Deprivation Depravity

Ok, my vacation is over - my family took a trip to Washington DC for about 10 days and then after a week at home I'm back to the blog. (I did blog my vacation, which was fun and completely diet and exercise free - the blog not the vacation.)

I didn't watch what I ate during the vacation. I started out strong on the turnpike getting there, but then the first museum we visited had only McDonald's as it's food vendor. I haven't had McDonald's, since February of this year! It was funny, I had a cheeseburger and fry, I was really looking forward to the cheeseburger, but it turned out it was the fries that really knocked my socks off.

I don't want to go on about the details of my poor food choices because I don't want to make myself or any readers feel deprived. Because as I have learned this week, with my re-entry to healthy eating - I am not deprived by missing junk food, I was actually depriving myself by eating like crap for 10 days. The first couple days I went without junkfood were awful!

It sounds crazy to even me and I lived through it. The first day I didn't eat anything bad for me, (this past Wed.), I was nauseous, in extreme pain in every single joint and had one step below a migraine headache all day. Just ridiculous. Fortunately, I know this is how my body reacts when I take away all it's junk, but it still shocks me every time. Just like a heroin addict knows how horrible another round of heroin will be for him, I'm sure it sure feels a lot better to feed the craving. The stuff that is bad for you - whatever your thing is - sure does some weird things to your body.

Today - Saturday, I'm still fighting the headache but the other side effects are pretty much gone. I've written down in great and graphic detail how miserable I felt this time and plan to review it the next time I try to talk myself into a little Healthy Food Hiatus. I'm a slow learner, but I keep trying.