Stormageddon

Hey there, and welcome! What a fantastic goal! The very VERY first thing I would suggest is that you bear in mind that you have never "ruined everything." You'd have to work darn hard for that :-) We ALL make a choice that probably could have been better at some point and we just pick up our things and keep right on trucking. You can TOTALLY do this!! As to any advice, I can tell you what worked for my wife and I. Bear with me, it's a bit of a lengthy explanation: Over the course of several years (yes...it was slow, I'm so so sorry), we have made ourselves completely addicted to cooking our food ourselves. We did this by finding that ONE recipe that is just "holy cow! I want to eat this for every meal every day!!" Doesn't matter if it's "healthy" or not, just find that ONE thing that you cook incredibly well that tastes unbelievable! From there we kept going, I mean if there's one recipe out there that we can knock out of the park, surely there's two, right? We've developed our personal cookbook to the point where we have a lovely assortment for any mood or meal. Once you have this it's easy to slowly shift toward more beneficial meals (it's easier to steer a ship that start or stop it, right?). Don't think of one meal as healthy and the other not, think of them in terms of how well they will help you achieve your goals! Then you're always on the positive side of the fence...some meals are just MORE positive than others. So here's the kicker. After doing this for a few years (we really are food snobs, I hope I mentioned that), we find that whenever we go out it's just bland and boring and holy-cow-could-you-knock-it-off-with-the-salt? So rather than resist something, we just shoved it out of the way with something that we found to be even better still! Now we cook our own food or go out to the very finest of restaurants because we can't stand "that bland cardboard" we get elsewhere :-) (don't get me started on pizza) tl;dr: Don't resist. Don't ever resist. You will run out of willpower before you even knew you had any. Instead, develop something so vastly superior that you completely lose interest and can't bear the thought of "settling for" what you used to crave :-) Best wishes, I am so excited for this journey you're on!

This morning was a huge milestone for me and I wanted to brag! I didn't make it to sleep until about 3am last night (well, this morning I suppose); probably ate something bad and my body voicing its objections :-P. My normal routine calls for me to get up at 5:30 to hit the gym before my daily grind. The OLD me would have readily and justifiably said "nuts to that, we're sleeping in!" But not any more! Today was the first day I purposefully decided to kill that thought and get up and do it anyway. End result: one of my best and most personally record-setting days ever! Feeling tired, yes, but also pretty much like king of my own little world right now :-)