Cravings

right now i'm craving chips, dip, beer and clam.  it's that nagging niggling little asshole on my shoulder telling me i have to eat this stuff or die.

sometimes i find cravings almost too hard to overcome, hence the struggles i've had with weight for a decade and a half or more now.  going to the gym helps, yes, but it's not everything.

i've been told that diet is 80% of it, physical activity is a mere 10%, and the rest is genetics.  it's startling.  i'm sure the number of people walking into a gym and then out to mcdonald's would fall over if they knew those facts.  (facts which are unsubstantiated, mind you, but told to me during a nutrition session).

i have found the correlation between eating well and exercise.  all it takes is one weekend of utter wild abandonment to feel the results come monday morning at 6am.  i'm sluggish, tired, and achy and watch the clock endlessly.  if i eat better, i have more energy.

when i ate just chicken and rice and limited my sugars, i felt pretty good then too.  i think it's going to come to that sooner rather than later in order to prepare for maui.