Fruit Explosion

I am confused. Ok not confused. I get it. Fruit is actually sugar (but pretty and in guise of Natural Goodnesss). Sugar is bad. I was supposed to have given up sugar. Oops I haven’t. So yes, not confused. Just cheating. Everyday. Major #faileo.

I have spent most of this week “researching” various blogs (Robb et al), health programs and downloading lovely eBooks. All paleo (or close variants of), all no sugar, and all rather prescriptive on the rule no fruit. Well mostly. If you have weight issues, inflammation issues, fertility issues holding off back on the fruit is kind of preferred. Read more here if you think I am full of it.

Conclusion: I am unable to find a program specifically designed to allow me to have many serves of fruit per day. I tell myself I am allowed fruit leniency as I am giving up warm hugs of dough (you may call these hugs muffins, peanut butter and honey toast, ham & cheese croissants and the like). In actual fact it seems I am a sugarslut and am very much addicted.

Confession: I had a coconut chocolate bar this week (rationale: it mentioned it cocoa percentage in its name and it had coconut in it). I have also consumed mango, nectarine, grapes and cherries. There is more but I don’t want to scare you. Again, my rational is equally as screwed: the fruit was seasonal and locally grown (who cares), and summer is not here for much longer, so I simply must. Eat. The. Fruits.  

End of argument. As you may notice I didn’t put much thought into these excuses. A true addict at work. I did because I could. That is all.  

Sugar is my weakness. Who knows it might even be as evil as ‘they’ say and be the reason I am able to pinch a jigglely fat bit on my waist when I jab my pesky IVF meds daily.

So with all that in mind, here is a bit of an update to my “Make Me a Better Person <& make a baby>’ Mission

Preparation

• Eat all the fruit in fridge as wastefulness is as naughty as piggyness?

Stage 1

• Stop eating fruit.

End of mission.

Goal

Svelteness of the body, which will make it extremely hard to find a jigglely fat bit to pop the IVF med into.

Pros

The usual, look & feel better. Blah blah.

Cons 

Maybe have to go junky mode with IVF meds and just jab any old place. In between toes anyone?

I will let you know how I go. 

Junkyfruitlady xx

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day one (again)

I have been here before. Many times. I am in fact the queen of ‘beginning stuff and don’t follow through’. Except this time is unique.

I am on day one of a paleo strictness thing. Partly for health (as this is just the best way for me, and everyone else, to eat actually) but also to make babies. I am a few jabs into IVF and am hoping a non-inflammation supremely elite eating program will assist with creating an uber-inviting environment for a little cell division. 

They (being Robb, Mark and #whole9life and what not) say this is the best thing ever and I tend to agree having followed these eating templates for some time. It also seems a shame not to try everything in my arsenal to encourage success. What is the worth of a few evening biscuits anyway? Certainly not a continuation of fat and barren.

I will now enter clean eating phase one: hungry as a horse with only meat and vege to satiate, spending the next few days yearning for chocolate and sticky baked badness. This is always the case for me after 2 weeks of pure indulgence, I tend to have uncontrollable hunger and slight food obsessiveness. 

I gave it a good dash the last few days (weeks, who's judging), my primary excusing being “maybe this is the last muffin I will eat in 10 months…” 10 months = 1 month IVF plus 9 months baby incubation. 

This program (way of life, whatever) gets easier. With a little help from my beloved friend intermittent fasting, I will calm down the hungry horse in a few days.

My Eat Rules

(I respond well to rules, I know this is not everyone’s cup of tea though)

Eat Paleo (you know: meat, vege, fruit, nuts, seeds, little starch)

Eat Deviations

(slight changes in rules to encourage longevity and success)

• fruit - phase one 2 serves per day, until I get less hungry and will then cut down to one serve per day
• no nuts - I am uncontrollable regarding portion size so no nuts for me. Ever
• meat - happy (free range), healthy (organic) grass fed and finished meat only
• eggs -  happy (free range), healthy (organic)
• no paleo treats. They are simply not paleo
• little yogurt/ cheese - raw, organic, free range, dairy

My Move Program

(This is a little tedious and uninspired as no CrossFit is allowed until the IVF cycle is completed. (They say “until a heartbeat” but that is crazy optimistic talk, so I will just go with no CrossFit for “a little while”). 

So with that in mind here is the updated Move Program

• walk home from work most days (5km or 40mins ish)
• soft sand beach (fast walk a few times a week)
• steep stairs walk (alternating with the above a few times a week)
• ocean swim (once a week)
• bench dips and push ups (daily to failure but only to capacity that will allow for a casual chat whilst performing said movements)

Inspiring right? Oh well I am in to it and on to it.

Anyway, I am excited, and am looking forward to a month of eating clean and moving sans bending over and cortisol rushing. #Bring it.

JLF-H xx

Footnote of Retrospectiveness

(this is the section I will reflect on one of my historical initiatives for self improvement). I am full of self life enhancers and personal rules.

• say yes to things
• follow through with things I said yes to, with actually doing the yes thing. 

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