I have to apologize. Not only do I owe you the conclusion to a story, but I owe you a better effort to keep posts consistent. I haven’t posted in a month of Sundays. *Sidebar: Can someone please tell me where the that saying came from?* I digress.
I had this laundry list of the reasons that I haven’t posted in so long, but I balled it up and threw it away. I don’t necessarily want to focus on falling off the saddle except to acknowledge it and apologize for doing so. I’m not even going to say that it won’t happen again, because that would be a lie and it is important for me to be honest with you. I can, however, say that I hope that it won’t happen again.
Instead, I’d like to focus on the blessing or the silver lining. Through not posting, I realize how many people read and enjoy my posts despite the lack of posting comments. The other positve is that I have come to know that a part of me that I’d hoped was gone is not.
Since high school, I had this tendency that when things were going well: diets, exercise programs, schedules that I set for studying, things that I set up to correct a behavior, something within me had other ideas. It would throw a monkey wrench in my spokes and sabotage everything. It was completel out of control. The motivation and encouragement that I had to continue the good things that I was doing would suddenly disappear and turn into this bored and lazy attitude. Then things would go back to the usual. I’d go back to eating like before, quit exercising, and then gain back every pound that I’d lost. My studies fell off and my goals would be left unachieved. I didn’t understand what it was in the beginning. I thought that there was something wrong with me and that no one else had this issue. Turns out that I was wrong.
I’m not sure why, but I noticed it a lot less these past few years. Since so many great things have been happening lately, I thought that it was a thing of the past, but it has creeped back into the picture. To be totally honest, I’m not sure that it ever left. *sigh* This is so frustrating. I don’t know why the self sabotage is happening. Maybe it is fear of change or of being successful. Maybe it is just about remaining comfortable. Maybe it is my subconscious playing a preprogrammed and out of date tape. Whatever it is, knowing that it is still there is a blessing.
I firmly believe that I have what it takes to acheive all of my goals and be succesfull. I believe that I can have the life that I want down to the type of rims I want on my car, but if there are some things in my subconscious that I don’t deal with, then either it will be much harder to fight with myself to acheive my goals and / or my successes will slip right through my fingers.
Acknowledgment is the first step to dealing with any issues and now that I have acknowledged the self sabotage, I am prepared to get back in the saddle and find a solution to deal with it and not let it hinder me any further. I will keep you updated on my findings and I will also be posting the conclusion to “How a Drive By Changed My Life” very soon. Thank you for sticking around! I hope that all of you had an wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!
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by Devin Alexander and Cook Yourself Thin
,so that I’d have more healthy meal options. I get bored eating the same thing everyday and once I get bored, I head back to old favorites. Meals also have to be quick and easy to prepare. I don’t want to spend the last few hours I have before bedtime cleaning, chopping, marinating, seasoning, cooking, and then eating. 
. If you start eating regularly right at the end, YOU WILL BE SICK! You can go back to eating what you want, but there is a process that you have to go through in order to reintroduce your body to food.2. Did you have any difficulty coming off of the cleanse at all?
3. What were your physical results? Did you achieve your goals?
4. Did you achieve the non-physical goals, that you listed before starting?
5. What were your harderst days? What were some problems that you experienced?
6. How did you work through them?
7. Now that it has ended, how are your cravings?
8. What type of changes have you made to your diet so far? What changes do you plan to incorporate later? What will you do to maintain your progress?
9. Would you ever do the cleanse again? If so, how might you incorporate it into your life?
10. Would you recommend the cleanse to others?
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1. Why are you participating in the cleanse? What do you hope to achieve as a result?
2. What are some goals that you hope to achieve, other than physical ones, while on the cleanse or shortly thereafter?
3. What, if anything, would you like to change about your current diet?
4. After the cleanse, it’s highly recommended that you change to a raw diet. That may not work for some of you, so what kind of changes could you make to maintain your progress?
5. What might be the reason that you would quit before 10 days?
6. What could you do to keep from quitting?
7. What if you don’t achieve the results that you want or had expected?
8. I’ve read that it is best to rest and keep yourself busy so that you don’t think about food or hunger. What can you do to occupy your time, which doesn’t require a lot of energy?
9. I’ve also read that at some point your energy level increases. It’s been said that it is good to get involved in some physical activities as an outlet. What are some things that you could do?
10. Would you consider doing the program for longer than 10 days?
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