Grab a coffee (…or water…) and get cosy because this is going to be a long one….

Back flash to School…..

Do you ever have those times where you sit in on an interesting conversation? This convo was about diet, something that I had no interest in at the time whatsoever and I thought my diet was generally pretty good, I had no problems with my weight and I was happy, so that’s all that mattered.

But after hearing the convo, I couldn’t help but wonder, was my diet really that ok?

Huh funny, so anything white is bad, sugar, flour, potatoes all except chicken. Meats are in the clear except for fast food meat (that was a given) vegetables and water should be the most of what makes up your three meals a day.

You might be thinking, hang on a minute you missed out on fruit, mmmm healthy fruit. Haha I was coming to that, fruit in this convo had a suprising placing.

‘I eat grapes but not too many, still sugar.’

‘I also exercise all the time and my routine la la la la la.

So I think you guys get the gist of this convo. This made me feel scared though, the way they were talking about food and how it had an effect on the body made me think.

I eat everything except for pork but this convo led me another way, a way that I hadn’t even expected it to. It changed the way I ate as I started thinking ‘healthy’. It started off with a simple increase of water, as I didn’t drink enough, I reckoned to be healthy I should.

I followed the 8 glass a day rule. At the start it was difficult to take 8 glasses a day, but slowly slowly I got used to it. I realised I was on a constant hype to keep it at 8 everyday. No less. This was the most craziest thing I ever put my all in to. It got to a point where 8 wasn’t enough, it had increased by nine, ten and eleven.

As a result, I ended up flushing toxins out of my system, sorry if that sounded a bit too graphic but that’s the truth of what happened. I found it crazy how the only thing I was drinking was water and nothing else. No tea, or coffee in the morning, it was just a banana and a water bottle to kick start my day.

As I was drinking lots I thought I could change up my diet too, just too see if it made any difference health wise, hence the banana in the morning, which I wouldn’t normally do.

So I decided to decrease my portion sizes at every meal and ignored sugar and flour as much as possible.

When it came to Lunch, 2 pieces of brown bread became 1 with chicken mayo sweetcorn as the filling. Dinner, whatever my mum made that night, was decreasing on my plate by the day.

I was feeling like I did not have to eat as much, as water was filling me up because of the amounts I was drinking.

As any other person trying to get ‘healthy’ I slowly introduced exercise in my daily routine, it made me feel good knowing that I was making conscious steps to being ‘healthy’.

The funny thing with this was I wanted to continue like crazy, it was making me feel safe in a way, diabetes arthritis and pcos is hereditary, something that my family suffers with, its only natural for me to feel scared about contracting these diseases one day.

Diet has everything to do with it.

This is partly the reason why I went on this crazy journey, but in high school something else was happening aswell. A lot of the girls were becoming conscious of how they looked, taking different steps in order to look a certain way. I never cared, but only because of the constant babble among people over this subject, did it start to influence me unknowingly.

The fact that this was all considered to be ‘healthy’ it also had one effect that I was most interested in and that was better concentration, considering I never got the best grades, I thought this could really help.

But I didn’t see what was coming, as time passed, unseen to the eyes was a transformational set back, I had not only lost so much weight, but it came to the point where my appetite began to fade, making water as the excuse for filling me up so much. The scary thing with this is that the person actually going through a transformational change cannot see what is happening to them. It’s the people from the outside that start to pick up on these things. People would ask me if I was sick, I would get very surprised, because I felt totally fine.

It was only my family members who became my talking eyes. They had realised it had become an obsession of some sort and tried their upmost best to talk me out of what I was doing, they wanted me to gain a bit of weight, as I wasn’t looking healthy, but to me I felt fine, I felt better, there was nothing wrong, or so I thought.

This was my final year at school and all things considering I wanted to make this year work. The thing that I thought was helping actually was doing the complete opposite, I slipped off the academic wagon, concentration was not there.

It had been taken somewhere else, other than studies. So this change I made in my life didn’t work, it just made things worse.

But I’ve taken a few good things on board.

All bodies are different they need certain amount of energy to do certain things. All energy intake is different. This water diet only worked for me as a detox cleansing method. Going ‘healthy’ with the diet change didn’t work in terms of brain function, concentration lacked big time. But it was only a factor that helped in loosing weight.

I still follow some practices, only because I think it’s beneficial, like decreasing portion sizes at times when I want to and increasing water intake but certainly not as much as I used to.

In effect this actually helped me in the long run, I am able to bypass unwanted calories a lot more easily now, its insanely fantastic. We all know how much its bad for us. Call me crazy, but I think that little journey that I went on not long ago was the cause of this effect.

I am still strong on exercise, and I do continue to be cautious of my portion sizes, e.g when I have flat bread for example we call it roti, I still just have half, not a whole one. Still feeling hungry, I can always count on a good glass of water to fill me up.

Haha, no wonder why they are always asking us to drink 8 a day, its because it’s the best detox solution ever.

What diet plans worked for you guys?

Let me know in the comments below!