Dieting
Until the age of about 20 I had the luxury of eating as much crap as I wanted and staying pretty skinny. For a while after that I didn’t mind the extra weight, I think I looked better with it than being skinny. As many people are happy to tell you though, once you get married you let yourself go. There may be some truth to it or it may be coincidence, I’m not sure if I stayed single myeating habits would have been any better. I wouldn’t call myself fat at all but there’s certainly more torso padding that I’d like and a couple of years ago I had to replace all my trousers for being too tight.
I haven’t really dieted before, my willpower extends to just a day or two normally, a week at a push. That is, until a month ago. For one month I have eaten no chocolate, biscuits, cakes or sweets. I think the difference this time has been motivation. Before the motivation has always been weight loss, but this time it was health reasons. About a month ago I had several bouts of extremely painful ‘digestive issues’. I’m talking the worst pain I’ve ever had. Super sensibly I didn’t see a doctor but I was pretty sure it was all down to what I was eating.
I’ve known for years that I have an intolerance to dairy (and a few other food types) but it has gotten worse lately. The symptoms were usually heartburn, bloating and upset stomach. So I decided I couldn’t take this any more and I’d cut it all out. All dairy and anything that gives me heartburn is out of my diet. This sadly includes chocolate, the most lovely of foods. For the first few days I got the shakes from not being able to snack on sweet things after meals, but after that I was astonished to find that I no longer craved the stuff. I was happy sticking to grapes and raspberries in their place. I thought for the first time that I could actually give it all up for good.
So here I am one month on and I have not had one moment of weakness. In that month I have not been ill and I’ve had no heartburn (used to get through a packet of Gaviscon a month easily before). I feel more full after my meals and I very rarely feel flakey when I’m hungry.
Today I bought a set of weighing scales. It’s a bit late now as I don’t know what I weighed before I started this diet but I figured I’d start keeping track now to see if there is any loss. 80Kg if you’re interested. I may even see about getting a bit of exercise here and there. I think if I managed to give up chocolate there’s nothing that I can’t do.
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