Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

The cafeteria at my work place holds the award for cooking the most unhygienic, greasy, lumpy & salty food I could ever find!

Imagine overnight balance chicken from the chicken rice stall being deep fried & resold the next day.

Imagine finding a nut bolt among your meehoon goreng (fried rice noodle)!

Imagine finding baby snail, caterpillar & bits of sand in your leafy vegetables!

Imagine getting upset tummy *ahem* more like severe purging after eating their sambal belacan...

Therefore, I would rather walk in the fastest stride my 2 chubby legs could managed for 10 minutes under the scorching hot sun to reach the nearest edible food court, huffing & panting for air. Spend between 10 to 15 minutes eating lunch before hurrying back to the office again in the next 10 minutes.

Fyi, my lunch break is only half an hour.

If one is wiling to go through this vigorous walk everyday just to have a decent lunch, how good can the food at the cafeteria be, right?

To pacify my dissatisfaction over the super short lunches, I took it as a way to have my daily 20 minutes exercise. Otherwise, I would just end up sitting in front of the computer from 9am to 5pm & being a couch potato at home in the evenings & on the weekends.

At least I won't be killed by a hidden nut bolt in my meehoon goreng.

Addiction!

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Are you craving to eat something today? Do you crave for a puff of ciggie after meals? Do you crave for alcohol?

Cravings is a form of addiction. When one becomes abnormally dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit forming, that's when trouble starts.

I'm a food addict. I love to eat. I always find myself daydreaming of what to eat 2 meals ahead. This is not a problem when one has high metabolism rate. One could eat as much, enjoying all the sinful indulgence & not put on a pound. Ah, such blessings!

Somehow, age has caugth up & the biological clock jump started. This blessing was lost ever since. I still feel hungry all the time & have an appetite that would make most chefs happy. I crave for certain food out of the blue (must eat or I keep seeing food floating in front of my eyes) just like a pregnant woman when I'm not!

Slowly the needle on the weighing machine swayed further to the right giving me fright every time I weigh myself. My health started to give way as the extra pounds added on. I pant easily while walking, felt heavy when I run & of course the worst part is I can't fit into all my favourite clothes!

When one has been enjoying all these delicious, mouth watering food & hasn't actually built up any self-defence mechanism against temptation to eat, it's any uphill battle against the addiction for food. It's really difficult to lose weight & get back into shape by not eating when I want to, what I want to eat & how much I would like to eat. In short, I'm addicted to delicious food which also include junk food, snacks, desserts & what not. I went slowly from M to L size in 3 years, a total of 7 kg!!!

Writing this down, I hope to gather enough strength to keep my addiction for food in control so that I could try to lose the unwanted pounds (for health reason) & tone up my physic but still get to enjoy food that I like, albeit a smaller portion. To remind myself, how nice it felt to walk uphill without panting, to be able to run with light feathered agility & of course to fit into my favourite clothes again.

You are welcome to share with me your experience on your addiction & how you kept the it under control, especially food! It will be a good source of inspiration in my attempt to break the magic spell as a food addict & regain back my good health.