Jumping Back On The Wagon

My eating ebbs and flows. One moment I will be eating relatively healthy and I can stay away from all the junk food, and the next minute I'm wolfing down brownies and cookies and ice cream.

My problem has never been weight {don't roll your eyes}. I have yet to have a child so I haven't had the experience of trying to bounce back from a birth, I haven't had severe weight issues growing up, and yes, I do have overweight family members. I don't feel "lucky" in not having this kind of issue because I have worked really hard over the years to be in shape. I run. Alot. Plain and simple. However, the issue that I DO have is how food makes me feel. Especially bad food.

I have been really lethargic lately. I don't have a lot of time to cook and I always feel less motivated to cook for just one person. The last 2 weeks have been incredibly hectic for me and I have slipped into that unforgiving pattern of relying heavily on junk food just to get sustenance. On Sunday's I usually cook a lot of food at once and have it in a container for the rest of the week, but being on a budget, I get the same food....every...week. Eventually boredom kicks in. So I usually go one whole month of eating well before the crash eventually comes. And when the crash comes--it's like my body hurts and gets sore and I'm tired and unmotivated. Then the headaches come.

I know this happens. Everytime I do this it happens and at the time I think "But this tastes sooooo good!!!" Like that makes me exempt from all the other times that those horrible symptoms kick in.

What is it about food that does this?

I keep looking around for Paleo recipes because I have tried some of those recipes and they are great but I never made the full commitment. I'm a dairy and carbs girl all the way and I have recently started phasing out the milk, but it becomes difficult when you have a mild frozen yogurt addiction. Carbs???? I love anything pasta and bread related. If I died, my idea of heaven is an Italian restaurant. I have also recently heard of "clean-eating". Now, I'm not really sure what that is...and it kind of sounds expensive....but I'm curious as to how people have fared on that kind of eating.

Any and all ideas, recipes, experience, etc. would be great to hear about. I know I'm not the only one that gets affected this way by food but then falls right back into those bad habits. Feel free to share!