i decided to start eating better for numerous reasons
- to help me sleep earlier and better is one of them…
and just coz i’m mad at everyone who says “you’re thin you dont have to exercise or eat well” – what a load of crap!!
and because i believed it due to the amount of times i HEARD it. you start thinking “i’m invincible! i can eat what i want! i’m lucky” but then one day you get up and your favourite soviets aren’t fitting you…
and you think “must have shrunk after it was washed” – so you try on another jeans and oh my god, it hits you – it hasn’t shrunk, you’ve grown!

so you notice the flabby stomach and feel sad and have nothing to wear, you’re faced with two options
1. buy a bigger size jeans, track pants, etc
2. eat better and exercise

1 sounded good, because its easy. but i panicked when i realised – this is how it all begins. if i buy a bigger size NOW, what will stop me from buying even bigger sizes later? so i chose option #2…

i never realised how much junk i ate before i began a food journal, my (daily) typical diet used to consist of tea with slices of thickly buttered bread and 10 biscuits, snacks were muffins, chocolate croissants, home-made choc chip cookies or home-made chocolate sponge cake, and everything full-cream/double-cream, late night massive bowls of sugary cereals and chocolate bars… and of course, supper was the only somewhat “healthy” meal of the day. usually some meaty/starchy food. no fruit – no vegetables.

i ate like a bingeing teenager, and i am 22 years old. the midnight snacks had to go firstly… and i had to stop baking and visiting the bakery so often. instead, substitute my sugary favourites with fresh fruits and vegetables and fat-free yogurt.

luckily, i’ve always been interested in nutrition. Low-GI was something we learnt about and so it was pretty easy to swap sugary cereals for healthier ones, i am a cereal lovvverrr… i could live on cereal! its like comfort food. its the rest i found hard, like adding salads and steamed vegetables to my meals.
fruit was easy to incorporate – smoothies are a blessing. cutting out chocolates and biscuits were the most difficult, so i still eat chocolates almost every day :< smaller ones, but once in a while i go crazy with lindt.. i think its just because i cut out all the other sugary things so i’m not too worried at the moment.

PS: stomach fat is the hardest to lose :(