January 9th, 2006
I talked about before how saving posts doesn't work, I had this one planned for Sunday (yesterday), but it didn't work out as usual. It was supposed to be a triumph, instead it marks the beginning of a new struggle. As a person with no will power, I did something daring last week, I went on a diet. I've tried this before once or twice and never could last longer than a day and a half, this time I went the whole week. Well except for Sunday, but that's only because I wanted one day off in between and I thought it would be practical to start again today. All the same, I'm very proud of myself for staying with it, there really was very little no prior evidence to suggest that I would could.
You see, about ~3 years ago I was in good physical shape, and about 73kg. Then I decided to move out and live in student housing for a while, just to see what it was like to not live at home. The very experience was nothing out of the ordinary, but being a lousy cook, I would cook too much food and then overeat like everyday. That's how I gained 5kg in 4 months. I lost track of when exactly I gained the rest, but for a while now I've been 84kg, which is clearly too much. Today I'm 82kg and even if I don't go back to my original weight, I'll be happy to lose whatever I can get the next week or two before I embark upon a voyage (more on that later).
I've never gone on a specific diet myself, instead I sort of turn on this switch that says "Watch what you're eating", and that's pretty much exactly what I do. Or at least that's what I do when I live away from home (the family home). Being home with the parents means access to lots of food that
a) I din't pay for
b) I probably didn't cook
Which means that living on my own tends to make me lose weight rather than gain it.
I'm with you on that one, Ash. I only weigh 64 kilos nowadays, used to be 70 when I lived at the parents' place when I was 17 (5 years ago :eek: ).
Mind you I'm not very tall so 64 kilos doesn't mean I'm freakishly skinny lol
I didn't actually eat a lot back then myself, it was more like damage control, I'd be starving so I reluctantly went shopping. Then, the package in which the food was sold pretty much dictated my portions, only I wasn't cooking for anyone else, just me. And so I ended up overeating, and I didn't eat terribly healthy food either, so that should explain it.