Matisyahu's Blog

Headed down to the local Pak ‘n Save and did my fortnightly grocery shopping and I was quite surprised at the number of people down at the store, a lot more than I expected. Normally when people come back from the Christmas and New Years break there is a bit of an upsurge in spending to restock the pantry and getting ready for kids to go back to school at the end of January/beginning of February or it could simply be because the weather is so good there are more people having BBQs for dinner. I’ve organised by meals for the next couple of weeks and rather than doing what I used to do which was not eating at work then coming home to have something for dinner at around 8:30-9:00pm. The problem with such a plan? the tendency to overeat because by that time I was really hungry and there was also the issue of snacking on the free snacks at work which didn’t help. A good meal routine will ensure that I don’t find myself snacking between meals or overeating because I had breakfast at around 10am then wait hours before having dinner.

The other good thing I did today when shopping was getting healthy snacks so that if I do feel a big peckish I have some carrot sticks, marinated mussels and some low carb snack balls. Part of changing my relationship with food is being able to have things in the pantry rather than going on a strict ‘only hve the bare essentials in the house’ because in reality such an approach never works. Why does it never work? because if I don’t have them in the house then I’ll simply buy them but don’t bring them home or a snack at work etc. so the underlying problem still remains. I one is serious about wanting to change ones relationship with food then it needs to be faced head on and that is what I’m going to focus on. I also think that a healthier diet will also help with stress and anxiety as well – something that i knew way back when I was at university but ignored later on in life.