Such a numpty at times… We are going way for the next couple of weekends, we were trying to get a week away, It just wasn’t happening Horatio starts school in September and he has a few weeks of short sessions before they break up for the summer holidays. Then July/august was going to be difficult to get someone in to look after the animals.
So we decided to have a couple of long weekends. Now I don’t know if your like me but when I go on holiday we usually have a proper breakfast – this is were most would say “then nothing until dinner”- yeah right that’s not me I have lunch, dinner and any appropriate snacks… Including the fresh fruit pots you can get down by the beach. This is usually to freshen my palate after a bag of crinkle crisps.
Some say they can’t eat in the heat… “they don’t feel hungry” really why have they got that and I haven’t. I don’t think there has ever been a time in my life when I didn’t feel like eating grr.
Back to being a numpty… First off I got lured into buying the new special k cereal with it’s funky designed box and the promise of eating a low fat version of my favourite cereal… Country crisp! -I don’t like to slate things because someone else might like them, so lets just say they weren’t for me.
Numpty number two.. I figured that while we were away we would be having breakfast and I should try and get into the swing of things before we go by having a big bowl of cereal to get me through until Horatio came home from nursery. Not liking the cereal didn’t help, but still I was hungry by about one… When I succumbed to an egg breville, ok 2 brevilles. But they got stuck so more like one and a half.
This is when I thought what am I doing… Going away shouldn’t be about making life miserable in fact I should be going away to enjoy myself, it’s just I enjoy myself by eating. I,m already thinking about the mister whippy ice-cream they have at hickstead. Oh and I just remembered the fudge stall… Seriously I love this fudge and get very disappointed when it’s not at the horse shows.
Hmm so should I take the focus of food, or should I just enjoy it… I say enjoy it in moderation, one stick of fudge isn’t going to put on a stone but four bars might. Plus I could always buy some to bring home with me as a treat. I said to someone the other day who was also going away, you don’t need to eat it all at once.
The other thing I want to keep up over the next two weekends is walking, even if it means I have to get up and go out on my own early before breakfast I will. Keeping active for me is the key now even if I have over eaten it’s when I don’t do any exercise I start to go into a real funk mood. It’s a drag to pull my fat bloated self out for a walk, but so worth it. my mood is better and i dont feel a complete failure.
In summary I will use the I,m on holiday excuse, just not to eat everything I see. I,m also going to try and listen to my body and eat when I really want something. Not just eat it all for the sake of it.