The Diets that Time Forgot

It's come up with a nice sentence. For me anyway :)


'They must learn to practise restraint'

Now I can do this with money, shoes, books, but with food......it's really difficult!!!

So I need to start thinking about ways to get restraint around food. There must be some way I can learn restraint or train myself to restraint with food. Denying myself foods doesn't work long term because I end up binging. Allowing myself as much of the food as I want doesn't really work because I manage to keep on eating and eating and eating. So I need to allow myself something in moderation. But controlling that and determining what 'moderation' is and what it means to me is going to be difficult.

I want to lose weight. No that's not true.

I want to be a healthy weight. I want to be able to go to the doctors with a complaint and not have him say, 'well losing a few pounds probably wouldn't help'. I want to be able to enjoy food for the sake of enjoying food without the associated feelings of guilt or unhappiness or any of the rest. I want to be able to live my life and be able to relax around food.

I know the basics of energy in vs energy out. I know that anything I eat I can earn back through cals. But I also know I need to look at getting the right kind of balance into my life as well. I can't obsess over this, but I need to be aware of what I'm eating and what kind of ratio of food types I'm eating as well. I'm not sure the whole food pyramid is exactly the right way to go but it might not be a bad place to start!!

So I'm going to do some research and plan out a diet for the next week and see how it goes.

I want to get balance, no energy dips and some sensible eating habits. I can spend next weekend working on the exercise side of things and work out a sensible approach to that as well.

I will do this. I am not giving up just cos of a small blip. I will succeed.