Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Trigger Foods
In realizing "what went wrong" on Sunday, I'm realizing that certain foods forme are "trigger foods" - that is, there are certain foods that when I consumethem in large amounts, I almost always consume too much fat, either with thefood, or later in the day. Two foods I can think of that present that issue for me are cauliflower and tomatoes. When I eat cauliflower, I like to blend it up with avocado or nutbutter (for "mashed potatoes"), and I almost always eat too much of it - perhapsbecause it is bland and not sweet, and therefore not incredibly satisfying? About the tomatoes - oh, I love them dearly. Sometimes I do just fine withhaving a few on my salad in the evening. The problems arise when I have a lotof them lying around my house, and decide I'm going to eat some with lunch. Iusually rationalize it by saying, "well, it's fewer calories than fruit, and itwouldn't hurt me to lose a little weight..." However, what always ends uphappening is I overeat on fats later in the evening (probably my body trying tomake up the calories and then some?). So, it's probably best for me not to stock up on tomatoes for a while, and justbuy them as needed for salads. They aren't terribly good this time of yearanyway, and the ones that are good are often quite expensive anyway.
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