Good carb bad carb awareness
SO yesterday I decided to buy some corn tortillas to make chicken enchiladas with. Every other time I buy tortillas, it’s always whole wheat ones that I get. And I normally only eat whole wheat bread as well. With the cleaned up diet that I have been on, I haven’t been hungry really in-between meals too much. I thought it mainly had to do with keeping the blood sugar up with more frequent small meals and all, but I had an experience that drove the point home to me that it’s also because of what foods I have been eating, and not eating. I anticipated changing my diet to be something that would be difficult, but it hasn’t been that bad. Yesterday I had some of the corn tortillas with my dinner and a couple hours later I was starving. I couldn’t figure out why I was so hungry because I don’t get hungry like that anymore. I was hungry like I hadn’t eaten in hours. I ate a few walnuts and drank a lot of water because I didn’t want to eat anything else after dinner.
I wondered if the hunger had to do with the tortillas, or hormones, or stress or something. To test the tortilla possibility, I had a couple of them with my lunch today. All morning I stayed on course with my meals, but after lunch, two hours later I was starving again!!! Wow. I know there are good carbs and bad carbs, but never really paid attention to how they affected me before. The hunger I had is the kind you get when you eat sugary cereal then two hours later you are starving! I had dinner tonight (the same amount of food I normally eat) no corn tortillas, and I am not hungry now, which proves to me it was definitely the tortillas.
*For comparison: the carb count of the wheat bread I normally get is 25g per serving, the carb count of these corn tortillas is 27g per serving. Not too big of a difference in carb count, but a huge difference in their effects on the body!
We can be told over and over again what good carbs are and bad carbs are, but it really sinks in when you can pinpoint how differently they affect you in a positive or negative way….
