Day 61

Weight: 13 stone 4 lb

Total weight loss since day 1: 1 stone 11 lb

Smoothie Feast: Day 7 of 60

I am not counting yesterday as part of the smoothie/raw lifestyle as I strayed from my smoothie feast. I had a curry the night before (Saturday) and man did I pay for it! I had diarrhea and stomach cramps for most of the day (Sunday) and felt pretty rotten and fed up.

So today I am back on the smoothies and feeling much better, though I did notice that when I was in the gym, a few aches and pains had reemerged in my body, which I wasn't suffering from on my 100% raw days.

I really do have to stay on this raw diet and somehow find a way to break the neural pathway for cooked food and build a new neural pathway for smoothies!It's just a matter of reprogramming my brain to remove a behaviour, thought or addiction and replace it with a healthier one that will permanently transform my life.

I literally have to recognize my destructive behaviour around food, and what triggers it. Usually it's an emotional response, whether good or bad. When I'm in a very good mood, I want to go out and eat cooked food, when I'm feeling sorry for myself and fed up, I also want to eat cooked food. When my mood is indifferent, I seem to stay raw. So, my neural pathways are firing away when I'm in this good or bad mood and it's triggering a visceral response to eat cooked food.

Now I've recognized this behaviour, it will make it easier for me to break the pattern, thus breaking the neural pathway that controls this behaviour. I need to shift my focus away from the cooked food and to imagine my new behaviour over and over and keep repeating this in my mind so that I can build new neural pathways...thus focusing my mind and retraining my brain. Simple...

Neural Pathways in the Brain

Smoothie of the day:

4 small bananas, 4 chard leaves (no stems), 6 strawberries and water

Rating: 4 out of 5

Filling and easy to drink. Strawberries give it a sweet, fresh taste.

Gym

Even though I had a few aches and pains in my hip, knee and ankle, I still had a really good workout in the gym today...my 'muy fuerte' (very strong) workout programme is becoming 'facil' (easy). I upped the weights today on my legs and I managed to run for 15 minutes on the treadmill... I felt really energised and on a high afterwards.

So back to the gym tomorrow and continuing on my smoothie feast with more awareness of my emotions and intent.

Hasta pronto