Another Month

I am still chipping away here. Some days I do well, others are not so worth mentioning.

The cooked food mindset and habits are really rather tough to break out of. I can’t say that I am finding this at all easy, but I know that in the long term my physical and mental health will be greatly improved

At the moment, physically, I am feeling rather blocked. Not in the sense of just being constipated, which I am, but other than that it just feels like all of my energy is being blocked by my body. So I am feeling sluggish a lot of the time. I would like to say that I can’t imagine how this happened but that would be a blatant lie. The cause of my constipation? I have three words of explanation for you. Black. Rice. Noodles. Black rice has never been a friend of mine, but I thought that the noodles would be harmless enough. It seems that they are indeed not harmless. Just one un-helping has had me reaching for the prunes and flax.

I don’t really want to go to more drastic measures of using laxatives as we all know that course of action has it’s own consequences. The more unhealthy food that I eat it seems the more my body tells me that it doesn’t like it. This being the case, why is it so hard to do what in my mind I know is right and healthful? I’m guessing it’s to do with the things that you are taught when you are growing up and it’s very hard to un-learn the lesson of eating three (or more) cooked meals a day.

There is a certain shame associated with eating badly these days. We all know what we should eat. There is no doubt that chips and falafel are no health food. When it comes to dinner time it’s actually quite hard to say no to a chip sandwich and yes to a bowl of delicious fruit salad with a few seeds on the top for good measure. Seriously, why is this? We all know that we will feel at least over full and bloated after the chips and that the fruit salad will not only fill us up perfectly but will nourish us.

Anyway, my juicer is out on my kitchen side, my hand blender is to hand and my fridge is in fairly good shape. So let’s see how much progress I can make knowing that my body is telling me that I need to take urgent action.