I just found Zumba!
For those of you who have already found it you know I don’t need to say much more. Before Christmas I went to a few classes that were a mix of Latin and street that were making out to be Zumba. They really weren’t.
This week saw me at my first official class and I LOVED IT!
This is something I want to get addicted to and that’s what I plan to do.
A long day ended with pizza and shandy last night. It’s now five o’clock in the morning and I’m sitting up after a serious episode of acid reflux.
It was a high fat food day, starting with bacon and sausage for breakfast. This is not a usual breakfast for my but a lack of preparation before a 6.30 start meant taking the easy route. Add to that Tiredness that sent me to bed shortly after dinner and now I’m suffering.
A little bit of surfing (before I head back to bed) to find some guidance on what foods cause acid indigestion and I found the following article on a low acid diet.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/tired-of-feeling-the-burn-low-acid-diet-may-help/
Interesting read but, combined with the other articles and sites on the subject, there really are no surprises. Eat vegetables, whole grains, and fish; avoid high fat foods, meats, soft drinks and alcohol.
Oh, and don’t eat after 8pm.
Night, night!
Just watched episode one of Claire Richards’ Slave to Food and it has left me slightly unsettled, but I’m just not sure why.
Pressure on Claire started before she was in Steps, with weight loss being a prerequisite of getting the job. She admits that she always thought she was the fat one and you can tell she still has a issue with this. The pressure of her job, the industry and the press can only have added to this. (I have to say I always thought of her as one of the ones who could sing!)
The magazine women showed this exactly. The photo-shoot would be pulled if Claire had not reached the goal. The interesting thing was the statement that they don’t put fat people in a photo-shoot because people don’t want to see fat. This was followed by the statement that the issue with the big Claire was a best seller. So, a picture of a non-skinny celebrity did not put people off buying the magazine, in fact it may well have increased sales. So what was the buying decision? That readers connect with Claire, the yo-yo dieter, or that readers want to see the fall of a skinny celeb? I really hope this was the former.
It was good to see that exercise was one focus for her weight loss but this seemed to be as pressure from the magazine. What the episode didn’t show was her emotion after the workouts. I hope that this is looked at in the coming episodes. (I think I’m looking for a reminder of the good feeling I get after working out as a motivational tool!)
Claire touched on her emotional connection with food. Understanding this is surely the first step to combating weight issues and food addiction. With regard to the food Claire was eating, I hope the editor of the coming episodes doesn’t focus on the fad dieting and the outcome is a positive healthy balance for Claire.
Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series and hope I’m not disappointed.
Vegetables
Potato
Rice
Polenta
Wf bread
Rivera
Nuts
Hummus
Oats?
Cornflakes?
Rice crispies
Beans
Fruit
Meat
Fish
Lentils
Gf pizza
Stew
Casserole
Gf soy sauce
Chickpeas
Soybean
Quinoa
This is a quick brain dump and is not an exhaustive list by any means. I will add to this as I develop my diet.
Here’s my list of foods to remove from my diet.
Bread
Pasta
Cake
Biscuits
Roles
Quiche
Pasty
Pork pie
Pie
Cous cous
Alpen
Weetabix
Pancakes
Poppadoms
Nan bread
Soy sauce
Msg
Sausages
Corned beef
Breadcrumbs
Crackers
Stuffing
Custard
Ice-cream
Gravy
Funny how this list includes many high fat, high sugar foods. Maybe my body is actually trying to tell me something!
A wonderful woman gave me some advice on how to approach a wheat free diet.
She suggested an initial 30 day process to trial the change. This will remove the instinctive rejection that total change often brings, but will likely change my eating habit long term.
The second suggestion is to list the items to be removed from my diet and follow this with a list of replacement food that I will eat. I am avoiding can and can’t from this post as I have free choice in what I eat. Restriction only places more focus on a food. If it is not on my list of chosen food then it not important to me. (For this sakes reason i am contemplating whether the removal list is required?)
I’ll go with the advice given as my friend has worked through the process of removing dairy from her vegetarian diet. Let’s see how I go.
An angry man interrupted one of the Buddha’s lectures and verbally abused him by hurling insults. The Buddha just sat there calmly. Finally the man asked the Buddha why he failed to respond to the insults and abuse. The Buddha replied, “If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, to whom does the gift belong?” The man replied, “To the one who offered it.” Buddha responded, “Then I decline your abuse and request you keep it for yourself.
By not making a decision I am making a decision.
So when I am debating what to eat and I say “I can’t make a decision” I should really be saying “I have the option of not eating along with these other options of what to eat”.
By not deciding on a physical activity to do I am making the decision not to exercise.
By making the decision not to diet I am making the decision to eat unhealthily.
So why is it harder to make the decision to lose weight than it is not to lose weight, or to put weight on?
Twice in as many days I have received the advice that diet juices can be doing me more harm than good and that they are unlikely to help with my weight loss. Diet juice is off the menu for me but I still need to get my 8 glass of fluid
In the UK, you should drink about 1.2 litres (six to eight glasses) of fluid every day to prevent dehydration http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Dehydration/Pages/Introduction.aspx
I need to find alternatives to drink when both at home and out and about so here’s my top12 sydration tips.
Here is a succinct document on IBS from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
What is irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)?