adventures in fitness #2

Next item on the quest to be thin and gorgeous was to see the nutritionist. And see her I did. And I found out I was not doing so bad at all in my home-prepared meals. Her philosophy is this: eat the foods that you would find in nature, with minimal processing and minimal additives. The logic is that our bodies as natural products themselves will know what to do with whole foods, and we will be better off with fewer chemicals going into us. Fair dues, I said, and I wrote down everything I had eaten that day.

1/2 cup blueberries
1/2 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup yogurt

green salad (mixed greens, cucumber, green pepper, mushrooms) with sweet onion dressing

There was also the odd cup of coffee as well, but to look at that as a sample it's not too bad at all. Yes, I started my reform before I even got in there, but now it's the keeping up with it that is the challenge. I mean how do you keep salad interesting? And how to get enough protein without sucking down a lot of fat with it? There's also the belief in eating smaller meals and taking a healthy kind of snack in between. This I can totally relate to; how many people out there find themselves dashing for food as 12 noon just because it's 12 noon, and they're not even hungry? Every working environment has enough time built into the day for breaks to allow for a piece of fruit or a sandwich or something so that lunch time does not have to turn into a gorge-fest where a lot of bad choices are made.

Do I sound like I've been converted yet?

I was hoping to go work out today and see how my energy levels were going to be, but alas I was wiped out tired and am going to have to try for sometime this weekend. My first session with the personal trainer is going to be this Tuesday at 8 PM, so maybe I can get in there on Sunday and Monday and get started so I am not a wheezing mess on the cardio bike on Tuesday.

One offshoot of me getting a proper workout regime going, though, is going to be less time spend nattering away on internet chats. And that's going to be a massive improvement in my day. Blogging I look at as a creative output so I'm not going to hope to eliminate all internet activity, especially not when I want to keep throwing book reviews and health observations around. But imagine... not wasting hours chatting away. I realize it's all a matter of choice but I am right now choosing to log off and power down for the night, and to settle into my chair with a book.

That is all.