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I wrote in a previous post that I am lifelong sugar- and food addicts. For those who do not understand what it means, I can say that it is pure hell. I grew up on sugar in various things, such as rosehip soup, cinnamon buns, chocolate, glass, other coffee bread, pancake and so on indefinitely. The way I grew up made food and sugar a way to deal with emotions (or not), and then an addiction arose. You have no idea what amounts of sugar (and food) I have pressed in me in my days.
The biggest problem with just food addiction is that one actually must eat. Alcohol or drugs are not necessary for our survival, but food is in fact it. How to deal with a food addiction with the help of food?
For my part has at least partially resolved with the help of LCHF. LCHF is the only way to eat that made me give up sugar. I do not eat ice cream, chocolate, chocolate balls, gingerbread dough, pancake and jam, apple pie with custard and so on, longer. I have also given up carbohydrates almost entirely. I do not eat pasta, res, potato, bread or anything else that contains flour. I also do not eat dairy products (in addition to butter – the real thing!), because it triggers an overeating that I can not handle.
Not all, men some who live with sugar- and food addiction is gaining weight. It is somehow an effect of eating too much, or something that is bad for the body. I'm not even close to being an expert on how the body behaves when it gets one or the other of that or that food, but most people know that sugar is not good. By the way, I belong to that group of food- and sugar addicts who have gained weight. More than I want to admit, even for myself.
I started eating LCHF den 2 July 2015 – mitt i Power Meet (I live in Västerås for those who are wondering). My then housing supporter had talked about it for a long time, and all of a sudden I thought I was going to start. For maybe 1½ years or so I lost weight – not fast, but downwards. Then my dad died, and I started eating sugar again. But thankfully, I captured my sanity and two days after my birthday 2017 I fasted for five days and then switched to strict LCHF.
The following spring passed I, at 41 years of age, into menopause. Right then, it was mostly small things I noticed – but little things that play an extremely important role in my life. My pms changed places with my period, for example. Since then, I have barely lost anything at all. I never weigh myself, so 100% of course I can not be sure, but I should have noticed it elsewhere – and I do not have it.
And that is now we come to this with LCHF and yoga. I started eating LCHF in order to lose weight, which I have done – albeit far from sufficient. Yoga is something I have been thinking about for a long time, long, back and forth. I have even started practicing yoga on at least a couple of occasions – where the idea was to do it maybe three days a week. It ran out into the sand. My main reason for practicing yoga is to feel more mobile and not terribly stiff. I have sickness benefit and thus spend most of my time sitting. I'm sitting by the computer. I'm sitting at the sewing machine. I sit and knit. I sit and sit and sit. The only exercise I get is the dog walks, for which I am in itself extremely grateful, but they do not necessarily give flexibility in the body, which is something I'm looking for.
I know that I'm nagging about this, Åsa, but I really can not with words, enough to express my gratitude for the challenge you gave me. It has soon been 1 month, and I have been doing my yoga every day. Some days it has received – we talked about that at the latest the other day. Other days I could imagine doing two sessions, but not directly one after the other.
Even if I not done this for a very long time, After all, I noticed from the beginning that things started to happen in the body. I have no hope of becoming as thin as a stick (nor do I need it), but if I'm lucky maybe my body will reshape over time. But the most important thing is that I already feel much more mobile, and that I got rid of a lot of chronic pain. I no longer have back pain. I do not have pain in the neck or shoulders, or for that matter – I do not have tension headaches anymore. I can stand on my knees (I could not do that a couple of months ago), and later on I hope that my right knee will give enough so that I can sit in the tailor's position, squat and sit on your knees.
In addition, I have become smoother, which feels damn fun considering that once upon a time (too much 30 years ago) I could go down in the splits. I do not need to be able to do that now, but the very thing of not feeling like a half-dead elephant is undeniably damn nice.
Then I'm after all, no more than man, so of course I hope that a kilo will fall off. But especially – and it is actually more important than the number of kilos, so I want to reshape my body. I know I have already written some about parts of this post, but for me it is important, so put up with me. 🙂 I want to be able to feel good, and I want others to think I'm good looking.
And it led me today to think about whether I should make any change in my diet. I already eat pretty well. My eating habits can certainly be discussed, and at the moment there is nothing I feel comfortable discussing openly here. The only thing I can say is that I still have problems with overeating, which means, among other things, that I can not cook. Is there food, I eat until it's over.
But there is other things to think about. For example, if I am going to devote myself to a few days of fasting, to clean the system. Another thing is if I should change my fat intake. Today I use mostly butter, but also olive oil. Unfortunately, it is the case that on sickness compensation you have limited money to move around with, and my finances do not allow for any extravagance, not even when it comes to food. And then I still think I have a fairly large food account every month.
As I said; There is a lot to think about about sugar- and food addiction. Likewise about yoga and LCHF. I will most likely continue to think aloud, so stay tuned. 🙂