Paleo eating has been on hold for awhile because of the chaos surrounding our move. But I have been making observations regarding what I eat and how I feel, and I’d like to share some of those thoughts with you.
Eating a diet heavy in fresh veggies with a little bit of lean meat suits me best. I like the fresh, clean feeling this sort of variety gives me, and it doesn’t tire me out.
I crave protein a lot more now, though still not as much as my husband does. While he’d be happy with a plate of meat and a side of a lone green bean, I’m the opposite – give me a pile of green beans and a small serving of meat to round it out.
I also crave carbs a lot less, though I’m still working on my sweet tooth. That’s gonna be a hard one.
Also? My name is Kirsten, and I’m a pastaholic. I’ve been eating pasta for years, often as the sole source of sustenance. I used the excuse that it’s cheap and easy, and easy to cook up just a serving of it. All that’s true, but what’s also true is that I don’t actually care for pasta that much.
That’s right. I don’t like pasta. What I DO like is that it is a sauce delivery vehicle, and often those sauces are heavy and full of calories (alfredo, anyone?). So all those years I was eating pasta, I was craving the sauce, not the pasta.
But…
Pasta is addicting. Armed with a new awareness of how my body feels after I eat anything, I’ve pushed the limits by ordering pasta when we’ve been out. And I realized that I will not. stop. eating. when there’s pasta involved. With just about anything else, I know my limits and where my comfort level is for feeling full. Pasta overrides all that. Not good. I know I should avoid pasta altogether, but I’ll probably always be tempted to push things from time to time.
Even though this move and the major chaos surrounding it is going to keep us from eating as healthy as we’d like to, I may still find something at those truck stops on our journey cross country that helps keep me from being on crap food overload. Once settled in New Hampshire, we’ll have a fresh start in more ways than one.
I’m the same way about portion control with pasta. Worse, I like it for itself. A little butter or olive oil and some pepper and I’m good to eat a couple heaping helpings. Unless I’m hankering for it, I don’t keep it in the house. Of course, I say that and I just got a multi-shape pack at Costco. At least none of it is spaghetti. I cannot resist spaghetti to the point of eating a box in an afternoon.
Yeah, I’m the same way – I can easily down an entire box of macaroni & cheese in a heartbeat. All the more reason to avoid it!