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February 11, 2004
More About Eating
I've been thinking a lot about food lately, and not just because I keep forgetting to have meals until I'm stuck in a studio for three hours on end. Mainly because I want to eat better, and I need to eat better to deal with the whole inherited diabetes thing.
Anyway, I've come to the following conclusions about myself:
- I can eat whatever I want, pretty much, as long as I don't eat it to the exclusion of good food.
- I eat too much bread, and too few fresh vegetables.
- If I eat breakfast, I can't get a handle on my food for the rest of the day, no matter what I do.
- If I skip breakfast and have lunch at 11 am, I'm fine.
- I often eat the whole sandwich when a half would be plenty.
It's a pretty scattered set of observations, but from that I'm deciding to make a real effort to not eat white flour or sugar most days of the week. Not give them up altogether, but just cut it way down. I don't know if the whole Atkins vilification of wheat is true, but I do know that there's only so much room in my day for food, and if I fill it up with bread I don't have room for things I should be eating.
So I'll start my day with a breakfast at 10 or 11 (my break between math and studio) which will be vegetable and protein (maybe a salad with hard boiled egg -- this is very difficult when you are a vegetarian). Then I'll have either a snack at 4 or an early-ish dinner which can have a small amount of carb in it -- like a wheat bread sandwich. If we're having dinner that night, it can be a normal dinner, or maybe I'll just have a snack, which can also have some carbful ingredients. Dinners here are generally small, anyway, because we're too lazy to spend too much time cooking for each other.
Anyway, that's the plan so far. In case you were on the edge of your seat about my eating habits.
Posted by ayse on 02/11/04 at 8:33 PM