[Saturday: 6 miles.\u00a0 3.4 miles today]<\/p>\n
I have been logging my food on the MyFitnessPal.com website for about a month now.<\/p>\n
Some thoughts:<\/p>\n
It was easier to avoid snacking and really go for tummy-rumbling hunger as a goal for those first few days.\u00a0 Now that I’m in for a month I am almost back to my “normal” eating habits, which aren’t very good.<\/p>\n
But I have cut back on total volume and on eating after 7-8 pm.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I can sleep all night without being woken up by pains in my digestion.\u00a0 That’s a very nice development.<\/p>\n
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It is really easy to eat too much.\u00a0 Food is seriously cheap.\u00a0 I’m not saying it is “good” food, but it is food.\u00a0 I was at Kroger this weekend and they had cheap frozen pizzas for $2 each.\u00a0\u00a0 Each pizza has more than my allotted calories for one day.\u00a0 At McDonalds I can buy two sausage biscuits for $2.50 and that is close to half of my daily calories.\u00a0 The old double-cheeseburgers are on the dollar menu.\u00a0 For $5 you could fill your daily calories and never cook.<\/p>\n
(update:\u00a0 http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/07\/28\/the-greatest-food-in-human-history\/ )<\/p>\n
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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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Good food is good.\u00a0 For some reason I think I have to eat everything on my plate or order a “man sized” meal.\u00a0 I don’t know where these ideas come from.<\/p>\n
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Potato chips are seriously bad mojo; followed by french fries.\u00a0 They taste good and my mouth likes to eat them.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 But I would pay for it with various discomforts for the next two or three days.\u00a0 Onions are also bad (but I don’t miss them as much).\u00a0 Garlic is on my suspect list.<\/p>\n
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I love bread.\u00a0 But it is expensive on the calorie chart.\u00a0 Sad.\u00a0 Bread always seems so warm and friendly to me.\u00a0\u00a0 (They had loaves of Wal-Mart french bread for $1!\u00a0 the other day.\u00a0 Again, easy to eat way to much of that.)<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 A nice small steak makes me feel satisfied.\u00a0 I guess I’m a carnivore, what can I say?<\/p>\n
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