The Fitness Diary

So the basics of eating are going to be a bit of a problem in the first place I think. Three years ago I was going to gym and exercising hard about four days a week, and consequently I could pretty much eat whatever I wanted and not have to worry about calories. Cut to now, and I’m still eating like I’m exercising hard four days a week, and I’m doing fuck-all. No surprise where the extra padding come from around my guts. At work it’s a bit of a culture of snacking whenever you feel hungry because the company provides all manner of chips, chocolate, and soft drinks to gorge yourself on. The idea being happy tech people are productive tech people. To some extent that’s true, and so the folks I work with have been ignoring the fruit and healthy snacks, in favour of crisps and Coca Cola. I’ve become so used to this afternoon ritual that I don’t even consider it a bad thing that I eat a half a big bag of Lays Natural flavour, and wash it down with a half a bottle of Coca Cola.

The first order of business is going to be to cut the crap out of my diet, and stop evil snack habits that I have become part of my typical eating day. Right now I don’t actually know how to deal with the snack time blues that hit at 4pm, so I’m going to have to do some reading and experimentation and see what works by trial and error.

So today I said goodbye to the chips and cola in a formal way by walking straight past the cupboard without a second glance. And although I did have a peice of cake for a collegues birthday celebration (okay, two peices), it’s the end of the days of junk food snacking. Might be time to start using a calorie counter site to help out with this.

Andy.