3rd October 2013
Always do right. This will gratify some people
and astonish the rest. Mark Twain
Damn dog woke me up at 4.30am to go up garden, stole half
hour of sleep from me, no point going back to bed when your alarm is set for
5am!
I know it’s my job and all but yesterday I did even more
talking about weight loss than I normally would with people who weren’t in my
meetings, I do love how everyone has a different outlook on it and opinion of
how to solve our weight loss plans.
Someone once said to me “It’s not rocket science you just
don’t put it on your mouth”, I was really struggling with my weight at the time;
I was really struggling with life, never mind my weight! Of course at that time, that person was in a
great place; they’d lost lots of weight and they were also fully immersed in
everything active. I recently bumped
into that person and they had regained all their weight and more! I personally believe weight loss is far more
complex than rocket science actually, they’ve successfully mastered rockets,
they haven’t solved the weight loss problem for all yet! I don’t know anyone who has totally 100%
mastered it, they may have it sussed at any one time but I believe we’re only
one meal away from our old habits and behaviours, it’s a constant journey of
learning and growth, and different times in our life require different
approaches. The lesson is don’t ever
think you’ve got it ‘sussed’, don’t get cocky or superior over another because
you don’t know what’s round the corner, I’ve lost and gained my weight so many
times and everyone time I lost it, I thought ‘this is it, I’ve got this shit
sorted!” I wish ;-)
So my approach these days as you no is all about the healthy
and happy, I don’t go in for drastic, I don’t believe in trying to change your
eating habits so much that you no longer identify with them, I don’t believe in
putting food on your plate that truly deep inside you’re not keen on just
because you hope it will help you lose weight, I don’t believe in 3 square
meals a day for everyone, I don’t believe in grazing and eating little and
often is the solution either.
What do I believe then?
I believe we’re all different, there is no one size fits all solution,
our solutions might change depending on our lives at that time. I believe in changing your habits one at a
time, tweaking your behaviour, finding a balance, giving yourself permission to
eat anything you want as long as it’s not likely to affect your health in a
negative way long term or your happiness.
Most of all I believe in never giving up on yourself, your
health or your happiness!
If you’re in a bad place and you’re struggling with your eating
behaviour, accept what you’re doing, don’t focus on the effect it’s having on
your weight, focus on the effect it’s having on your mood! I bet any overeating you’re doing is not
making you feel any better – it may be distracting you for a very short time
from your problems and issues (is that time you’re distracted even long enough
to be worth the after effects). Stop
ignoring your issues/problems/bad feelings and stuffing your face, instead
decide to face them and do what you can to sort them out or experience them.
Yeah eating a cake/crisps is probably a more appealing
solution but the other stuff will still be there when you’ve eaten it and you’ll
still be overweight, maybe even more so which ultimately gives you a whole
other problem.
It may be that for a short time you decide to give yourself
a few more daily ProPoints to allow you to eat more but in a more controlled
way, you can be practising maintenance for a whole instead of going the other
way and gaining. It may be that you try
F&H so that you can have food without worrying about ProPointing. When you’re not doing well, that’s the time
you really need the support of a meeting, everything is easier with support,
there’s nothing worse than feeling you’re alone. xx
So enough of that, back to food J yesterday for my breakfast I
had 0% Greek yogurt, 20g oats, sliced banana, chopped mango & a squirt of
honey. It was delicious and yet I’ve had
that yogurt in the fridge for weeks and kept putting off eating it thinking, ‘ooo
it’ll be cold and sour and I want something nice’. Isn’t it funny how our minds fool us as it
wasn’t any of those things, it was absolutely delicious and I need to remember
that for future reference, I do like Greek yogurt and I should eat it more
often.
For lunch I had liver and bacon in onion gravy, I followed
the recipe out of the Hairy Bikers new cook book but to be honest it wasn’t any
different to how I would have done mine normally except they added flour to the
liver and a few teaspoons of tomato ketchup to the gravy. It was delicious, if I made it again, I
wouldn’t bother with the bacon, the liver is delicious, full of lots of flavour
and the bacon is unnecessary in that dish, I did like the added bit of ketchup
though. I also added more oxo cubes than
they suggested J
So actually I didn’t follow their recipe much at all!
For tea I had the leftover onion gravy with two Weight
Watcher Petit Pains and a bit of blue cheese, absolutely delicious!
Eating Gorgeous is the key, it’s way more fun that Eating
Skinny or Eating Clean!
So today and everyday BeYOUtiful & be gentle on yourself
because no one is perfect and you wouldn’t want to be. xx
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