FullaBella's Journal, 16 January 2019

Wednesday - January 16

I always find it interesting that when I am thinking more about the quality and quantity of my food intake I spend so much more time at the grocer and reading recipes (than when ‘anything goes’ and despite over eating I have no interest in food).

When I try to pair ‘better eating habits’ with that I find myself taking smaller bites, savoring the food on my tongue, not washing it down with a beverage right away, etc., that I enjoy the food better. Also gives my brain time to accept I’m no longer hungry or even craving more.

So these are good things if I could just remember to do them daily, every bite at a time, forever.

However, while my goal is to abandon snacks altogether, I have spent a lot of time and effort and wasted too much money on food and cookware lately trying to make my own (via recipes) … and they’ve all been a fail so far. Especially kale chips. Great theory; horrid execution. Same goes for Meringue clouds and baked Parmesan cheese crisps. Oh, yeah, those oatmeal cups. And that one mug cake. All fails.

I read ‘sugar free’ and ‘low carb’ recipes continuously, mark my ‘favorites’ to try, load up my grocery cart and viola: a big hot mess. I don’t know what I’m expecting but it’s nothing like the finished process.

So while I am going to try two more (baked apple crisps and zucchini roll-ups) I’m resigned to buying something prepackaged with the caveat of ‘five ingredients or less and all something I can pronounce’.

But I will continue the recipe reads and grocer browsing. Especially at Whole Foods when possible. There is just something about that store that feeds my soul as much or more than my stomach.

264.0 lb Lost so far: 21.0 lb.    Still to go: 84.0 lb.    Diet followed reasonably well.

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1992 kcal

Fat: 115.41g | Prot: 125.97g | Carb: 108.98g.   Lunch: Premier Nutrition Clear Protein Drink, Nabisco Triscuit Crackers Original, Laughing Cow Creamy Asiago, Polar Salmon Fillets. Dinner: Fat Back, Spinach , Gouda Cheese , Sunny Farms Jumbo Egg. Snacks/Other: Raincoast Crisps Crackers, Glucerna Butter Pecan Shake. more...