What do you eat when you are hungry?
#1. Meat! Hamburger and steaks, both pork and beef, unglazed ham, bacon, lamb, veal, sausage, pepperoni, hotdogs, ribs. Make sure that you check the label, make sure the carbohydrates listed on the label are 0-1gram per serving. #2. Poultry! Chicken, turkey, duck, cornish hens and the like. Again make sure the carbohydrate count is 0-1g per serving. #3. Fish and shellfish! Any fish, canned fresh or frozen including tuna, salmon, shrimp, scallops, crab and lobster. #4. Eggs! Any kind of eggs is permitted without restriction!!! #5. Salad greens! If it is a leaf you may eat it! This includes cabbage, kale, all lettuce varieties, spinach, radishes and watercress etc. #6. Vegetables! Artichokes, asparagus, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, eggplant, green or string beans, leaks, mushrooms, peppers, snow peas, tomatoes, zucchini, etc. Either cooked or uncooked. #7. Brouillon! Broth or consumes used for cooking. #8. Cheese! Includes hard aged, swiss, cheddar, brea, camembert, blue, mozzarella, cream cheese, goat cheese. Avoid processed cheeses, check the label as the carbohydrate count should be less than one serving. #9. Cream! Includes heavy, light, or sour cream. #10. Mayonnaise! Check the label for low carb. #11. Olives! Black or green, stuffed or not. #12. Lemon, lime! Fresh or juice. #13. Soy Sauce! Check the label for low carb brands. #14.Pickles! Check the label for 0-1 grams or carbs per serving. #15. Snacks! Pork rinds/skins, pepperoni slices, ham, beef, turkey, summer sausage, devilled eggs. #16. Salad dressing! Oil and Vinegar, lemon juice, blue cheese, ranch, caesar, and Italian. 1-2 grams of carbohydrates per serving. These are the basic ingredients for your new healthy diet. Aren’t they yummy? Re-read the list. They are yummy.
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The culinary arts are more based in a way of thinking more than they are based in a way of eating. Watching Top Chef Canada, you sure can see how much thought has to go into food preparation. Its all about creativity, and then there is taste. Eating habits have changed culturally, over the last 100 years or so. Eating used to be about communal lifestyle, which was common in colonial times. However, now in this day and age, we value privacy. Today it is all about the individual. Each individual stands on their own. Now more than ever, we have freedom of choice, which means infinite variety and absolute independence. I think you could actually see that on the Top Chef Canada show that I watched last night as two teams prepared meals in the restaurant at the CN Tower in Toronto. The reason that I say this is because each chef stood on their own, even though it was supposed to be a communal effort. I think much of our food choices now are created with that very habit in mind. Everything has become about the individual, one plate at a time, everything is individually packaged for one person, each pizza individualized just for one person. Food and the consumption of it, now, has become strictly private. Each of those chefs had to rely upon their own ability and creativity. The kitchen for the group of contestants was not so much communal thinking, it was actually individual and private thinking that was put together and composed the meal. Marshal McLuhan (that we talked about the other day), media guru of the 60’s said that, “whenever something ceases to become a necessity it could become an art form.” We can apply this observation to cooking, because really, no one has to cook anymore, and a lot of people don’t know how! Quite a lot of people spend their time in the prepared food isles. I talked to someone just the other day who never buys vegetables. Just prepackaged ramen noodles. So, just like Marshal McLuhan suggested, watching these TV shows are us watching cooking as an art form. I wonder if these TV food competition/ chef competition shows are motivating people to have serious encounters with their kitchen, as well as the creation of a more communal lifestyle around the kitchen table. I have found that viewing cooking as an art form has given my family a new form of feasting and of celebrating with one another. I find that we as a family are constantly taste testing, much like the judges on the cooking shows, which has helped with a continual improvement of our cooking efforts. I think it’s very hard to set aside individualism for the communal effort. I think that a lot of children now are brought up with having their own specific individualized meal so that each member of the family is eating a completely different dinner! If you think about fast food eating, this is exactly what happens. Each person orders their choice, different from anyone else, and then sits in the car facing forward, not looking at one another, eating their individualized dinner. I think that it was easy to see that play out, on the Top Chef Canada show, because each chef created a different individualized dish that was supposed to compose a meal. It wasn’t actually a group effort to decide what was worthy of serving to the judges as a cohesive cooking effort. At what point should you start taking your weight personally?
