The Food Diaries
Wednesday, 18 July 2007
It's that time of year again where teachers all over the country commence their absurdly long summer holiday, to the outrage of all those who chose not to enter this noble profession. Having enjoyed 7 of these welcome rests over the course of my career to date, I am now wise to my own bad habits and have decided that languishing on the sofa eating chocolate and watching comedy repeats whilst swaddled comfortably in a duvet is a one-way street to becoming fat and depressed, so I have instead spent a highly productive morning in school, busily polishing pianos and removing grubby fingerprints from windows in the music department. My next task will be painting the Performing Arts Room, which I'm quite excited about; it's a vile shade of terracotta at the moment. I must at some point apply the same enthusiasm to touching up the paintwork in my own home, in order that someone might be encouraged to buy it. All this activity is, I'm hoping, burning off a few wodges of fat that have accidentally crept on over the course of the year. I am now keeping a Food Diary, which sounds like a worrying way to acquire yourself an eating disorder, but I'd actually recommend it to anyone. It's pretty hard to feel virtuous whilst jotting down 'Today I had Sugar Puffs with Whole Milk, a Croissant with Butter and Lashings of Jam, Cheese on Toast, Multitudinous Snacks during the Afternoon, Fifty Cups of Tea and a Muffin each Time, Pizza and Garlic Bread, A Bowlful of Chunky Monkey and a Large Glass of Wine to Round off the Evening - I have Avoided All Fruit and Vegetables Today and I also Drove to School and did No other Exercise.' Basically it means I think twice before demolishing a bag of Chocolate Chunks I've found whilst tidying out the kitchen cupboards, because of the shame I feel when seeing the evidence there in my own handwriting. Ben seems to love me regardless, which is nice, but I'm not fond of catching a glimpse of myself in the reflection of a bus stop and thinking 'Cor! She needs to lose some fighting weights!' Less chocolate and more squash is on the agenda for this year's summer holiday, though I'm not averse to occasional 'treats'. Everything in moderation. I'm off to make a banana smoothie now (instead of a batch of banana muffins, which clearly won't make me any slimmer), but I might leave the next brisk walk until after the rain stops. Fun though yesterday's riverwalk was, I only have one pair of dry jeans left!
posted by fiona @ 16:38
