Eating Better
This is titled eating better because I think diet is the implication of a temporary change in eating habits.
I started keeping a nutrition journal, and writing down everything I eat, along with its caloric implications.
It's been about 2 weeks now. And to be honest, at first it scared and amazed me how easily it was to get up to your daily calorie requirements.
I cut the extras, and was hungry all the damn time. I gave myself 60 calorie snacks in the morning and afternoon (yogurt) and I was still feeling like I was dying before each snack and meal. Feed me!
Now two weeks later, I guess my stomach's begun to shrink. Because I'm eating less of the snacks and not feeling like I could eat an entire cow before meal times. Which is a good thing.
But seeing the kind of perception difference - eating 1800 calories the first week and feeling starved versus eating 1300 now and feeling OK - has been kind of startling to me. No wonder Americans overeat. Really.
For example, Marc made dinner on Monday night - chicken parmasian. I had 4 oz of chicken, some tomato sauce (1/4 cu), some part-skim mozarella cheese, and 1/4 Cu cooked pasta. For desert I had two of these tiny cookies I make (that weigh in at a mere 60 calories each). This was 600 calories of meal. It's not a ton of food.
Makes me think of that one food researcher who messes with his subjects' minds - for example having them eat soup out of a bowl that refills itself all the time. At any rate. This has been an interesting experiment for me.
I started keeping a nutrition journal, and writing down everything I eat, along with its caloric implications.
It's been about 2 weeks now. And to be honest, at first it scared and amazed me how easily it was to get up to your daily calorie requirements.
I cut the extras, and was hungry all the damn time. I gave myself 60 calorie snacks in the morning and afternoon (yogurt) and I was still feeling like I was dying before each snack and meal. Feed me!
Now two weeks later, I guess my stomach's begun to shrink. Because I'm eating less of the snacks and not feeling like I could eat an entire cow before meal times. Which is a good thing.
But seeing the kind of perception difference - eating 1800 calories the first week and feeling starved versus eating 1300 now and feeling OK - has been kind of startling to me. No wonder Americans overeat. Really.
For example, Marc made dinner on Monday night - chicken parmasian. I had 4 oz of chicken, some tomato sauce (1/4 cu), some part-skim mozarella cheese, and 1/4 Cu cooked pasta. For desert I had two of these tiny cookies I make (that weigh in at a mere 60 calories each). This was 600 calories of meal. It's not a ton of food.
Makes me think of that one food researcher who messes with his subjects' minds - for example having them eat soup out of a bowl that refills itself all the time. At any rate. This has been an interesting experiment for me.