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In looking at my food diary for yesterday, I can see that I don't eat like an adult...whatever that means, right? It just seems like I eat a lot of fast food, frozen meals, or otherwise processed things, pretty much like in college and grad school. I guess I assume adults are supposed to make meals from scratch, but...ugh, do I have to? I do want to cut down on sodium though, as pre-made things are so bad about that. Yesterday's Lean Cuisine had a mere 250 cal. but a horrifying amount of sodium! So, maybe a compromise is to buy only healthy frozen, like Kashi and similar brands, do quick meals that are fresh but are more assembly (salads, etc.) than cooking, and read labels more closely. I want to avoid HFCS as well, and that stuff is in all sorts of odd places! (hummus???)
I think the bigger issue--because there always is one if you look for it--is that it's a very recent thing for me to think of myself as a grownup. That's probably sounds bonkers for a 33-yr-old woman, but I was a student until I was 28 (PhD FTW!), and grad school was an extension of college in terms of that mindset. And then I was moving around from one coast to the other chasing a boy (heh), teaching at random colleges and tutoring centers part-time but not really focused on a career path.
Bottom line: it's only within the last year and a half that I've had what I think of as a "grownup" lifestyle: happily married to the boy I chased, office job, putting down roots in my very favorite city with my family nearby. So, maybe it's a later adjustment for me than for most, but there it is. For the first time, I'm at a place of stability and (comparative) maturity where it makes sense to think responsibly about nutrition and exercise instead of eating whatever I feel like and expecting the awesome metabolism I had in my 20s to take care of burning it off. I've been mostly vegetarian (sometimes pescatarian) for a dozen years but it's amazing the unhealthy things that don't contain meat!
Hmm. Mature, stable, and responsible sounds so boring. Luckily, I'm still adventurous in various ways, and not having kids definitely makes it easier to keep on having a fabulous fun lifestyle. It's just that I can be fabulous and take care of myself in a more thoughtful way, so as to have decades more of fun to look forward to!
Diet Calendar Entry for 05 August 2010:
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1893 kcal
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Fat: 58.17g | Prot: 67.85g | Carb: 251.02g.
Breakfast: frozen strawberries, banana, almond milk, coffee. Lunch: pizza with black olives, thin crust, diet Coke. Dinner: Steamfresh Lightly Sauced Pasta Penne & Vegetables with Alfredo Sauce, white wine. Snacks/Other: yoplait parfait, Luna Protein Bar - Cookie Dough, keebler oatmeal cookie, almond milk, odwalla protein. more...
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