Week5, Day 5, Diet with Dianna

Well, I ate an early dinner with my mother-in-law and daughter. We talked about diets and compared notes on a lot of dieting topics. It was fun to share our experiences with diets. I enjoyed having some quality girl time and talking over salad, coffee and dessert. (Actually, they ate dessert and I drank more coffee.) Today was a pretty good diet day.

REVELATION KNOWLEDGE:
When comparing notes on years of dieting, especially when you restrict sugars, we noticed the same conclusion. When you have gone without sugar or limited sugar in a diet, anytime that you eat a food containing sugar, the taste is very sweet. EXTREMELY SWEET, and is almost too rich to eat but only a few bites. Our bodies have a way of becoming desensitized to certain tastes when you have it in abundance. Restricting or eliminating that food from a diet is like pushing a reset button. After a time your body has a new awareness of that food.
I have noticed that when I eat food, I can actually taste sugar in a food. Foods that are typically low in sugar,  I can now taste that sweetness; when before I didn't notice it at all.  I recommend  trying this experiment: give up or lighten up on sugar for two or three days and see if you can tell a difference...I'll bet you will!

Exercise:
1 hour of swimming

Breakfast:
A new cereal, Fiber One Cinnamon Squares (Hmm-hmm, delicious!) in Unsweetened Almond milk (vanilla).
Half slice of toasted Oroweat sandwich thin.
Two slices of bacon
Coffee with half & half and a 1/2 packet of Stevia.

Breakfast S/C Total: 3/2

Snack:
None...not at home but in the car and then grocery store.


Lunch:
Veggie burger on two slices of Oroweat whole wheat sandwich thins, two small leaves of Romaine lettuce, One slice of Pepper Jack cheese
One small kosher dill pickle

Lunch S/C Total: 1/1

A.N. Snack: None, in the car picking up my daughter from work and going to visit mother-in-law.

Dinner:

Photo by Britt

La Madeleine's French Cafe: 1/3 of a Chicken Caesar Salad (removed croutons) and 1/2 slice of multi-grain french bread (no butter or jam), coffee with cream and sweetener.

Dinner S/C Total: 1/2

P.M. Snack:

One Jell-O Sugar Free Chocolate Pudding cup

P.M. Snack S/C Total: 0/0

Daily S/C Total: 5/5

Excellent day for carbs!  Not so good about skipping two snacks and not eating at the three hour intervals.