There are so many tasty foods out there that are also great for your body and you can eat until you are full. Changing your eating habits and losing weight doesn’t need to be hard and it doesn’t mean giving up all the good stuff and eating boring food. I think that is an important message for people to understand. I exercise a bit and certainly get moving everyday, but I don’t push myself as much and my body and mood haven’t changed much at all. Since then I’ve introduced lots of good natural products like Greek yoghurt, coconut oil and avo’s.
I have actually come to learn now that I probably did a little too much exercise and I also fell for the low fat myth. Some of my mates just shook their heads and couldn’t believe what a change I had been through. I don’t quite remember when I first noticed changes, but after 8 months of no sugar and some exercise to go with it, I had become lean and toned and felt great. But I was proud that I wasn’t ‘normal’, because normal was actually pretty messed up and no one had a clue. It felt awkward at times having to make special requests at restaurants and getting mocked by mates for not being normal. In an effort to regain control I gave up sugar and carbs and started to think more about the food I ate. Similarly I’d often eat tubs of fruity yoghurt believing it was healthy, but the benefits would have been far outweighed by all the added sugar.
I used to skull a big glass of juice almost every night before bed, not realising it contained more sugar than a can of coke. I failed a medical for a scuba diving certification due to high blood pressure and this came as a shock and an embarrassment and I couldn’t believe I was that unhealthy.Īfter some research and good advice, I became aware of the effects of sugar and realised I’d been getting it all wrong. The poor eating habits I’d developed as a student had followed me long after I finished uni and eventually caught up with me on the outside, as visible body fat, and also on the inside. I will be there with my packet of blueberries and bottle of water. I have a lot more energy and feel really healthy.Īt first I was going to give up all processed food for a month, however I feel so good it’s going to be a way of life for me now. Day fourteen, I have lost 3 kg I put on over Christmas. Water with lemon wedges or mint leaves and the odd cup of tea with no sugar. įresh fruit, fresh vegetables, beautiful herbs and lean meat are the only things on my plate. I wasn’t going to stand in the shops trying to work out the good food from the bad food. I was so shaken by this I thought well why eat any process foods? So I started what I call the “nothing out of the box diet”. The one fact about sugar that stuck in my head was, 80% of processed food has hidden sugar. I was following Damon Gameau’s Facebook page about sugar. I started to let things slide and put on 3kg.
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Now we all know life gives us bumps in the road, at the end of the year I had three funerals one after the other plus Christmas. In three months I had lost 10 kg and more importantly I kept it off. I wasn’t on a diet, I eat good food and I just gave up chocolate ,coffee and biscuits. No chocolate, no Tim Tams, no home made ice coffee with two sugars.Īfter the initial day in bed with caffeine withdrawal I thought never again am I going to get hooked on chocolate.Īpart from feeling better I noticed people were stopping me at work and asking for diet tips. It was not going to be me so I went cold turkey. My husbands a nurse so I have heard all the stories about people who got advice from a doctor and did nothing about it. “Well yes I love it.” I replied ” it’s the only junk food I have. He leaned forward with a one word question “chocolate?” “But I make really good meals and I don’t drink ” I protested. Imagine my surprise when the doctor told me the pain in my side was a fatty liver. I menu plan from Jamie Oliver’s cook books to make sure my family is eating right.
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