14th October 2013
You were born to be an original – don’t die a copy!
What better way to start the week than a wet grey
morning! So we can’t rely on the weather
to cheer us up, we’ll have to find other ways to won’t we - I’m thinking food
;) what do you think, my answer to lots of things is food! I do love it I can’t deny, I’ve just seen a
headline on Facebook from the Daily Mail, a lady who hasn’t eaten hot food for seven
years and exists on a Spartan diet of nuts, seeds, fruit and vegetables, she
says it keeps her looking young, she’s 29 and regularly mistaken for a 16 year
old. Nah not for me, I’m 43 and would be
happy to be mistaken as a 50 year old if it means the food I get to eat tastes
as delicious as what I ate yesterday, food satisfaction comes before vanity in
my world, healthy and happy yeah, but not dull and young looking, which is what
eating in that way would be for me.
Yesterday was a delicious day, I had planned on putting my Indian
cookery course into place but I was missing a few ingredients, then a friend
posted on Facebook that she was cooking at a roast dinner and suddenly that’s
what I fancied, how true is it that we get tempted by the mere mention of
certain foods. So off to the Co-op I
went, and a delicious roast beef dinner I made, did it the lazyish way, frozen
honey parsnips, ready prepared roasters, microwave in the bag beef, ready made Yorkshires,
even my carrots where julienne ready, all I had to peel was my sprouts, a
delicious dinner for 13pp though, absolutely scrumptious. Then for tea we had ½ Co-op caramelised onion
flatbread (7pp) with sliced tomatoes that I’d grown myself – delicious with a
bit of salt & pepper on. Yes it has
to be said, yesterday was a delicious day as are most days in my eating world
and I wouldn’t be prepared to swap them for youthful skin or a longer life,
thank you very much!
I read an article online yesterday about the science of
appetite – fascinating stuff, it explained that understanding a single biological
unit—the heart, the lungs—is hard enough. Understanding a process as complex as
appetite—one that involves taste, smell, sight, texture, brain chemistry, gut
chemistry, metabolism and, most confounding of all, psychology—is exponentially
harder. But science is trying.
Fascinating when you think about it,
staying alive requires our to run
automatically except for eating, that’s the one none voluntary thing we do and
nature cleverly made it so that we couldn’t resist food and in the past this
wasn’t a problem because food was scarce, we had too little rather than too
much. All that’s changed now though hasn’t
it, nature didn’t see that one coming, foods everywhere, it’s easy to get hold
of, it’s cheap – that’s part of the worlds weight problem, we’ve become an
overfed planet.
The scientists and researchers are
trying to work it all out, they’re looking at the brain to understand where
appetite is perceived, they’re studying the neural wiring of the stomach, as
well as what drives our appetite, but it’s all very complex which is why weight
loss / weight maintenance isn’t easy for anyone who has an appetite for food. We’re hardwired to eat and eat, particularly
fatty food, you can thank your ancestors for that, we’re also apparently not
very good at realising when we’ve had enough until we’re past full – we’re
stuffed by then. There’s even a hunger
hormone, it’s called ‘ghrelin’ what chance have we got!
So what do we do? Can we fight nature? Is there a solution? There still isn’t a ‘solution’ as such,
nutritional science is such a young science and they’re finding things out all
the time. What you can do is help
yourself, we know the sight and smell of food triggers us to eat, so don’t have
certain foods in your home then you won’t have to try to be strong and
resist. Focus on filling and healthy
foods because they’re low glycemic foods, they will give you a constant flow of
glucose and insulin, so you won’t need to refuel as much, cutting down on high
gylcemic foods like refined breads and sugars push your body to refuel. These two things will help massively, so next
time you go shopping, think Filling & Healthy and also look at the stuff
you can’t resist knowing if you take it home, it’s going to get eaten and the
length of time the taste pleasure lasts is rarely worth it.
You don’t have to eat tiny portions
of food if you eat the right foods, it’s not big portions that make you eat
more, it’s big portions of calories, if you eat plenty of fruit and vegetables
we both know that helps.
Well mom’s awake and I need to go
sort her medication and get her breakfast, so I’ll leave you to process all
that info.
You can be healthy & happy
whilst eating gorgeous xx
BeYOUtiful. xx
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