#Mamavation Mondays: Return to Healthy & the Fast Metabolism Diet

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I just want to start out by saying that I fell off The Fast Metabolism Diet, and immediately felt like crap.  Coffee was back, wine was back, balance was OUT the window. My water consumption was back down to a glass or so a day, exercise was done for, and I was back to what’s a vegetable.

In the light of this, I’ve decided to go back on the diet, somewhat. First of all, I’m not going to beat myself up about it.  I have key components of this eating style that I need to do:

• drinking all that water
• the regular exercise portion
• the food itself-lots and lots of veggies, no nitrates, healthy fats
• regular, regular eating! every 3 hours is a must do

I haven’t done that great so far but I plan on also reducing coffee as much as possible, eliminating glutens & most dairy, and dropping out of drinking more than on weekends, a little.  In other words, I’m taking the GOOD that I learned from the Fast Metabolism Diet and turning it into less of detox diet, and more of a healthy eating plan the works for me on a regular basis.

So for me, it’s unrealistic to completely eliminate coffee, alcohol, dairy, or chocolate, and always eliminate glutens – although I’m getting better with that last.  But if I can pick and choose, that will help.

 I need to start feeling better.  I need my skin to glow again.  I need not to feel like an absolute train wreck.

It’s funny how I’m so finely attuned to diet right now, nutrition and what it is – or is not – doing to or for me.  I hope and pray that in the next  year, my husband and I can join our kids in doing homeopathy for ourselves, to resolve all the other issues – for me, thyroid and stroke prevention. (Is there a natural way to thin my blood that reduces risk?)  Perhaps I get on a plan to see a naturopath as well, rather than being managed by a straight out MD, or perhaps, an MD / DO, if I can find a very good one.

That said, I got on the scale this morning and was down to 118.4lbs, so even doing The Fast Metabolism Diet just for 2 weeks is STILL having a positive effect on my body!

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