Miss Lori fell off the bull but she is determined to get back on for her health

My intial goal was to find more sleep in my life by tailoring my menus to include foods that would help prepare my body for good slumbers. I had resigned myself to my larger frame. I wasn’t happy about it, but I just couldn’t find any time to work out within my insane performance and “life” schedule. But I knew that if I could get more sleep at least I would feel more functional, and maybe my body would be too. A girl could hope. (The video above is hard to watch not because the bull threw me, but because I was the heaviest I have been in my whole life, including my pregnancies.) While looking for sleep what I actually found, or rather what I lost, was inches. It was an incredibly pleasant surprise, and surprisingly it was kind of easy. For so long I have felt trapped in my own body, a victim of a lack of time and sometimes unpleasant circumstance. But with just a couple of key switches in my diet, (my food plan not a DIET), I was able to find the success that has been eluding me since the birth of my third child 8 years ago. It was life changing. I stood taller, I smiled brighter and to be perfectly honest I walked with a heck of a lot more sass, period. It was AWESOME.

But then, as usual, my life got crazy and became a hill to be scaled before reaching the finish line. With each week that passed the hill got taller and I lost more and more ground while gaining back pounds. I kept telling myself, it wasn’t a big deal that I wasn’t recording my food intake on Nutrihand.com. I was intelligent enough to remember the guidlines that David had so kindly set out for me. I had surely internalized all that I had been doing the first couple of weeks. I could carry on solo since David and I weren’t able to pair up our schedules. WRONG! Defeated  by ego once again. A couple of weeks of painstaking work is not enough to permanently alter eating habits solidified from years of practice. No way, no how.