December Blues

Just spent the last three days binging hard!!! Need to snap out of it.

I've had a good, clean egg and sausage breakfast with some green tea, so hopefully back on track. The real test will come later... off to the cinema to watch Break Ke Baad starring Imran Khan and Deepika Padukone.

Wish me luck!!!

Cinema food ban broken

I know I'm only supposed to binge once a week and following a big one on Friday last week for Diwali, that should've been it for the week. But it wasn't.

I took my wife out to dinner on Sunday, not because I wanted to go, but genuinely because I wanted to treat her. To be honest I didn't feel too bad because I'm still knocking off the weight and keeping up with exercise and feeling good about it. One thing I am disappointed about and regret through is I broke my self imposed cinema food ban!

As I'm a regular down at the cinema, I always used to get a Ben and Jerry's sundae with Phish Food, Caramel Choo Choo, whipped cream, chocolate sauce and white chocolate polar bears. Basically about two days worth of fat and sugar in one go. I said I would stop buying any food at the cinema until the end of the year.

Although this Sunday I managed to tone it down with just two scoops and not a sundae, I sill regret doing it because I'd lasted five films and was doing so well.

Great. Well I'll start again now. I think I should treat it like the weekly binge because I'll go mad without it. Instead of saying I'll go without it until the end of the year, I'll change tactics and say that since I already went five times without a sundae, I'll try and make it to seven, then ten etc. We'll see what happen from there.

Cinema food ban... So far, so good

After last night, I think I've been to the cinema five times since I imposed that cinema food ban, and not once have I bought any ice cream, drinks, nachos, hot dogs or sweets. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Let's see if I can keep it going until the end of the year.

Cinema Food Ban

You know I totally love going to the cinema and when I do go, there's always a special I have... A Ben and Jerry's Core Sundae with Phish Food, Chocolate Fudge Brownie, fudge sauce, whipped cream and white chocolate polar bears. It's basically about two weeks worth of fat and sugar!

Now I was pretty impressed with myself when I went to the cinema last Friday and Sunday and had nothing at all but water. I don't know if I'm actually getting sick of the sundae, but I just didn't feel like it.

On that note, I've self imposed a ban on cinema food for the remainder of 2010. Trust me, that won't be easy as I want to watch Wall Street, Saw 3D, Action Replayy, Tees Maar Khan, The Social Network etc etc

Will let you know how I get on during my next visit.

Back on the wagon

I'm very proud of something I managed to achieve over the weekend. Now you know my style when I eat junk, I do it royally. When I'm bad with food, I'm REALLY bad. If I eat junk one day or go out or something, then I'll eat rubbish the next day, then the next day, then the next, until it turns into about five days straight gorging on takeaways, chocolate, drinks etc., which then results in lots of headaches and feeling lethargic too.

Now on Saturday, I had a wedding to go to. Even though I tried to be good, I ended up eating about three plates of starters, two main meals and lots of beer. When I woke up on Sunday, I was thinking about all the junk I could eat that day and the fact that I was going food shopping later and the cinema too (Ben and Jerry's!)

Something sensible finally took control of and said 'No, snap out of it. You ate loads of junk yesterday, you enjoyed it, GET OVER IT!!!'

And just like that, I did.

For the first time this year, I managed to have a day of binging which was just that. One day only. Nothing more. Sunday was back to some real, clean, healthy eating. When I stepped on the scales this morning, I was so much better for it. I'm feeling the extra energy too and I'm minus the headaches I get after junk.

I'm hoping I can use wisely and build in one day of 'relaxing' (not too much though!) so I don't go made without chocolate etc. Let's see how it goes.

Getting back on track...

Yesterday I went week at the knees. After 12 days of clean, healthy eating, I ended up having a massive burger, chips, coke and lots of ice cream at the cinema yesterday.

Now I think the key is to not get down about it. When I had that major binge a few weeks ago, I got down about it and ended up eating more and more, day after day. The way I need to look at it is to move forward and think 'yeah, I enjoyed all the junk yesterday, here's to the next time'.

Things are looking good so far, plenty of water, healthy home made Chinese food and a tricep/chest session. I know if I get through this day, then I'll be back on track.

I once spoke to a personal trainer who said you need a day once a week where you go off the rails (within reason), saying that you're basically like a computer that's left on all the time. You need to press Ctrl+Alt+Del or switch off at least once a week. I know a lot of people would read this and love the sound of it, but I think with the gains I'm trying to make, I should perhaps aim for relaxation only once every two weeks until I get to a more desired weight.