bog willow
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So I begin my journey to eating like an adult, instead of always giving in to my emotional and compulsive overeating, and to get of the couch and move at least 5 or 6 days a week.
I've found some exercise videos on YouTube that I like, and I've been doing them 6 days a week for a couple of weeks. I hope to build up the courage and physical stamina to start briskly walking around my city come autumn.
I've discovered I can no longer follow a commercial diet, or count calories religiously like I did when I was younger. I just rebel and start binge eating in response. But I also have learned through several attempts that intuitive eating is definitely not for me! I have way too much emotional baggage when it comes to eating (thanks mum and dad) and when I give myself license to eat what I feel my body needs, the deprived child in me will always overeat, and choose biscuits and crisps over anything. I do need to set limits and boundaries with myself when it comes to food, and I need to be honest with myself - this is the difficult part.
So in short I'm working on coming up with my own food plan, bit by bit, I will keep tweaking it.
For today, I have learned that peanut butter has become a problem - I need to find a less fattening alternative. I'm think making a pot of soup, like lentil or split pea, dal ...all soups I really like, and having the leftovers for lunch each day. Tuna with mayo on wholemeal bread -no butter, would have fewer calories and fat than peanut butter, but still have plenty of protein.
Okay! Feeling hopeful.
Any comments or advice are most welcome.
I've found some exercise videos on YouTube that I like, and I've been doing them 6 days a week for a couple of weeks. I hope to build up the courage and physical stamina to start briskly walking around my city come autumn.
I've discovered I can no longer follow a commercial diet, or count calories religiously like I did when I was younger. I just rebel and start binge eating in response. But I also have learned through several attempts that intuitive eating is definitely not for me! I have way too much emotional baggage when it comes to eating (thanks mum and dad) and when I give myself license to eat what I feel my body needs, the deprived child in me will always overeat, and choose biscuits and crisps over anything. I do need to set limits and boundaries with myself when it comes to food, and I need to be honest with myself - this is the difficult part.
So in short I'm working on coming up with my own food plan, bit by bit, I will keep tweaking it.
For today, I have learned that peanut butter has become a problem - I need to find a less fattening alternative. I'm think making a pot of soup, like lentil or split pea, dal ...all soups I really like, and having the leftovers for lunch each day. Tuna with mayo on wholemeal bread -no butter, would have fewer calories and fat than peanut butter, but still have plenty of protein.
Okay! Feeling hopeful.
Any comments or advice are most welcome.
- but with the usual life dramas (moving house, county, finding a job, yada yada) some of that weight has come back on, so I started cc'ing a few weeks ago - but I'm not doing terribly well, to be honest, so have been thinking like you, that maybe just trying to eat healthier as often as I can will be the way forward. Bt I am notorious for changing my mind! 
