So, I’m over a week into my new diet. If you are curious about it, just read the last blog post. I still don’t know why I waited until after Labor Day to start it.
This diet consist of eating smaller meals (pre-packaged) multiple times per day and what is classified as one lean-and-green meal a day. The cool part about this diet and one that people kid me about a lot is this: While I am traveling during the week, I generally only find time to eat one meal a day anyway. So, this diet is perfect for me and gives me self-justification as to why I can go through the day traveling all over the place and simply not stop to eat.
But, what I am finding is that I have a whole new level of energy, which to me equals a whole new amount of work that can be completed. It’s odd, but as an already self-diagnosed “workaholic,” there are even more hours in a day that I find myself working, and it is really a great feeling. I have the ability to focus more on certain tasks and ideas, all while being genuinely more enthusiastic and engaged at just about everything that I encounter. It’s really hard to imagine that something so simple like changing your way of eating and limiting the amount of bad food you consume can make such a change, but I have to admit that it 100 percent does.
My favorite parts of this new diet in order are as follows:
- Midnight Madness. I can work late into the night and over the past couple of days have found myself working well into midnight and sometimes longer.
- Up & At ‘Em. It’s easier to wake up in the morning and I am more energetic right from the get-go. It doesn’t take as much time to “get moving,” as I call it, in getting going before I leave for work or a meeting.
- Act Faster. I am more proactive in accomplishing tasks. Whereas before the last two weeks I might have put something off for a while, I now want to tackle it faster because I have more energy.
- Clearer Thinking. I have better thoughts and more clear ways in my mind to look at situations and issues.
- Never Stopping. I feel like I have my never-stop mentality dialed in a little more than it had been in the past.
Sometimes I don’t last super long on diets or in following a plan, but so far so good. I really have a great mindset right now about the coming weeks to see how far I can take this thing.