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04-26-2008, 10:10 PM
Some food related reflections from my "Resolution" blog.
"Something I have just started noticing about my diet is my new relationship with vegetables.
Previously I used to eat vegetables because I knew they were supposed to be good for me, but I never really enjoyed them.
Recently, however, I have started finding that I enjoy the taste and texture (and more so the feeling in my gut after) that vegetables give me.
I know which vegetables I like raw, which vegetables I like cooked and there are some that I know are really good for me but I don't like raw OR cooked but have discovered that they taste really good fermented!! (such as buk choy and kale, which are the two ingredients of my recent sauer-vegetable batch).
I really enjoy local style Northern Thai food and the local vegetables that they use (can't find them in a supermarket, thats for sure!).
There is this one that, to the disgust of most westerners, smells like a fart. No really, this vegetables (it's actually the leaves of a leguminous tree) smells like a fart when they are picked and also cooked.
I actually quite like it though ;)
Generally these days on my moderate and high intensity days (if they fall during the work week) I make a raw salad of carrots, celery, lettuce, parsley, cucumber, capsicum, etc... and flavour it only with salt (himalayan crystal salt), pepper and lime juice..... and I enjoy eating it (and suprisingly it really fills me up).
I am gonna learn to make some of the Thai style salads soon though so will be taking them to work hopefully soon.....
Also I have noticed that things like chips, biscuits, cake, etc... whilst in the past I had to forceably stop myself from eating them, now I actually have no interest or desire to eat whatsoever.
Although I do still have a weakness for some of the Thai sweets, which are generally much better anyways (although last night I had a piece of Cheesecake... the first in many months and the last for many more).
Things are going well.... except for the continual dread of my high intensity sessions."
I have started a way of eating that follows my 4x7.
I tend to do allright with carbohydrates in moderation so I tend to work my diet like this now:
moderate intensity - vegetables (including roots if I want them), meat, fruit and nuts if I need a snack.
high intensity - vegetables (as much raw as possible, usually some raw vegetables juice in here too), meat... maybe 1 piece of fruit if I am hungry for it.
Generally this is my lightest day of eating as I have found any heaviness in my food weighs me down in my high intensity session.
no intensity - pig out day! I am generally really hungry on this day and I let myself go with that. On this day I am the least strict (although that doesn't mean "junk" food). It is on this day that I will include grain based carbohydrates (usually rice) with my meals. I will let myself eat whatever I feel like eating on this day, generally very bulky meals and a lot of them (the last no intensity day I had two lunches!).
low intensity - I start bringing it back down to simple light meals. I will include carbs in one or two meals if I feel I need it, stricter than low but not as strict as the moderate or high days.
I am finding that following my exercise with my nutrition is really working for me.
And having that one day where I can indulge a bit and really eat makes the other three days all the more worth it.
:)
"Something I have just started noticing about my diet is my new relationship with vegetables.
Previously I used to eat vegetables because I knew they were supposed to be good for me, but I never really enjoyed them.
Recently, however, I have started finding that I enjoy the taste and texture (and more so the feeling in my gut after) that vegetables give me.
I know which vegetables I like raw, which vegetables I like cooked and there are some that I know are really good for me but I don't like raw OR cooked but have discovered that they taste really good fermented!! (such as buk choy and kale, which are the two ingredients of my recent sauer-vegetable batch).
I really enjoy local style Northern Thai food and the local vegetables that they use (can't find them in a supermarket, thats for sure!).
There is this one that, to the disgust of most westerners, smells like a fart. No really, this vegetables (it's actually the leaves of a leguminous tree) smells like a fart when they are picked and also cooked.
I actually quite like it though ;)
Generally these days on my moderate and high intensity days (if they fall during the work week) I make a raw salad of carrots, celery, lettuce, parsley, cucumber, capsicum, etc... and flavour it only with salt (himalayan crystal salt), pepper and lime juice..... and I enjoy eating it (and suprisingly it really fills me up).
I am gonna learn to make some of the Thai style salads soon though so will be taking them to work hopefully soon.....
Also I have noticed that things like chips, biscuits, cake, etc... whilst in the past I had to forceably stop myself from eating them, now I actually have no interest or desire to eat whatsoever.
Although I do still have a weakness for some of the Thai sweets, which are generally much better anyways (although last night I had a piece of Cheesecake... the first in many months and the last for many more).
Things are going well.... except for the continual dread of my high intensity sessions."
I have started a way of eating that follows my 4x7.
I tend to do allright with carbohydrates in moderation so I tend to work my diet like this now:
moderate intensity - vegetables (including roots if I want them), meat, fruit and nuts if I need a snack.
high intensity - vegetables (as much raw as possible, usually some raw vegetables juice in here too), meat... maybe 1 piece of fruit if I am hungry for it.
Generally this is my lightest day of eating as I have found any heaviness in my food weighs me down in my high intensity session.
no intensity - pig out day! I am generally really hungry on this day and I let myself go with that. On this day I am the least strict (although that doesn't mean "junk" food). It is on this day that I will include grain based carbohydrates (usually rice) with my meals. I will let myself eat whatever I feel like eating on this day, generally very bulky meals and a lot of them (the last no intensity day I had two lunches!).
low intensity - I start bringing it back down to simple light meals. I will include carbs in one or two meals if I feel I need it, stricter than low but not as strict as the moderate or high days.
I am finding that following my exercise with my nutrition is really working for me.
And having that one day where I can indulge a bit and really eat makes the other three days all the more worth it.
:)