Dear James, Daniel and Emily
Today's Run
It's been a long couple of weeks after getting back from vacation. Trying to stick to the new diet. Hot nights making it hard to sleep. Irregular schedule. All of those are stressors that have been at work, and they all combined last night to make for a bad nights sleep. So I turned to my morning run with glee, happy for the time alone, and a chance to just run. It helped to a large extent. I am still tired, and mildly stressed, but I am better able to face the day after the run.
Skinny Rules
Time to talk more in detail about this new life style. Just trying to put the lessons I learned into my own words. One of the biggest is I have to retrain my taste buds. So much of what we eat here in America is not right. It is bland, processed food that in turn is over salted or over sweetened to give it some flavor. This leads to what Bob Harper calls hyper flavor. And when you eat food like that your body craves more, instead of just being satisfied.
If you eat food that is naturally sweet, like fresh fruit, your taste buds are going to be more in tune with the rest of your body when it says that it has had enough. That's an example but the same goes for meals that would normally be heavily salted: fast food in general, french fries, most restaurant prepared meat.
The funny thing is deep down I knew some of this. One of my earliest lessons in eating steak was to never season it after it was cooked, and damn sure don't use steak sauce. Learn to appreciate the flavor of the meat. Well this counts for most things you can cook at home.
So the 2 rules that cover this are dropping the sweets (including the artificial sweeteners), and reducing sodium intake. The sodium is easier so long as I don't eat out. The sweets is not as easy, at least as far as the intake of my diet soda's. I am stepping that intake down, replacing with unsweetened sun tea. And hope to finish that transition this weekend.
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