Beck Diet Solution - week 1 & Day 8

OK so technically I suppose this should be two posts but I have another post I want to write today so I'll squish these two into one.

Week one of the diet solution. Well, I'm not noticing any major changes as yet. Partly this may be because I had already started to do some of these things, and partly because I don't realise the full impact of the activities or I haven't implemented them fully yet.

Over the weekend I found it difficult. One of the tasks was to implement changes in the house and workplace to encourage good dieting behaviour. I'm unsure what to do with this, mainly because, my house and workplace are already designed around my needs and I'm not sure what to change to facilitate further effective behaviours. In the end I decided that mental health is as important as physical health so I'm engaging in a major declutter over the next few weeks. OK so this isn't exactly as the diet solution asks but it's my way of making the commitment!!

Day 8. Scheduling time for Dieting. This is a bit more difficult. I can plan to a certain extent a few days in advance - but all it takes is a few minor blips and that's the plan out the window. Over the years of dieting, I have developed a flexible plan approach. I make my plans, and then have back up plans for when I need them.

So I've broadened this a little bit. I know I find it easier to exercise when I do it straight after work, so I bring my gym kit in the car with me every day now. If I don't exercise then, it gets more and more difficult at the day goes on to get off the couch - the notion of a sit down after work, just isn't acceptable to me. So for 2 hours after work I can allocate time for exercise. When you take into account getting to the gym, showering, getting home, 2hrs gives me ~90mins of exercise. Now I can't do this every day so I need to find something productive to do with my time outside of exercise on the days I don't go to the gym. I'm thinking of doing an OU course in nutrition at the minute to see if that would help me understand various things. We'll see.

So there you go. Week one and day eight all in one go :)