
I focused on finding healthy, delicious meals that I loved to eat. I kept that in mind as I mapped out the meal plan, but I wasn’t 100 percent compliant. His basic concept is to eat low-carb meals any time, and higher carb meals after training. Many of the recipes are from John Berardi’s Precision Nutrition cookbook. This plan is my goal for a perfect week of eating. For your sake and mine, I have developed a weekly meal plan, complete with recipes, and a detailed grocery list. So here I am nearing the end of recovery for a back injury I sustained in August of last year, and I am slowly but surely losing the weight I gained. I never felt deprived during the quitting process.It was important to me to quit for the sake of being healthy for future goals.I was never able to quit smoking or do anything else “cold turkey.” I was able to quit because of two reasons:

It’s not about beginning with a painful detox or cleanse ( which are foolish, by the way). For me, it’s not about throwing all of my junk food away and strictly adhering to my new diet. So how can we apply that strategy to our diets? It’s all about the gradual change. By the time I got to three months, I was no longer addicted to cigarettes, and I haven’t smoked regularly since. If I smoked before my scheduled time, I couldn’t smoke at all for the rest of the day. If I waited until my scheduled time for the first cigarette, I could smoke as much as I wanted afterwards. So on day one, my first cigarette was at 8:30am, the next day, 8:45, and so on. Each day I had my first cigarette of the day fifteen minutes later than the day before. Transition to eating clean, fresh ingredients with manageable steps. This article is my invitation for you to join me.


I’m now quitting the junk food using the same successful strategy. Although I never did get pregnant, quitting the cigarettes was obviously the best decision for my health. Now that I am forty, I live alone with three cats. I assumed I would settle down and have a family, and I didn’t want to be addicted to cigarettes when it came time to get pregnant. I smoked until I was 25 and decided I was too old to continue. And I’m using a strategy from the last time I quit doing something stupid successfully. I’m working on getting rid of this unhealthy dependence. But during injury rehabilitation, the weight gain happens quickly. Sometimes I get away with it because I practice Brazilian jiu jitsu, which burns a lot of calories.
