A new day dawns...

So, I‘m doing this blog in English. Obviously because I‘m hoping for world fame! Or maybe just because the majority of the people involved in my life these days do not speak or read Icelandic. So, here it goes. This will be a type of health-food-exercise-life lessons-philosophical blog. I‘m working on improving my health. I want to be healthy, in good shape, well-balanced and happy. So I am now taking a stock of my life, finding areas I can improve on and continuing with the things that have been going good for me. There are several things I‘m happy with in my life. And there are several things I need to do better. That is why I‘m doing this blog. Keeping myself accountable to something, even if it is just the vast endlessness of the internet.

My goals for 2013 are these:

1.      Remove added sugar/artificial sweeteners from my diet

2.   Remove gluten and dairy from my diet (these I might add back, just want to do a little experiment and see if I need to keep them out for good or not)

3.      Getting back on track with exercising, want to improve my 10km run time

4.      Other goals that are too personal for even me to publicise ;) 

The first I need to improve on is my diet. In the last few years, I have already been doing a lot to educate myself to eat healthy. And I think I do eat healthy. At least sometimes. My biggest problem is that I´m a simple carbohydrates junkie. I just love those simple carbs. I mean, seriously. Love them! I love them even though I know they are not good for me. I feel bad physically after eating them. But for that second when they are in my mouth, it is just heaven. Very bad! Very bad indeed! Chocolate is my favourite. Liquorice, Icelandic liquorice is just delicious. And the stuff that makes you fat, you know, chips, crisps, hamburgers, hot dogs, processed food. I just love it all. Still, these few last years I‘ve learned a lot and have seriously been re-programming my brain not to love this type of food and it has worked to some degree. I still need a lot of re-programming though.

So, I now have a shelf full of healthy recipe books, my bookmarks full of different sites and blogs about the issues and I’m just totally emerging myself in healthy eating thinking. I need to go slow. In the past, I’ve been too ambitious and gone completely too far too soon and exploded and given up. Not this time. So I’m going very slowly. This January, I will only be removing added sugar and sweeteners from my diet. ‘Only’ perhaps being the understatement of the decade! Some of the books I’ve been reading suggest taking a big black trash bag and throwing all the unhealthy food in there. I suppose those people don’t live in Norway! I don’t feel comfortable throwing out food, even if it is unhealthy. Having the experience of living on a 600 Euros a month scholarship for two years may have something to do with that; you just don’t throw away food! Therefore, I have been eating all the unhealthy food I had here in the last few days. Not that I had a lot. Now, almost everything is finished. I just have about a half a pack of Pringles. I may still have some food items that have some added sugar/sweeteners though. Some cheap orange juice, pasta sauce, some baguettes. These will be finished soon. OMG, this is very exciting. 

Will keep this blog updated at least once a week, maybe more often if I’m feeling it. Enjoy J