Diet & Exercise
Mar. 22nd, 2010 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserI had intended to write about the small meals diet plan in last night's post, but forgot. When I went back to do it, I saw the post was kinda long as-is, do decided to just wait until another day to post about it. Today's another day!
Long story short: I really don't like the small meals idea. On top of the issues I've previously written about (too much time spent thinking about food, too much time making it, eating it, etc), there's a new one: I feel like I'm eating a lot more food... and yet I'm hungry all the time.
With the small meals, I never get full. I get "not hungry", which is not the same as full. I'm not sure if I'm normal or not, but I like being full. Being "not hungry" is not the same, and is not a satisfying/settling feeling. I guess that makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint, since your body wants you to eat as much as you can whenever food is available...
Anyway. After a small meal I'm not hungry, but that doesn't last long and soon I'm hungry again and watching the clock. All of my small meals have some kind of protein, some kind of plant, and sometimes something bread-y.
Saturday I did small meals and was generally unhappy all day. Sunday I ate "normal" and was generally happy. Hmmm!
Exercise! When I had seen my doctor, she said something like "Doesn't exercise make you feel good!". I kind of went "Um, yeah, sure..." while in my head thinking that she was insane. This morning something clicked. I had been dragging my feet, not wanting to go back to work, whining endlessly... but after exercise I felt totally different. Ready to take on the world, to be cliche about it.
Hope that feeling continues!
Long story short: I really don't like the small meals idea. On top of the issues I've previously written about (too much time spent thinking about food, too much time making it, eating it, etc), there's a new one: I feel like I'm eating a lot more food... and yet I'm hungry all the time.
With the small meals, I never get full. I get "not hungry", which is not the same as full. I'm not sure if I'm normal or not, but I like being full. Being "not hungry" is not the same, and is not a satisfying/settling feeling. I guess that makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint, since your body wants you to eat as much as you can whenever food is available...
Anyway. After a small meal I'm not hungry, but that doesn't last long and soon I'm hungry again and watching the clock. All of my small meals have some kind of protein, some kind of plant, and sometimes something bread-y.
Saturday I did small meals and was generally unhappy all day. Sunday I ate "normal" and was generally happy. Hmmm!
Exercise! When I had seen my doctor, she said something like "Doesn't exercise make you feel good!". I kind of went "Um, yeah, sure..." while in my head thinking that she was insane. This morning something clicked. I had been dragging my feet, not wanting to go back to work, whining endlessly... but after exercise I felt totally different. Ready to take on the world, to be cliche about it.
Hope that feeling continues!