Losing weight is difficult. Losing weight is even more difficult when you don’t have the right motivation. For the longest time, when I thought about losing weight, it was always to stop people from making fun of me, I never put together that my physical and mental health was at risk, because of my weight. I think there is a difference between losing weight for and because of other people and losing weight for yourself. Losing weight for and because of other people can be due to the fact that you don’t look like your friends, or perhaps, you’re following what your spouse tells you to do, or because, you want to prove everyone wrong. Losing weight for yourself has to be because you want to take control of your life, your health, you want to look good because you know it will help you feel good. Doing something that takes so much thought, planning and therefore work, can never be motivated by other people, it needs to be motivated by the love you have for yourself. While your support system can help you get there by reminding you of your goals, that is only one component. You need to be able to be determined to help yourself. Your friends and family can help you by by changing their habits as well, and working along side you as you work through your weight loss plan. Your friends and family can also help you by simply leaving the subject of your weight loss alone for you to manage and be in control of. Your support system can’t make you lose weight, and you certainly can’t totally depend on them to help you get there. When you start to depend on people in this way there will be a higher chance of failure because you are depending on an external locus of control. An external locus of control is control that is external and outside of you. An external locus of control means that therefore that there is a chance for you to shift the responsibility of your weightless journey on to them, making your failures someone else's fault, and your success debatable. So what do I mean by ‘when should you start taking it personally’? Sometimes it is difficult to differentiate when you want to loose weight for yourself (having an internal locus of control) or for other people. I remember I had a really hard go with it with my body image, kids at school would constantly bully me, even when I was in college people would sometimes sneak in a comment here or there. And then when I went to my grandparents house my grandfather would say things like “at the fridge again? You know, being that weight isn’t healthy.” I have struggled through a lot of criticism to do with my body, and it has taken me a long time to figure out that I can lose weight not to make the comments stop, but because I deserve to be happy, I deserve to look good, and I deserve to feel good. Respect should come from within, if you are heavy or if you are skinny. The locus of control I realized needs to be from within, not from external sources. Check and see where it is your locus of control is based, is it internal or external? There are norms that are specific to every social structure. The situation of normless-ness may arise when there is a break down of regulatory norms in which the social structure begins to exert pressure upon certain people in society who engage in non conforming conduct rather than conforming conduct.
There can be many dominant success goals such as wealth, being educated, being thin, which may clash with institutional norms (such as fast food restaurants), so that cultural values can help produce behaviour, which is at odds with the values themselves. This results in the breakdown of the societal norms and the development of normless-ness. So for example, there might be great emphasis culturally on being thin as a success symbol without a corresponding emphasis of eating healthily in order to achieve the goal. Individuals adapt to achieve culturally described goals as success, which derives from strains in the social system. Conformity is not about focussing on conforming. You can find out the basic stresses of society by directing attention to deviant behaviours, such as obesity. Next, people abandon or scale down their aspirations, avoiding high ambitions and consequent frustrations to play it safe by following institutional norms, institutional norms have become that of fast food restaurants and frozen dinners. Rebellion is another form of adaptation in which people turn away from the conventional social structure, establishing a new modified social structure creating non-conformity. A non-conformist announces their decent from cultural norms publicly, challenging the legitimacy of social norms. Non-conformists tries to change the norms and draws upon the ultimate basic values of society to achieve their goal. If the societal norm is to be banned, (like eating healthy and being thin), the non-conformist will be the prelude to social change that may bring a system closer to the values that enjoy the respect of members of society (Supersize Me). Another form of adaptation is retreat-ism where the individual finds themselves frustrated and handicapped and fairs to adopt an escape mechanism, which is defeatism. This form of adaptation is particularly condemned by society because it is non-productive and non-striving. These adaptations are largely private and isolated. Retreat-ism is represented by the extremely obese, where people are stuck at home, no longer able to engage in society. The reason why it is socially unacceptable, when we see someone that has become extremely obese is because we define or associate the extreme obesity with deviant behaviour and social- disorganization. Because the social problem reflects violation of normalist expectations, behaviour or situations that departs from the societal ‘norms’ are deviant. The cause of deviant behaviour lies in inappropriate socialization. Inappropriate socialization is when the learning of deviant ways is not out-weighed by the learning of non-deviant ways. When we restrict the opportunity for learning non-deviant ways and we increase the opportunity for learning deviant ways, we restrict opportunities for achieving goals and then we add in stress, this creates the condition for the evolution of deviant patterns of behaviour. Many kinds of deviant behaviour is costly to society. Obesity is costly to society. However, some observable deviant behaviour is useful to society, only because it establishes negative role models, showing what kinds of behaviour is punished. The solution is to re-socialize and the best way to re-socialize is to increase meaningful patterns of behaviour and the opportunity of social structures to be reviewed in order to alleviate the things that motivate people to behave in unacceptable ways. As legitimate opportunities increase of learning about food, learning about emotions, learning how to eat in a healthy manner, then the socially problematic behaviour of obesity will decrease societally. Reading The Label!
