Published On: May 20th, 2013/Categories: Carl's Transformation, Diet & Nutrition/3.5 min read/

Day 7 – Relaxing with sweets

Day 7 and the final day of a long week. It was time to relax and focus on doing very little.

Day: 7
Date: 18/05/2013
Workout Day: Rest
Weight (lb): 167.8 (4 lb loss)
Body Fat %: 15.5 (1.1% loss)
Health: Fine

I felt great today. The low-carb head fog has gone and despite feeling the need to do some supplementary cardio/HIIT I opted to do absolutely nothing and just rest. The most you could say I exercised was the walk to the cinema – a place I very rarely go to. What I had forgotten, is how little is about selling tickets (now provided by a self-service machine) and how much is centred around my best friend food. Popcorn, chocolate, sweets, drinks and hotdogs filled the foyer, with an equal measure of children purchasing their excessive bodyweight in supplies.

I’m past the temptation point now. Actually I never have been genuinely tempted. But I am always attracted to the seeming delights of forbidden food, especially anything sour and sweet and brightly coloured. And on this occasion I just looked on by, hoping to escape the smell of insulin as I entered the auditorium. Clearly this was doomed to failure as I had also forgotten that actually watching a film these days is a secondary activity to the ploughing of food into one’s mouth. And noisily at that.

I had the displeasure of sitting next to a child and his dad spend two hours munching on popcorn and slurping on a vat full of fizzy diabetes (it might have been coke). The smell of caramel popcorn surrounded me, leaving me with a sequence of emotions:

  1. Jealousy – “I want what they’re having.”
  2. Contentment – “Actually, I don’t want it and am very happy with my diet plan, thank you very much.”
  3. Disgust – “Look at you all, stuffing yourselves full of crap!”
  4. Contemplation – “What can I have for dinner that will be just as tasty?”
  5. Resignation – “Chicken and broccoli……. Oh well, time to watch the film.”

The more I encounter these scenarios, the more I’ve come to realise that food is just food, it’s nothing more valuable than that and to break a diet by actively eating something through temptation alone is pretty daft. But I’m also acutely aware that food is great, I love sweets and chocolate and always will. So in the future I need to think carefully on how I can allow for treats without the negative consequences.

But for now, sweets are for other folk. You can have my sweets and I’ll have your broccoli.

 

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