The last couple of months have been busy ones. A recurrent back injury flared up and my ‘bad’ knee decided to compete for attention. A bathroom renovation that was supposed to be a straightforward job, wasn’t and dragged on and on. School holidays saw the house over run with teenagers panicking over party costumes and VCE subject choices. Following up placement options for my autistic son took way more time than anticipated. And both the oven and the dishwasher gasped their last.
As usual when life gets busy and I’m time poor, the first thing to go by the wayside was my exercise regime. Since my last dvd review I’ve done no structured exercise at all. 30-60 minutes was just too hard to squeeze in and forcing time to myself seemed a bit indulgent and if I was going to indulge it was in sleep not exercise.
As for my eating patterns, the last fortnight has seen me eating with my children so I’ve been having something every three hours or so whether I feel hungry or not.
I still have trouble knowing when I am hungry. Very occasionally (once or twice a week) I have hunger pangs but most of the time-nothing. I simply can’t believe that my body never has need of food. So what’s going on?
In an effort to find out I headed to the library in hopes of finding some literature to explain the science behind the intuitive eating theory. They have a few books but most are heavy on how and light on why. One book I did come across was the No Diet Diet. I thought this sounded like it was on the right track so I had a flick through. While it is not what I was looking for I did find it interesting. It seems to be all about breaking habits (not necessarily dietary related) rather than focussing on the traditional food/hunger/exercise aspects of weight loss.
I must admit I find it very difficult to see how not watching TV for a day or sitting in a different chair can lead to weight loss. Sure, if you were the type of person who ate mindlessly in front of the telly you might get a result. But what about the rest of us?
So I decided to do a little experiment and follow the 28 day plan as outlined in the book and see what happens. Yesterday was day one and my challenge was to go a day without watching TV. This was not exactly a challenge for me since I don’t watch that much TV to start with but it was the first step and I did it. Today’s challenge is to write for 15 minutes. The authors suggest starting a diary. I thought this would be a great opportunity to resurrect this blog. I was going to recommence my lifestyle change today anyway. Part of that will now involve reporting on my daily activities as per the book and weighing in weekly. According to the book I should be losing a half to one kilo a week. Hmmm, we’ll see.
And speaking of weight, my extended period of time out has led to a 1.6kg gain. Not a whole lot over a couple of months but the sort of slow creep that could see me ballooning out over time. So nipping that in the bud won’t be such a bad thing.
Well that’s got to be 15 minutes, until tomorrow….
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