Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Friday, October 11, 2013
I've had a couple of self-awakenings this week.
First, I feel really disgusting if I sleep for a 10-hour period (which I never used to be able to do, and will not let myself undertake again).
Second, I really do eat too much sugar.
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Chocolate is the main culprit. I've written before about my excitement for Asian confectionery and baking chocolate cakes, and it's something I believe hereditary from my paternal side.
I drink chai lattes and hot chocolates as an alternative to coffee when out with friends or in need of a hot drink. I put Milo on my Weet-Bix (NOT weird, it actually does taste amazing. Don't knock it until you try it.).
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A couple of weeks ago I thought about all of this, and then combined that with friends' views/experiences on a no-sugar diet.
While I could never go totally without sugar, I decided to look at what I was doing wrong.
First was the Milo. It's been off my cereal for nearly two weeks and it's staying off. I usually try and have fruit with my Weet-Bix when I can, and because blueberries are cheap right now they're great to chuck in - and a bit of fun too...
Is it weird that I have @DisneyAnimation's Hercules in my mind right now? #film #planetsaligned #toogood pic.twitter.com/ky4sbik7co
— Katina V (@Katiinkaa) October 2, 2013
Next is not consuming chocolate all day. Now, with this I often have high ebbs and flows in that I binge for a while and then go off completely for a bit. I've had too many film nights with friends lately to give myself that chance though, so I'm really pacing myself.
I didn't have any sugary/junk food from Sunday to Tuesday, even passing up chocolate mud cake at work (my FAVOURITE). On Wednesday, my day off, I succumbed to an iced chocolate. And you know what? It didn't taste as wonderful as I expected. Still good, but not entirely satisfying.
Then I went and won some chocolates while wearing a crazy hat that night at dinner, ahead of today's Hat Day (great initiative by the way, look it up). But I didn't eat them. They're being saved for a rainy day.
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The point of all this is really to say that I'm thinking a little bit more about the sugars I'm consuming and how it relates to my general energy levels and wellbeing. I believe if I do eat less chocolate and don't feel tempted to eat as many cakes at birthday parties then I'm on a winning run. And I think I've taken off OK.
Sugar will never leave me, but at least I can control the level of the high.
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You are whole. You are complete. You are total in every moment that you're alive.
Friday, August 02, 2013
Guilt is an irresponsible choice. As long as you feel guilty about whatever you've done, then you don't have to do anything to correct it.
Happiness and success are inner processes that we bring to life's undertakings, rather than something we get from "out there".
The body is a great healer. That magnificent, perfect creation is capable of healing itself in many, many instances.
Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit.
If you expect to be upset, then you'll seldom disappoint yourself.
Highly functioning people say, "Where I am is fine, but I can grow."
Friday, June 14, 2013
Today I saw something on my Facebook feed that made me fair ill...
This was on the page of a group called Eat Well Live Well, with the caption: "The Thigh Gap - The 2 Tricks She Discovered To Get It".
Uh, WHAT THE FUCK?
Sorry, I'm just really angry. Love her outfit, watch included, but the fact that a site promoting healthy wellbeing chooses to print this stuff?! What is this even ABOUT?
I had to comment along with the 1200 others, the majority of whom were also fairly outraged. Even writing this, I'm still queasy.
If she's naturally like this, OK, she's just quite skinny and that's how she is. And that's fine.
But to tell women they should aspire to have this is wrong on so many levels. You only had to read the responses to realise if it didn't immediately click on seeing the photo.
The best response was from Brooke de Regt: "Omg look at the sexy thigh gap on that girl!" -Said no guy. Ever.
Having heard about the thigh gap thing previously, I had baulked at the idea. Seeing this today, in a week where the Prime Minister is being scrutinised on so many gender-related levels, just suggests nothing's changed and women will even criticise women to the point of extreme insanity.
Women need to stop being victimised by one another on, among many other things, such trivial body issues. There are so many other ways we can be healthy. I'm not overweight, but I'll still keep my thigh no-gap and be perfectly OK with that.
All you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.
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