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Happy new week!
I was pondering my past the other day, which is something we all find ourselves doing perhaps, and now a lot of things are clicking into place as to why I have always found it difficult to control my weight until now. I used to grab onto many crackpot schemes and diets when I was in my late teens and early twenties as I knew nothing about nutrition, or how to eat and exercise to get and maintain a healthy weight. I used to have a couple of friends who were models, they were obsessive to the last degree about their figures. To maintain their shapes, they often used to only eat once a day, and that meal would consist of a poached egg on toast in the evening, with perhaps a bit of spinach on top. The rest of the time they would eat nothing. As I had no clue how to start knocking off the excess pounds, I saw that doing this ' worked' for them, so I would do the same, then wonder why I would start to eat anything which wasn't nailed down every couple of days.
My saint versus sin eating habits had begun.
And indeed this period lasted for years, during which I caused myself untold misery and wrecked my metabolism. I would try to be ' good' and stick to the interminable 1000 cals a day law or less, then get so darned hungry I would give myself permission to ' eat' as I was so hungry - then even foods I didn't particularly like were fair game. On and on I went with this miserable existence, I would sometimes be thinner and sometimes fatter, but I thought this was how things were done, also 'encouraged' in the ' slim figures are only given to the most self sacrificing and worthy' implications by ultra strict diet companies who made me feel a failure if I ate too much cake on occasion. Also by those who should have loved me most ( not Hubby!) I was judged harshly I feel and made to feel a failure if I gained a few pounds, and only reaching ' expected standards) if I had lost some. I even found I was having panic attacks due to lack of food, it wasn't until I began to eat properly that I finally was able to stop them ( this is what I found personally with panic attacks.)
But thankfully these days are in the past, and how different things are now from 20 years ago, with all the information and real support available, and greater ease for the average person to be able to workout. I am so glad I was finally able to break away from my old mentality, weight isn't the be all and end all, but by getting into the best shape you can for you, it is amazing how this can have such a positive influence on so many areas of your life, as I have found. It is well worth allowing yourself to create your own healthy journey and finally stop expecting perfection from yourself. As I like to say, perfection isn't what will get you a healthy and trim body, slow and steady effort and persistance is what WILL!
Have a great week
I was pondering my past the other day, which is something we all find ourselves doing perhaps, and now a lot of things are clicking into place as to why I have always found it difficult to control my weight until now. I used to grab onto many crackpot schemes and diets when I was in my late teens and early twenties as I knew nothing about nutrition, or how to eat and exercise to get and maintain a healthy weight. I used to have a couple of friends who were models, they were obsessive to the last degree about their figures. To maintain their shapes, they often used to only eat once a day, and that meal would consist of a poached egg on toast in the evening, with perhaps a bit of spinach on top. The rest of the time they would eat nothing. As I had no clue how to start knocking off the excess pounds, I saw that doing this ' worked' for them, so I would do the same, then wonder why I would start to eat anything which wasn't nailed down every couple of days.
My saint versus sin eating habits had begun.
But thankfully these days are in the past, and how different things are now from 20 years ago, with all the information and real support available, and greater ease for the average person to be able to workout. I am so glad I was finally able to break away from my old mentality, weight isn't the be all and end all, but by getting into the best shape you can for you, it is amazing how this can have such a positive influence on so many areas of your life, as I have found. It is well worth allowing yourself to create your own healthy journey and finally stop expecting perfection from yourself. As I like to say, perfection isn't what will get you a healthy and trim body, slow and steady effort and persistance is what WILL!
Have a great week
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