When I
was first told that I could not eat anything with milk, soy, nuts, or eggs, I
felt completely overwhelmed. The doctor
suggested that I needed to stay on my diet until Tucker was 1 year old. This meant I had to be on this diet for
another 7 and a half months if I chose to continue to breast feed. I had pretty much decided I couldn’t handle
it and that I would have to give up nursing, something I really didn’t want to
do. I knew I could do it for a week,
maybe two or three weeks, but not 7 and a half months. So, I knew I had to change my attitude.
I told
myself I was only on this diet for three weeks.
When that three weeks mark hit, I would do it for another three weeks, over
and over and over. My coworkers would
ask how much longer I was going to be on this “crazy” diet and I told them
three weeks and when that three weeks hit, I was again only going to do it for
three weeks. Mentally, I could handle
three weeks when it came to doing it for my son. After about a month and a half, it wasn’t
nearly as hard because I just got use to not being able to eat certain foods. The longer I was on the diet, the easier it
was. At first I would look at food I
wanted but couldn’t eat and crave it.
Later, it was like I had blinders up and didn’t see what I couldn’t eat,
but rather what I could.
If you
don’t think you can handle it, ask yourself how many days you CAN handle
it. Then just do it for that amount of
time… over and over…
Michelle
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