Today, I read an interesting article I had stored away for years. Written by a certain David Gillespie, David wrote that he was a corporate lawyer who researched fructose as he was 40 kgs overweight. Basically he ended up cutting out all products containing sugar and losing 40 kgs and keeping it off. His research identified to him that as a species us human beings are quite ill equipped to deal with the amounts of sugar we all consume. Obviously David has gone on to bigger and better things and now has written a book that can be purchased. I have not read any of his books but what he stated in his article did make a lot of sense to me. I guess particularly as I found that it was applicable to me where the sole issue and root cause of all my problems with weight is directly related to sugar and its forms....chocolate...chocolate and chocolate. Take todays example where I have already consumed 2 bars of chocolate and rice with milk and sugar - yes 2 serves of it - all in a days work! The voice inside me was on autopilot when it said to me that before I give up on sugar lets devour this as a last hurray. Yet how many last hurrays have I had I ask myself as I write this piece? Too many...but this time the goal is to learn and improve. I dont want to see myself writing this blog for the next five years and continue this journey of weightloss. I want to be any one of the blogs I read where the write has gone through her journey and reach or even almost reached the other side.
Anyway, coming back to the topic of the sugar free phase of my life, I am not about to jump into a sugarfree me. I am just acknowledging that I have a problem with sugar and all things sweet. This guy seems to make some sense to me from the limited amount I have read and heard. So one of the things that I have done to know more is order Davids second book on how to quit sugar. I figured that if I have spent moolah on so much diet and fitness, let this be one more thing. I am planning on going back to gym next month and so why not go armed with the right tools rather than just rock up yet again for yet another experiment and become a fit 114 kg woman, yet still obese. I will provide feed back on the book once I have read it. Also, I will go over all his references with a fine tooth comb just to cover all bases that this is not just another gimmicky thing I have given my business to. The book should get to me within the next week and I am using at least this weekend to plan my MO. So all I will say is watch this space!
The amazing race
Friday 20 May 2011
Monday 16 May 2011
I fail but try and rise again
I failed miserably in the last challenge - I will try again - This time I will break it down to a daily challenge. Hence it is 1030am and I am here in my little apartment with hubby having gone to work and little baby asleep. The challenge for the day is simply to avoid sugar and drink 2 litres of water for the next 24 hours. Think I can do that? Well I will give it a bloody good shot.
Where did I think I failed? I think I identified that I had to begin all over again and the goal seemed all too much and the ever familiar feeling of having failed seemed more comfortable than succeeding. You see success in the food and exercisepart of my life has not been a familiar feeling and over a period of time it is simply easier to fail and almost come to a predictable end than to change the storyline and wonder now what do I do next? I dont know it this makes sense but having gotten here after 3 weeks indicates how well I did at failing and just not showing up.
Anyway, this blog is not about beating myself up. It is about picking up them familiar pieces again and starting again. So today I will go for a long walk with my little one. I should be able to swing her away for about a 5km walk if I feed her well and proper. I have bought my trackpants and jumper and am all ready to go.
So my update for today is:
- I weigh 114.2 (gain of 400gms)
The goals for the DAY are:
- NO SUGAR
- STAY POSITIVE
- One 30 min walk a day
- Drink 2 litres of water
- Write my food diary today
The next weigh in will be next Monday but before breakfast unlike today where I have had breakfast, a piece of cake....alright 2 pieces of cake, chocolate and a cup of coffee. I will also research sugar addiction as I have zeroed down to this being my addiction in particular which really should make it easy as I only have one demon to beat and not several like a lot of others.
Where did I think I failed? I think I identified that I had to begin all over again and the goal seemed all too much and the ever familiar feeling of having failed seemed more comfortable than succeeding. You see success in the food and exercisepart of my life has not been a familiar feeling and over a period of time it is simply easier to fail and almost come to a predictable end than to change the storyline and wonder now what do I do next? I dont know it this makes sense but having gotten here after 3 weeks indicates how well I did at failing and just not showing up.
Anyway, this blog is not about beating myself up. It is about picking up them familiar pieces again and starting again. So today I will go for a long walk with my little one. I should be able to swing her away for about a 5km walk if I feed her well and proper. I have bought my trackpants and jumper and am all ready to go.
So my update for today is:
- I weigh 114.2 (gain of 400gms)
The goals for the DAY are:
- NO SUGAR
- STAY POSITIVE
- One 30 min walk a day
- Drink 2 litres of water
- Write my food diary today
The next weigh in will be next Monday but before breakfast unlike today where I have had breakfast, a piece of cake....alright 2 pieces of cake, chocolate and a cup of coffee. I will also research sugar addiction as I have zeroed down to this being my addiction in particular which really should make it easy as I only have one demon to beat and not several like a lot of others.
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