Good Evening! I have been pretty good today, I started eating a small handful of nuts mid day because I don't have the time for the more "structured" snacks I used to get. It helps me not starve, for sure. I just realized that the only time I ever have to get on here & post is during my meals, so it's funny, but I'm almost always eating while I post. It probably actually makes me eat slower because I take a couple of bites and then type a couple of sentences and so on. It's not sneaky eating, it's all I have time for during the week. I'm a forced multitasker. Right now I'm eating a mushroom broth based soup. Nice & low cal (high volume though with mushrooms & onions, yum). I'm a little low on my non-caloric unsweetened beverages today (including water, but I just can't limit myself to that), I'll work on that a bit. Soup counts though, right?
I do have some big news: I have just cut "high fructose corn syrup" out of my diet. I've been reading a lot about it, and I LONG AGO dropped hydrogenated oils from my diet, but it seems HFCS evades the proper insulin response and nearly always gets stored directly as fat because cells don't know they can use it for energy immediately. That's the last thing I need, so it's gone! Now, there are other reasons to avoid HFCS, one being that it is a chemically modified processed sugar product. Sounds tasty, doesn't it? Anyway, I want to be healthy, not just skinny, and so I'm one by one targeting all the processed crap I consume and eliminating it. April is No HFCS Month" (March was a half-hearted policing of trans fats, since I've basically eliminated them from my diet anyway, I just spent a little extra time reading my food labels & catching the sneaky companies at their little tricks).
So here's to a healthier me in April. I've also pretty much eliminated all of the "white foods" from my diet. They're usually processed too: white bread, white rice, white pasta, etc. (couldn't get rid of the cream sauces though, just a little... moderation). Anyway, gotta go, my soup is gone.