Thanks Erin. Your camping trip sounds delightful! Re: Pleasure Trap. It does take effort doesn't it
Looks like you have a good strategy for escaping. Your birthday party recipes sound yummy!
Yes I agree with you on only eating till you're full. It took me a while to get around to doing the MWL Experiment, but other strategies didn't seem to be working
Its been an interesting 8 days so far
My 7 day average weight is 1.5 pounds down so I'm within half a pound of goal weight
Some of that is likely to be water weight as my salt consumption has reduced. I'll do a longer write-up as a separate post.
Made the baked millet again this week, although it wasn't planned! Defrosted an unlabelled tub that we thought was soup and turned out to be pureed homegrown tomatoes
My husband had a bowl of them with some boiled new potatoes and chilii flakes, I used the rest for the baked millet recipe. Made a pumpkin chilli yesterday which was quick to cook and very tasty.
My husband watched a TV programme on ultra processed foods called
What We Feed Our Kids this week. He found it very interesting and has decided to cut some of the highly processed foods that have crept back into his diet over the past year. He even watched it right to the end which is unheard of, as he is a dedicated channel hopper! The presenter switched to a diet of 80% ultra processed foods for a month and encountered various health problems -poor sleep, heart burn, unhappy feelings, anxiety, sluggishness, constipation and piles. He also had a brain scan which showed that the areas responsible for reward had linked up with the areas that drive repetitive, automatic behaviour. Probably not a surprise to those of us familiar with Dr Lisle's work!
have a good week, Sue x