No, I don’t mean lots of exercise, though of course that helps. I shall be back at my water aerobics class tonight after a short break. SO can’t participate at the moment as he had had an operation on his leg but he can drive and will drive me there and bring me home. Such a sweetie. I’m hoping that it will be Stella taking the class tonight as she is very good and enthusiastic.
Anyway, what do I mean by ‘actively dieting’? Well, I’ve always found dieting to be quite a negative thing to do. I know it’s done for positive reasons - health, looks, self-esteem, all that good stuff - but dieting seemed to be about what you can’t do and what you can’t have.
But since I’ve been photo-dieting that’s all changed. I’m actively photographing my food, and therefore thinking about what it looks like, what I’ll eat. Actively making the mosaics at the end of the day, thus marking the end of eating for that day. Actively participating in the flickr group I started for this - the Photo-diet Project. Actively looking at the photos the other photo-dieters are posting and commenting on them.
Such a lot of activity, no wonder it feels like I’m doing something. And now I’m posting on here and looking at other blogs. Some people get a lot of support from going along to Weight Watchers or Slimming World or any number of similar groups. But that’s just once a week and is expensive. I can log on to flickr or on here and there are people looking at what I’m doing. I think that’s important.
It works for me, anyway. Well it has for five and a half weeks, I hope it continues to do so. I don’t see why it shouldn’t.
No, I don’t mean lots of exercise, though of course that helps. I shall be back at my water aerobics class tonight after a short break. SO can’t participate at the moment as he had had an operation on his leg but he can drive and will drive me there and bring me home. Such a sweetie. I’m hoping that it will be Stella taking the class tonight as she is very good and enthusiastic.
Anyway, what do I mean by ‘actively dieting’? Well, I’ve always found dieting to be quite a negative thing to do. I know it’s done for positive reasons - health, looks, self-esteem, all that good stuff - but dieting seemed to be about what you can’t do and what you can’t have.
But since I’ve been photo-dieting that’s all changed. I’m actively photographing my food, and therefore thinking about what it looks like, what I’ll eat. Actively making the mosaics at the end of the day, thus marking the end of eating for that day. Actively participating in the flickr group I started for this - the Photo-diet Project. Actively looking at the photos the other photo-dieters are posting and commenting on them.
Such a lot of activity, no wonder it feels like I’m doing something. And now I’m posting on here and looking at other blogs. Some people get a lot of support from going along to Weight Watchers or Slimming World or any number of similar groups. But that’s just once a week and is expensive. I can log on to flickr or on here and there are people looking at what I’m doing. I think that’s important.
It works for me, anyway. Well it has for five and a half weeks, I hope it continues to do so. I don’t see why it shouldn’t.