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