1. Added sugar. Right now, my sugar comes mostly from dairy
and fruit. This is a lot easier than I
thought it would be, even with the myriad names for sugar. I steer clear of
foods that have grams of sugar in them unless they are an unsweetened dairy
product (like plain yogurt or plain cream cheese) or whole fruit. Some of the
things I eat (Fluff Butter) have sweeteners (like Xylitol), as do some of the
things that I drink (my precious diet Dr. Pepper, which has aspartame and they
can pry from my cold, dead hands that will suddenly clench around their throats
because I will come back from the dead to defend my Dr. Pepper… stay the hell
away from my Dr. Pepper).
2. Flour. There has been only one exception to this rule.
That was in a social situation. I enjoyed a couple of crackers with a cheese
plate. They were good. I do think I would have been perfectly happy without
them, though. I ate most of my cheese on its own. I will be looking at
different vehicles for tasty things as I continue my experiment (slated to last
four weeks).
3. In case it wasn’t obvious from the above, I don’t eat
baked goods or cereal. Donut day at camp was a little bit rough. I didn’t eat
any. I certainly could have had a donut. I could have had half of a donut, or a
quarter of a donut. Doing so would have meant eating the whole donut. Friggin’
salt/fat/sugar ratio. Anyway, there is indeed room for baked goods and cereal
in my diet, but I am now a lot more mindful of it. I think of it like
furniture. If I find an armchair that I love, I need to think about whether or
not it will fit in my living room. If it won’t, then it’s going to need to
replace something. Am I willing to replace one of the chairs that I already
have? If I replace my couch, will I have enough seating left? In short, no more
mindless eating of pastries because they are there and they are easy.
4. Starches like rice and potatoes. In fact, I limit my underground
veggies to the onion family and carrots for salad and stir fries. I haven’t had
corn. I haven’t wanted corn. I have had a few “I want tater tots/fries”
moments. They passed. I have cauliflower in my freezer to make fake potato-y
things, but I haven’t actually missed them enough to pull it out. Maybe I’ll
make some sort of Indian curry thing with it.
5. Trans fats. Nope. The good news is that this (along with
items 1 and 2 from above) has eliminated most processed foods.
6. Stuff that I haven’t counted, measured, or recorded. This
is definitely a harder habit to develop. Obviously, I don’t carry a scale or
ruler around with me when I go out to eat, but I do measure everything that I
make. I trim the bell peppers, weigh them, then chop them and add them to my
recipe. Ditto the eggplant, onion, and tomato. Then I put the information into
MyFitnessPal so I can figure out what the nutrition is per serving, which,
again, I measure. (I use volume for serving size, of course. Trying to measure
hot liquidy things could get awkward, and my countertops are already
permanently gross.)
7. Shirataki noodles. Tried ‘em once, and couldn’t get more
than a couple of bites down. Gross, and quite literally indigestible. Hard
pass.
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