StressMonkey’s BodyBlog

I was making small talk with my trainer between one of my sets and asked him what his other clients were like.  I was surprised when he told me he trains mostly women and only has three male clients.  One is a former football player, one is a soon-to-be Navy SEAL, and the other is me. 

Thanksgiving is a strange holiday.  You pretty much are doomed.  Every kind of "wonderfully tasting but horrible for you" food is going to be available to you.  Ever since I’ve started changing my eating habits for the better and started training properly I’ve noticed a definite difference for the better in how I feel.  It’s so disheartening to see people you care about sabotaging any chance they have of feeling the same way.  Thanksgiving gives you a chance to spend a few days with relatives you’re normally not around.  Some of my family (who I care deeply about) just worry me sick with their eating habits.  Everything they eat is either fried or smothered in gravy or mayonnaise.  One person in particular won’t go a single day without eating a McFlurry from McDonald’s.  It’s absolutely horrifying.   It really upsets me because I care about them and unfortunately it causes me to react in ways that cause more tension than helpfulness.  Sure I ate a ton of things that were awful for me on Thanksgiving, but that was one day and one day only.  After that it’s back to my normal schedule I’ve been following.  Once you realize how great a healthy lifestyle makes you feel it’s inconceivable to go back to eating the garbage you used to.  In college I was a huge fast food junkie.  Now the thought of eating that food makes me neausous.  I just hope I can find better ways of helping the people I care about realize this.

It always amuses me to no end the advice I read for fitness diets concerning soda.  There always seems to be a common theme…

• “Once you stop drinking soda you won’t even miss it!”
• “Once you start drinking a lot of water instead if you try to drink soda it will taste too sweet and you won’t like it!”

I had a cheat day yesterday and had my first sip of a Coke in two weeks.  The only thought that went through my mind was "DAYUM this is good!"