Sunday: the day to eat whatever you want and eat however much you want without feeling an ounce of guilt. Even though it is the month of Christmas (and therefore the month of food for a student like me), I still believe on sticking to my Sunday routine by consuming as many calories as I want (after all, Fat Sundays are a tradition to me!)
With Tesco, along with a street full of takeaways including Dominos just around the corner from my student house, the temptation to buy food is constant. I try my best to resist buying too many unhealthy foods and snacks during the week so that I can make up for it on Sundays. Of course I have the odd slip up, I don't even want to consider how many Dominos and how much chocolate I have consumed since returning back to University. I'm seriously surprised at how I haven't put on weight seeing as I don't know the meaning of the word 'exercise'.
I know my unhealthy eating habits and lack of exercise have to change. I mean I class my nights out wearing 6 inch heels for 6 hours and dodgy dancing along with a mixture of alcohol as my exercise which can't technically be classed as exercise (unfortunately).
Everyone always says 'New Year, new me,' but I genuinely mean it. I'm 20 years old and have never stepped into a proper gym in my whole life. So January 2015 means a month of health for me. Exercise (even if it is only jogging a few times a week) along with a range of fruit and vegetables and a severe cut down on unhealthy foods is my plan.
Of course I will allow myself to have an odd treat but come January, I will have designed myself a meal plan containing many fruit and vegetables but using them in a cheap and yummy way by researching recipes over my Christmas break. I have many cheap recipe books that I have hardly used; this would be the perfect opportunity to actually use them and would also mean that they aren't a waste of money (every single penny to a student is important).
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| Save with Jamie by Jamie Oliver |
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| The Student Cookbook by Gina Steer |
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| Soup Recipes by Anne Sheasby |
My aim is to try and stick to this new diet throughout the whole month of January (which I am going to find tough!). If I manage to do this, I will be even more motivated to stick to it as by sticking to it for one month and then taking it a month at a time after January, I see no reason as to why I can't make 2015 a considerably healthier year than 2014. But for the remaining 17 days left of this year, I am going to make the most of eating unhealthy food (not that I plan on eating more than I normally do as that's just piggy).
Do you have fat days? Do you find it hard to stick to diets and exercise? Do you want 2015 to be a year of health?