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Day 4: gluten, sugar, dairy freeSubmitted by briefcandle on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 11:45pm.
Well I messed up. At the grocery store the baby was starting to get crazy bc I wasn't moving when reading all the waffle boxes, and I accidentally picked up the one that was not gluten free. ugh. so I accidentally had a couple of organic whole grain waffles this morning. I realized before I ate them (after they baked in the toaster oven) but I wasn't about to waste such a specialty buy. I did the double jogging stroller trip to the park again so I'm feeling good Breakfast: two organic vegan whole grain waffles, organic maple syrup, honeydew. no sugar added almond milk. one coffee. Lunch/snacks: May's GF fruit n nut bar, banana, orange, tilapia sample, green tea rice cake, no sugar added apple sauce. Dinner: coconut potato tofu rice mild curry Gotta go make dinner now, it's so late! We did a grocery run for eggs, nuts, and detergent, fruit & meats at Costco. briefcandle's blog | login or register to post comments | email this page | printer friendly version
mmm, just listen to all that sugary goodness in your post I've been letting my imagination wander using the ingredients I have at home; like the tofu coconut rice curry thing, or something involving plantains and honey and maybe chicken tomorrow... Speaking of mind-thought games; I have this problem that the way I choose what to eat is by looking at or thinking about it and imagining the flavor in my mouth, a sort of virtual tasting. It sometimes takes me forever to decide what to order in a restaurant for example, bc I have to virtually taste everything by calling up the specific feeling of each dish. I think my brain actually calls up the experience of those foods, like a tasteless shadow, so I experience some of it. Anyway, just looking at a cookie I can start to taste it, so I've been throwing things over any visible sweets so I literally don't have to see them. I'm such a sugar junkie! This is the longest in my whole life I've ever gone without a processed sugar treat. I hope to come out of this with healthier more reserved eating habits. |
Weight at 150 today, that's 2 lbs. less than a few days ago!
dd & dh were sharing a churro earlier and that sweet sugar smell was just intoxicating. they kept making me hold it and teasing me!
even though I still can't taste or smell anything (I'm really stuffed up from my 48 hr flu-incident) I am now officially craving more food. Tasty yummy food. It doesn't have to be sweet, but I want it to be full-bodied and filling. Like ice cream only not cold. Hmmm. I had some millet toast with ghee, honey and peanut butter and a banana, talk about dense. But I still feel the itch . . .
Its times like this when I feel this kind of empty dissatisfaction that I play this game with myself:
What exactly is it that I think I want in this moment (that will make me perfectly satisfied). I try to think of just the right thing, no matter if it's in my house, or if it even exists. This led to some great new meal ideas when I had morning sickness (i.e. potato chips dipped in dark chocolate, served with crystallized orange peel).
Anyway, if I let myself keep going, and really try to come up with (in my head) the perfect thing to fill my craving, I usually end up empty handed. It often turns out there is no ONE thing that will work in my mind, and therefore it probably won't work in my body either.
After all these mind-thought-games if I still want what I originally thought I did, then I often give in (if it's available) but many times I find a better option, and occasionally I discover that I'm actually ok in the moment and I don't need anything. Mostly I simply have to wait out the discomfort of the moment, sometimes this takes an hour, and sometimes a whole day. Usually those more persistent cravings get filled (by making chocolate brownies from scratch at 10pm).
But the cool thing is, I'm finding just a bit more awareness around how I use food to quiet my inner discomforts, and even if its a slow haphazard project, I can see HUGE changes from say, five years ago. So that's really neat! [Especially because through my teens and twenties my entire life/day/body was controlled by what food I could eat when and how I could burn off the calories, ugh.]