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Originally Posted by VydorScope
So you gave up on your diet?  |
No, not at all. Although my diet was strict in the very beginning, keeping under 1000 calories per day and long, fast walks, I broke it up at least once a week with what ever I felt the urge for. 'Too strict too long' never worked for me. I wasn't born to suffer. So any time I felt as if I WAS suffering, I treated myself to either pizza, ice cream, a big meal, etc. A diet (to me) isn't about a single day or a single meal. It's about a lifestyle change. Following that line I managed to get back to the weight I carried when I was a 32 yr old tournament fighter, down from a size 40-42 to a size 33. Breakfast today was a one egg-veggie omelet, half a chicken sausage, and tea. About 100 calories because I'll make up for it at today's lunch.
So here in Thailand, normally I've been eating larger breakfasts than I did in Japan, but smaller lunches and dinners, and still walk as often as I can. The average Thai food is so much healthier than Japanese foods, with much more veggies and less fried foods, and half the over-all calories. I'm feeling the urge to walk more lately, and now that we've basically 'settled in' and I don't have to do so much shopping in areas not feasible to walk to, coupled with the coming cooler weather, I'll go back to walking 5k-8k every other day. So a big pig-out every once in a while won't do any harm. It's the big pig-out
every day that's a problem, or sitting in front of the TV with a bag of cookies or potato chips
every night that really causes people to balloon out. We don't have a TV.
What we DO have is a
non-leaking (finally!) under-sink UV 4-cylinder water filter. I had my first tea from it this morning, and the taste is fine. So fine, in fact, that I'm drinking my third mug of English Breakfast tea right now!
Stitchawl