When I was growing up, I remember everyone being big on calories, “get your calories down pat, then you can worry about everything else. If you just burn off the calories you consumed through exercise then it’s like you never ate it in the first place but, you have to keep burning those calories in order to get a calorie deficit for the weight to come off.” All of a sudden something changed and then it became that WHERE you got your calories from started to matter, “don’t eat fat, especially saturated fat! Don't eat bad cholesterol! There’s good and bad cholesterol but, we aren’t going to explain what this means!” Everything about food consumption became so confusing and in such a big mess of information that,
So now I get it. On the nutrition label the stuff on the left represents what is in the food, and the percentage on the right is how much it equals out into your needed daily food intake. So for example; Baken-ets Traditional from Frito-Lay Canada Pork Rinds on the from of the packet states 1g carbohydrate for 15 g serving, there are 70 grams in the package stated on the front of the package. On the back of the package under Nutrition Facts, states per 9 pieces is a serving which is (15 grams). Calories are stated at 90, Fat is listed as 6 grams, cholesterol as 20mg, sodium as 310 mg, carbohydrates, 1g (the fibre is 0g and the sugars are 0g), protein is listed at 7grams per serving. There is zero listed under all of the vitamins. On the right hand side is the percentage daily value, which is the percentage of what you should eat for the day. Fat is listed as 9% and when you add in saturated and trans the tally goes up to 14%. Cholesterol is listed at 7%, sodium is listed asm13% and carbohydrate is listed as 1%. The ingredients are listed as pork rinds, lard and salt. The ingredients are listed from majority content to minority content. Lets compare that to; Joes Tasty Travels California Non Salted Walnuts Halves and Pieces. The front of the package says ‘Natural’ totalling 300 grams. The Nutrition Facts are listed on the back of the package, per half cup or (50 grams). The calories are listed as 360, Fat is listed as 34 grams, cholesterol is 0mg, the sodium is 0mg, the carbohydrate is listed as 6 grams, fibre is listed as containing 4g and the sugars are 1g, the protein is listed as 7g. For percentage daily value there is 52% fat, saturated plus trans fat is listed as 21%, carbohydrate is listed as 2%, and fibre is listed as16%. Vitamin A and C is listed at zero percent, Calcium is listed at 4% and iron is listed as 10%. The ingredients are listed as walnuts. In order to do a comparison of these two products you would have to base the product on weight. You would need to divide the walnuts by 3 to get the same 15 g serving, to compare it to 15 grams of pork rinds. The walnuts would be 11 grams of fat compared to 6 grams of fat in the pork rinds. The walnuts would be 2 grams of carbohydrates compared to 1 gram of carbs in the pork rinds. So really, if you needed to pick one product over the other, then it would really depend what you are looking for. The carbohydrates are very similar numbers wise, but if you were going for less salt you would pick the walnuts, less calories you would pick the pork rinds. Now the thing is, both products are munchies designed for a quick snack, however the walnuts have a lot more fat, and contain fibre, calcium, protein and iron, so the final decision depends on which you like better taste wise as well as what you are looking for in regards to components such as fat, fibre, vitamins, calcium and protein wise. The Medium is the Message
The Medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal social consequences of any medium (that is, of any extension of ourselves) results from the scale that is introduced into our way of being, by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. So, Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuan made a significant statement published in 1967 when he stated that the medium is the message. The medium influences how it is the message is perceived. We create our own influential information based upon what it is that we perceive and this has been going on for a long period of time, especially in regards to how it is that we perceive weight. Think about your influencers. This morning I sat down and wrote out a list of weight based statements and I started to reflect upon how many of them I have heard especially from movies, music, magazines and television. Messages that influence what is acceptable and not acceptable in how we look. Take a look at my list, maybe you could add even more; Tubby, twiggy, fatty, porky, rolly polly, sausage fingers, lard ass, butterball, his ass is coming out the front of his shirt, battle of the bulge, canckles, thick, blubber butt, love handles, double chin, saddle bags, porridge thighs, thigh gap, fat, portly, camel toe, muffin top, bingo wings, lollipop head, skeleton, booty, beanpole, whale, itty bitty titty committee, surf board thunder thighs, con-caved ass, two asses, Annies (anorexics), back ass, big man, baby face, pudgy, cow, a moment on the lips forever on the hips, chunky. Some of these come from cartoons from the news paper, some come