End Your Affair

End Your Affair with Food.

Hi I'm Darlene, food addict and emotional eater.

One sign of emotional eating is when you feel driven to eat.  It's not that you see the cookie sitting on the counter and decide you want it; it's when you actually go searching for the cookie because you feel you really need it.

It can be a desperate feeling, you have to have that cookie RIGHT NOW!  Or it can be just a case of the munchies because you have that small feeling somewhere that something is wrong.

IT really doesn't matter, because the outcome is the same.   




I have spent many years in a constant battle with food.  It has become all important to me.  At first, I ate mindlessly.  I would eat so much that I would make myself sick.  Then after I was sick, I would eat some more.  I would eat until my stomach was bloated and hurt so much.  I would eat even though inside my head I was telling myself to stop.  It was an all consuming addiction.

It was how I dealt with being sexually abused, with having an abortion, with having my loved ones leave, any kind of stress or emotion that came up, I would eat.

Now, I am ready to gain freedom from my emotional eating.  To take control of it.  On May 30th I am starting an End Your Affair Emotional Eating Support Group.  If you would like more information or would like to join please comment below or send me a message.

Thank you so much for the support and your interest in this blog!  If you haven't already, please make sure to check out Darlene Caron - Nutrition and Fitness where you can find more recipes, fitness tips, motivation and information on upcoming Health and Wellness Accountability/Challenge Groups that I offer.

 

You Have to Eat to Lose

Truth is...I have been too lazy! :(
Have you ever heard the saying you have to eat to lose? Even after almost two years of doing Beachbody programs I still struggle with this one. For the last couple of months I have struggled with my journey. I haven't been eating what I should, I blamed it on being too busy, too much stress but the truth is I was just being too lazy!
When the scale started going up, even though I tell everyone NOT to pay attention to the scale because it isn't your friend, I started eating less. I went back to the mindset that you have to eat less to lose weight. There were days when I would go all day without eating and then at supper time I would eat something quick which wasn't anything healthy for me. Then of course there were the days I would eat my emotions too. Even though I may not have been eating a lot I was eating quick fixes which were pretty much the wrong choices.
The sad part is that I know what to eat. I know how much I should eat but I was letting excuses get in my way. You know, the same ones that I always do. It doesn't take that long to prep my meals for the day so that excuse is not going to work. The stress in my life....well I always have stress in my life, but I know how to deal with it now, so using that for an excuse is not going to work either.
In the last two days, I have started using my 21 Day Fix containers AGAIN. I have started planning my meals for the day AGAIN. I have started eating healthy AGAIN. I have been doing TurboFIre and giving my workout 100%! And guess what?!?! I feel so much better already AND the scale has started going down AGAIN! The inches are already coming off my waist AGAIN!
WHY? Because you have to fuel your body with the right foods. That and daily exercise will get me exactly where I want to be. So I need to stop sabotaging myself and just do what I know works!
I would like to invite you to join me in my upcoming accountability group #DreamBody Bootcamp. This group is starting on May 23. The only requirement for this group is to be signed up with me or one of my coaches.

Although a Beachbody program is NOT required to be a part of this group, I want to be totally up front with you. I know for a fact that you CAN lose weight without one of the Beachbody programs BUT I also know that when I tried it was so much harder. The programs have everything laid out for you so there is no guess work. If you follow the programs the way they have been designed you WILL get healthy, you WILL lose weight and your nutrition WILL change.
If your still not sure then you have an opportunity to check it out for FREE! Let the programs speak for themselves. You will not be disappointed.
If you would like to join the group, talk over your options or want to know how you can try a program for FREE, contact me on facebook, send me an email at darlenecaronfitness@gmail.com or click the link below to be taken to the #DreamBody bootcamp event invite.

#DreamBody Bootcamp

Thank you so much for the support and your interest in this blog!  If you haven't already, please make sure to check out my Darlene Caron - Nutrition and Fitness where you can find more recipes, fitness tips, motivation and information on upcoming Health and Wellness Accountability/Challenge Groups that I offer. 

My Ultimate Reset Journey Day 4 -6

I will admit that this post is majorly late but I have been so tired that when I get home from work I immediately fall into bed.  My head still hurts but not as much as it did before.  Boy am I ever thankful for that.

My body aches a little.  It almost feels like I am getting the flu and I feel completely rundown but I have been told that is from the toxins being released from my systems.  All I know is that it is in no way as bad as it was the first time I did this almost a year ago.  That kind of has me worried though.  Does that mean I am not doing something right and the toxins are not being released or does it mean that I am not as unhealthy as I was last year?

I'm not sure which one I am hoping to be the true reason.  :)

Because I haven't been feeling the best I really haven't done a lot of personal development reading lately.

