Fooooood

Hi all.

I've been doing a lot of eating these past few weeks.  Even some secret eating.  Not good.  But now that that confession has been said and lesson learned, let's carry on, shall we?

I've been craving sweets lately.  Not necessarily candy (I won't eat that), but sweet things, yogurt-covered pretzels, commercial granola bars, oatmeal raisin cookies.  I have to nip that in the bud.  No more of that, but I can't cut out sweet stuff entirely.

I'm reading about low-glycemic index foods and it seems like this could work for me.  I combine low GI foods with a little bit of the higher GI foods and my blood sugar won't spike and I won't fall asleep when my body "dumps" the sugar.  I'm giving that a go. 

I credit Cindy with informing me about this.   Cindy has been my go-to food person ever since I decided to go ahead with the gastric bypass surgery.  She helped me plan out my juices, smoothies and foods as I went from each new eating level after surgery.  A tremendous help!  I credit her with much of my success. 

So now that I'm able to eat "normal" foods, I'm finding that I'm slipping back into my old habits:  snacking on high calorie foods (albeit smaller portions) and snacking all day long.  I am limited, however, by the size of my stomach, so I can't eat mass quantities, but I can still graze, and graze I do.  At one point last night, I realized I was feeling somewhat ill, and thought, "why do I eat all this crap?  Do I do it to make myself sick?  Is it so I FEEL?"  I don't know and I didn't take the time to explore that last night, but I did stop the eating.

When I woke this morning, I was not hungry and I didn't eat until 1pm.  I'm getting back to basics yet again (I have a feeling this is a lifetime process) and listening to my physical body and will only feed it when it is actually hungry.  I've had to do this numerous times since surgery in July, but hey, it's over 50 years of bad eating I'm trying to overcome, so I'm giving myself a tiny little break.

So back to the food.  When I was hungry, I looked through my food blog feed list and voila! I found the perfect recipe for today.  It's Whole Wheat Pumpkin Pancakes.  I did make a few changes:  I didn't have any almond milk left, so I used my pumpkin soy milk instead.  I was also out of almond butter (must make some) so I used my peanut butter (ground peanuts only).  I had some mini chocolate chips in the baking cupboard so I used those.  Can you say YUM?!!  John loved them.  He had 3 pancakes and I had my one pancake.  I'm totally satisfied!

I'm going to start sharing more food blogs and recipes that I find and use.  It'll help me later and heck, you might enjoy it as well.