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I came to the realization today that I've finally called a truce with my body and to be pals with it, after all. This might sound like I've got a split personality but, over the last 15 years, like many people who gain weight, I'd come to hate my body. Even though *I* was responsible for the physical changes I saw, I generally tried to ignore my body, hide it, not look at it. And, of course, while I was busy trying to look the other way, I just got bigger and bigger.
Now, I think that perhaps that was a big part of the problem; relations between me and my body had broken down. With diarizing my food and taking up serious daily exercise, I can't ignore my body anymore; I have to listen to it. In a really fundamental way, I've realized that we need to be friends and I feel pretty bad that I've tested its limits to the extent I have. If I help my body now, it'll help me. That way, my body and I get to live a longer, healthier and perhaps even happier life.
Basically, I'm trying to help my body, rather than viewing weight loss as a battle with it, or an unhealthy lifestyle as some kind of moral failing to be punished. My body needs exercise, so I give it the exercise. My body feels like crap if I eat crap, so I don't eat crap. My body needs rest and sleep, so I go to bed. This is all it takes for my body to be comfortable and strong so, to quote Nike, I'll just do it.
My body has needed a friend for years. But the friend it has really needed all along was me.
View Diet Calendar, 05 September 2013:
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1302 kcal
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Fat: 36.04g | Prot: 126.10g | Carbs: 117.42g.
Breakfast: Tomatoes, Morrisons Carvery Peppered Ham, Philadelphia 1/3 Less Fat Cream Cheese, Ryvita Dark Rye Crackers, Basil, Skinless Chicken Breast, 2% Fat Milk, Decaffeinated Tea Unsweetened. Lunch: Cottage Cheese, Mixed Salad Greens, Bell Peppers, Coconut Oil, Newman's Own Balsamic Vinegar, Carrots, Tuna in Water (Canned). Dinner: Heinz Baked Beans, Couscous (Cooked), Skinless Chicken Breast, Asda Naturally Sweet Sweetcorn. Snacks/Other: Decaffeinated Tea Unsweetened, 2% Fat Milk, Strawberries, Rachel's Organic Fat Free Bio-live Yoghurt, Morrisons Savers Coldwater prawns - cooked & peeled, Nairn's Oat Cake, Marks & Spencer Cooked Turkey (British Wafer Thin), Water. more...
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4335 kcal
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Exercise:
Housework - 2 hours, Yard Work (gardening) - 2 hours, Pilates - 40 minutes, Walking (exercise) - 5.5/kph - 15 minutes, Running (jogging) - 8/kph - 1 hour, Sleeping - 8 hours, Resting - 10 hours and 5 minutes. more...
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