Jumbo Rider’s BodyBlog

if the number of bodyblog posts are counted.  I would need to write three blogs to her one to catch up.  Another mark of her great dedication.

Another stupid party at work today.  I am making an excuse to sit out of this one.  It isn’t that I am afraid I would break down and eat the junk but that I hate hearing, "You sure didn’t eat much." over and over again.  It is worse than a crack house.   Then you add in the fact that it messes with my meal timing and my impetus is to duck the party.

Do you guys and gals get tired of going to functions that have enough food to feed Zimbabwe for a year and have nothing to eat?  At the very best there will be the old raw vegetable tray with baby carrots, celery, and cherry tomatoes.  Nope, I will sit here and eat a magnificent spinach salad with Mexican beef, salsa, and a bit of sour cream.   Compare that to 2 cookies.   The choice is easy.

This morning I made a 4 egg omelet with carrots, celery and spinach on the side.  My normal morning feeding is a cup of cottage cheese with half a cup of blueberries and 1 oz of walnuts.  I simply love that mix, but I am out of cottage cheese so I had to ’suffer’.

I am going on 6 weeks without eating any grains.  No wheat, corn, oats, rice, or any other grain.  I have not had corn syrup, corn oil, corn meal, or corn starch.  After all this time without grains I feel super.  I don’t miss any of the grains except maybe popcorn and I am not tempted to eat them because I feel so good without them.  Try it, you might like it.

Coming from a binge life of junk food, pasta, pizza and lots of it all I find my nutritional change was only hard in two ways.

1. Convenience - You simply can not eat a healthy nutritional meal in America without putting some thought and effort into it.  Actually it is the thought part that is the hardest on me.  In my previous life I could eat anything that I saw on the way into work or home from work.  Nothing I saw was good for me.
2. Cost - Junk food is so very abundant and cheep in comparison to real whole food.  The cost is deceiving though.  First, the junk food never satisfied me and I would tend to binge.  When I eat a good amount of veggies I am full.  Second, my weight has directly led to taking a bunch of medications.  Even with good insurance the copays are enough to double my grocery buying of nothing but organic food.  Add to that the cost of buying clothes from specialty stores and you can see that junk food is not really cheap.  But those are all ‘hidden’ costs and when you look at a burrito el grande for $1 and a pound of organic beef at $5 the cost seems to favor the junk food.

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