Tuesday 21 April 2015

Reverse psychology

This morning I decided that from now on I'm avoiding sugar in my diet. This shouldn't be too much of a stretch, I used to follow a low carb high fat diet and when I got my craving on I invested into a pantry full of alternatively sweetened products.

For breakfast I had a sandwich. For morning tea I had unflavoured porridge and some sugar free chocolate to flavour it. For lunch I had MSG laden noodles and some slow-roasted pork belly. For snacks I had roasted cashew nuts.

Three hours later I forgot and ate half a chocolate bunny left over from Easter.

Given my inattention it was a perfectly acceptable mistake to make. However, given the lengthy track record it follows in the footsteps of I've decided that I need to come up with a new plan. Commitment in food related matters just isn't in the cards for me.

So... I'm planning a bit of reverse psychology.

Tomorrow I plan to eat all day long. Sugar in it? Stuff it in. Saturated fat in the triple digits? Add it to the plate. Is the ingredient list a series of numbers and letters then a few words ending in -ose? I'll have seconds please.

Fingers crossed these rules slip by the wayside as easily as any other promises.

If I don't fall off the wagon from this one someone'll have to clean up my corpse in a few weeks from now.

2 comments:

  1. Oh boy! Let me know how that goes for you. I just know it wouldn't be a good idea for me. :)

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    1. Yes, I'm already having to rethink this strategy. Although it does appear I do have the capacity to stick with a diet, just the wrong one!

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