What the hell is happening to me?

Several months into my boot camp adventure, and things are going great. I've shed some pounds. I've gotten stronger. I can run further, and faster. I can lift more weight. I think I'm finally on the road to getting in shape I've long tried to find. After each hour of intense work out, I feel better and better. Well, let me clarify that. After each work out, I'm exhausted and sore, but when that subsides and I take a step back, the results are apparent, and its exciting. Some people say they are addicted to working out, and when they miss days, they feel sluggish, dont sleep as well, etc - I now understand what they mean. Boot camp has been an awesome experience, and despite telling Nita I hate her on a regular basis for getting me into it, I actually enjoy it a lot. It has been the starting point of a "new and improved" me.

So far, all of the changes I have seen in my self were somewhat expected, assuming I stuck with it and gave it my all. What surprised the hell out of me was my sudden craving for vegetables one night after working out. I suppose I should point out that I do not, and never really have eaten vegetables. Those who know me know that I order my bugers with no veggies on them, I tediously remove the peas and carrots from my fried rice, and anything else that has veggies in it, on it, or around it is a no-go. Its not necessarily because I dont like them, I just have not eaten them my entire life, so why start now? So back to the craving... One night, after boot camp I actually wanted veggies, seriously, so off to the store I went. I walked into the produce section, and was immediately overwhelmed, I hadn't eaten a vegetable my whole life, and there I was trying to pick out one for reasons I could not explain. Not having any idea where to being, I made my way to the soup isle, and picked up a can of soup with veggies, went home, and ate it. As I sat in front of the television eating vegetables for pretty much the first time in my life, I thought to my self, "What the hell is happening to me?".

Fast forward a couple of weeks, I found my self heading to the store to find something to cook for dinner. I typically do not have anything in mind when I walk in, I simply walk up and down the isles until something catchs my eye. This trip to the store would start out like all the others, but when I walked out of the store that day, I wasn't the same person as when I walked in. Almost as if I had the meal planned out all along, and had cooked it 100 times, I gathered my ingredents. Large handful of bean sprouts, 1 small zucchini, 1 bundle of green onions, 1 carrot, and 2 chicken breasts. I proceeded home, where I chopped up all of the veggies, cut the chicken into pieces, mixed in some seasoning and an hour later I had one hell of delicious a stir fry dish, that was easily 50% veggies and 50% chicken. As I sat enjoying my meal, I was once again faced with the question, "What the hell is happening to me?".

The closest I can come to explaining the crazyness that came over me might have something to do with my body no longer being content with pizza, burgers, and the rest of the junk that made up my day to day diet. I attribute much of this to the physical strain boot camp puts on your body, and your body's need for nutrients to recover. Maybe thats all a bunch of BS and it was a crazy concidence, but either way, I think in addition to finding the road to getting in shape, I may have also found the road to becoming a healthier person.

Don't get ahead of me though. Im slow to accept change, so you probably wont see me eating a salad or anything crazy like that any time soon. But if you see me shoving veggies to the side in the future, feel free to remind me I probably wont die if I try them, and I might actually like them.

Its all a work in progress, but I am happy with how far I have come, and have no plans to give up now.