I'll go for a quick 20 minute run never tends to be 20 minutes, considering the amount you have to do before and afterwards. This additional time that I always forget to add on is something I look at today!
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Well done for going out for a run Sean. I managed to get out on the bike yesterday and today to try and shift a little bit more weight and support my healthy eating. It was my weigh in this morning unfortunately my weight remained the same! However I feel better for doing it. You seem to be getting back in the zone now. Good luck with it and happy New Year mate Best wishes Jeff
Hey Jeff, staying the same can be gutting sometimes, but after everything you have lost, one week the same isn't bad at all! Great job with the bike ride and yes, I am really am getting back in the zone...just a shame it took me so long. Happy new year for tomorrow Jeff, although I will be on to resay it tomorrow! lol.
Thanks for your support and encouragement Sean finally back to where I was before going daft Christmas Day with too much booze and chocolate. Just two pound to lose now.
It's so easy to let things slip and I'm not surprised so many people feel they can't sustain the change to their life style and eating habits.
It does not require any efforts for you allow yourself to eat what you want. It is so much easier to not take the trouble to do exercise.
I think if we understood more about why we behave as we do, our psychological attitude towards why we eat and desire unhealthy food and for me booze perhaps we would behave differently.
Some of it might be habits and routines we have developed as a part of our life which we are now trying to change.
Part of it will be the influence of advertising and the media to encourage us to associate pleasure and having a good time by indulging ourselves with food and alcoholic beverages.
Part of it will be social pressure to indulge in eating and drinking as a social pass time. Going out to the pub or a restaurant with our partner family or friends for a drink and a meal is a way of having a good time.
Food and alcohol is perceived as something you can reward yourself with.
I expect a lot also is basic instinct if there is food there, eat it, build up fat reserves as we don't know when our next meal will be.
We enjoy the feeling of having a good body shape, feeling healthy and being fit but then jeopardise what we have achieved simply by what we put in our stomachs. I so want to change my psychological relationship with food and alcohol so I am not part of this cycle of sorting myself out then letting things slip and then starting again. What's your opinion ? Any advice you can give would be gratefully received.
Best wishes
Jeff
Hey Jeff, I absolutely agree. The way we see ourselves and the social pressures to say yes when someone offers us a drink is immense. You'd think that it'd get easier, peer pressure, but it doesn't. I also agree that the media have a huge influence on how we perceive food and drink and the indulgence of it. We see thin models, people we aspire to be, drinking, eating, laughing and enjoying themselves, whilst still being thin and looking healthy. Therefore, we feel that we can do the same, or at least use it to justify our eating and drinking habits. It's also about convenience, time saving, ease...everything to get through the long hard slog of a day. At least it is for me. It's so much easier to take a five minute drive to the local chippy than spend an hour cooking the food yourself, especially when you have so much to do at home and for work.
One thing that worked for me, whilst I was really on top of things, was asking myself if I really wanted it or whether it was simply thirst or boredom, or something else. Most of the time, when I delayed and looked at my motivation behind wanting it, I could stop myself from eating it.
One bad thing I did was also to see salad as the enemy. When I was preparing meals I would be doing so huffing and puffing away, not enthusiastic, not wanting it, knowing it was going to taste bland and, when I did eat it, it tasted the exact way I'd expected it to. By judging my meals as bland and tasteless, that's what I got. Bu those same meals tasted delicious when I first started. It was my mindset that helped me to dislike the healthy meals most of the time and I'd end up not eating it. Instead, I'm going to look forward to eating my healthy meals now and not listen to the idiots that talk about me having rabbit food, because rabbits are healthy and can run fast!
I also need to get out of the habit of stopping at the local shop on the way home and picking up some beers and get away from the beer = relax thing I have going.
Not really advice, I know, but it was certainly interesting thinking about and responding to your points. Certainly something I need to look into more, I think!
Enjoy the first day of the new year!
Sean
Hi Sean,Yes, well done for doing your run. That sounds really great.
Zest 
Hey Zest. Hope your day went well and healthily!
My first day hiking in many years... so out of shape!
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