Friday, September 22, 2006

Breaking habits

Week 4 is all about identifying unhealthy habits and then analysing the events leading up to them each day to detemine the cause. There are several habits that I have identified in this way already which makes me feel quite please with myself. The two main things that were adding to my unhealthy eating were snacking on chocolate at work and getting takeaways at home. Both of these I have completely removed from my life.

The chocolate snacking was a result of not having any healthy alternative at work which I solved by buying a small fridge (which is under my desk) and filling it with fruit.

The latter was that on days when I was really busy I would get home tired and go with the easiest option which was to get a takeaway. This had the added problem of costing me money. I solved this by buying a healthy lunch such as a baked potato or salad for lunch at work and then I only needed a small sandwich at home.

So feeling very please with myself I move into week 4 well ahead of my target. My back is better now so I am going to reintroduce my trips to the gym and hopefully get things moving quicker.

I am actually quite excited with the thought of getting to the end of the 12 weeks and being ahead of the 4 inch goal.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

No wonder you're excited. This sounds like a journey of discovery as well as a weight loss journey.
I like the money saving angle.

Anonymous said...

well, I'm really excited and happy for you :) nothing like a good adventure, and sounds like you're on one :)