Dear James, Daniel and Emily,
With the fearsome 10 mile run behind me I can turn my focus back to other things. Mainly I need to get my dietary habits back on track. I was commenting to Kim last night that our eating habits need to be improved, back to where they were. It really is simple for me.
Stop screwing around with my tinkering: changing when I eat, trying different diets, or variations on the diets. There are some very simple truths that I know work for me, and it is time to return to them:
1. Tracking what I eat. Sometimes just being aware of how much you are taking in can be all the difference when you start craving that afternoon milk shake, or evening bowl of ice cream. So it's back to tracking my calories. This was one of the things that the 4 hour body diet doesn't include, and getting out of the habit really had an effect. Not tracking just doesn't work for me.
2. Balancing out what I eat. It would be nice if my body would allow me to do more of these odd ball diets. But I just cannot do that, between the diverticulosis and what I would assume is low level IBS I have to keep everything balanced, with the exception of fiber intake. I have to eat more fiber, and even my own take on the 4 hour body diet didn't have enough of that.
3. Variety is important. I need to have different things to eat, eating beans for every meal, or every other meal my work for some folks, but it's not for me. So I need to make sure I have lots of different things available for me, so that in the afternoons I don't start prowling around the office for snacks because I am tired of the same old things I pack every day.
4. Exercise, well there's at least one thing I don't have to change. I don't need to get back to doing this, as I am doing more than I was before. But I do need to do a better job of not letting a long run become an excuse for just pigging out all day.
There you have it, return to some basics. All so I can get my digestion back under control. And so the little weight gains that are coming up can be halted in their tracks. It's not like things are out of control, my weight is still well within the reasonable range, but I can also see those little gains each week, which is not the direction I want to go.
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