Right, so onto this food thing. I kinda see my relationship with food like that of an alcoholic. You know when you're out with your mates, and there's always one who always needs to drink more than anyone else. Not for any reason, they just don't know when to stop. That's me in food terms! When I'm out or at someone's house, I just eat and eat and eat.
When it comes to food, I just gotta have it all. If I'm at Subway, I want a foot long, if I'm at an Indian restaurant, I want rice AND roti, if I'm at the cinema, I want the double scoop Ben and Jerry's large sundae with Caramel Chew Chew, Phish Food, whipped cream and white chocolate polar bears. You get the picture.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not like this everyday, but unfortunately I go through phases that can last weeks. Over the past 4-5 years and with these phases, I could put on about 3 stone, take it off, put it back on, take it off and so on. Clearly that's no good and very unhealthy. I'm sure you've heard about the bad effects of yo-yo dieting! In other health terms, heart disease and diabetes is very much in my family, so utlimately, as grim as it sounds, all that food can only lead to something like that.
So as part of my mission over the next twelve months, an important element is going to be learning self-control. I know people who treat food as fuel, not as an indulgence and I totally agree with their thinking, I just can't get the formula down though. They eat food as something to keep them going, to keep them working, to keep doing what they need to do. Occasionally (perhaps once a week), that's when they sit down and eat whatever they want. They've been working hard all week and being careful what they eat. That's something that's second nature to them, and that's what I'm going to try to learn.
Anybody got any ideas how then now would be a good time to share!!! Haha!!!
I'm going to give it a crack, plus I'll get my workout schedule up here soon as well. Need to start booking myself on some 5k's too!
In a bit.
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