new world order

as of yesterday, djeli and i have embarked upon our new-improved-us programme. we've started in on the csiro total wellbeing diet (for those of you who don't know, the csiro is australia's national scientific research organisation) and so far, so extremely funky - beef provencal casserole for dinner last night, roast capsicum and tomato soup today (quite easy to make, although roasting the capsicum and then trying to get it out of its skin was a bit of a pain) with a toasted ham sandwich, and a chicken stirfry tonight, just to give you a small sample of the food we're eating. all homemade and so far everything delicious. even the soup. even though i don't actually much care for either capsicums or tomatoes. odd. i'm modifying my diet from the csiro's plan slightly because of health issues (mentioned in the previous post. i won't go into them again here) which, according to my new book, seems to mostly consist of following the csiro diet, but making sure i get little protein-filled snacks throughout the day, and to avoid eating carbohydrates without following them with a protein - so i had bacon and an egg this morning with my wholewheat toast, and mid-morning a banana followed by a handful of nuts, and will correspondingly reduce the amount of chicken i eat tonight to balance things out. so far i'm feeling pretty good. generally not hungry and haven't had a sugar crash at all in the three days since i started matching up proteins with my carbs, which for me is amazing, considering i've been used to having at least 3 crashes a day. digestively things have improved too, but we shall wait and see.

and just to ensure i am completely accountable with this stuff, i have started off weighing 78kg (i should be 55 or so for my height). my first goal (heh. i accidentally typed 'goat' there first) is to see if i can balance out my digestive issues and kill the sugar crashes. then to get myself back to 74kg which is where i was when i got to australia 2 months ago. then 70kg, then 65kg, then 60kg. if i can get myself down to less than 60kg (which is what i weighed when i left school) i will have a party and undo all the good i have done. or maybe just serve everyone bowls of bran :-)