Along with healing my mind I am also choosing to eat better. And working on having a single woman's refrigerator.
I found this really good bread ($4) from Aldi and of course these wonderful tomatoes which are almost as good as real home grown, but available all year around. They are just the right size and when I slice them there is no waste. Love that.
My meals are thus:
Breakfast is a mix of plain cherrios mixed 50/50 with plain bran flakes, and maybe some strawberries or walnuts or if nothing else is available some mixed dried raisins and cranberries. Oat milk and a cuppa, either tea or decaf with sugar free creamer.
My lunch is a can of tuna, made into tuna salad with mayo and relish and maybe green onion. Two slices of that great bread and two tomatoes sliced to top it. Open faced. Maybe some strawberries on the side.
That's it. No dinner. Am I kidding ? Nope. That tuna salad sandwich might be switched with egg salad or ham salad but generally that is sufficient. I eat lunch between 2pm and 4pm and that is satisfying and nothing after that is necessary except maybe a cuppa.
The kitchen stays much cleaner.
I am never hungry with this diet. There are no more cookies in the house, and no chips or snacky things. I stopped drinking alcohol and eating ice cream. If there is a birthday or holiday I eat like everyone else and regret it, but go right back to my single girl eating.
What I realized is that there is sugar built into everything and that was what made me get hungry and binge eat. Without it I don't have those cravings. I use an Equal-like substitute and I stopped baking, which means I have three big cabinets full of baking supplies that are just taking up space.
Of course this was made easy for me because I don't have anyone else to feed. I've become smug.
I am not weighing myself as I know that to be a trap, but I can tell when my clothes are more comfortable and I recently went to the thrift store and bought two pairs of jeans that actually fit and are not monsterously huge.
This was all a hard lesson to (re)learn. I kept throwing out food that I thought I was going to cook, or did cook and then didn't eat and then it became a science product. What a waste!
So I am eating like this and not caring a whit about what I have given up. Along with my mental health retreat, my watchword is Less is More!
