Don't ask if you don't want to know!

Some say I'm petite...I think I'm just abnormally small.  I'm 26 going on 27 and I have absolutely no curves to speak of! Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining (not even a little bit!) and I'm comfortable enough with my body that when people ask me if I suffer from anorexia, it really doesn't bother me.  I've always been small.  As a student, I lived off oven chips, bread and Chinese noodles from Mr Wong on campus.  Still I made it through four years without any signs of the student bulge.  When I lived in London for a year I lived off kebabs, mayonnaise, too much beer and even more rum and coke. And still, my fast metabolism got me through.  During all these years of my early 20's, exercise was a foreign term to me.  I had far better things to do than keep fit! Plus, I didn't need to...despite all the warnings of picking up weight after 20, it just never happened! So when I started running and caring more about leading a healthy lifestyle, of course I lost even more weight.  Not because I suddenly started dieting or stopped eating, but because less beer and more exercise has a way of changing your body, even if it doesn't need much changing. 

People often ask me what I eat or even if I do eat at all? My reply always irritates them! Well of course I eat...do you really think I could run 12 km a day without eating???? So when I answer that I actually eat quite a lot, some joking response is always made about how two strawberries is not a lot (ha ha, hilarious). Ok, you want to know what it is that I eat? Well lets see, while healthy eating is important to me and I make sure I get enough fruit and vegetables in every day, I certainly don't hold back on the carbs either! (As a runner I feel I should take full advantage of carbo loading and I eat a big pasta meal at least twice a week!) At least 3 days out of the week I finish an entire slab of chocolate in one sitting and I'll never say no to other treats! I have a terrible weakness for Mac Donalds and I still eat mayonnaise with almost everything.  Running makes me so hungry that by the time most people are eating breakfast, I've already eaten two or three small meals. And when I tick off all the things I've eaten in one morning and people realise its more than what they'll eat all day, you can be sure its met with a pretty irritated response about how life is unfair.  I know I'm very lucky when it comes to food.  I've never had to watch my weight.  Who knows, maybe my metabolism would have let me down eventually, in which case its a good thing I started running when I did.  But I certainly have never had a problem with eating! It's one of my favourite things to do!