I always feel a little bit better once January has gone, and we can start to look forward to spring flowers and the days drawing out. I think spring has always been my favourite time of year as it seems to signal that wonderful feeling of new possibilities, renewed life and energy.
In the meantime, we can still start to think about preparing for spring and summer and put our minds to eating healthily and exercising, ready for those summer holidays. Its a really good time to start now, and I am still feeling great doing my 5:2 fasting – I find that it fits so well into my lifestyle, as well as being a proven way to improve your all-round health.
This weekend Mr Chalk and myself are going to London, and I want to be able to feel that I can enjoy myself – one of our treats is to have a wonder around Borough Market and explore the lovely food stalls, wonderful arrays of all sorts of different hand-made, artisan products – so tempting. And the benefit of the fasting regime is that I can eat really lightly a couple of days in the week, and then allow myself to be relaxed for the rest of the week. But the strange thing that I have found is that my appetite seems to have been much reduced, and on the days when I can eat anything, I no longer eat as much as I did previously. I am also well aware of the effect that fasting will have on my long term health, particularly when it comes to age-related illnesses. My parents both have poor vision and my mum has age-related macular degeneration. Knowing how debilitating this is, I am keen to find ways that I can prevent it occurring to me.
Having always said ‘don’t do diets’ I do feel a little bit hypocritical, but I feel that this one is different and it does seem to be backed up by medical research, and is something that I will be happy to continue indefinitely.
If you feel that this might be a good idea for you, or you would like general advice on health and weight loss, please give me a call on 01449 780352 or 0781 7158429, or email me on wendy@wendychalk.co.uk.
Wendy x
