So, I am writing in my journal, weighing food, eating clean 99 percent of the time. I am doing daily flossing and moving my body in some way every day. I am little by little, getting rid of one item that I do not use, at a time-after getting rid of 17 garbage bags of things! I am trying to follow my low and slow path.

But damn! When you get into your 40s and up, as a woman, the freaking hormones+ I used to be able to eat clean and drop 15 pounds in a few weeks due to no processed foods and decreased inflammation. Now, I have maybe lost 7 lbs in 3 weeks! I have had 3 cheats in a month!

And I am drinking close to a gallon of water a day, doing the carb cycling, cooking 99 percent of what I eat, from scratch! So as much as I am proud of myself for sticking with all of these lifestyle changes, all at once, I am pissed about the weight!!

I workout 15 min a day, because I am physical on so many of my jobs. I am on my feet or moving around a lot. And going from place to place. So I do incremental workouts, where I change the intensity every 60 seconds, which works btw. But apparently not as well as it did when I was 30 or when I turned 40!

My health is better no matter what because of what I am putting into my body. But dang, I want to see my stomach pooch go down like it always has when I nix the gluten and dairy and it is not really budging! Due to perimenopause I guess.

My point in sharing this is that we can come up with all the plans and include flowery language and buy notebooks to proclaim our wishes/plans. But we all must realize that there must be room for things not flowing smoothly or going as planned. We have to build in space and expectation for things to be complicated or difficult.

I am obviously proud of myself for starting, continuing and improving. But dang I wish the weight loss was faster. Slow and steady is great for most things. We all have that one area or more where we want to power through quickly. Unfortunately, most success stories stem from viewing said goal as a marathon. Not a race.

~simply

Dee