Coming back on to a healthier lifestyle, and trying to not eat all the rubbish and not-very-nutricious foods you've been eating with aplomb for the last month, is much easier if you are busy. When I am busy I don't have time to think about my stomach, or whether I am hungry, I can simply concentrate on the work I am doing. This is a double edged sword, because the cravings are still there and, because I don't think about food, when I do eventually stop I want to eat more because I think about it more.
This being said, being busy does help. I don't mean being busy as in never stop, but busy as in keeping your mind off food that has been a staple part of your diet (even though you know it is not very good for you) or off the drink (that has also been helping you to put all weight back on that you lost), so that you can concentrate on eating the foods and drinking the drinks that will help you to lose weight and to eat in a way that will lengthen your life and make you feel better.
The one aspect of getting back on it that I don't like, as does everyone else, I expect, is having to wait to see the difference. I want to wake up the next day and stop seeing my stomach leaning over my boxer shorts, or my moobs crying out for a baby to feed, and instead see a slim, fit and muscular man. I know that I have got to wait and work for that man to be seen in my mirror, but that still doesn't stop me from wanting him now, this minute...tomorrow at the latest. It's exasperating feeling hungry, not eating as I normally would and still being fat after two days! It's not fair.
So again, keeping my mind occupied with school work and reading and writing is helping me to keep things in perspective and to stop myself from a) eating and b) the fact that after two days I am still not the man I could only dream of being. At least if I keep my mind occupied and my body busy I will be able to look myself in the mirror (once I am slim and muscular) and know that I deserve the body I have, that I deserve the energy I have, that I deserve the lack of a bad back or aches. I have to keep my mind busy and focused on that and remember that getting all that will take work.
I still have to do some reading on LCHF diets and I am sure that there is lots of literature on the subject (as wel as the forum on HU and plenty of people who have been on it for a while and can point me in the right direction, but that is where being busy gets in the way...where do I find time to read the stuff, to watch the videos, to talk to people about it on HU?
Well, life is busy, time stands still for no one and there is still work to be done. So until tomorrow, or Thursday, I hope that I can keep this up and see that slim muscular man in the mirror at some point...just not tomorrow.
Stay strong, stay confident and never give in!
Thanks for reading.
Sean.
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