So we had lunch catered by Boston Market during our lunch meeting at work today and I noticed something weird. While I was the one who picked Boston Market, and I ordered mostly healthy items, I admit I still ate more than I should have of the unhealthy items (corn bread ).
Here is the weird thing. I notice while I was eating that the food was pretty salty (standard for restaurant food, but we basically eat no salt at home so I'm sensitive to it). After the main meal I ate a chocolate chip cookie. That's also not the weird thing. The weird thing is that now, 45 minutes after finishing the meal, I feel like my heart is beating funny, either like it's too fast or too strong. I've noticed this a couple other times after our lunch meetings at work, particularly after eating chocolate chip cookies.
Does anyone else have this? Is all that fat, sugar, and salt giving me heart palpitations? (I guess my body is telling me not to eat too much junk?) Or is there enough caffeine in the chocolate in those cookies to do it? I'm pretty sensitive to caffeine, a cup of coffee will make me feel awful the rest of the day.