Have it - Crave it

I am a genius!!!
This last week, I have just not been able to get my hand out of the candy jar.  After months, why now?  Why all of the sudden, can I not break this habit?  Uhhhh....  The last time that this happened to me, I got on a chocolate protein bar kick.  I could not eat one more serving of grilled chicken breast so I replaced one meal with the bar.  Before long, I wanted chocolate all the time.  I just craved it. It got to the point where I was eating any brown substance that came in a wrapper.  I didn't care what flavor, brand or type it was.  If it had cocoa in it, it was headed to my belly. So the only way I could kick the habit was to pretty much detox from it all together.  Until you start eating clean, you do not recognize what foods do to your body.  When I don't have sugar, I don't crave sugar.  After a cheat day where I have some, the next 3 days is so darn hard to get back on track.  Fast forward to last night.  Six, that's the number of pieces of chocolate I had yesterday afternoon at work.  After the past week, six is a slow day.  Something was going on.  Something had to change.  I sat down and gave it some thought.  What was different?  What had I changed in my plan that is any different from the last few months?  My protein shake!  Depending on my meal schedule and workout schedule, I supplement my protein with a shake at least once a day.  Right before Christmas, the Vitamin Shoppe had run out of Fruit Punch so I just grabbed Chocolate.  How bad could that be?  HA!!!!!!!!!!   Well, that little switch up from Fruit Punch to Chocolate might have been more detrimental then I originally thought. Just to test my theory, on the way home from the gym I popped into my local Vitamin Shoppe and grabbed my trusty powder of fruity wonder. At home, I made my post workout shake like normal.  No magic happened. This morning, I packed a shake as one of my replacement meals and went along my workday sipping it.  As normal.    That's where the magic started to spark.  I noticed that as I was walking around the office all morning, I had not made one trip to the candy jar. It's now 1p.m. and I have not even been tempted.  Am I on to something?   I think that I might be.

I have learned so much about the inner workings of my mind and body.  It is amazing what your body will tell you when you stop to listen to it. By eating clean, it has allowed me to feel what goes on in my body and I can actually isolate different reactions and note them. Interesting.

Lesson learned? I think so.