emmaleighjohnson
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I did the Slimming World plan for a long time and lost a lot of weight (I'm only half a pound lighter now than my lowest weight at Slimming World). However, I never learned about myself as a person or my habits around food.
The Cambridge Diet for me has been more than a diet and I thought I'd post some ramblings from my journal to illustrate this and also to see if anyone else is experiencing this lightbulb moment along with me.
We went to Camden yesterday and it was lovely... I got to see so many things I would usually miss because previously I have been so fixated on food. I saw things I might actually like to eat which I would otherwise have never realised were there because we'd already have spent our money on fudge and chinese! We also went to Thorpe Park on Saturday and that was also an insight into the real world. Husband and I had our shake and it gave me a chance to see what other people CHOOSE to eat.
Thorpe Park has a massive array of foods to choose from and three of our party had panninis, just panninis. If that were me it would have been panini, crisps and a desserty thing like a muffin or something.
Normal people can just have a sandwich and when faced with KFC, Burger King or a sandwich shops they can choose the sandwich shop because they want to eat that. They don't feel compelled to eat grease and chips and to excess. They can buy a bag of something e.g. hot donuts they can share them out and not eat them all to themselves. If there are chocolate bars on three for two a normal person can buy three and eat just one and save the third for in the week.
This experience has been really important and valuble to me. I've learnt so much about myself as a person and an eater and also about the experiences of other's. Eddie said it would be nice to 'shadow' a normal eater for a week or so and see what they do; being on The Cambridge Diet has allowed me to do this.
If I were to approach this diet as a restrictive process for losing weigh then I may have gone insane by now. However, it has been so much more to me. It has been an insightful and developmental experience which I couldn't have ever predicted AND I've lost weight.
I always knew that my eating was somehow wrong but I maintaned that it couldn't be THAT wrong and that everyone must binge. Not eating myself has allowed me time to observe others and for that I am truely thankful.
The Cambridge Diet for me has been more than a diet and I thought I'd post some ramblings from my journal to illustrate this and also to see if anyone else is experiencing this lightbulb moment along with me.
We went to Camden yesterday and it was lovely... I got to see so many things I would usually miss because previously I have been so fixated on food. I saw things I might actually like to eat which I would otherwise have never realised were there because we'd already have spent our money on fudge and chinese! We also went to Thorpe Park on Saturday and that was also an insight into the real world. Husband and I had our shake and it gave me a chance to see what other people CHOOSE to eat.
Thorpe Park has a massive array of foods to choose from and three of our party had panninis, just panninis. If that were me it would have been panini, crisps and a desserty thing like a muffin or something.
Normal people can just have a sandwich and when faced with KFC, Burger King or a sandwich shops they can choose the sandwich shop because they want to eat that. They don't feel compelled to eat grease and chips and to excess. They can buy a bag of something e.g. hot donuts they can share them out and not eat them all to themselves. If there are chocolate bars on three for two a normal person can buy three and eat just one and save the third for in the week.
This experience has been really important and valuble to me. I've learnt so much about myself as a person and an eater and also about the experiences of other's. Eddie said it would be nice to 'shadow' a normal eater for a week or so and see what they do; being on The Cambridge Diet has allowed me to do this.
If I were to approach this diet as a restrictive process for losing weigh then I may have gone insane by now. However, it has been so much more to me. It has been an insightful and developmental experience which I couldn't have ever predicted AND I've lost weight.
I always knew that my eating was somehow wrong but I maintaned that it couldn't be THAT wrong and that everyone must binge. Not eating myself has allowed me time to observe others and for that I am truely thankful.