My BodyBlog

My journey towards fitness, muscle mass and leanness has been accomplished so far with small steps.  I had to break a lot of bad habits and introduce a lot of good ones, and I the only way I could make permanent changes was to to do it one step at a time.  My latest step has been to start eating cottage cheese!  This is one food I detested.  The only time I ever ate it was when it was cooked up as part of a lasagna, and you couldn’t really see it or taste it.  I buy the groceries in our household, and since I’ve been eating clean I fill the cart with healthy foods but always bypass the cottage cheese, never giving it a second thought.

On bodyspace many members eat cottage cheese, a great low-fat and high protein food.  I’d been reading about it for a year, but I had lots of alternatives in my diet so I didn’t think I had to go there.  However, if I’m going to achieve my 2009 abs goal, I have to further sharpen my diet.  I need to reduce carbs even more, especially later in the day, and I have to replace it with more lean protein…cottage cheese was one of the obvious choices.  So I went out and bought a tub of fat-free cottage cheese and said to myself ‘I’ll at least eat this much and see if I can stand it’.  It’s not appealing to the eye, but I can get past that if it helps me achieve my goals…but could I handle the taste?  My first time I had a spoonful, eaten in small portions and washed down with water.  Not as bad as I had expected!   The second time I ate a spoonful with no water.  It just tasted like cheese to me…the third time I put two big spoonfulls in a bowl and ate it while watching a video…it was gone before I knew it and I didn’t mind it at all!  So I’ve proven to myself that I can eat cottage cheese and I can even enjoy it, so it’ll be a part of my food from now on!

A small step for most, a large step for me.  I had to overcome an attitude that was ingrained in me since childhood.  So many of the steps on my journey have involved overcoming a mental barrier, not a physical one…the way we think can hold us back from our goals but it can also be a powerful asset in helping us reach our bodybuilding goals…so if something like cottage cheese is lurking in your life, think about it again…you may just find a new tool to help you on your journey like I did!

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