by fulenn » Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:32 pm
This is a repost from something I put up this morning on Roberta's Corner:
I decided back in January that I was going to post what I eat every day for 1 year; I have been very successful at doing that, but I had not really taken a good look at WHAT I was posting. I began that process this morning. I only looked through the end of May or so, but it turns out that I have a real thing for flour. If you had asked me, I would have said that I only eat flours very occasionally, but it turns out that I eat a lot of pizza, tortillas, wraps, sandwiches, rolls, and pasta. It has me wondering how much of my weight problem is these processed flour items that I don't weigh or measure, I just eat them because they are fat-free, oil-free, sugar-free, etc.
As I looked over my meals, they don't seem all that bad to me. They tend to be on the McDougall plan. But guess what? A lot of it, especially those pesky flours, are supposed to be special, not common. I began following SactoBob's blog at the beginning of October and began eating what I now call Farley's Bowls about 1.5 weeks ago. They are non-processed, which for me includes no flours. Yummo!
My weight has fluctuated around the same 15 pounds or so for the entire time that I have been posting meals, so something is obviously not working. I am going to take a bet that this is it.
I don't know how this is going to turn out, I am really hoping that the combination of continuing to plan ahead (I began doing that in March) and planning to eat Farley's Bowls will be what my body is wanting. I know that right now I am afraid to take a bite of something that is not in the bowls and that I woke up this morning beginning to really feel better. I have been sick recently and was not feeling better up through last night.
So here I am. I am planning to continue posting until January 22nd--my 1 year--and I am planning to eat Farley's Bowls. I hope this is the end of an old addiction.
Fulenn
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fulenn on Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:01 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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