Everybody is FAT

At the moment everybody is 'fat'. Apparently.

Everyone wants to diet, be a regular at the local gym and stop eating chocolate. But, despite thinking there was only so much that could be said on dieting, I was wrong. Very wrong. Every conversation, with every person I speak to, in some way and somehow, leads to dieting. What we shouldn't eat. What's bad for us. What time we should eat. Where we should eat. How we should eat. EVEN, who we should eat with!

SHUT UP!!

Ok, I exaggerated there a little bit. It's not that bad and I don't really mind, but it's gotten to the point where I'm feeling guilty letting anything pass my lips.

This week, as part of my university course, I am doing a documentary. I am the TV presenter and therefore I have been thrown head first in to a study of, 'Can students live off £10 per week?'.

Simple answer, NO.

I'm currently on the 4th day and I have 1 apple left. Whilst not being at uni, I have no routine and the only thing to think about it what my next meal will be. And, doing this little experiment sees me eating one crappy meal after another; almost to the point where I don't even want to eat.

I've 3 and a half, nearly 4, days left with 3 smart price packets of crisps and 1 apple to snack on, 2 jacket potatoes, a bit of pasta and 9 sausages. It's fair to say, I don't really have a meal to look forward to. Nor, am I finding my diet balanced, healthy, appropriate nor exciting.

Doing this, I've realised how much food affects your mood. Not being able to choose what I want to eat and when I want to eat it has really changed how I feel. I've felt energy-less, so much so that the first two days I had to have a nap in the afternoon! But, I've started to accept it now and when I get hungry I just eat bran flakes as I have plenty of those!

I can't wait until next week where I'll eat so much chicken breast, I'll be clucking by Friday.