Reintroduction

Well, nothing much to report on findings. I kind of messed up my eating on Sunday. I went orienteering Sunday and had a big breakfast before I left, which I think might have been too big, since ten minutes into the race, I wasn't feeling well, and had to take a breather. I think part of it was because everyone started off running and I did too, but the way I went include a long steep hill. Oh, and did I mention it was hot.  I don't know how people jog in the summer. Basically I think I overheated. I did the rest of the course walking and was good. 

But afterwards, there was a BBQ and I just wasn't hungry, so didn't grab my packed lunch from the car. By the time I left it was after 4 and I did feel hungrish and ate a bit of my rice meal before hitting up the ikea nearby. Btw, I was good and only bought two things not on my shopping list. One being these awesome potting plants they discontinued. I bought a bunch years ago and have been checking for more every visit since. This time I saw one on display upstairs, so looked in the gardening department. No luck, so I asked this fellow that was restocking (I had taken a picture of the display one). Talk about luck, he was restocking several that someone had returned. Except there weren't any on the shelves, these seemed to be the only ones on sale in the whole store. I took them all and was so excited. 

Anyways, by the time I got home, it was late and I had a quick bite to eat. And then Monday I was tired. But I think it was from all the stuff from Sunday so I couldn't really tell the effect of the rice. So I finished my lunch from Sunday on Monday. And still I can't tell. Oh, and did I mention it's now hot... and humid. Ugh. It's just slowed me down and I don't have much of an appetite. Which is normal - heat and humidity always effect me like this. That's why I love winter and don't fully get the summer obsession of my friends. Plus I'm not spending big chunks of my day in AC. 

The thing I'm finding with switching my main food staples, is that for the last few weeks, I don't have a loud "I'm hungry" stomache.  It's not that I'm not hungry, it's just hard to hear. And even with this heat, I find I'll make myself fix a meal at mealtime even though I'm not feeiling hungry, and then I gobble it all down and find I was hungry and didn't realize. Not a big deal, since the point is to eat three meals on a regular schedule, so it's not like I need respond to the stomache but it does help motivate you to get into the kitchen. 

I did have some fresh peas yesterday, my first legumes, and not really part of the reintroduction plan. But they were at my market and I love shucking sweet peas, and they are soo good uncooked and fresh. I'm basically bagging the reintroduction for right now, since I'll be introducing a lot of non meat and vegetables when I travel for the fourth. I'll try to keep eating mostly meat and veggies but will wait when I come back, zero out again and then retry foods. Not sure what I'll do about the heat factor. 

I've not really had any sugar - no sweets. The only sugar is the caramel coloring in my balsamic vinegar. I did have a dream last night that I ate a slice of coffee cake, and not the special wonderful kind, but some store bought, mass produced, off the shelf kind. And I was conscious in the dream that it wasn't that great.  Interesting. 

So the plan, keep sugar intake to a minimum, of only quality, special goodies. And try the reintroduction period again in a few weeks.