Not sure what to make of this
So a thing is finally happening that I've wanted to happen for a long time, and I'm seeing that it comes with a downside.
I've finally detached myself from the idea that I must have certain things, like sweets or snacks or wine, for my day to be happy and complete. I'm actually at the point where I eat for results and not reward, which is what I've needed for a long time. The downside is that I'm discovering it takes a lot less food to fill me up than I thought, or possibly than I need. Focusing on clean foods without the nightly crackers, cheese, and wine (just as one example) means I have a lot more calories to play with every day, which should be good except that I regularly find myself stuffed long before I should be. I then have to force myself to eat when I'm already full, which feels gross. I'm hard pressed to understand how I can get to this point on, say, 1100 calories per day, which I believe is dangerously low for most people. Maybe it's just that clean food is more satiating, but it still makes me nervous to have that kind of calorie intake for more than a day or so. I'd never want to rely on it for weight loss since it's not sustainable. Which means...I gotta eat more food, which is really hard now for some reason. It's also weird for someone who used to snarf half a bag of those toffee almond chocolate nuggets at one sitting.
I should add that I like the food I'm currently eating, and the only thing I particularly miss at the moment is wine but I think that will ease up over time. So I'm not wishing I could go back to the chocolate-snarfing days. But I am wondering if I got maybe a little too detached where food is concerned. Anyone else run into this?
Last edited by Noxqsleft; 09-11-2018 at 08:58 AM.
|