from names given to actors or models, and some from movies. I always wonder if the medium reflects society or society reflects the medium, but for sure these descriptors are influencers. Statements of what you don’t want to be or body descriptions that you don’t want to have, these are the ways in which we keep one another in line, reflected in the ways in which we talk to one another either through social media or our reflections of what we have experienced. Tubby was a nickname for a character in the comic strip ‘Lou Lou’ (1935), it wasn’t meant to be derogatory name but as read, did reflect the characters weight. The point is is that we have since taken it to the school yard but perhaps the question is, was it already from the school yard? And most probably it was. And then twisted into a derogatory term meant to impose shame and guilt, no longer cute and fun cartoon fodder. The message goes both ways, you can’t be too tall, nor too short, you can’t be too large or too small, you can’t be too hippy or too busty or not busty enough, you can’t be too thin and you certainly can’t be too fat. The ‘norm’ is decided based upon the context which can change at any moment. ‘Fat shaming’ doesn’t actually have to come from people who fit the social norm, fat shaming can actually come from anybody, even if they are fat. It’s an ‘at least I’m not you’ statement. This reminds me of a South Park episode where a kid in a wheel chair made fun of a fat kid, he couldn’t walk but at least he wasn’t fat. Whatever the medium, the message is the same, the message is not ‘we are all created equal’ and no matter how much you weigh you’re okay,. The message is that there are societal norms and if you choose to stray outside of those norms then there will be shaming. The other side of this message is the question of what is healthy? And I think that the societal norm actually is reflective of what has been identified as healthy. Our ‘medium is the message’ statement does not do a very good job in this arena and so the message has been very hard to hear. The message of what is healthy is continually being confused with what is attractive. Packaging
Packaging consists of the enticing marketing that is at the front of the label and then the reality of the contents on the back. The front label is meant to entice you, it is usually colourful and has a good looking picture of the item of choice which may actually really be the item or it could be a picture of how it is you want to feel or who you would like to be. Like for example, the Sealtest chocolate milk container I just happen to have at my fingertips right now, of a young skate board dude making a jump with a smile on his face. Also, found on the front of packaging are enticing words such as ‘good source’. On the front of the Sealtest chocolate milk is written ‘excellent source’. This wording means that the food item must provide between ten percent and 19 percent of the daily value for a given substance per serving. In the case of the Sealtest chocolate milk, it is listed as protein and vitamin D. The word ‘light’ can be quite confusing. ‘Light’ is meant to mean that the food item contains 50% or less fat than another brand or as compared to the regular version of that food item made by the same manufacturer. ‘Light’ however, can also mean the colour of the food, for example, the colour of oil. ‘Fat free’ means that the food item has less than 0.5 grams of fat per serving with no added oil or fat. ‘Low fat’ on the other hand means that the food item has less than 3 grams of fat per serving. ‘Low calories’ means that the food item has less than 40 calories per serving. ‘Calorie free’ means that the food item contains fewer than 5 calories per serving. ‘Low in sodium’ means that the food item has no more than 140 mg per serving. ‘High fibre’ means the food item contains at least 5 grams of fibre per serving. ‘Lean’ means that the meat product contains less than 95mg of cholesterol, 10 grams of fat, and 4.5 grams of saturated fat per 100 grams of any kind of meat product, including poultry and seafood. The words ‘extra lean’ means that the meat product contains the same mg of cholesterol but only 5 grams of fat and 2 grams of saturated fat per 100 grams. The way in which it used to be before 1994 was that consumers had to rely on the products imagery, wording, and marketing. Consumers started to become frustrated because in the vast array of the manufactured food products people had no idea what their food contained! Especially for people who had allergies, as manufacturers didn't need to list what ingredients were contained in the food product, and there was no way to understand the nutritional value of what those ingredients meant. As you can see by our list of wording it is really hard to know exactly what the wording means unless you know what the serving size actually is. People have a tendency to think that the food product has been packaged as a serving size. Unless you are able to understand that you need to flip the front of the package over to the back of the package and read the food label, you might get hooked in by an ingredient or a term on the front label and make a serious mistake in food selection, without even realizing that you have just been confused by a marketing strategy. You might be thinking that you are making a healthful food choice when really, you are not. Dysfunctional Thinking
