut ...

Thanks for reading,
Janet xo