Rear-view Nutrition

Helping make good food choices now

Towards the back end of 2021, Southeast Queensland was on the verge of implementing level one water restrictions due to the decreasing water levels in the Hinze Dam.

On 12 November 2021, I sent the first edition of this newsletter and stated it would be nice to write the weekly article outside, with a coffee, at a few different places across the Gold Coast.

Since that fateful day, the Hinze Dam has only gone up, to the point that it’s now sitting at 104% capacity (not sure how that works).

To add to that, there’s another ‘rain event’ getting underway as I write this, while inside, as usual.

At this point, there is a strong positive association between newsletters published and the level of the Hinze Dam. While it’s probably too early to conclude that my newsletters cause rainfall, we are well on the way to making that call.

Despite the ongoing rain, my training is ticking along. I don’t mind training outside when it’s raining, but the soaked clothes, shoes and socks are never pleasant to deal with.

But it will clear up. Maybe I’ll skip an edition of the newsletter in the next few weeks, so I can dry out some clothes and deodorise my shoes…

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Rearview Nutrition

One of the downsides of being human is the innate ability to justify making suboptimal choices in the present because we promise ourselves to make better choices in the future.

We buy the more expensive clothes now and promise to cut back on spending over the next few weeks. 

We skip to the gym on Tuesday morning to sleep in and promise to catch up over the rest of the week.

We get takeaway on Wednesday evening and promise to eat well for the rest of the week.

The challenge in delaying gratification is well known and illustrated by the famous Stanford Marshmellow Experiment, where children were asked whether they would take a single marshmallow now, or two marshmallows in the future.