Why you are a cry baby. Dysfunctional thinking plays an enormous role in how it is that we view ourselves, others, and the world around us. These dysfunctional thoughts include errors in our information processing. When we make assumptions which create negative interpretations and then behaviours, this is dysfunctional thinking. This way of processing keeps us stuck in old ways and habits, and when we become aware of how we process, then we can learn new skills to over come our stuck-ness. When we have healthier thoughts we can start to view ourselves, others, and the world in a more harmonious and realistic manner. Here are some common categories of dysfunctional thinking; All or nothing thinking. With all or nothing thinking it’s literally about all, I can eat everything and anything I want to, or nothing, I can’t eat anything and I will never have fun again. All or nothing thinking results in judgements, criticism, and anger, with the extremes of perfection on the one hand and worthlessness on the other, leading the way to maintaining an unhealthy way of being. Should’s! ‘Should’ is actually a societal standard. I should be able to eat anything I want! This way of thinking reflects an excessively high and unrealistic standard imposed by yourself or others. A ‘should’ has nothing to do with reality, and keeps us locked in the past. Catastrophizing. Catastrophizing is when you blow things out of proportion. You take a challenging situation and make it into a total disaster. You go to the buffet and instead of seeing what it is that you can eat you see everything that you can’t, and you feel like you are set up to fail instead of being able to see the buffet as a inconvenience and a normal part of life and get in touch with the fact that you can be able to manage. Instead, you look at it as the very worst event ever, even when it is that you do have choices. Over-generalizing. Over-generalizing is about thinking in absolutes, such as always and never. I never get to have fun, I never get to eat the food I want, I always get short changed. Instead of realizing that it is never always, and it is never never. You have options and opportunities and you have choices. Minimizing and Magnifying. You minimize the significance of all that you have been able to do and the pounds that you have successfully lost and magnify the problems or short-comings associated with set backs. Set backs such as; perhaps eating a little too much, or not attaining your goals for the day. Instead of taking things one moment and one day at a time, you find yourself obsessing about the negatives while ignoring all of the positives. Taking it Personally. People who take things personally relate everything to themselves. You shoulder the responsibility for everything regardless whether or not you had anything to do with it. Just because you didn’t realize that your food choice was high in carbohydrates at the time, does not mean that you have to blame yourself. Some people do the opposite, they blame everything else but themselves. It is good just to be able to recognize that mistakes happen and instead of taking it personally, just to be able to learn from it, so that you take the learning with you in order to be able to move on. Emotional Reasoning. Emotional reasoning is when you assume that your negative emotions reflect the way in which things actually really are. Feelings by themselves are not a conclusive definition of who you are. Feelings are temporary. We can change our feelings and we sometimes exaggerate our feelings. Feelings are important to pay attention to, but they are only one aspect of our truth. Requiring Specialness. When we equate food with feeling special, then everything becomes unacceptable unless you get what you need. And if you don't get that need met you conclude that life is not fair. This type of dysfunctional thinking causes people to oscillate between the need for the feeling of specialness, to the other end of the spectrum, the feeling of worthlessness. If you get what you want, then you are special, and if you can’t eat what you want then you are worthless. When you replace your dysfunctional thoughts with more positive, health promoting, behavioural habits, you can replace these unhealthy ways of being with more supportive, positive, mental habits and start to gain control of your life. Shame
