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