The times they are a-changin'

[hugglesnkisses]

Well today marks the start of a diet and eventuall healthy eating plan here at Dale Street. With Graham determined to lose the stone or so he's put on in the last 3/4 months and me feeling uncomfortable in clothes that fitted perfectly at the beginning of the year, we've decided to do this together - dragging our housemate along for the ride too

Comments

[sairensu]

Good luck, wife! I think I self-sabotage diets, they just make me crave more rubbish! So mostly I just try to eat healthier stuff, or eat less of the unhealthy cravings (like cake D:).

[burakkupansa]

I fully encourage healthy eating - and a bit of extra exercise, but you walk lots of places anyway so that's like super exercise for you. I too, need to stop eating crap. I started sit ups again this morning, plan on possibly joining the gym (horrifing but true) And of course have the swimming. Sadly, I don't like the way all the extra watching cuts into my life, so I am going to try and just try to eat less cakes and chocolate, and eat more veg and fruit.... It's harder than it sounds :(

[sairensu]

Apologies for hijack! But I tend to drink a lot of water when I want cake/chocolate and reaaaaally shouldn't have it. It doesn't assuage the sweet craving, but if I drink enough of it, it does make me feel slightly ill and therefore puts me off. This is probably also terribly unhealthy, but it works, so, eh. LOL.

[burakkupansa]

Like you ever need to apologize for hijacking me, darling!
Water is a good hunger disipator. (dissipator? Pater?...remover?) I tend not to drink that much water generally, but I will stock up intensely on tea more when I feel hungry. I'll be all "I'll have tea. Milk is good for you, so as long as it's not too fattening..."... but then I just have cravings for tea parties. Which means cravings for biscuits... etc. etc.

[hugglesnkisses]

Tea is good! Without sugar it's only 14 calories per 200 mls which is your average sort of mug size :) But you have a valid point about the biscuit craving...try dried fruit instead if you want something sweet?