If you spoke to most females of the age of 35 living in a first world country
(thank you God for the opportunity), they would attest that they have tried every diet under the sun....
I am one of those women.
My legs and ass are the most opposite to voluptuous that you can imagine and my calves always get the ol'googly eyes from other females, wishing they had slender calves like mine.
So not all is bad BUT you know how we function right...the fat is always sexier on the other side.
'I wish I had a bigger butt'
'I wish my fat went to my ass and thighs instead of my tummy'
'I wish...I wish...I wish...'
Well it worked, the Atkins diet was effective. For a short time...I lost so much weight, I didn't understand the possibilities until I lost it all. It felt great to no longer be chubby and fat. I had a new lease on life and charged ahead to live it! The only problem was that, it was not sustainable. Although I didn't gain the weight back on, my mental state was challenged and I got my first taste of diet failure. Which is when you think the diet is no longer working because the number on the scales is no longer decreasing. This was a diet I tried on and off over the years but could never get the same results as the first time I did it.
The first time, when I didn't have any expectations.
I didn't seem to gain weight because I seemed to have burned alot of energy on the dance floor at the local clubs most nights a week.
I didn't know alot about food during these years, all I knew was to eat anything to curb my hunger, when I was hungry. Which was mainly fast food.
I then traveled for a few years, living in the UK with my diet slightly changing from socially drinking Vodka cruisers to daily drinking of Snakebites (beer and black currant cordial...yes...gross...but good at the time), Guinness from the tap, crisps (chips in Oz), greasy kebabs and very very cheap and stodgy breakfasts. I recall at one stage during the 2.5 years I was there, I chose the Vegetarian lifestyle for about 9 months which was just more stodge without meat and I gained weight...and lots of it.
And upon my return back to Aussie soil, I am pretty sure that the surge of endorphin's purely from the increased access to sunshine alone, raised my metabolism and within days of arriving back, I lost a few kilos quite effortlessly. But none the less, my lifestyle remained the same with my taste for booze maturing. I was sipping on hard spirits and red wine in bottles, instead of sweet beer and red wine in boxes but my food diet shifted to less stodge and more salads
Wow...I was such a piss head!
Everything started to slow down in the Ethanol department when I hit 27 years old. I met a man (ex husband) whom of which, inspired me to get straight and serious about life. He was the logical, structured, sensible type and before we knew it, nights out ripping up the dance floors blind drunk in the clubs, soon turned into, nights in, watching Seinfeld re-runs and eating Spaghetti bolognese that his mum made.
A year together and very few drunken nights, we planned on popping a bun in my oven and that is when the binge drinking stopped in it's tracks.
Fast forward to when our first born turned 1 and thats when I started to get all passionate about health...
So for all you readers still in their 20's...THERE IS STILL TIME!
I would geek out on fitness model stories and images I found online while baby Jonah slept in his cot, which was the catalyst of me deciding to tick a Fitness Modelling comp off of my bucket list. Right there and then, I decided that I wanted to experience every aspect of competition prep and get my little mum bod into shape, to step on stage.
The adventure was epic and I smashed my physical goal but it felt like there was a cost. As soon as I stepped off stage (or so what it felt like) I felt like all the colour from my skin drained from my face and the long awaited exhaustion kicked in. The blood in my veins, ran blue, red, purple, yellow and every colour of the pre-workouts, BCAA's, sleep enhancers and supplements that I ingested during the prep period. I felt like I was a walking chemical war bomb. I was cranky, anxious and snappy. My head was most times foggy and my road rage was insane. This impacted my relationships with my husband and my children.
During the prep, I had also taken up the habit of bulimia. The pressures of leaning out, resulted in me purging up all the naughty meals I craved because I was so darn hungry all the time. When I wanted cake, I would eat the cake and then head to the toilet and sick it up. I felt dirty...and so that's when this diet fizzled out into the oblivion where I vowed to not do it 'this way' again. The mind jam was not worth it.
Paleo is where we eat how Mother Nature intended. All natural foods from the ground, from the trees, not harvested and definitely not chemically tampered with (which is most foods on the supermarket shelf).
