Dear CrossFit, Thoughts From A Nutrition Challenge Participant

Here’s a letter that one of the athletes at CTown CrossFit wrote to the two organizers of a recent nutrition challenge.

Dear G and M,

You sneaky bastards.
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You knew this would happen didn’t you? You knew that 50 days of cutting carbs and eating clean would cause me to hate everything I ever loved, right?

I used to be a maple brown sugar Quaker oats guy, a guy who had every meal with a big cold can of diet coke.  Now you’ve got me eating Greek yogurt and drinking almond milk.  Do you have any idea what all that calcium is doing to my bones?!

Bread at every meal with tons of butter? Not any more. Now I just see a flat disk of empty carbs that ultimately adds nothing to the meal and is a waste of time. Another way to get butter into my veins ruined, thanks to you.

Fridge stocked with a case of Keystone? Screw that, now there’s a six pack of micro brew that comes out maybe once a week.  How can I watch March Madness with only a slight buzz? Did you even consider our emotions?

And now you’re making me THINK before I eat! I eat out all the time all over the country for work, now I actually have to THINK about where I’m eating and what I’m ordering.  I NEEDED those brain cycles to think about stuff like how delicious and not terrible for me this plate of fries is!

The worst part is, I secretly feared this would happen. I worried that I would do this and start to look at what I eat and realize what it did to me.  I knew that it would cause me to rethink what I ate every day. And I just didn’t listen to myself.

  I drank diet coke for almost 20 years, now I can’t even look at the stuff.

Actually reading a menu and asking questions? Check.  Appreciating how I feel in the morning after not eating a ton of caffeine and sugar the night before? Check.  Hating how I used to treat food? Check.  Enjoying food in a whole new way? Check and double check.

So thanks guys for ruining everything; I hope you’re happy with yourselves.

Wouldn’t change a d*mn thing.

B

I wonder what tomorrow’s WOD will be…