Eating on the ‘go’, plush hotel fine dining, fabulous buffet breakfasts and train snacks (as awful as they are) can all do wonders for the waistline - if you’re looking to wear next season’s Millet’s stock (the tents, not cagoules).
Strangely, that isn’t my intention. I’ve never found a nice 4 berth in my colour.
However, travel journalism and doing hotel reviews has been one of the biggest ‘challenges’ I’ve had to face in terms of dieting, and there is only so much hotel pool swimming one can endure in order to work off the extra poundage.
Simply, I’ve found it impossible to diet and live my current lifestyle, without being racked with guilt afterwards (followed with thoughts of “what’s the point of staying on the diet? I’ve blown it with a three course meal washed down with a nice Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc”).
I was away this weekend though, and was trying to put into practice some of the principles I’ve learned, and for the first time in ages, I’m not sitting at home feeling like a bloater on the ‘Monday after’.
I went for a curry with my friend Barbara Ford-Hammond on Saturday night and I really considered how full I was getting. I was definitely more full than satisfied, but I didn’t overly stuff myself thinking I couldn’t ‘waste’ anything.
I’m sure my body ‘knew’ the next day that it didn’t need as much and at breakfast, I filled up more on fruit because I was craving red berries and fresh ingredients! If I’ve been eating anything stodgy now, even though I love it, I’ve found by tuning in I know that I need a good dose of greens or tangerines at the next meal.
Hopefully, by continuing to keep listening to myself, I’ll become more and more able to know what I want to eat and to adjust it to how much I need at that time, and I won’t have to worry that travel journalism is making me fat.
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