Today we celebrate Thom's 37th birthday. Tomorrow is the big day, the day he officially begins the TSFL program. It's exciting that tomorrow begins the journey, but with the excitement and hope for what this could mean for him and for us, there is also a feeling of almost mourning. Food is Thom's go-to for pretty much all emotions, whether he's happy, sad, stressed, bored, celebrating, depressed, or overwhelmed. We know that no longer being able to use the food he loves in these areas will be hard and so to celebrate his life and mourn the loss of the foods he loves, we have eaten at all of his favorite places today.
As his wife and health coach I want to be the most supportive as possible. He plans to eat his lean and green meal at work, where all of the options are provided in the cafeteria, so that these foods are not something that I need to think about. I would LOVE to say that I would instead cook and prepare a lean and green meal for him at dinner that we all would eat as a family BUT we have 5 young children ranging from ages 9 to 1. And I have unfortunately enabled, somehow, them to become very picky eaters. I cannot at this time switch completely to the TSFL way of eating. Thom's journey will not be short. With more than 100 lbs to lose to get to his ideal weight, this journey will take most if not all of this year. So the plan for now is that I will have dinner with the children and clean up completely before Thom arrives home for work each day so that he is not surrounded by temptation. I am anxious to learn all of Dr. A's Healthy Habits and incorporate them into my life as well as the children's lives over the course of this next year. My goal is that by the time Thom enters the maintenance phase, we will all be on board completely as a family. He will not eat separate things than us and vice versa any longer. We want to become an optimally healthy FAMILY as well as individuals.
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