Bible: I have read Day 6 Matthew 20-23 More Parables of the King  and Day 7 Something Old, Something New, Reflection and Worship

I have been eating the same meals.

Tropical Oatmeal for Breakfast
Chocolate Shakeo with Pineapple for Snack
Quinoa Salad for Lunch
Black Beans and Rice, Sweet Potato and Quinoa for dinner on Day 4
Stir Fry and Quinoa for dinner on Day 5  Yum :)
Southwest Taco Wraps on Day 6

I can't wait to see my measurements and the number on the scale this week.   I really need to see those numbers going down to prove to myself and to my husband that the body aches and headache is really worth it.

Thank you so much for the support and your interest in this blog!  If you haven't already, please make sure to check out my DarLeanFitness Page where you can find more recipes, fitness tips, motivation and information on upcoming Health and Wellness Accountability/Challenge Groups that I offer. 

My Ultimate Reset Journey...Day 3

Today was day 3 and oh my gosh I have had the worst headache all day.  That and I have been having chills.  I almost feel like I am coming down with the flu, but I have been told that this is normal, my body is releasing toxins and these are just same of the symptoms.

I worked from 12:45 to 8:30 pm today, and this really complicated how I was going to eat my meals. But with some planning ahead of time and a little bit of meal prep, I was able to do ok with it.  My only problem was that I forgot my alkalinize and my last 2 optimize and sooth pills at home.  :(  So I wasn't able to have those today.

I am seriously enjoying the meals that I am eating and some of the recipes that I am trying from the guidebook.

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Bible:  Day 5 Matthew 16-19  Principles of the King
PD:  Deliberate Receiving - I finished Chapter 6
Shakeo - Chocolate shakeo with water


Breakfast:  Tropical Oatmeal
Lunch:  Quinoa Sald with a Baked Sweet Potato
Snack:  Chocolate Shakeo with Pineapple
Dinner:  Black Beans and Rice, Sweet Potato and Quinoa

I always worry when I do a nutrition program like this one that I am going to be hungry.  I am happy to say that I am never hungry, or at least I haven't been so far.  Now if I could just get rid of this headache things will be great.

Thank you so much for the support and your interest in this blog!  If you haven't already, please make sure to check out my DarLeanFitness Page where you can find more recipes, fitness tips, motivation and information on upcoming Health and Wellness Accountability/Challenge Groups that I offer. 

My Ultimate Reset Journey...Day 2

I started this morning wondering if I had made a huge mistake starting the Ultimate Reset this week.   I have some kind of virus that is seriously kicking my butt.  My ear is completely plugged, which is throwing my balance off.  My head hurts. I keep getting chills and my body hurts.  Plus I have some weird kind of hives reaction going on with my left wrist.  It completely circles the wrist and it is not going away.

So, with all of that other stuff going on, I was worried that now isn't the time.  But I know that the BEST I have ever felt was when I did the Reset last summer, so I am not giving up, I am going to keep pushing on. Only 19 days left right?

Plus, I'm not sure if the headache is from the reset or from being sick.  I know last  time I had a horrible headache from the caffeine/sugar withdrawals.  But the more water I drink the quicker it goes away.

As far as having a hard time sleeping right now.  Well, I know part of that is because my husband is working nights and I never sleep good when he isn't home. But the newsletter also said that part of it could be from withdrawals and my body starting to release toxins.  I guess I have to feel horrible before I can feel amazing.  I am willing to do that trade off.

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Breakfast:  Tropical Oatmeal

Lunch:  Asian Salad without the dressing
Snack:  1/2 chocolate shakeology with pineapple
Dinner:  I went with an alternate instead tonight....Black Beans and Rice, Sweet Potato and Quinoa.  I honestly couldn't understand the combination, it seemed like a lot of starch/carbs to me but this is what the book said I could have so that is what I ate.

So far today I have drank 75 ounces but I will get the rest in before I go to bed.
Bible:  Day 4 Matthew 12-15 Parables of the King
Personal Development:  Deliberate Receiving Chapter 6:  The Four Crappy Core Beliefs We All Share

I am reading my Bible and then doing the PD right now.  It's 10:05 pm but I know that I am not in any hurry for bed.  I absolutely can't stand being alone in the house at night.  I guess I need to start getting over that. :)

As soon as I am done with my reading then I need to start working on a household budget and a budget for Summit.  My husband and I have had a few issues over the past week because of money and I am so tired of feeling like a leach all of the time.  I really want to feel like I am contributing and right now ugh...not even close.

Thank you so much for the support and your interest in this blog!  If you haven't already, please make sure to check out my DarLeanFitness Page where you can find more recipes, fitness tips, motivation and information on upcoming Health and Wellness Accountability/Challenge Groups that I offer.