Healthy Diet Failures

[eek]

I have tried to start eating healthy, lots of fresh fruit and veg and cut down on the sugary drinks and fatty foods

And now he's forgetful and miserable....

[Damon]

I just try and cut sugar and carbs whilst uping excerise levels.

That way life doesn't become constant craving for something enjoyable to eat.

[BigRed]

Try 180 degree health, Matt Stone. He advocates eating everything you want, as much as you want for a few months, don't worry about gaining extra pounds, it will all sort itself out once you learn to listen to your body. I've been trying it but I think I'm hard of hearing.

[SimonMac]

And now he's forgetful and miserable....

I was always miserable!

[Gittins Gal]

Buy a bicycle, ride to the gym (fast), work out, ride home. Repeat a few times a week. Eat the fish and chips if that's what you like.

Motivation. That's the problem, especially at this time of year when all I want to do is curl up in my little woodland abode with a box set every night.

The thought of a trip to the gym at the end of a long day in the office is a dark cloud that hangs over the day.

[Gittins Gal]

Try 180 degree health, Matt Stone. He advocates eating everything you want, as much as you want for a few months, don't worry about gaining extra pounds, it will all sort itself out once you learn to listen to your body. I've been trying it but I think I'm hard of hearing.

I would try that but at the end of the few months I'd worry that my body would be yelling "more!"

[NotAllThere]

While cutting out snacks and reducing fast-food intake is a good thing, detoxing through diet is complete twaddle. It's what your liver and assorted internal organs are for, and they're very good at their job.

[norrahe]

While cutting out snacks and reducing fast-food intake is a good thing, detoxing through diet is complete twaddle. It's what your liver and assorted internal organs are for, and they're very good at their job.

Eat sensibly, exercise and you can eat what you want, as long as you don't overdo it.

[Mich the Tester]

Motivation. That's the problem, especially at this time of year when all I want to do is curl up in my little woodland abode with a box set every night.

The thought of a trip to the gym at the end of a long day in the office is a dark cloud that hangs over the day.

Try it; it helps me sleep well regardless of spending the day talking with Mr CMMi and his deputy, Mr HP QC.

[sasguru]

I don't normally make New Year's resolutions. In fact, this year I've actually made an anti-New Year's resolution and cancelled my gym membership. I've always found going to the gym a chore but finding it packed to the rafters with people on a New Year's fitness fad, I can't get on to any of my instruments of torture when I want to and getting changed in the locker room is like a game of Twister.

That said, I do need to go on a bit of a detox - particularly paying attention to what I eat - my insides took a right Royal battering over Christmas!

Of course, it won't last because events will unfold exactly the same as they do every year. The sequence of events normally starts with me thinking that I need to eat less processed food, less meat, fewer fatty things and more fruit and veg and then, over a short period of time, this thought process gets refined into me thinking I am going to cut out meat altogether and eat nothing but organic produce. And therein lies the problem as I will inevitably be led to the local health food shop. Now, this isn't Holland and Barratt by any means but a real sandal lover's panoply of soya derivatives and enough fibre packing wholemeal fayre to glue your ribs together for a lifetime with plenty of herbal infusions thrown in for good measure.

And I will duly buy enough to last me a week. And by the end of that week I will be completely and utterly sick to the back teeth of it and find myself in Barnacle Bill's ordering double haddock and chips to counteract the comfort food deficit I've accumulated over the preceding week. It's about all the dreary wholesomeness I can take....

Seriously WGAS? Is tedium your middle name?