So I read this great food preparation/planning core list thing provided to me by a wonderful person*, and I’ve come to this weird realization. I am not sure if this is related to my current lot in life, but here’s what I’m thinking with regards to food:
1.) I’m very lazy.
2.) I need to eat “easy” foods.
3.) I have little time to devote to food prep, but a little more time for planning.
To that end, I think I’ve moved away from a lot of the details of foods that are involved in preparation. In fact, I’ve been looking at food more like fuel over the last few months. I eat like this:
Morning: More carbs than protein.
Snack: I have been forgetting my morning snack, but nuts when I remember.
Lunch: salad with a can of drained tuna on top, balsamic vinegar, nuts.
Snack: a cookie or sweet something (fruit would be better)
Dinner: More protein than carbs. Energy bar or sandwich from Trader Joes.
Snack: pb&j without the bread (spoon!)
Kat told me her stomach is shrinking. She’s in her first trimester misery. She said it helped her understand hunger a lot better, though. Talking with her helped me remember a lot I’d read recently about stomachs. They’re about the size of a sandwich bag. (Not a quart). If you eat very slowly, they fill to the edges. If you eat quickly, they stretch beyond their normal size and permit more food. More food means more of it doesn’t process properly. What’s not processed properly becomes fat to hit the storage systems.
ERGO, if I ate meals that were sandwich-bag-sized, and ate them fairly slowly, I should notice a difference.
Another thing, and I read the actual study where the “soundbite” came from, is that consuming a really good dose of calcium a day REALLY works in cutting down belly fat, because there’s a different type of fat that burns away when there’s lots of calcium in one’s system. I’m going to adjust my eating accordingly.
What I’m not going to do anytime soon is follow a really specific diet. I tend to do the following:
*eat very little saturated fats.
*eat little/no white flour products.
*eat little white sugar products (cookie not withstanding).
*eat decent fiber/protein/vegetable content.
*drink 1 gallon of water daily (for weeks now).
I’m going to add some beans back into my diet because I just keep reading more and more about their benefits. Other than that, I’m not really going to focus so much on food. I’m finding that if I stay “relatively” decent on those items, then I can attack things through fitness.
What I *am* going to do differently is I’m going to resume a higher level of fitness efforts than I’ve done over the last little while. I think I’m resigned to the fact that work will be busy as hell forever. Instead, I’m going to accept this and find different times to get my fitness goals met.
Thanks to that special person for sharing the food information. I think it’s really useful and interesting. I actually stole a few things for future consideration.
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