Cheap food makes you fat.

Masflz

This is just a lesson-re-learned rant. I had lost 20 lbs, weighed 250, and was so excited at the prospect of seeing 249 for the first time in several years. Then I ran out of healthy groceries and cash at the same time. I started eating all kinds of old, strange things from my cupboards and freezer. Six freezer biscuits, so old they barely rose in the oven. The end of a three year old package of vermicelli. Instant mashed potato flakes; half of an old box of raisins.

I didn't enter any of it into my food diary because I knew it was bad and I didn't want to see how bad it was. My type 2 diabetes blood sugar started to climb, and climb. And I started being hungry and craving starches. I also started working almost 12 hours a day on a couple of new freelance projects, which meant sitting at the computer and not exercising.

The jobs got finished, I got paid, and went straight to the grocery store to re-stock on the right kind of foods. After the first really healthy meal last night, and a good walk in the evening, my blood sugar was 20 points lower this morning, just 2 points above a normal, non-diabetic reading. Then I got on the scales to find I'd gained 4 pounds back IN A WEEK.

What a dramatic illustration of the difference eating right and eating wrong can make! Today I'm back to recording my foods, weighing and measuring portions, and looking at the nutritional balance for the day. (I wonder why I can see that on my Droid X but not on this website?)

Anyway, lesson re-learned. And I have lots of space now in my freezer and cupboards. I think I'll dig out anything else I shouldn't eat and get rid of it. I'd rather be a little wasteful than have the opportunity to do that to myself again.