Another step forward at Diet Trials : Paul McKenna

Another step forward

Published by Diet Trials June 27th, 2006 in Day to Day

My body is probably going crazy wondering what is happening to it. Firstly at the beginning of the year I start dieting and trying to train my body to follow the Golden Rules set out by Paul Mckenna, then I try to do a bit of crash dieting by going on the Atkins Diet for a while.

A few weeks ago I started to go to the gym to help me get some exercise to try to lose some weight but also in an attempt to get healthier, then on Friday, I stopped smoking!

So this is Day 5 without a cigarette and so far I am doing ok. I can’t say that it’s easy, nor can I say that it’s something that I really wanted to do. But having given up smoking before I know you always feel this way in the first few weeks. I had smoked for most og my adult life, then 7 years ago stopped before my wife and I decided to have kids. I only started again a couple of years ago as I found that when I was going to conferences that the crowd was very heavily into to smoking and after a few beers you get the urge. I would then smoke at conferences but not at home, until I make the mistake of coming home once with a few packets of cigarettes I had left over. So that ended up with my wife starting smoking again.

It has been on my mind for a while now to stop smoking especially when the kids are asking why we smoke and then they go off and pretend to smoke candy cigarettes. Not good when this sort of thing happens, plus there are all the health implications involved with smoking. Also I have to pay double the amount of life insurance against my mortgage value because I smoke!

I have not found it too bad so far apart from the fact that I seem to be doing the usual thing of substituting cigarettes for food…. it started off with mints and now I seem to be eating much more. I will have to get this under control very soon but my trip on Thursday to the World Cup will delay this for a few days, but once I get back from Germany I will sort the eating out.