Since I experienced heart problems six months ago I decided to take my weight issue into hand. Now I know that there are a million different opinions on how to loose weight and I have tried a good few of them in the past. My opinion is that one cannot possibly loose weight and hope to sustain the weight loss without first dealing with the emotional issues which cause one to over eat in the first place.
Six months ago I decided it was high time to look deep within myself and to discover, for the first time, just why I have the urge to eat so much. On the pretext that all emotional issue lead back to the fear of exclusion I started to go through my childhood with a fine tooth comb.
From the age of nine onwards I started to become particularly thin which caused some ridicule at the hands of my school friends. I greatly feared that in being “skinny” I would become excluded from the group in which I had to survive on a daily basis. It was for this reason that I gained an eating obsession. However, no noticeable increase in body mass occurred during that period so it became something that I had to live with For me, this meant that over eating became a habitual addiction.
On sorting that out I then looked at my later life. As a young adult I was very much involved in sport. I was a horseman, I SCUBA dived, I played Rugby and I ran and swam every day. Since getting an umbilical hernia I became less confident to participate in such an active sports curriculum. To counteract this I have been walking three hours per day, six days per week. I find that I look forward to walking and I walk at a pace with which I feel comfortable. This may change from day to day. Some days my pace is very brisk and on other days it may be somewhat easier.
Wit regards to diet. In my diet I have changed only a few things. I stopped eating white bread (which also means that I cut out butter), I stopped eating ice cream (I ate at least a kilo per week). I stopped eating chocolate bars ( I ate one 100 gram bar per day on average) and I stopped eating cake, (I ate about 2 whole cakes per week).
In addition I added the following to my diet: one meal per day of oatmeal porridge cooked with water and sweetened with a teaspoon of honey and cooled with just a little milk around the edges. I added two apples per day, one desert spoon of ground flax seed and one desert spoon of ground sesame seed. In addition I added one desert spoon of crushed pumpkin seed and ground wall nuts which I blended together.
Along side that I drink 10 glasses of water per day and most important of all I take one over 50′s multi vitamin per day. I say most importantly because when we change our diet we may alter the way the body is used to receiving it’s vitamin and mineral quota. To compensate for this it is most strongly advisable to take a multi vitamin supplement.
I also eat a pro biotic goat’s milk yogurt each day, just to keep on top of the bacterial balance within the digestive system and I try to include as much vegetable salad a possible. I also do my best to divide my meals into five or six smaller meals so that I use the energy that I intake more efficiently and at the same time prevent those hunger pangs to which I had become so accustomed.
To date, I have lost 22 kilograms or about three and a half stones in the period of six months.
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