So less than a week down and I have already failed once. It in fact took two days. You see what I have come to realise is that my strategy is all wrong. Because I don’t have breakfast I don’t get any fruit and veg into me early doors.
What this has led to is fruit binging late at night. Realising I need to get a couple more pieces down me before the day is out I load up on fruit after dinner.
Originally I thought this would be fine. But lying in bed at 1am the other day, my stomach started churning and making some very suspect noises and the consequences….well you can guess the consequences.
Anyway the point is this - I need a more balanced approach to my fruit and veg strategy and this evolves around having breakfast.
This means a complete change in my ethos is needed. I am a man who often wakes, thinks about having breakfast but then thinks better of it and presses snooze instead. This is not the way forward. For me to suceed I need to change this whole approach and get my arse out of bed. As I am soon coming to learn, breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
July's challenge - getting healthy
The Brown Book is back and this is the challenge:
Everyday in the month of July I, Andrew Benjamin Webster, will eat five pieces of fruit and veg. This is a very scientific experiment.
If I succeed I expect to feel infinitely better by the end of the month and if I don’t the conclusion will be that vegetables are over-rated.
Now I have had discussions about this over the last few months and there is some debate as to what constitutes ‘one piece of fruit and veg’. To avoid controversy therefore I I feel it is best to set out a few rules.
1. Beans count
2. Tinned spaghetti doesn’t
3. Potatoes do not count
4. Contrary to what I have said in the past tomato soup does not count as four pieces of fruit and veg. But where it says on the soup tin that it counts as one, it will count.
5. Smoothies count as two as per the instructions on the back of innocent smoothies. But more than one smoothie a day is cheating.
6. Things where salad is just window dressing do not count. i.e. burgers and kebabs.
7. A glass of orange juice does count, but tropical doesn’t (What is that anyway?)
8. My decision as judge is final.
9. I am allowed to not reach five on four separate occasions and still pass.
These are the rules....let the games begin.
Everyday in the month of July I, Andrew Benjamin Webster, will eat five pieces of fruit and veg. This is a very scientific experiment.
If I succeed I expect to feel infinitely better by the end of the month and if I don’t the conclusion will be that vegetables are over-rated.
Now I have had discussions about this over the last few months and there is some debate as to what constitutes ‘one piece of fruit and veg’. To avoid controversy therefore I I feel it is best to set out a few rules.
1. Beans count
2. Tinned spaghetti doesn’t
3. Potatoes do not count
4. Contrary to what I have said in the past tomato soup does not count as four pieces of fruit and veg. But where it says on the soup tin that it counts as one, it will count.
5. Smoothies count as two as per the instructions on the back of innocent smoothies. But more than one smoothie a day is cheating.
6. Things where salad is just window dressing do not count. i.e. burgers and kebabs.
7. A glass of orange juice does count, but tropical doesn’t (What is that anyway?)
8. My decision as judge is final.
9. I am allowed to not reach five on four separate occasions and still pass.
These are the rules....let the games begin.
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