{"id":247,"date":"2009-07-27T01:26:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T00:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2009-07-27T01:31:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T00:31:16","slug":"upon-strange-dietary-practices-walking-and-a-hope-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/techno-mage\/2009\/07\/27\/upon-strange-dietary-practices-walking-and-a-hope-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Upon strange dietary practices, walking and a hope for the future…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, it is now exactly one week since I last ate bread. This is not all that interesting until I say that since I have been eating solid food this has never happened before. I have never gone as long as seven days without eating bread. So why am I doing this thing, which for me is very hard indeed<\/strong>? Well, I’ve been looking for an approach that will work for me to change my eating habits, and on reflection I decided that copying Stephen Fry<\/a> might well be something that I could enjoy aspiring to… What do I mean? Well, it has become an open secret, due to the auspices of Twitter and Top Gear in the main, that Mr. Fry has recently lost a good deal of weight by taking two courses of action. Firstly he cut out all bread and potatoes from his diet. He did not adopt a “mad” zero carbohydrate diet, he just drastically reduced his daily carbohydrate intake by removing two of the largest contributor’s of the aforementioned food group from his diet, and I realised that not eating any bread or potatoes that I would generally halve the amount of carbohydrate I eat every day as well. His second choice was to start taking daily walks of at least an hour in duration, off-setting the boredom \/ loss of time by enjoying audiobooks as he walked. Well I have spent all week making the dietary adjustment, and let me tell you it has been hard, but at the same time I have felt a couple of benefits, one of which has been a real eye-opener. I have some sleep dysfunction (I know who doesn’t in these days of modern life), and I had always put my propensity to nod off in the afternoons on work days down to the fact that I don’t sleep as much as I probably should. Still this week it has not happened once; that’s right, not once. I have also found myself being a LOT more hungry than I am used to being in the run up to meal-times, and as such I have been really enjoying what I have eaten, even though I have often eaten less than I might have done previously and also eaten things that I would not normally choose all week long.<\/p>\n

Today I have taken my first “long walk”. Since my injury at the beginning of the year I’ve not driven, and as I became more mobile into March and April I’ve been walking a LOT, but I haven’t walked without stopping for more than an hour since I was in the bush in Kruger, so it was with __some__ trepidation that I set out from my home this afternoon \/ evening to walk all the way across Reading to Tilehurst Station (in order to ride back on the train). You can see my route here:<\/p>\n