Much like a lot of what I get passionate about in life, my love for eating this way peaked to the point of starting a local restaurant that served Paleo food. I believed in it so much (and still do). The concept made sense to me. Just eat real food #jerf
It made sense because my body loved it. The sight, the taste, the digestion and the connection. I felt connected to the food and the earth.
While you are here with me at the moment, I would like to take this opportunity to smash one fallacy about PALEO that really gets on my nerves.
Paleo is a diet based on the Paleolithic era, when we imagine the Caveman to have existed BUT unlike the expectation we created of Caveman killing and eating dinosaurs and meat all the time... they didn't!!
Paleo is mainly plant based with some meat available when there was rare kill. Unfortunately, we have misconstrued Paleo to a meat prominent diet because we imagine the big Caveman eating their big Caveman steaks with their big Caveman Clubs and their Big Cave Woman Wives knocked out in their big Caveman Cave after the Big Caveman smacked her in the head with his Big Caveman Club.
NO...its not about the meat.
Fast forward a few years where I experimented with eating purely Plant based Vegan for 30 days. That was fun to start with but then my energy levels shot itself whilst on holiday in New Zealand. Instead of feeling energetic and full of excitement being in a fun new country with no responsibility, I wanted to nap all the time. I didn't actually realize it was because of my choice of diet that caused the lethargy, during this time, until I caved in and ate some local Taraunga beef jerky. As soon as that meat hit my tongue, a surge of energy shot through me, like an injection of heroin instantly running through the users veins, taking them to the land of Euphoria...(I have never done heroin, I have seen it in movies though)
It was Euphoric!
So the attempt of plant based living was short lived
I am glad to say that the cellular level cleansing worked a treat! A real treat!
So since then, I have been pro-actively experimenting with as much as I could around Nutritional Cleansing to connect with the best way to live for me. The best way to eat, to serve my functions as a human, to serve my ability to think, learn and process, to serve my energy requirements in and outside of training. The best way to eat because I love food soooo much and so that I enjoy eating, so I can eat to serve my tastebuds and my image....
2.5 years on and I can confidently share with you that I live with loads of energy, clarity and the leanest I have been in ions! Its like I have found my life elixir that combines my love for food, spirituality, energy, mental clarity and beauty! I look at least 10 years younger than I am and.... I no longer drink alcohol...at all!
Its taken a while, to say the least but I am the HEALTHIEST I have ever been and feel the most in alignment than I have ever felt!
In my next piece, I will go into detail of how I am where I am in my health. What is working for me right now and how I got here. Share with you the details so you can choose from it what you wish and maybe implement some changes in your lifestyle so you are in alignment.
So you too can also learn how our choices of eating can drastically impact our ability to manifest and attract what we desire into our lives. How it impacts our relationship with self and others and how it impacts our road to personal success...whatever that may be for you.
I am so excited to delve into this further!
P.s I may have overestimated the many diets I have been on...seems that I haven't tried all under the sun but it surely felt like it
Thank you for joining me...
I love you
Jax
(thank you God for the opportunity), they would attest that they have tried every diet under the sun....
I am one of those women.
Diet number 1:
The first 'Diet' I ever tried was the Atkins diet. Remember that one? Where you eliminated carbohydrates and ate more protein and fat. And also perhaps this was the universal beginning of the war against the dreaded carbs. I was 17 years old at this time. An insecure 17 year old who was one of the chubby ones in school, who never played sports and never sat with the cool kids or maybe that is just how I remember myself being. Genetically, I hold my fat around my midsection. When I gain weight, it sits in my tummy, back and shoulders and never....ever goes past my hips...EVER!
My legs and ass are the most opposite to voluptuous that you can imagine and my calves always get the ol'googly eyes from other females, wishing they had slender calves like mine.
So not all is bad BUT you know how we function right...the fat is always sexier on the other side.
'I wish I had a bigger butt'
'I wish my fat went to my ass and thighs instead of my tummy'
'I wish...I wish...I wish...'
