So it’s been over a year now in regards to my big diet change and mass detox of bad foods from my system.
 

This journey of abstinence has been a tough and gruelling period of going without, a period of going ‘cold turkey’ of the foods that once gave me a lot of pleasure. 
 

I’ve had some stumbling blocks – a slice of birthday cake here and an Easter-egg there and a few occasional treats. Heck, I had my first ‘rocket fuel’ coffee in 14 months to help with a student style all-night essay attack. Those things have never turned me into a backwards fall onto the platform of regularity and bad habit. I am entitled to an occasional treat after all. Abstinence is not easy! The fact remains, that there are still bad foods I will never go back to again.

There is one evil I will always stay clean of.

 
Pork… The silent killer.

http://www.giveshare.org/Health/porkeatdanger.html

 
I made a conscious decision to stay clean of pork. Pork is a major killer in the human diet today and it is massively ignored. Hey… There’s enough Youtube videos and other material out there to scare even the biggest carnivore into becoming vegetarian.

 
Some say even the Tyrannosaurus Rex was originally herbivore with its brittle teeth that couldn’t chew a T-Bone steak let alone a Triceratops’ backside.

 
Over a year on... I feel I could have done my dietary journey a lot better but in hindsight the best diets out there are the slow diets. I’ve done better than I could have done and slipped up. That scare of being told I won’t live to see 40 unless I got my ass in gear was what I needed for a head-start. You can’t get more serious than a matter of life and death, and I wish to be around long enough to live my Hank Hill years and well into my Jack Lemmon years.

I’ve lost 4 stone already, and comparing my recent student film to the one I made in 2008 was a personal and rewarding experience to see how I physically changed and improved. However what is on the inside is important… and inside I have never felt so ‘clean’.

My weight-loss journey still has many Tolkien book length chapters to go though. And as I progress through that journey I will proclaim victory past any stumbling block or road block that gets thrown at me.

I encourage anyone out there still fighting off the extra spare tyre or two to keep going and share your battle/war stories with others who may be going through the same thing. I know I’ll probably never get the pythons and washboard abs I’ve always wanted, but I know and can say I’m still doing pretty damn good for myself and others in the same fight as me can do the same too and better.

The battle of the bulge continues..