You know you have eaten far too much crappy food when your body is craving an avocado!
I've got this week off work, and since Saturday I have progressively gone down hill with my eating habits. I know holidays are all about relaxing and just doing your own thing but my body has said it is enough.
Yesterday I felt like I was about to pop. You would think I would be running around buzzing with all the sugary stuff I've been eating, a bit like a matchbox car in overdrive, but nope, the engine has failed. My body sort of wound down in a haze of overeating yukkiness around yesterday morning. I genuinely felt like I couldn't eat another thing and maybe I needed to fast? Now I don't do fasting! Fasting? What's that? Good grief give me food. I never thought I would get to this stage a few days in to a week off but there you are. I am pooped...….or at least my body is.
I think a couple of days of eating a rather bigger than I thought parent's Diamond Anniversary cake has just tipped me over the edge. The sugar inside my stomach was doing a fandango, and outside it was rolling around telling me enough is enough. I love cake! I cannot believe my body has betrayed me and demanded avocado. I mean, really! Avocado? Well yes. I fancied it like mad yesterday, and I wanted it with haloumi and lettuce and chilli flakes and anything that looked like it was good for you. Now I've said this before, but I'm a firm believer in your body letting you know what it needs. The cravings are signs you need something, like maybe minerals, or ……...avocado!
I suppose I could have got my avocado hit by making one of those mousy things with dark chocolate but really, avocado chocolate mousse? Now that is one step too far. Savoury is savoury and sweet is sweet. Hmmm, unless it is chocolate coated pretzels, or sweet and sour sauce, or Chinese sweet chilli chicken. I found a recipe that said you should add a bit of sugar and butter to carrots just before serving. You can add maple syrup to parsnips to make them caramelised. Oh gosh, there is no hope for me. Forget a zombie apocalypse (see yesterday's blog). I am going to be wiped out by a sugar buzz!
In all seriousness too much sugary stuff is obviously going to be bad for your body. We all know it, many of us overdo it, and a lot of us get great pleasure from it. I'm one of those. But I do like savoury too. Thankfully my body tells me when I am really going to far (pop) and then I want some rather more healthy food. Yesterday for dinner I even had some white fish with roasted vegetables. So, scrambled egg for breakfast, avocado for lunch, and fish for dinner. What a healthy day. I still feel like I am going to barf if I see another piece of cake right now, but it is only seven fifty in the morning so there is plenty of time to get over that.
My plan today is to be a little more careful. Honestly, I did look like I was waddling with sugar overload for a few days. Enough is enough. My body has spoken, not literally but definitely it's told me in no uncertain terms that my stomach has an icing coated lining right now. Funny how the body speaks to you. Funny how I don't always listen either. One day I am just going to pop in a candy floss poof of fluff if I don't get my act together. Imagine that! Its more like my bowels will go poof but enough of that. No toilet talk here.
I have to confess I did think about going for a walk this morning and having an ice cream at the end of it, so maybe the 'body screaming I will pop' bit has gone? I still want avocado. I still fancy some haloumi so today will be a delicate balancing act. I commit to drinking more water and being a (bit) more healthy. Not too much though. It is, after all, my week off!
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