Not quite a year ago I bid farewell to Trim Healthy Mama – the low glycemic lifestyle I’d followed for probably about seven or eight years… and now it’s time to admit that I’m making a bashful return to Trim Healthy Mama (THM).
Maybe bashful isn’t quite the right word – I left with the caveat that I’d be back when I’d “adapted” or found an easier way of being dairy free with the Trim Healthy Mama lifestyle… but time away from THM turned out NOT to be what I needed.
You can read Goodbye THM For Now, the post I wrote when planning to “leave” the healthy eating lifestyle known as THM… but then come read why I’m BACK yet again!
Leaving Wasn’t the Answer
When it comes to Trim Healthy Mama, it’s all over the internet where people have left for another lifestyle or diet and found themselves back – sometimes worse than before. It’s hard to gauge that in my situation – I’m going to be induced with my third baby in about eight weeks give or take (so weight gain has DEFINITELY happened) – but I know leaving wasn’t the answer.
I thought leaving would give me “freedom”. The freedom to eat what I wanted, on plan or not – and the freedom to eat “like everyone else” instead of making separate or special meals.
Leaving turned out not to be about the number on the scale – it was about taking back “control” that was never mine to begin with.
A Bashful Return
Even with less than a year away from Trim Healthy Mama, I missed the “on plan” foods and still found myself making them – or feeling guilty for eating otherwise. I found that the whole house (no longer under the healthy influence) started eating unhealthy foods more, and making more treats that were health destroying.
And I found that pregnancy away from Trim Healthy Mama – versus my last two pregnancies where I tried to be on plan – was miserable and I’ve been lethargic and nauseous the entire time.
Me eating what I want doesn’t help anyone.
My mother in law (who has to hold down the fort more than ever) has been operating at max capacity between chores and child care and meals the entire time I’ve been pregnant.
Things I *would* be able to handle, were I not so lethargic and nauseous.
This “bashful return” is more a hopeful one. Hopeful of a healthier pregnancy next time, in a healthier body. Especially with the new Trim Healthy Wisdom book that was recently released.
TL; DR
Leaving Trim Healthy Mama didn’t serve me, my body, or my family well – so I’m making a bashful return – bashful that I made the decision to begin with, but truly I’m more hopeful of a healthier body to carry my next baby after this one comes… a body that will support me AND my goals, and not put the burden on everyone else because I’m too “lethargic and nauseous” to function day to day.
Christian, wife, “hybrid” mama, I run the site All Behind A Smile to help others like me.
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