Shame is an inevitable human experience, shame is when you believe that you are a bad person. All of us have suffered feelings of incompetence, inadequacy, and inferiority and a sense of failure, and/or that we have some sort of defect. When you have participated in any kind of weight loss program (as well as other traumatic experiences of life), and have not been successful over and over and over again, shame can set in. Shame is among the most painful of human experiences. Unhealthy shame is excessive and distorted, and unconsciously we have no awareness of it at all, that deep down you feel inadequate. All of us have a self identify, an image in our minds of an ideal of how we want to present ourselves to the world. The shame message says that we are not being perceived as we want to be, which results in the bad feelings of being unacceptable. When you start to feel this need to avoid these bad feelings then we have a tendency to go on autopilot. Autopilot is changing from conscious awareness to subconscious awareness, and subconscious awareness is when you start to eat and you don’t even realize that you are doing it. You go to the cookie cupboard with the notion that you are not going to eat anything and the next thing you know is that you ‘wake up’ and you have eaten the entire box of cookies. The subconscious, or feeling state, has taken you over. When you ‘wake up’ you feel bad about what you have just done. Shame messages cause you to feel worthless and powerless. In order to heal the unhealthy overeating shame cycle, you need to be able to identify the shame message that you have learned to say to yourself. For example; you are no good, you are ugly, you are not good enough, you are not in control, you are unloveable, you are stupid. These messages are extremely powerful, driving force statements. When you do not pay attention to them, then they can rule you. It is important to be able to identify these negative self-statements in order to be able to gain control. It is important to be able to take responsibility for your own actions in order to be able to gain self esteem. Allow yourself to feel the emotion of shame in order to be able to defuse its power. The goal is to be able to learn to allow feelings of hurt, disappointment, and vulnerability and just be with it, instead of having to go to the pantry. The second thing you need to learn to do is listen to your body, you have to be able to catch yourself when you start to trigger. Observe how your body reacts when you are about to trigger. Your body gives you cues that signal that you are starting to lose it, and it is important to be able to learn your own body cues to break the overeating cycle before it becomes punishing behaviour. Next, it is important to use coping statements to keep yourself in control, such as; this isn’t worth it, this is just sugar, I refuse to lose control, I don’t need this. It is important to be able to change your destructive, reactive patterns of shame, and develop the person you really want to be. You deserve to have a happy and satisfying life. So what is it like to work from home and be addicted to food?
It’s bloody hard, let me tell you. I established a while ago, that yes, I work from home and live with my family, and yes, I am addicted to food. Food has had control over me for as long as I can remember. Whenever I experienced any feeling, I would respond to it with eating because it make me feel safe, and comfortable. Maybe the most diabolical of all, food made me feel like I was choosing to eat. Going through the Emotionally Focussed Eating program has helped me identify my problem with food and my emotional connection to it, and my participation in this program has given me coping strategies to deal with it. But gosh darn, is it ever hard. My mother had her birthday yesterday (Wednesday) but we celebrated it on Saturday by going out to eat and indulging in cheesecake, then we celebrated it on Wednesday by, again, going out to eat, and buying sushi for dinner, and indulging in ice cream cake. What stood out the most to me was that I had dinner on Saturday and on the Wednesday, a measly three days later, I was shopping like my old self again! I bought two family sized sushi sets, a box of spring rolls, jalapeño poppers, bacon wrapped scallops, and bacon wrapped sausages from Walmart, then I bought four more sets of sushi from a vendor in a mall. And when I got home I made dumplings. I ate up that sushi like a mad man but because my stomach has physically shrunk I couldn't finish all of it. In fact we had a ton of leftovers that we hadn’t even touched! So, what have I learned? I learned that old habits die hard. I learned that celebrations actually need to have a time limit. It is important to recognize that even though I have a new way in which I celebrate , there is a tie limit. We have a limited time in which we emotionally celebrate and that emotional celebration can go on, and on, and on. Now I recognize that t does not have to. I recognized that when the day was over , and for the first time ever, I wanted to get back to my new normal, I wanted to get back to my new way of looking at food, my new way of living, and my new way of managing how I balance life. I actually realized I was looking forward to it (getting bak to me food), sure I had let go for the moment, but I needed to have that feeling of control. As as such, I couldn’t wait to start a new day; and today I worked, drank my water, didn’t concern myself with leftovers. I had my meat and veg dinner, I filmed today for work, and dealt with the fact that I didn’t sleep, well because I had a kink in my neck. I dealt with all of this by going right back to the diet and regiment! This is my new normal. Life beyond carbs. And yet incorporating carbs, because, in the realty of life carbs are apart of life and as such we need to deal with them. |
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