A detrimental habit

A detrimental habit

By: Gina Yoryet Román

June 25, 2012

Every end of semester the normal drill is foreseen weeks in advance so I always try to squeeze in more workout days because very few times do I keep my word to limit myself junkwise.

As of two weeks ago, there’s been a little get together here, a farewell reunion here and there for those foreign friends who are leaving. The school where I work is very international, so meeting new people is very common.

Weighed down with work, I was not eating at my regular times. Eating my regular meals and taking little bites of chips, cookies, sweet bread, candy, and anything I could get my hands on has always been a fatal habit when I’m under stress. There go the results from the cross fit routines I did for a few days in a row.

The almost three week binge eating and feeding my muffin top went on until this past weekend when I went to Guanajuato to do some investigations of a particular case which I’ll post about later.

With this said, for the most part my running/workout journal is filled with intensive workouts or at least a power walk, until the last couple of days, all I see are blank pages.

Even after following a very strict regime with my workout journals, I’ve never been one to have a food/diet log nor have a goal of daily or weekly calories and believe it or not, I have NEVER tried ANY diet! Actually the more time that goes by, my daily meals keep getting more and more menial as I avoid eating vegetables.

It is hard for those who know me to believe that vegetables are not in my daily menu.

Sometimes I try to have vegetables three or four times a week but it just gets tedious and I rather not make time to munch on those wonderful and healthy veggies.

I have to confess that it is a very lazy habit of mine that keeps being fed with all the junk I stuff myself with.

Before I started splurging I was feeling a few kilos under weight but

with all the binge eating I definitely do not own an attractive slim waistline at this moment!

Regardless of that, right now I am standing at a point where I wouldn’t try any detoxifying method or any diet, I’d NEVER become a vegetarian either (I don’t eat meat nor do I eat a whole lot of vegetables), I wouldn’t take any diet pill, not even the African Mango, the “latest Miracle weight loss supplement,” as experts claim it to be a powerful multivitamin with many benefits for men and women.

I’d be terrified to even think about that extreme nasogastric (nasal) tube method diet, an extreme nutritional diet to reduce overweight, obesity and cellulite which only feeds the patient with the necessary nutrients for ten days (the first stage). When they reach the tenth day, the patient is supposed to lose 15 kilos. After that come the second and third stages where the patient adds infusion teas, that is more so like fasting. 

That I find too extreme but many people, especially women, soon to be brides are trying it because they want to feed their vanity and look good.

The only thought of it gives me the creeps so for the time being I’d rather stay loyal to my workouts because food is too good to forsake!