Nevergirl’s

Every few months or so, I get out of bed believing I need to go back to living healthy. No, wait, that’s not very honest. “Go back” means I practiced healthy living at some point which isn’t true at all.

If there had been moments in my life when that happened, those were involuntary. They occurred either because of coercion or because there was no other way (insert image of a vegetable-loving, authoritarian lola here). In other words, I’ve been living – actually, eating – in the most unhealthy way possible all my life and I got away with it because I was lucky enough to be born to a dad who isn’t very fond of vegetables himself.

But I digress, going back to my plan to start eating healthy….

I’m actually thinking of doing away with the extra fats that sneak their way onto the menu, easing up on the sweets, doing a little exercise, and overhauling the week’s grocery list so I’m forced to eat vegetables no matter how strongly I dislike it. Then, I remember how much easier it is to do the walking mentally instead of physically, and how much more tasty humba and sinugba are compared to ampalaya — and just like that, I lose my resolve to change my lifestyle. Hahaha!

I’m not sure if any of you noticed it but humba and sinugbang isda and pork belly are addicting. They’re a weakness I can’t shake off, a craving I can’t give in enough to. I’ll need the equivalent of a drug rehab to get over my addiction to humba and sinugba, believe you me.

So anyway, here’s the plan. I won’t fix what isn’t broken. Malou will give me a lecture about fitness and health if she gets to read this, but seriously, I’m all for not fixing what isn’t broken. And, since I usually make attempts at a life change after finding out I can no longer fit comfortably into certain skirts and pants, pwes, dili mag skirts ug mag pants. Mag-dress na lang uy!


Oh, and just in case you can make better use of it than I did, here’s the Healthy Eating Pyramid that’s based on the latest science. Yes, I’m a geek who knows all about the benefits of good nutrition; I just can’t be bothered to eat right. Not now. Not yet.

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