Beginning a healthy food lifestyle
And because oversnacking and eating seconds are really my major problem, not so much the quality of the food I eat, I've also added my own condition: no Shit. And by that I basically mean no overprocessed, additive filled crappy foods. This is because I've noticed some changes that happen to my body when I eat bad foods. For example, I haven't eaten Macdonalds or any takeaways (other than the occasional all natural burger at Johnny's or the turkish kebab house) basically since May. Then, yesterday, we took one of our respite kids to darkzone, and on the way home, my brother offered to buy me lunch. I'm not one to turn down a free meal so I said yes. He bought me a large chicken wrap meal thing. I ended up pouring the coke down the drain (because it was coke zero and full of aspartame) and I was struggling to finish the chips and wrap because I felt physically ill eating it. Then I couldn't concentrate for the rest of the day. Something similar happened when I was studying at uni on Friday. I had just ploughed through three hours of study and was feeling a bit peckish. Unfortunately, nothing on campus was really open because it was study week so my options were a food van and vending machines. I ended up getting a spinach quiche (okay) and a snickers bar (not okay.) I ate the quiche and did another hour of study. Then I ate the snickers bar and after that, I totally lost my focus. See also: msg-filled mi goreng gives me migraines. See also: I don't really drink even though I'm an eighteen year old uni student with a pub on campus because alcohol makes my kidneys hurt. So yeah. Let's see how this goes. I've already had some massive chocolate cravings and I only started this morning. But my wonderful boyfriend started his own meal plan two weeks ago and has already lost 2kg while doing less exercise than usual, so hopefully we can help motivate one-another.