Toxic

After a week of good, healthy eating, I tried an experiment today. I filled up the filter coffee machine, drank the stuff fresh with artificial sweetner and palm-oil powdered creamer (for which the dwindling-habitat Orangutangs will not thank me), ate shop bread with margarine, peanut butter and Marmite, had white rolls with cheese and onion/balsamic vinegar relish for lunch and didn't drink enough water. In other words went back to what I would have eaten last weekend.

First off, both the coffee and the bread tasted awful. I struggled to get it down. It was bitter, too sweet, felt fake. And this from a bread & coffee former-addict!

Then, by 11:00 I was feeling dizzy and sluggish. Post-lunch had the urge to lay down, but couldn't sleep. Have been restless and angsty-feeling ever since.

And that's just 2 meals off from what I was eating yesterday!

It's a definite - I'm sticking to the healthy options from now on. I've felt a whole lot better this week, with more energy, sleeping well, and I've even lost enough width as a side-effect to make my clothes a whole lot looser! Not that I was aiming for that, but it's cool, I ain't complaining.

Now that my fridge and cupboards and veg rack are stocked up with good stuff, I'm staying with it. It may be a bit more pricey in some ways - the nuts I'm using as a main protein source are not cheap, nor is organic honey for sweetening the tea and Weetbix. But we did only use 2 loaves out of the 4 I bought last week, and 2 litres milk out of the usual 6. So there are other savings.

Out with toxic eating, in with the good stuff!

But, as a side-note, I find myself in a bit of another dilemma, a toxic one. You see, if I'm going to be changing my circumstances, I will need to project the image required (along with a small wardrobe update). I was going to leave the hair colour well alone - just the smell makes me feel ill - but I may have to give it one shot toward what it appears to be doing (blonde-ish), just to make it look presentable and get where I need to be. If I do, it's going to be the last, and it's going to be the least toxic method I can find. From there on out, it can do it's own thing.

So here's to a poison-diminished life. The less toxins, the better.