[Saturday: 6 miles. 3.4 miles today]
I have been logging my food on the MyFitnessPal.com website for about a month now.
Some thoughts:
It was easier to avoid snacking and really go for tummy-rumbling hunger as a goal for those first few days. Now that I’m in for a month I am almost back to my “normal” eating habits, which aren’t very good.
But I have cut back on total volume and on eating after 7-8 pm. And that has helped me sleep much better. I have not had to take antacids at all recently, whereas I was doing that steadily before. I can sleep all night without being woken up by pains in my digestion. That’s a very nice development.
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It is really easy to eat too much. Food is seriously cheap. I’m not saying it is “good” food, but it is food. I was at Kroger this weekend and they had cheap frozen pizzas for $2 each. Each pizza has more than my allotted calories for one day. At McDonalds I can buy two sausage biscuits for $2.50 and that is close to half of my daily calories. The old double-cheeseburgers are on the dollar menu. For $5 you could fill your daily calories and never cook.
(update: http://nypost.com/2013/07/28/the-greatest-food-in-human-history/ )
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We went to a steakhouse the other day and I got the smallest steak and the steamed broccoli from the “lite” menu. It was very good and I enjoyed it just as much as if I had eaten a bigger steak or stuffed myself with a baked potato. Good food is good. For some reason I think I have to eat everything on my plate or order a “man sized” meal. I don’t know where these ideas come from.
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Potato chips are seriously bad mojo; followed by french fries. They taste good and my mouth likes to eat them. But in every other way they are bad news. I could eat a whole bag of cheddar and sour cream flavored ruffles chips right now. But I would pay for it with various discomforts for the next two or three days. Onions are also bad (but I don’t miss them as much). Garlic is on my suspect list.
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I love bread. But it is expensive on the calorie chart. Sad. Bread always seems so warm and friendly to me. (They had loaves of Wal-Mart french bread for $1! the other day. Again, easy to eat way to much of that.)
On the other hand, meat is not too bad on the calorie chart if you don’t goose it up with sauce of some kind. A nice small steak makes me feel satisfied. I guess I’m a carnivore, what can I say?