NEED Accountability Partner(s)
coloradogrrrl21
Posts: 9 Member
Confession - I stink at sticking to paleo for more than a few days at a time and it takes me a while to get back on the wagon after I fall off. I've been trying off and on to get back to paleo for 2 years now. I lost 40 lbs. in 5 months when I first started, but then fell off the wagon - since then I'll be good for a week or two, then I'm off. It's hard to break the cycle, and harder for me than most.
I chalk a lot of the this up my unmedicated ADD - which makes planning difficult, impulsive food decisions easy and means I also tend to self-medicate with the combined sugar and caffeine rush of Coca-Cola. It's really an addiction cycle and not matter how fed up with it I am, I cannot break it on my own. (There's a reason drug addicts go to rehab programs, and even then have a hard time giving up their drug of choice).
I want to stay paleo (and have every reason to believe that in the long run this will help with my ADD and GI issues) - but I need someone to be my second brain while I establish these healthy habits. I basically need an AA sponsor, but for food. Anyone willing to be my accountability partner and email, text and/or talk face-to-face every day for a while until these healthy patterns are established?
Frankly, I'd even be willing to pay for the service (if anyone knows of someone providing such coaching) - it might be cheaper than the ADD medication (and probably better for my health to do it without pills too).
I chalk a lot of the this up my unmedicated ADD - which makes planning difficult, impulsive food decisions easy and means I also tend to self-medicate with the combined sugar and caffeine rush of Coca-Cola. It's really an addiction cycle and not matter how fed up with it I am, I cannot break it on my own. (There's a reason drug addicts go to rehab programs, and even then have a hard time giving up their drug of choice).
I want to stay paleo (and have every reason to believe that in the long run this will help with my ADD and GI issues) - but I need someone to be my second brain while I establish these healthy habits. I basically need an AA sponsor, but for food. Anyone willing to be my accountability partner and email, text and/or talk face-to-face every day for a while until these healthy patterns are established?
Frankly, I'd even be willing to pay for the service (if anyone knows of someone providing such coaching) - it might be cheaper than the ADD medication (and probably better for my health to do it without pills too).
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First, you will do better if you don't make excuses. Just make a decision, commit, and DO IT. Things worth doing require effort.
ADD will improve immensely with a Paleo lifestyle. You may need to adopt a low carb version for best results (see Dr. Perlmutter) especially since you admittedly struggle with sugar. Personally, I've been diagnosed with many psychological and neurological disorders and this lifestyle (ketogenic Paleo) fully resolved most of them and vastly improved all of them.
I understand addiction issues. Been there. Big time. Only you can address them. Who else can control you and what you choose to do?
I understand looking for support but you are still making excuses why you can't stick with it. No one can fix that except for you.
I've been Paleo for two years still face challenges. I know when I'm making excuses and I call myself out on them. There is only "DO" or "do NOT do". I am proud of how far I have come but know the journey is just beginning.0 -
Neurobehavioral disorders aren't excuses and implying they are is part of the issues with the stigma against mental illness.0
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Neurobehavioral disorders aren't excuses and implying they are is part of the issues with the stigma against mental illness.
I'm speaking from personal experience. So please save the accusation that I am creating "stigma against mental illnesses". Frankly, I'm offended that you have dismissed my personal experience while sharing none of your own. I only started to make progress with resolving my "mental illnesses" (which were completely physiological as it turned out- symptoms of malnutrition) when I took responsibility for myself, owned everything, changed the FOOD, changed my attitude (still working on that!), etc.
My purpose to comment was to help, plant a seed perhaps.. I do not view "support" as only telling someone what they want to hear. I say it how I see it and how I experienced it. Take it as information; leave the rest. Thank god a few people in my life cared enough to offer some "tough love" and ruffled my feathers or I wouldn't be where I am today.0 -
Sent you a message.0
