Breakfast

Well, you'll all be pleased to know that I've successfully tackled the first challenge of the day: Breakfast.

I reckon, if I was to analyse where I screw up most of my diet-days, I reckon at least 50% of them go wrong with the first meal of the day. When I was eating cereal (I'm currently doing SlimFast, remember) it was easy to give in to the hungry devil, firstly I would always use a big bowl and super fill it. Then, after wolfing down a delicious mixture of milk and carbohydrates, I would do the dance of the second-bowl-decision.

In my experience if I even start doing the dance and set off down the path about thinking about a second bowl, the decision has been made to go for it long before I'm aware of it. So I normally mentally battle for about a minute before reaching for the cereal packet and indulging.

Once the day has been 'ruined' by this indescression - it's easy for the rest of the day to go the same way.

And you'd think it'd be easier with SlimFast, wouldn't you? I mean, you have a delicious and healthy milkshake for breakfast - it's hard to screw that one up. Well, you'd be wrong. The temptation to have a second is still there, and if anything it's worse because not only are you lusting after carbs at that time in the morning - but also, after downing a 'shake in record time, you are also still incredibly hungry. Not good.

The solution this morning? Go back to bed for an hour - thus removing the potential slipping up time from the day. Genius. Now I'm not that hungry, but I am incredibly sleepy; Good thing I have coffee in my life.

More later.