Amazed not to be feeling hunger
Mar. 21st, 2007 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osodecanelaIt's been brewing for weeks, perhaps even months. I've been frankly disgusted with my weight and it's consequences, but have been unable to make significant change. Always something in the way, something to be attended to first and I've remained on the back burner.
I've known in the past that simple carbs and I do not get along very well. The more I consume, the more I want them; frankly, the hungrier I am. I had honestly forgotten this. Bread has always been a hard thing for me to walk away from. The sweets generally can be bipassed, the potatoes forgone and not missed, the pasta avoided without much grief, but bread has always been another story. Have been using the stuff that's supposed to be lower glycemic index, but still its bread, carbs included. Put bread right in front of me and before I know it, it's toast, um, make that history. Especially that whole grain, seeded, heavy-bodied, stick-to-your-ribs-after-its-lain-in-your-stomach-for-two-hours kinda bread. Love the stuff; and I have the gut and thighs to prove it.
I take care of people and have been telling many others for years, "You must cut way back on your "bread, rice, pasta, tortillas and potatoes" when you're insulin resistant/pre-diabetic/diabetic/or just simply the classic apple shape. I however, was not doing that myself, at least not for a long time.
This past weekend was an apparent breaking point. The simple carbs have stopped. Since Saturday I've been keeping to between 35 and 45 grams per day and *poof* all of the sudden, I'm just not that hungry anymore. The majority of the carbs I've had have been in the few pieces of fruit I've consumed, and those in the veggies most of which have been the green and white ones grown above ground (green leafies, broccoli, peppers, cauliflower and the occasional tomato). Lunch today was a couple of boca burgers, a small chunk of provolone, and a tall glass of H2O. Perhaps 400 Kcal in all. I had a Roma tomato sitting there, awaiting its fate, but surprising to me, I was quite full. Dinner too was light. Had some Indian food with Tom, skipping the naan and the rice entirely and sticking to a small portion of veggies and lamb and much to my surprise was quite satisfied. It's already a couple of hours later and unlike what I felt like just last week, I'm not particularly hungry.
AND this is a good thing.
I wonder if its linked to the amount of insulin I'm secreting?
I've known in the past that simple carbs and I do not get along very well. The more I consume, the more I want them; frankly, the hungrier I am. I had honestly forgotten this. Bread has always been a hard thing for me to walk away from. The sweets generally can be bipassed, the potatoes forgone and not missed, the pasta avoided without much grief, but bread has always been another story. Have been using the stuff that's supposed to be lower glycemic index, but still its bread, carbs included. Put bread right in front of me and before I know it, it's toast, um, make that history. Especially that whole grain, seeded, heavy-bodied, stick-to-your-ribs-after-its-lain-in-your-stomach-for-two-hours kinda bread. Love the stuff; and I have the gut and thighs to prove it.
I take care of people and have been telling many others for years, "You must cut way back on your "bread, rice, pasta, tortillas and potatoes" when you're insulin resistant/pre-diabetic/diabetic/or just simply the classic apple shape. I however, was not doing that myself, at least not for a long time.
This past weekend was an apparent breaking point. The simple carbs have stopped. Since Saturday I've been keeping to between 35 and 45 grams per day and *poof* all of the sudden, I'm just not that hungry anymore. The majority of the carbs I've had have been in the few pieces of fruit I've consumed, and those in the veggies most of which have been the green and white ones grown above ground (green leafies, broccoli, peppers, cauliflower and the occasional tomato). Lunch today was a couple of boca burgers, a small chunk of provolone, and a tall glass of H2O. Perhaps 400 Kcal in all. I had a Roma tomato sitting there, awaiting its fate, but surprising to me, I was quite full. Dinner too was light. Had some Indian food with Tom, skipping the naan and the rice entirely and sticking to a small portion of veggies and lamb and much to my surprise was quite satisfied. It's already a couple of hours later and unlike what I felt like just last week, I'm not particularly hungry.
AND this is a good thing.
I wonder if its linked to the amount of insulin I'm secreting?
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Date: 2007-03-22 06:13 am (UTC)Here's to a trimmer Osodecanela!
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Date: 2007-03-22 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-22 11:18 am (UTC)It also let me sort out that I have a mild wheat allergy that may have been the source of a lot of migraines. (eat wheat -> have kind an inflammation response and dehydration at night with horrible snoring -> susceptible to migraines all the time)
One thing that helped me when I started adding some carbs back into my diet was that I needed to eat some protein (nuts or yogurt or cheese) or just brush my teeth after eating. The acidity and aftertastes from sugars and carbs were enough to encourage me to eat more to reduce the unpleasantness.
I could still stand to lose another 25 pounds, but I dropped 50 and have kept it off for a year now.
GOOD LUCK and GRATS again!
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Date: 2007-03-22 08:37 pm (UTC)What really was just amazing me so much last night wasn't that I wasn't hungry, but that I'd forgotten how that feels experientially. I once recognized that simple carbs made me hungry all the time and that when I stay away from them, I'm not ravenous when I finally do sit down to a meal, nor for that matter is there the push to graze in between meals, when foods I really don't need come my way. (So much fun working in an office with folks who put all sorts of stuff I should avoid within hands' reach.)
I sat here at my desk last night and had an "Oh yeah, I remember this feeling" moment, some 2.5 hours after dinner. Two weeks ago, I would have gone to forage in the fridge here for something for dessert, without even thinking about it. Last night the realization that there was no urge to do so was a major "ah ha!"