Day 206: Food musings....

Yes, I am obsessing about food...it makes sense since I spent so many days on the liquid diet.

While I was on the liquid diet I lost around 5 pounds. I realize this is probably just water weight, but still it was totally cool to see the weight slip right off. Yes, I weighed myself every morning while on the liquid diet because I was curious. There are a ton of books/sites that recommend fasting, intermittent fasting, juicing, detoxing, etc...basically a super strict reduction in calories. Just by the fact that I was drinking my calories, my calories were reduced....trust me, not one day did I get close to 1500 calories while on the liquid diet.

Towards the end of the diet I felt positively light. My clothes were so comfortable - could hardly tell I had them on...you know what I mean?

Then I slowly started adding whole grains, fruits & veggies - still felt light, but the weight stopped slipping off.  After being at the same weight 2 mornings in a row, I stopped weighing myself. I did not want to see those 5 pounds slip back on. Especially since this walking journey is about health, not a number.

By the time I added back in meat & dairy (today I added dairy back in)...I no longer felt light. That's right. I am sitting here writing this & don't feel light. I don't feel fat or heavy, but I don't feel light like I did earlier in the week. I guess it makes sense that I would feel heavier when eating meat and dairy, I mean, they are protein and do take longer to digest.

So that has me thinking...if I want to feel light all the time (and I do), then restricting calories is more than likely a big piece to the puzzle. But I don't like counting calories. And I don't like to restrict calories to the point where I feel deprived. Hunger is okay, deprived isn't. I also wonder if instead of worrying about calories, if I just focused on lots of whole grains, fruits & veggies would I feel light? or, at least, lighter than I feel now?

And if I choose not to eat a lot of meat & dairy than do I need to start worrying about how much protein & calcium I am getting...because trust me, that seems just as hard as counting calories.

And finally, when did eating get to be so hard? Sheesh, do all super healthy (i.e. trim & fit) people have to worry this much about what they are eating?

I don't have any answers tonight. I am probably not going to have any answers any time soon. I am going to try eating more whole grains, fruits, veggies compared to meat & dairy and see what happens. See if I can tell a difference.

Happy Walking!