Well it worked, the Atkins diet was effective. For a short time...I lost so much weight, I didn't understand the possibilities until I lost it all. It felt great to no longer be chubby and fat. I had a new lease on life and charged ahead to live it! The only problem was that, it was not sustainable. Although I didn't gain the weight back on, my mental state was challenged and I got my first taste of diet failure. Which is when you think the diet is no longer working because the number on the scales is no longer decreasing. This was a diet I tried on and off over the years but could never get the same results as the first time I did it.
The first time, when I didn't have any expectations.
Diet Number 2:
After the Aitkins diet, I turned 18 and my diet then consisted of Vodka Cruisers, Kebabs, KFC & croissants filled with whatever was on hand at the cafe I worked in at the time. This was on repeat pretty much every day.I didn't seem to gain weight because I seemed to have burned alot of energy on the dance floor at the local clubs most nights a week.
I didn't know alot about food during these years, all I knew was to eat anything to curb my hunger, when I was hungry. Which was mainly fast food.
I then traveled for a few years, living in the UK with my diet slightly changing from socially drinking Vodka cruisers to daily drinking of Snakebites (beer and black currant cordial...yes...gross...but good at the time), Guinness from the tap, crisps (chips in Oz), greasy kebabs and very very cheap and stodgy breakfasts. I recall at one stage during the 2.5 years I was there, I chose the Vegetarian lifestyle for about 9 months which was just more stodge without meat and I gained weight...and lots of it.
Booze + Stodge = A Fat and Jiggly Asian...
And upon my return back to Aussie soil, I am pretty sure that the surge of endorphin's purely from the increased access to sunshine alone, raised my metabolism and within days of arriving back, I lost a few kilos quite effortlessly. But none the less, my lifestyle remained the same with my taste for booze maturing. I was sipping on hard spirits and red wine in bottles, instead of sweet beer and red wine in boxes but my food diet shifted to less stodge and more salads
Wow...I was such a piss head!
Everything started to slow down in the Ethanol department when I hit 27 years old. I met a man (ex husband) whom of which, inspired me to get straight and serious about life. He was the logical, structured, sensible type and before we knew it, nights out ripping up the dance floors blind drunk in the clubs, soon turned into, nights in, watching Seinfeld re-runs and eating Spaghetti bolognese that his mum made.
A year together and very few drunken nights, we planned on popping a bun in my oven and that is when the binge drinking stopped in it's tracks.
Fast forward to when our first born turned 1 and thats when I started to get all passionate about health...
So for all you readers still in their 20's...THERE IS STILL TIME!
I would geek out on fitness model stories and images I found online while baby Jonah slept in his cot, which was the catalyst of me deciding to tick a Fitness Modelling comp off of my bucket list. Right there and then, I decided that I wanted to experience every aspect of competition prep and get my little mum bod into shape, to step on stage.
Diet number 3:
During Comp prep, I literally surrendered to being a yes sir, no sir kind of girl because I was in the front seat of the 'Lets learn about comp prep' bus, which made me a very disciplined and eager student. In the 9 months of riding this bus, I learnt about counting calories and macros, burning calories, lifting weights and taking supplements to enhance performance when the lack of calories amounted to a lack of energy and the lack of energy called for a lot of caffeinated and chemically derived supplements. |
| Before |
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| After (Yes I got a perm too) |
The adventure was epic and I smashed my physical goal but it felt like there was a cost. As soon as I stepped off stage (or so what it felt like) I felt like all the colour from my skin drained from my face and the long awaited exhaustion kicked in. The blood in my veins, ran blue, red, purple, yellow and every colour of the pre-workouts, BCAA's, sleep enhancers and supplements that I ingested during the prep period. I felt like I was a walking chemical war bomb. I was cranky, anxious and snappy. My head was most times foggy and my road rage was insane. This impacted my relationships with my husband and my children.
During the prep, I had also taken up the habit of bulimia. The pressures of leaning out, resulted in me purging up all the naughty meals I craved because I was so darn hungry all the time. When I wanted cake, I would eat the cake and then head to the toilet and sick it up. I felt dirty...and so that's when this diet fizzled out into the oblivion where I vowed to not do it 'this way' again. The mind jam was not worth it.
