A thing I have learned: the breakfast

(LighterLife Management – ongoing)
Breakfast is a girl’s best friend. I have skipped breakfast only a very, very few times this year, and each time I have a) been very very conscious about it throughout the day, b) been starving mid-morning, and c) eaten badly for the rest of the day. Added to that, I feel [...]

Cutting back like normal people

(LighterLife Management – Month 8)
I’m trying something ‘normal’ people do: CUTTING BACK.
One day back in December, or could have been November, I woke up one morning and noticed that my just washed favourite pair of jeans felt way too tight around the waste, producing a bulge that is both uncomfortable and unsightly – the donut.
AND. [...]

Intervention complete

(LighterLife Management – Month 5)
I almost didn’t watch it. I nearly almost couldn’t. If I had had wine or chocolate or anything yummy but unhealthy in the house, I would’ve quite probably have downed it in order to keep watching.
What, you ask. Freaky Eaters: Addicted to… chocolate, which is a reality program about ‘extreme’ eaters. [...]

Management – Month 4 summary

(LighterLife Management – Month 4)
It’s all gone to the dogs, a bit. It’s like I’ve been living in a different mental zone all month. It’s been a whole load of takeaways, eating out with lots of drinking and all too little sleep. That’s it in a nutshell.
September started out rather well, with good intentions and [...]

Management – Month 3 summary

(LighterLife Management – Month 3)
AUGUST. It’s been a strange month.
The control thing
I’ve been terrified about losing control, as I did last summer, when I cheated myself into believing I could handle ‘it’ on my own… Well. I shouldn’t say losing control, more like slipping back to where it’s difficult to return from. I mean, seeing [...]

Surviving the surf’n'turf

(LighterLife Management – Month 3)
It all boils down to CHOICE. Bear with me in getting to the point.
The anticipation
I hit the waves for the first time last weekend. With some people I knew and a few that I didn’t. Stayed in a caravan for 3 nights, and pretty much did everything together. The surfing. And [...]

Management – Month 2 summary

(LighterLife Management – Month 2)
JULY. What the hell happened to my ‘month off’!?!?!?!?
Work, only then play. By the time July arrived it was clear that both of my work projects were going to eat into what I had envisioned to be my holiday month. Month my ass! But we make do with what we can, [...]

Going nowhere in particular

(LighterLife Management – Month 1 Week 3)
You might think I’ve given up and disappeared altogether. Well I haven’t! For the most part though, I have felt an increasing need to isolate myself and just exist for a while. That’s the best way I can describe the past couple of weeks.
Food. Hmmmm. I don’t know. I [...]

Managing after Route to Management

(LighterLife Management – Month 1 Week1)
Stretching the concept of time. Feeling less compulsed to write every day. Feeling no less compulsed to plan my days and be conscious of what I’m eating, how I’m feeling, and where is it all leading to…
I do feel like I did earn a break from constantly analysing my thoughts, [...]

Route to Management – Week 12

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week12 Day6)
This is it. I am ‘done’. I’m at the start of my life. I am so uncertain of what’s going to come next!!
Chocolate and cake
Seems almost irrelevant to talk about this, but let’s do it straight up because sweet things have been the trigger to try on this week. [...]