So The Boyfriend and I have been to see a dietician. You know, just to get back on track in terms of healthy eating, shed a few kilos that just happened to pile on during the festive season and seemed never to have left. I blame all that tequila and my awesome drunken cooking.
Our dietician is lovely. A skinny little chick who is basically the poster girl for dieting. Thin little arms, barely any boobs. She’s given us an eating plan. She spent an hour or so going through it with us, and discussing menu options and good foods and bad foods. Basically telling us nothing we didn’t already know. But, the monthly check ups and weigh-ins should be incentive enough to try do some healthy eating.
After our appointment with her, The Boyfriend and I are walking to the car and he says: “Jesus, I hope that being on a diet won’t make my breath smell as bad as that chick.”
I snort with laughter, we get in the car and he’s still carrying on about our dietician’s halitosis.
“It’s like her stomach has tasted the diet food she’s put in it and said ‘fuck you’ and died and is now trying to claw it’s way out of her body through her mouth. Fuck man, it smells like she’s rotting from the inside out. This diet thing is going to be terrible, isn’t it?”
I snigger and silently agree with him.
We go home. I make us a lovely nutritious dinner of steamed sweet potato, baby marrow and grilled chicken with a bean sprout salad. It doesn’t taste too bad. I prepare our breakfast and lunch for the next day (fruit salad and chicken & rice salad).
I keep telling myself this is not going to be bad. The food I’ve made so far on the diet hasn’t been a drastic change from what we normally eat. It just doesn’t have as much cheese and as much pasta as I would like. I persuade myself that this is a good thing.
We marvel at how much healthier we’re going to be and how much money we’re going to save because we wont be going out for dinner/having takeaways/buying ice-creams/buying sweeties as much.
We keep convincing ourselves that we can be strong and do this.
Day two (proper) into the diet, I’m sitting at work, eating my rice and chicken salad (with sweet potato, danish feta, carrots and bean sprouts) and I put down my fork, pick up my car keys.
I head to McDonalds and buy myself a chicken burger and wolf it down in about 2.5 seconds. I don’t even like McDonalds. I dont even like chicken burgers.
So why did I do it? Mostly because I knew I shouldn’t. Tell me I shouldn’t do something, or that I can’t do something, and it’s all I can think about.
So yeah. Here I am. Once again.
Convincing myself that this diet thing is going to be GREAT. Sigh.
Any dieting words of wisdom for me?
My best diet advice is…
1. If no-one saw you eat it, you didn’t!
2. If you drink a glass of water after eating something ‘naughty’, the water cancels out the naughtiness!
3. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand!
Dude, I’ve never been on a proper diet in my life so i can’t really give advise without sounding like I’m pulling it from my ass (which is what I would be doing). lol
Maybe don’t think of it as a diet, think of it as healthy eating. 😉
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I feel your pain… I was so determined to lose weight for our wedding and I am getting nowhere!
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I understand, that thought process.
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It’s a mind game (just like most healthy activities). Once you find the foods that don’t send you running for the McD’s, and get into the swing of eating healthier foods more often, it’ll get easier. You simply need to try and keep aware of the benefits that a good diet have on your overall health (not simply the waistline) and you’ll be able to keep to the eating plan
LOL afraid I’ve got no advice, cos I’m too chicken to even try diet 🙂
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Talk to Richard chicken, that boy is on one hell of a plan and he’s being my food nazi and acting disappointed everytime I tell him that I caved and had chips. He’s even threatened to drag me out for a hike.
If somebody says the word diet all i hear is DIE.
I love food and I love the taste of food and the good company that goes with food – why give it up. I’d much rather just excercise harder (or start in your case) than give up the food I adore!
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Good luck with your diet. I don’t really have any advice but I am on day 4 of my diet and so far so good. The only reason why I think I’m doing so good is that I found a diet with a lot of my favourite foods on and I am not starving myself.
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Exercise, exercise, exercise!
If you want to loose weight without cutting down on the calories you’re gonna have to burn them off at the gym I’m afraid!
I’ve got 3 things that help with the bad food cravings: when I want chocolate or something sweet I find that sugar free gum helps a lot, I keep a lot, and I mean a lot, of low fat yoghurt and my fav fruits in the fridge. When that and a ton of water doesn’t help, then I have the smallest choc I can get. 🙂
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