Plant Based Diet Challenge

I am preparing to get into a more plant based diet for the next two weeks. I have gained weight and inches and I'm not happy about it.

Another reason I want to give it a try is because of the benefits behind it. Better mental health, energy, mood, weight loss, better overall health in general. I am hoping this will be a more natural way to help myself. I have also got my husband to join me but all the pressure is on me..."I'll eat whatever you make me" he says. That's a lot of pressure because he could definitely benefit from it as well, so I quit so does he...

This is going to be tough. I am already dreading it and I have even thought about not going through with it several times. Without having started yet. This could end up being a failure but I need to stop myself thinking that way. It's going to take a lot of hard work and planning, which I am horrible at. Perhaps that is the depression talking. I don't have the "skill" so therefore I don't try at all or I will try but accept it when I fail. Then the problem is I know this, do it, and end up beating myself up for it and back into the self deprecating cycle again.

In hopes of breaking the cycle, I have dedicated yet another journal for this. I am hoping to be more organized about it and hopefully keep the motivation going. Another journal is overkill but I want to have everything related in one go-to journal.

I plan to have my meal plan laid out, tracking my status, lists of things i can eat, beginning stats, and writing down some of my feelings along with it. Some of my strategies include rewatching the documentary when I feel like giving up, posting motivational words an

d pics to motivate me to make good healthy choices. We shall see...i have to be honest, I am feeling pessimistic right now. I need to overcome and just do it...stop listening to my negative self.