Did any of you ever do that New Year's Resolution thing with getting back in shape? You know how that works. You swear you will do right and convince yourself of your strength and resolve. Then you recruit your friends to be your concrete support. Then you get invited by one of them to a gathering where every food you promised not to eat seems to be getting thrown at you. You justify a simple compromise writing it off as a snack. After all, you would eat properly if the food on your plan was there ... and you pride yourself in your new found ability to use moderation. That is the goal isn't it? Moderation. And then you moderately eat everything in sight. At that point, you realize that you have just totally violated everything you previously committed yourself to. In that moment, you breathe easily deciding that you will wait till spring because that will better fit your schedule considering all of the dinners you are going to have to go to .. and forget all about Easter and the spring holidays...just like you did last year.
I am not going to be that guy this time.
This morning I ate another egg white omelet. I really am growing a tasted for those. I saute peppers, onions, tomatoes, bellas, and some goat cheese ... it really is good. I just have to brush my teeth with liquid nitrogen to get the goat smell off of me ... it is quite ferocious.
For lunch I heated up one of the chicken breasts and made another salad. I like the salads made from spinach greens ... but be careful with the tails on the green ... one went down my wind pipe and made an interesting moment and memory for my kids at the table. I cut up an apple, a pear, mixed in some craisins (love those things) and some cheese (of goat) along with some cherry tomatoes. Topped it with the chicken (which reheated quite nicely) and bang!
I said it before ... I'll say it again. Eating healthy is very difficult and time consuming. You have to shop every other day or so because real food doesn't keep without all sorts of chemicals and preservatives. Prepping it is very difficult as well ... and when you are starving, it can be quite torturous. That being said, the taste is well worth it. I have never noticed so much individual taste in the food I eat. It's like being reintroduced to foods I have eaten my whole life!
Dinner had to be delayed because of Wednesday night's schedule. I ordered my kids some Subway sandwiches but didn't order one for me ... didn't have the strength to figure out what I could eat there. As much as I love it, I will not order anything other than the veggie sandwich ... but the temptation! Halfway during the first song, I realized I made a mistake not eating. I had a hard time remembering what my fingers were supposed to be doing ... won't even mention the lyrics. By the time I was supposed to speak, I was all over the place. Everyone looked like different cuts of meat and cheese.
Now, as I sit and type, I can feel the salad I just ate quickly dissolving in my stomach. I do not understand why I feel so hungry. I am eating plenty. I think I am really going through some type of withdrawals. I would like to speak with an expert on nutrition ... maybe I can get some things clarified. I should feel stuffed and I don't. However, my hunger is not like the hunger before, except tonight when I went too long without food. But it's not a painful hunger ... it's one that I can easily manage.
If you are an expert in the field and you have found your way into my little corner of the web world, please let me know.
Tomorrow I am taking my kids to Blue Bayou ... so that means I will have to pack some food so I don't have to try to find a place to eat the food I want to put in my body.
One side note, I will be blogging for NOLA.com ... they like my writing. That's pretty exciting I think. Have a great night!
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