Day 7 - Eating enough

What a topic to follow fasting.  Isn't it odd that I need to learn to eat more in order to weigh less!  I am one who can comfortably go all day without eating - I simply get too busy and forget.  There are others like me out there but most of my friends find it the strangest thing (the lack of hunger not me).
The metabolic typing diet describes these three types:

Protein types  They tend to be frequently hungry, crave fatty, salty foods, fail with low-calorie diets, and tend towards fatigue, anxiety, and nervousness. They are often lethargic or feel "wired".

Carbo types  They generally have relatively weak appetites, a high tolerance for sweets, problems with weight management, "type A" personalities, and are often dependent on caffeine.

Mixed types  They generally have average appetites, cravings for sweets and starchy foods, relatively little trouble with weight control, and tend towards fatigue, anxiety, and nervousness.

I really appreciated this knowledge as well as the teaching from The Lord's Table classes because so many "diets" are one-size-fits-all and I was freed from having to suffer on someone else's  diet. Knowing yourself can save a lot of time (and pounds) on your way to good health.

Bet you're wondering how a person who never or hardly ever feels hunger gets to be overweight. Though I don't get hungry, I enjoy taste. My downfalls were after that first taste - 'finishing' a food so it doesn't go to waste (you know the bag of chips whether it served one or ten or the bag of chocolate covered peanuts that was cheaper by the pound), and the 'depression syndrome'.  That does not mean I am depressed - no I mean the era of the depression - eating something because you paid 'good money' for it... eating that last bit the hubby didn't finish on his plate because he knows enough to stop when he is full... eating things that are past their fresh or healthy state to save pennies.  I'm learning to toss things that don't turn out, that are past their freshness and to give away any abundances that we cannot finish in a reasonable time.

Now I am learning to eat enough HEALTHY food.  When I started journaling my food intake at the request of my naturopathic doctor, he observed the trend of the week -Juice. No added sugar, store bought or home-juiced. Yummy, right. Fruit right... well...  Yes, but.  He had an interesting question that made me think.  The question was, When God made fruit trees, did he have them produce little jars of juice?  Uh, no.  He gave us the whole fruit.  His second challenge gave me pause about all the juice I was drinking.   I know that an average orange yields about 2 oz. of juice. (Apparently God's idea of a serving :)  However, I'd been drinking 8 oz. or more each time.  Besides the liquid sugar I was consuming - almost equal in sugar and carbohydrates as a soft-drink (see  HookedOnJuice.com) - there was the missing fiber. If I put those 4 - yes FOUR oranges on my plate each time I'd had juice that week, I'd have a tough time finishing them.  I guess that is the point.  I was extracting one part of the whole food.  Healthy when eaten the way it was made, but I was, in effect, PROCESSING the juice out of it. Obvious lessons right?  They are now.   Wish it hadn't taken me so long to learn that sugar is what caused my heartburn and acid reflux.   Painful way to learn that God presented juice to me in moderation with the fiber to help my body digest it properly.  No juice today :) but I did have:

Breakfast:  Kashi Heart-to-Heart Oatmeal, Apple Cinnamon, with 1/4 chopped pear-apple,  pecans,  and half-and-half.  Rich and almost decadant.  Thought I didn't like oatmeal.  Changed my mind. The picture does not do justice to the cinnamon-y fragrance over the pecan crunch and ultra-creamy sauce.

Lunch:  Tuna-Salmon-Cranberry salad (Made 4 servings with 9 oz seafood & 2 Tbsp. chopped onions. Dressing: 2 tbsp. each mayonnaise and lemon juice). Seasoned with Autumnberry salt.  Side of Baked Blue Corn Chips.

Dinner:  Vegetables were the focus and 1 slice of meatloaf with Raspberry-Mustard sauce.  1/4 pear-apple on the side.

I felt stuffed all day but made the 1200 calories I need to eat.  Maybe that is the point... if I am full of good food, I don't want the bad-for-me food... hmmm  An interesting passage for this topic is 1Timothy 4:1-5 which says: The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.  They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.  For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

Now there's some food for thought.  It challenges me to do a verse study on this and see if I can find what 'foods God created to be received with thanksgiving'. 

Exercise today was walking on the treadmill and the stairs.  Tomorrow's intention is the rebounder and maybe the weight ball.