| By Shabi | | | | snacks around the house to assuage my boredom |
| | | | hunger. This was easy to do since I love my |
| I'm a glutton for punishment so I regularly | | | | fruits and all I did was stock up more on |
| buy-out the magazine stand when I do my | | | | fruits and kept them handy. The next one was |
| weekly round of food shopping. I buy each and | | | | slightly more difficult since I also like my |
| every one of those slimming, or dieting | | | | chocolate fixes, but the nutrition article |
| magazines that I can find since I'm forever | | | | was adamant about this, so I had to throw out |
| on the lookout for any information that I can | | | | all my chocolate. And I was banned from |
| find on these subjects. I find the true-life | | | | stocking up on any more. If and when I had a |
| stories of some of these people to be | | | | chocolate craving the nutrition article said |
| positively inspiring and hope that someday I | | | | that it would be easier and more of a |
| too can do the same. It was on one of my | | | | deterrent if I had to go out and buy it. The |
| numerous forays into these magazines that I | | | | same applied to ice cream but I wasn't too |
| found a nutrition article that gave me a lot | | | | fussed about that one anyway. Next the |
| of insight into my eating habits. It was | | | | nutrition article went on to tell me about |
| really a different story that had caught my | | | | the various foods that I should include in my |
| eye, but I stumbled across this nutrition | | | | everyday diet, and which ones I should stay |
| article quite by accident and started reading | | | | away from. It explained the food guide |
| through it quite idly. I was stunned to find | | | | pyramid in great detail and gave me a great |
| that I could barely put the magazine down by | | | | insight into how I could manage my meals. I |
| the time I reached my car to load in the | | | | also found that I was eating most of the |
| groceries. It wasn't a full length book by | | | | "right" foods but that I was eating them in |
| any means, but this particular nutrition | | | | the wrong quantities, more of meats and fats |
| article was interesting enough that it caught | | | | over cereals, grains and fruits. The |
| and kept my attention. Basically I found out | | | | nutrition article that I came across that day |
| what kind of eater I was - the boredom eater, | | | | was to me heaven-sent and helped me put my |
| I ate when I was bored or tired - and I found | | | | life back on track. I now eat healthier |
| a few great ways in which I could try and | | | | snacks of fruit, and sometimes carrots. I |
| control my bad eating habits. For my case | | | | also indulge myself in the finer things in |
| since I ate when I was bored it was | | | | life by eating all the good-for-me food that |
| recommended that I keep a few nutritious | | | | I want. |