Sunday, 31 August 2014

Lazy Foodness

I like things simple.
I like getting fit to be easy, I like food to be simple. I ideally want to put in no effort, yet get brilliant results.
So, is it possible?
Many "diets" or "food fads" promise miracle results if you just buy their products after reading their remarkable sales pitches. Many a time I have been tempted.......hmmmm lose a stone just by taking some tablets, yep I am up for that, a patch that curbs the appetite, yep let's give that a go too. A shake that fills you up and gives you everything you need in one glassful, yep where do I sign?
A week is fine, maybe, then real food (er....crisps, corned beef sarnies etc) makes an appearance. Well my version of real food. Then, back to the normal patterns of laziness.
Over the years I have slipped away from the once healthy meals, to hastily grabbed snacks or indeed nothing at all. I have become detached from food, it doesn't interest me. Give me a pill and that will be fine. Veg? What's that? 6 pack of crisps? Now you are talking.
I exercise, in fact I teach group fitness, I also run, if you can call it that and am often to be found leading beginner groups. I am a brilliant motivator of others yet fail miserably to motivate myself.
Yet change is needed as age brings sliding metabolism and difficulty in shifting the extra pounds. The mind is willing(ish) but the willpower is weak. Yet I know the only way to sort myself out is to encourage new habits.
I know real food is what I need, yet I struggle to engage with it. So.....am going to give the KSFL Sugar-Free September a go, and see if I can re-engage my enthusiasm for food, and along the way treat myself to some new eating habits and a reintroduction to vegetables and attempt to remove my lazy streak. 30 days to work on my lazy food habits and restore some fitness goals. My "Foodness" project.
I think that should be simple enough, even for me.

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