Rappelling Out Of Food Dependency

I looked behind me at the forty foot drop. I didn't have a moment to review my training.

"Move!" shouted my Drill Sergeant. I complied and jumped backwards off the ledge.

I swung into open air as I fell backwards. The descent rope tightened on my grip and pulled against the harness I had tied around my waist. It dug into my thighs and held, my moment of truth. The knot of rope tied around my waist as a harness was done correctly, it held and I didn't fall to the ground. My body swung back to the wall. I pushed off and gave the rope slack executing a decent rappel bound.

I quickly learned what many who rappel learn, you can't fight gravity. If you don't embrace the decent then your hands have to suffer your reticence through immense friction. Despite the thick leather gloves my hands began to burn and blister under the heat. I embraced quick and long bounds until I reached the ground below.

I had completed the training event Eagle Tower. With blistered palms I had learned the hard way that you need to embrace the descent in a rappel or pay the price.

There are two easy ways to eat wheat and sugar:

1- Eat as much as you want without restraint.

2- Never eat any.

The problem is people choose the third option, the hard one:

3- Do your best to abstain. Then treat yourself on your "cheat day".

This is like trying to fight the decent of gravity on my rappel. Quinn vs Gravity. You can guess the winner of that fight.

This third option is hard. You endure the cravings and you work to get free of it. Then you earn your "treat"  and you throw away your hard work. Now you have to repeat the painful part again.

Stop doing this.

There are four factors that challenge the removal of wheat and sugar from your diet. They are:

1. These foods are designed to illicit cravings.

2. Habitual snacking develops with these foods.

3. These foods were a self-medication.

"What do you mean self-medication?" -Blog Reader

Self medicating can come in a multitude of forms. Unhealthy food habits being very common. You feel crappy so you eat something that makes you feel good in the moment. This food however is the long term cause of your unhealthy state.

Now that I have explained that, the fourth factor is:

4. The modern diet.

It is difficult to find meals on the go. It is also difficult to buy food from the market that have the same ease as junk food. It is a shift, you have to figure out what you like and what works for you. I will go more into a menu for the diet change in another post.

When I went through this phase I implemented a change in meals and mealtimes. It was very helpful in curbing my snacking, cravings, and habits. What I did was adopt hobbit mealtimes:

• Breakfast (within 20 minutes of waking up)
• Second Breakfast
• Elevenses (does not have to be at 11 am)
• Lunch
• Supper
• Dinner (enough time before bed so that you are asleep before late night munchies)

The goal is to have small meals spread out throughout the day. The target time between the meals is 2-3 hours. Figure out the times that with best for your schedule. This will help deter the factors that make it hard to transition away from these foods.

Now it is up to you. Will you make this process easy or hard? Or, the better question is:

Are you sick off being sick?

If so build your resolve and get through this phase without making it harder than it needs to be.

Then don't go back.

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Check out my journey from sickness to health. I am thriving despite schizophrenia and I want to help others apply the same principles and recover from chronic illness.

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