I have given up on diets. I have decided to try another approach. I'm going to exercise once, maybe twice, a day and not worry a toss about the food. Exercise alone can significantly improve insulin resistance at the cell level and when this occurs, hopefully, my eating habits will naturally improve.
Over the years I have struggled with food. I tend to binge when I'm sad. I tend to obsess about food as soon as I sense the deprivation of a diet. I have had some serious counselling about it all and the outcome was that I need to learn to lean towards a particular way of eating, rather than undertake any kind of strict regimes.
Recently, I discovered something about myself. I learned that I am stuck in a breakfast rut of marmalade on toast (with real butter) and that's OK. In fact, if I never have anything else for breakfast ever, it's OK. That was the lesson I learned - it's OK. So I decided that if I can't change my breakfast of champions to some kind of healthier breakfast, I would revel in my marmalade on toast rut and try to tweak it. My tweak involved using a low GI bread like Helga's wholemeal wholegrain bread. Occasionally my marmalade toast treat is supplemented by an apple or a tub of yoghurt. I don't feel bad about this. There's nothing wrong with toast,... it's just that it's a meal that is entirely based on carbs. Not so good.
We'll see how the exercise thing pans out.
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