Getting Myself Healthy.

Been a busy week or two here. I suffered from quite a nackering illness, I seem to suffer quite a bit at the moment perhaps due to a combination of too much training/working and dev in my free time.

So I started a new diet to try to get my body back into tip top shape. This is not a diet to loose weight but a diet in the sense of making sure what I eat is healthy and good for me. As a side effect I am losing weight but that is not the goal. Admitably a good side effect and it will certainly help with running times.

I have also cut back on my training a bit to give my body a rest. With no marathons comming up I have dropped down to running 25-30 miles each week. Oh plus cycling to work most days. I am trying to focus on speed a little bit as marathon running has made me a bit of a plodder!

Any back to the diet. For various reasons I came to the conclusion my body needed a break from the abuse I have been giving. So coffee went out the window, well caffeine, along with wine and other stimulants (spicy food). I am also off all refined sugar, so now sweets, refined flours (white bread, pastry). I am also avoid yeast as much as possible which removes wholemeal bread and and what not.

The reason for this is I suspect my body is rife with yeast and that sort of diet helps to kill it off by starving it of suger. It sounds pretty restrictive but it is not that bad. If it was all out war on yeast then I could be more restrictive.

So what am I eating. Well I have slightly increased my meat intake. As a house hold we don't eat that much meat, certainly not every day, we have lived as vegetarians and often vegans for months in the past without making a commitment to become one. We just eat the food we like and meat seems to only moderately feature in that. I have also upped my dairy intake, but did I mention that lactose is a sugar so my dairy now consists of yohgurt and the occasional bit of cottage cheese. The bacteria in yohgurt eats the sugar.

Once I got over the coffee hangover it started to be quite fun. Breakfast was probably the hardest meal to figure out. I used to eat musili but that is full of dried fruit. I am usually pretty hungry at breakfast as I have often been out training. I have settled on Shredded Wheat along with yohgurt and sometimes ground seeds. Yep I am eating a whole lot more seeds and nuts.

Why is it fun, well I am spending a bit more time in the kitchen and making different foods, the children also seem to quite like trying and sometimes eating most of the food I prepare.

As for how I feel? Well it is early days I feel better than a week or two ago. I seem to be sleeping less but that is probably an artifact of training less rather than something diet related.