Diet number 4:
1 year after that experience, and having not lifted a weight or 'dieted' because of the chemically induced bulimic trauma I had experienced, my interest in natural living begun. I started to learn about meditation, incense and Paleo.Paleo is where we eat how Mother Nature intended. All natural foods from the ground, from the trees, not harvested and definitely not chemically tampered with (which is most foods on the supermarket shelf).
Much like a lot of what I get passionate about in life, my love for eating this way peaked to the point of starting a local restaurant that served Paleo food. I believed in it so much (and still do). The concept made sense to me. Just eat real food #jerf
It made sense because my body loved it. The sight, the taste, the digestion and the connection. I felt connected to the food and the earth.
While you are here with me at the moment, I would like to take this opportunity to smash one fallacy about PALEO that really gets on my nerves.
Paleo is a diet based on the Paleolithic era, when we imagine the Caveman to have existed BUT unlike the expectation we created of Caveman killing and eating dinosaurs and meat all the time... they didn't!!
Paleo is mainly plant based with some meat available when there was rare kill. Unfortunately, we have misconstrued Paleo to a meat prominent diet because we imagine the big Caveman eating their big Caveman steaks with their big Caveman Clubs and their Big Cave Woman Wives knocked out in their big Caveman Cave after the Big Caveman smacked her in the head with his Big Caveman Club.
NO...its not about the meat.
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| Nooooooo!! |
Fast forward a few years where I experimented with eating purely Plant based Vegan for 30 days. That was fun to start with but then my energy levels shot itself whilst on holiday in New Zealand. Instead of feeling energetic and full of excitement being in a fun new country with no responsibility, I wanted to nap all the time. I didn't actually realize it was because of my choice of diet that caused the lethargy, during this time, until I caved in and ate some local Taraunga beef jerky. As soon as that meat hit my tongue, a surge of energy shot through me, like an injection of heroin instantly running through the users veins, taking them to the land of Euphoria...(I have never done heroin, I have seen it in movies though)
It was Euphoric!
So the attempt of plant based living was short lived
 |
| Just before I fainted...pretty much |
Diet number 5:
Not long after that, I cleaned up my act with Nutritional Cleansing aka Isagenix. If you don't know what that is, its a system of super food shakes and intermittent fasting that supports nourishment on a cellular level. I had been introduced to it a year before AND loved it! But that was short lived because my lifestyle at the time consisted of lots of (post divorce) boozey nights and one night stands which didn't really go hand in hand with the system.I am glad to say that the cellular level cleansing worked a treat! A real treat!
So since then, I have been pro-actively experimenting with as much as I could around Nutritional Cleansing to connect with the best way to live for me. The best way to eat, to serve my functions as a human, to serve my ability to think, learn and process, to serve my energy requirements in and outside of training. The best way to eat because I love food soooo much and so that I enjoy eating, so I can eat to serve my tastebuds and my image....
2.5 years on and I can confidently share with you that I live with loads of energy, clarity and the leanest I have been in ions! Its like I have found my life elixir that combines my love for food, spirituality, energy, mental clarity and beauty! I look at least 10 years younger than I am and.... I no longer drink alcohol...at all!
Its taken a while, to say the least but I am the HEALTHIEST I have ever been and feel the most in alignment than I have ever felt!
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| Me now... Not bad for 35 years old!! |
In my next piece, I will go into detail of how I am where I am in my health. What is working for me right now and how I got here. Share with you the details so you can choose from it what you wish and maybe implement some changes in your lifestyle so you are in alignment.
So you too can also learn how our choices of eating can drastically impact our ability to manifest and attract what we desire into our lives. How it impacts our relationship with self and others and how it impacts our road to personal success...whatever that may be for you.
I am so excited to delve into this further!
P.s I may have overestimated the many diets I have been on...seems that I haven't tried all under the sun but it surely felt like it
Thank you for joining me...
I love you
Jax
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