Week 2 begins
It has been a whole week since I began my body experiment. It was a slow week.. My goodness it feels like it's been two weeks, but honestly I feel very.... good. I feel content. I feel happy. I feel powerful. I feel more balanced. Yes, I slipped up twice on two different evenings, but I don't feel the regret. I am now using that to create a new guideline for myself.
Since I experienced two episodes of clean binges (no gluten or grains involved), I now am implementing this guideline:
If I do feel an urge to overeat, the only accessible food items will be fruit. That's it. The idea is to go crazy on the fruit, and after a while I will feel overly full, and it will become so boring that at some point I won't care to even go for it anymore. That's only the idea though. We shall see how that actually plays out. I am also bumping down to once a week. That day will be either Thursday or Sunday, but not both. (Binges usually come on both these day for some reason).
With the bright new beginning of this week, I am also going to start being more accountable with my protein and carbohydrate intake. I have a general idea of what it is at right now, but I would like to measure it more accurately going forward. Since I know that I am sensitive to carbohydrates and tend to gain fat easily from it (not to mention it is a trigger for binge eating) I am going to keep it equal with my protein consumption. Easy! Track my protein, and keep my carbs up with it. This week will start at 120 g of protein. This will be a LOT more than I am consuming right now.. For the last few months I have probably hovered around 70-80 g of protein a day.
How do I plan to eat this much protein throughout the day?
Eggs for lunch or breakfast
Animal proteins for dinner
Easy go to's- Gelatin, hemp fiber protein, MRM brand protein powder, and anything clean that I can mix with water and gulp down.
Pumpkin seeds
I also am working to have a general account of my caloric intake. I am not going to be a stickler on it right now because I think that destroys the enjoyment of the beginning process, but for now I aim to stay around 2200-2400 calories every day.
Since I experienced two episodes of clean binges (no gluten or grains involved), I now am implementing this guideline:
If I do feel an urge to overeat, the only accessible food items will be fruit. That's it. The idea is to go crazy on the fruit, and after a while I will feel overly full, and it will become so boring that at some point I won't care to even go for it anymore. That's only the idea though. We shall see how that actually plays out. I am also bumping down to once a week. That day will be either Thursday or Sunday, but not both. (Binges usually come on both these day for some reason).
With the bright new beginning of this week, I am also going to start being more accountable with my protein and carbohydrate intake. I have a general idea of what it is at right now, but I would like to measure it more accurately going forward. Since I know that I am sensitive to carbohydrates and tend to gain fat easily from it (not to mention it is a trigger for binge eating) I am going to keep it equal with my protein consumption. Easy! Track my protein, and keep my carbs up with it. This week will start at 120 g of protein. This will be a LOT more than I am consuming right now.. For the last few months I have probably hovered around 70-80 g of protein a day.
How do I plan to eat this much protein throughout the day?
Eggs for lunch or breakfast
Animal proteins for dinner
Easy go to's- Gelatin, hemp fiber protein, MRM brand protein powder, and anything clean that I can mix with water and gulp down.
Pumpkin seeds
I also am working to have a general account of my caloric intake. I am not going to be a stickler on it right now because I think that destroys the enjoyment of the beginning process, but for now I aim to stay around 2200-2400 calories every day.
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