Diet

One of the aspects of everyday life that is severely impacted by a year of isolation is your diet.  With the absence of shops, a quick run to the supermarket cannot replenish your salads or fruits or veggies or address your growing craving for roast whole chicken not even your achilles' heel for the occasional half-poisonous junk food like the old Big Mac or McFlurry or the KFC drumstick or your favourite local take away pizza or the famous flame grilled burger with oily fries or your favourite flat white outlet with those bargain mini breakfasts.....I am getting distracted here.....I did want to make a point....oh yea....


Despite the negatives of not having every imaginable source of food within 20 minutes drive from where you are; we, at present, have our stock of food, although limited, within 1 minute's walk from where we are.  Seeing that many health experts advise having small yet frequent meals rather than infrequent binge sessions;  it is not impractical for us to live healthily by having small meals with every breakfast, lunch, dinner and both teatimes.  One of my fellow overwinterers is also quite knowledgable on exercise and healthy diets and he describes your metabolism as an extra invisible muscle.  In other words keeping your metabolism healthy (by for example eating less more frequently) will increase your daily calorie consumption and will have many positive effects like excess weight loss, more energy, better general well being, you might even want to start to gym.


This post might sound like your run-off-the-mill-diet-plan advert and I do need to apologise for that, it is just that I am mostly in favour of what is practical and could only learn this lesson now.  Previously I was more of a two-meals-per-day-kinda-guy, simply because it is so practical.  In retrospect, I must admit that the difference is quite pronounced and the effort to stick to this regime, once back in society, will probably be worth it.