Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Michelle's 40-Day ChallengeIt was really hard to come up with the "thing" I'm going to give up for 40-days, especially because my therapeutic diet is very restrictive by itself - what more could I give up? I really started thinking about it, and one little thought in particular helped me ...
"I'm supposed to be giving up these foods anyway."
It's that supposed to that really got me. Today's just my 5th day of the therapeutic diet, but I did give myself permission to indulge over the weekend for Chinese New Year. And Dr. Kim did say I could gradually start implementing her suggestions if I wanted to.
BUT!!!
When I really started to think about the diet, and the larger picture - how everything really is connected and inter-related, it seemed foolish to me NOT to implement all changes instead of picking and choosing which ones to follow. It's kinda like I'm being counterproductive you know? Like, why bother drinking my apple cider vinegar/honey tea to help soothe my GERD if I'm still going to eat spicy foods? Duh!!
So, my 40-Day Challenge for Lent is to give up 100% of the "no" foods in the therapeutic diet. As a recap, they are:
- all animal milk, cheese
- potatoes
- processed foods
- all caffeinated teas, coffee
- all wheat, corn products
- grain-fed beef, pork
- fried foods
- alcohol
- commerical eggs
- peanuts/peanut butter
- all dried fruits
- sweeteners
It's going to be an interesting 40-days! Good luck everyone!
Labels: February Challenge, Group Challenge, Michelle
Posted by Michelle @ The 2007 Challenge ::
8:35 AM ::
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