Here's the thing. I LOVE to bake. I also love making garnishes and bite-size entrées, but that is off topic. Inevitably, when baking goodies, most conventional recipes use refined white flours. As a rule, I try to taste everything I make before anyone else to avoid the sometimes unavoidable bad recipe from ruining someones faith in my baked goods. Sometimes this 'tasting' turns into a binge. For the first 24 years of my life I have not cared about this fact. As I get older, I'm starting to look deep into my personal habits in order to figure out what I can do now to live better tomorrow.
Hey! I thought this was about Carb phobia?
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You see, I've been a carb junkie my whole life. I was a scrawny kid. People would see how much I ate and marvel about my diminutive size. Of course, this only enabled terrible eating habits. Halloween candy never lasted through the night. Eating a whole roll of those buttermilk biscuits (you know the ones) was a normal afternoon snack before dinner, and my favorite study technique - buying 3 different kinds of bulk candy and eating in a clockwise fashion as I crammed for exams.
You see, I've been a carb junkie my whole life. I was a scrawny kid. People would see how much I ate and marvel about my diminutive size. Of course, this only enabled terrible eating habits. Halloween candy never lasted through the night. Eating a whole roll of those buttermilk biscuits (you know the ones) was a normal afternoon snack before dinner, and my favorite study technique - buying 3 different kinds of bulk candy and eating in a clockwise fashion as I crammed for exams.
"You see, I've been a carb junkie my whole life."
All of this changed when I moved in with a couple of girls this February. About the same time I started avoiding carbohydrates, for reasons I do not know. I have been trying to eat healthier this year to feel better, after overdosing on sugary sweets over this past New Years. Immediately I felt much better, seeing my face, fingers, and legs thin out. Apparently I've been retaining water because of my diet. Seeing this, I have sort of been afraid to eat foods from the grains group. Going home a few weeks ago I fell into some old habits and binged on the sweet stuff and paid for it the last two weeks first with stomach pain, then digestive issues.
All of this makes me think really hard about how I've been fueling myself. I haven't been doing such a good job apparently, because when I go to the gym I'm usually too tired to do anything significant. So, I decided to add carbohydrates back into my diet, but the right ones - rice, whole grain pasta, etc. I just have to keep the following in mind and I should be fine...
Carbs don't make you fat. Overeating carbs makes you fat.
All of this makes me think really hard about how I've been fueling myself. I haven't been doing such a good job apparently, because when I go to the gym I'm usually too tired to do anything significant. So, I decided to add carbohydrates back into my diet, but the right ones - rice, whole grain pasta, etc. I just have to keep the following in mind and I should be fine...
Carbs don't make you fat. Overeating carbs makes you fat.