This week is all about resisiting temptation and once you start actively thinking about it there are a lot of temptations. On my way home I walk past a fish and chip shop, a kebab shop and a burger place. All pumping luring smells of tasty food out into the street. I thought as I passed the kebab shop, "mmm, I could really fancy a kebab, but no I'm losing weight so keep walking". And I did keep walking. As I moved away from the shop I realised that had I not been trying to avoid unhealthy food I wouldn't have wanted to eat a kebab! As unhealth foods go they are probably my least favourite. So why I ask did I feel like one now? The answer is, that I didn't really. It was all in my head. My body is so used to getting what it wants when it wants that the fact that I am telling it NO is causing it grab at the first thing it sees. "What are you doing?", it's saying, "are you trying to starve me to death!" By resisting temptation I am teaching my body that it doesn't need unhealth food to live.
My body is trying other ways to get me to give in as well. I find that I sometimes feel like I have less energy as a result of me having less food. It's saying "your not feeding me therefore I have no energy". What it has to learn is that it is carrying all the energy it needs as excess weight. Once I start ignoring the signals my body is currently sending me, I feel full of energy and much more awake.
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It has been suggested that we live in an obesogenic environment. It's hard to avoid foods with fat and sugar in them; it's hard to cycle or walk to work; and so on. I try to stick to the candida diet but it's really difficult to find yeast-free foods that are also sugar-free, or free of processed starch. I try to make myself a packed lunch, but if there's no soda bread in the house, that is the end of that.
Also there's a horrible psychological double-bind whereby if you forbid yourself to eat something, you want it far more than if you were allowed to eat it.
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