I did it. I finished my first 6 week round of 2024. It wasn’t perfect but I was consistent. My goals this time around were different. I wanted to really get down to the bottom of my health and get to a place where I am being my biggest advocate.
For a couple of years now I have really been struggling to fuel my body properly, to not lean into my emotional eating tendencies, and to really take care of myself mentally and physically. Life gets busy, the days fly by and we all know the blur I’m talking about. I got to a point where it just wasn’t working for me. I didn’t want to feel depleted every single day. I wanted to show up for my kids, my husband, my dogs, but most of all me.
When I committed to 6 weeks with FWTFL at the beginning of January, I thought, great! I’ve done this program before, it worked great, let’s do it again. What I didn’t realize is how different this round would be for me. It really pushed me, brought me out of my comfort zone, and taught me so much about myself.
I can totally cook, but Jules (husband) is the cook around here 99% of the time. He is just better at it and the entire family agrees. In the month of January I cooked 100% of my and my kiddos meals. That’s right. I cooked really healthy, well rounded meals for myself and my kids and I loved every part of it. I loved that I knew exactly what I was putting on our plates, I loved playing around with flavors and fresh ingredients. It seems silly saying this out loud, but it’s real. I took control of my grocery list and brought real whole foods into the kitchen and created some really healthy habits for me and my family!
Once I got the hang of being in the kitchen it really started to change my mindset. If you have every struggled with emotional eating you know what I’m talking about. By emotional, I’m talking about all the emotions. Happy, sad, stressed, you name it. They all deserved some sort of treat or meal to fulfill that emotion. I didn’t want to be that person anymore. I didn’t want to look at food as a reward or punishment.
I just wanted my food to be fuel for my body and mind. I can, with confidence say, my relationship with food has changed for the first time in my entire life. I don’t feel guilty when I “cheat”. I don’t even use that term anymore. I am eating and listening to my body and mind, and the transformation I am seeing is amazing!
I will be honest, losing weight and inches is something that I am moving toward. That doesn’t mean everyone should feel the same way or want the same thing. We are all on our own journey’s and that is perfectly okay! I think the thing that changed for me this time around, is that I am perfectly okay in my body now. I think that’s where I needed to get mentally to be able to work toward some of my goals. I had to be happy and accepting of my body and what it looks like now before I could really move forward.
I wore a swimsuit and felt so good and so beautiful in it. That hasn’t happened in a really long time. Am I in the best shape of my life, no. Did I crash diet before I had to wear the suit, no. I just simply existed and wore the swimming suit and enjoyed myself while I did. That is progress!!!
So let’s go. I’m jumping into another 6 weeks of learning and shaping who I am. FWTFL is giving me all the tools I need to work toward my goals of becoming a stronger ME. If you want to join me in the next round you can sign up here! Make sure you head to my IG page and follow along my journey over there too @corrine_monique
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Corrine Monique
DIan Streeby says
Made me tear up a bit. I am so incredibly proud of you from one emotional eater to another. I loved 🥰 your thoughts on all this !!!!!