Going G-Free does more than just make your tummy feel nice. (Not to mention look real nice too.)
Telling yourself you have to go to the gym? Telling yourself you will start that diet “tomorrow.”
Well not anymore ladies. Going gluten free helps you transform yourself from a life of dieting to a truly fulfilling healthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle incorporates habits executed purely because it makes your body feel better. Going gluten free brings into perspective this exact notion of eating and exercising to feel good, rather than looking it.( Although going G-Free will get ya there too.)
Let’s start with the diet. Throw the word “diet” straight out of the window. No honey, you eat what you want, when you want it. If you listen to your body, and what your body wants and needs, you will never be deprived. Unleash the beast and eat pizza, every meal for three days. See what happens. You will see how sluggish you feel. How oily your skin looks. How bloated your tummy is. And how those jeans just don’t seem to fit right today. Your body will soon crave healthy, nutritious food. You will eat it and you will immediately feel the difference. You will feel lighter, full of energy and willing to be proactive. This is a feeling you will never want to go through a single day without experiencing. You will soon realize that this long lasting feeling is far more satisfying than the taste of those slices of greasy pepperoni pizza.
However, I’m not saying the smell of warm chocolate chip cookies, or the influx of hormones during your monthly gift from mother nature won’t steer you off your healthy course. Let it. Indulge in life’s little gifts. Just don’t indulge all day, every day. If you are going to eat something unhealthy, balance it out with something healthy later. Life is about balance and enjoyment. Indulge in these.
As for exercise, if it doesn’t feel good, don’t do it. Take the chore out of exercising and throw in a bit of enjoyment. For example, running religiously, when you don’t enjoy it, is detrimental. For starters, your body hurts. It’s sore and stiff and swollen. Trust me, I've been there. What fun is that? You also seem to want to eat three times your body weight to supplement the vigor your body just endured. Now you appear to be fatter with the swollen muscles, are indeed fatter with the increasing caloric count, all while your body is burning less calories than you think as your body grows accustomed to this religious regime? Isn’t the whole purpose to appear skinnier? So quick recap, running makes you look…fatter?
Well hell, that’s not remotely worth it then. If you are thinking this way, your priorities with fitness and your relationship with exercise must change. We must alter our lives to what feels good to our bodies. Personally, yoga and Pilates have been a blessing. This is my time. My time to de-stess, relax, and recoup. Here I find my escape. I am able to center myself and head out in the world to conquer more with my new stress free attitude. At the same time I am not only burning calories, but I am acquiring long, lean muscles that make me appear to be thinner. So I feel good. I look good. And I am mentally and physically healthy. All goals are met.
Going Gluten Free helps your hone in on this notion of “only if it makes my body feel good.” It gets us back to our natural state where we ate natural, nourishing foods and exerted effort only during times of energetic furry. So the moral of the story is, listen to your body. It knows whats its talking about. Don’t run when you are tired. Your body is telling you its tired for a reason. Skip the binge drinking, you know your body will be mad at you and unafraid to show you in the morning. Lets be smart here people. Do what feels good to you and what fits into your daily schedule to make your life a healthy one.
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