11th July 2014
Life isn’t what you’re given, it’s what
you create, what you conquer and what you aim to achieve.
So this is the second time this morning
I’ve written the first paragraph because I was trying to do too many things at
once on the computer and ended up pressing the close button on the word
document rather than the internet explorer – it was the universes way of
reminding me I’ve decided to slow down and do things at a reasonable speed
rather than 100mph! I didn’t get angry,
I just smiled - lesson remembered ;-) Now to try and remember what I’d started
writing!
Pay Attention! No not to me, to your
food! This week in meetings we’ve talked
about the importance of routines to ensure weight loss success, and a couple of
them were;
- Eat all your meals at the table
- Eat all your meals distraction free
- Put your
fork down between bites
Now I’d be lying if I said I did all of
those things all the time, I do however try to do them as often as possible and
will be making an extra conscious effort to do them this week.
How many of us think about food all the
time, or most of the time we’re awake anyway? I know I’ve been guilty of
thinking what I’m going to be eating for my lunch whilst I’m eating my
breakfast! “What can I have next”, “What
shall I eat today”, “When can I eat next”, “Ooo I could just eat….” You get my
drift.
Now another observation I’ve made of
myself as well as other is we spend all those hours thinking about food and
then when we actually eat we don’t even give it our full attention, we shovel
it in so quickly because we have other stuff to do after that we don’t even
taste it! We’re chewing away on a
mouthful of food, the next mouthful is on our fork ready to follow that on in
and we’re looking at the plate deciding on the following mouthful, a bit like a
food conveyor belt to our stomach. Mmm,
where the pleasure in that? Where’s the
stopping and tasting bit of the meal gone!
Yep we spend hours a day thinking about food and then when we finally
get to eat it, we don’t even pay attention to it and taste it! WHY? Lots of
reasons, distractions for one such as television, children, phones, computers or
because we’re in a rush so ram it down as quick as possible. It may even be guilt, we believe to get ‘thin’
we shouldn’t be eating at all so we rush it to get it out the way quickly.
I eat my lunch up the table most days
with my mom, it’s to make me stop in the middle of a busy day and spend some
quality time with my mom whilst ensuring she’s eating a decent meal too. Now mom eats quite slowly compared to be, I think
it’s me that eats too quickly rather than she who eats slowly. Because she eats
slowly, I’ve taken to putting my fork down to give her chance to catch me up so
we finish our meal about the same time, I realised doing this that it meant I
was actually chewing my food for longer, which also meant I was actually
tasting it – suddenly I’m enjoying that meal I’ve been planning and thinking about
eating for hours rather than rushing it down because I have paperwork to get
back to doing.
I’ve decided these are the routines I
will work on this week, on Weight Watchers website if you have esource you can
choose up to 3 each week to work on and you check in daily when you’ve
completed those routines, that’s what I’m going to do!
It’s all about positive small changes
being made continuously – not just the once!
Yep that’s something else I’ve observed over the last few days, in the
last few years my life has changed significantly so I need to make some small
changes to bring myself in line with my new schedule, my new responsibilities
and my changed life. I’m looking forward
to it, now I’ve realised that I’ve not just stopped following the plan or not
trying, more that it’s things that have changed with my environment and
lifestyle and I hadn’t particularly realised that’s what was causing the
changes in me. Let the adjustments
commence I say, I’m always up for a challenge and today’s as good a day as any
to start.
I’m off for a training thing, then going
to enjoy lunch with a few leaders, I’m on Filling & Healthy so thinking a
nice bit of steak is just the job, either with a jacket or salad. Actually I’m going for jacket and you know
what I’ve just decided I’m going to do, take my one Weight Watcher spread in a
little tub with me, I know it might melt a bit if the cars warm but heck the
spuds gonna melt it anyway so who cares!
Right I’m off, I need coffee and I have
paperwork to do, a cheeky spider has just walked across my desk, why is it they
don’t even make me flinch, but a moth turns me into a hysterical mess, did I mention
the moth incident the other night! Oh my
days I’d just closed my eyes to go to sleep and I heard flapping wings, I
seriously thought there was a bird in my bedroom, opened my eyes and looked and
there’s the biggest moth I’ve even seen in this country, I screamed “MOM” (yes
44 and still call for my mom when there’s a moth about), I actually fell off
the end of my bed in my rush to escape, mom comes walking in asking what the
matter is and there’s me with Alfie in my arms in the door way saying “there’s
a moth, there’s a moth” I’m shuddering thinking about it, but I have to admit
if someone had filmed it, it would have made an hysterical video on youtube, I
was pathetic. Yes give me a spider on my
desk anyday over a moth the size of a sparrow!
Right I really am off now, have a great
day BeYOUtiful, think about those routines, what can you work on?
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