Friday, August 16, 2013
Going Out To Graze
So I've talked about my awkward eating habits every now and then on here. I used to just have my backpack semi-stuffed with snacks, I had a special pocket for it, and eat it throughout the school day then get home and binge and eat dinner a few hours early. That was mostly because I had no time for a legit breakfast and was too cheap to buy my lunches, preferring to pocket the money instead. Now this was also a variant of an eating pattern that I liked and used to lose weight last summer. Rather than three meals like a normal person I do this thing my dad calls grazing, have snacks to hold me over throughout the day. It works by only giving you enough food to hold you over til' the next snack so it reduces excess proteins and fats and other random stuff you find in your food leaving you with just enough. The only problem with that is that I don't have enough of a drive to plan things out to ensure I get enough nutrients. I do make sure I don't eat all the same thing that day, but I don't plan things out. I just eat what I'm in the mood to, or what I can find. That ranges from a croissant to instant noodles to a peach to jambalaya. Despite my epically random ass appetite that should ensure my stomach as a durable force to be reckoned with, I have an aversion to food with too much sauce on it, specifically McChickens from McDonalds. Sadly that's my one favorite thing to get there. It's going to become where when I get a McChicken I have to ask for light or no mayo. It does work, but sometimes I'm too lazy to leave my room and I may be malnourishing myself. The way it works is when I get food I will get about a plate or bowl full of it and take it up to my room. I eat as much as I can and then I wait to feel hungry again. But around midnight I feel more like sitting in my room and trying to sleep, and my last snack platter can hold me over til' then. Of course I don't get to sleep til' around two or three, so that's about three ours without food. Now then it just works off the extra, no biggy. I still have weight to lose, but my stomach size is probably small in an unhealthy way. My dad said I should see a nutritionist or dietitian to make sure I'm getting the right intake. I think my only real problem is vitamins because of my house being almost totally barren when it comes to fruit. Well it does have fruit, but it's fruit that you need to cut and stuff. I'm not that lazy, but I need to be in the mood. In the mood to cut then peel or any other hoops. I used to always have plums, peaches, the occasional apple, but my mom's on a bit of a rampage with the food. She goes to the Asian store every other day and buys a bunch of food, stuffs it in the fridge, and cooks it. Doesn't sound bad right? Hah, yea right. She buys more than she cooks in the days before she goes to buy more, and most of it is greasy stuff that after a few bites I need to sit and wait for my stomach to stop grumbling. Or I can eat a tums. It's weird, in American culture our dessert is unhealthy, but in most other cultures the main foods are greasy, sodium enriched and the dessert is the healthiest part. When I do eat a tums I can eat a meals worth of food in one sitting though. Back to the vitamins though, I think I've unintentionally weakened my immune system by not having as many vitamins B and C to take in. Because that washes out with your piss and I do that about three or four times a day, I have to refill it daily. But I don't have orange juice, haven't had it in awhile, and I can always use a vitamin C pill but I hate swallowing pills. Especially since the only ones I have are 1000 mg, for those that haven't seen one that's a big pill. Vitamin B is in a lot of fruit, which I eat atleast every other day. But my appetite will probably fix itself, as most things do.
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