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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / May 2006Is anyone else food obsessed?
It was lovely reading about your spinach/egg recipe. The attention to detail reminds me so much of, well...me. Before starting this diet (or I should say restarting), I could easily walk into the kitchen, open the fridge and just shove something in my mouth without any thought whatsoever. The sugar and the sugary softdrinks I've quit altogether. And now before I cook anything, I'm going through recipes, thinking, planning. How can I make this beef or chicken different, interesting...what can I do to dress it up? And so I can go for something a bit more interesting, or with a bit more flavor, or a workaround to another dish that used to have flour or bread and now has something else--mashed cauliflower, for example. There's a whole creative mindset that kicks into gear. I'm spending just as much time consorting with food as I ever did--but now, I'm bouncing from fitday to the USDA nutrition site to www.nutritiondata.com to just mentally wandering through my cupboards wallowing in recipe possibilities instead of actually eating. It's almost deliberately obsessive compulsive--replacing the evil old habits with something less destructive. > It was lovely reading about your spinach/egg recipe. The attention to > detail reminds me so much of, well...me. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > It's almost deliberately obsessive compulsive--replacing the evil old > habits with something less destructive. YES!!! You just described my experience as well - exactly! The planning and organizing and counting and researching has made up a huge part my life also, where before the mindless grabbing-whatever's-there-because-I'm-bored-or-too-busy-to-fix-anything-else took up a bigger part. The creativity and examining the possibilities is just as much fun as watching the numbers on the scale go down :).  SignatureSherry 364/290/195 LC since 4/4/05; eating LC but not for weight loss since 4/1/06 I wish I could change my mindset so food was not so important. From the minute I wake up in the morning the first thought is what will I eat for breakfast (or on weekends, lunch). Even the night before I'm thinking what I might want to eat tomorrow (and I'm single). Sometimes when I'm bored I study menus, and select things I want to eat off the menu should I go there some day. How can a person who needs to lose 100 pounds, and cannot get herself to exercise, stop obsessing over food so much? > I wish I could change my mindset so food was not so important. From the > minute I wake up in the morning the first thought is what will I eat for [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > some day. How can a person who needs to lose 100 pounds, and cannot get > herself to exercise, stop obsessing over food so much? I totally understand how you feel. There was a time when I couldn't even hear a piece of paper crinkling without thinking of food. I couldn't watch the tele without wanting what I saw. I was obsessed with the Food Channel. I couldn't pass a billboard. There was a time when I ate from sun up to sun down. I would eat ANYTHING whether it had flavor or not. I ate mostly for texture. I had to eat until it hurt. Then, I would have to get rid of it all with laxatives. Food obsession, to me, is like any other mental disorder and may require some support from those who have successfully overcome theirs. Have you considered any Overeaters Anonymous meetings? I wonder if they would help? ~Carol Ann Offhand do you know if there are OEA meetings online? I live in a small town, and would not feel comfortable attending any kind of "support" meetings. Maybe I should go to the library, maybe there are books on the subject to get me started. > Offhand do you know if there are OEA meetings online? I live in a small > town, and would not feel comfortable attending any kind of "support" > meetings. Maybe I should go to the library, maybe there are books on the > subject to get me started. http://www.oa.org/index.htm I like to browse through recipes, several newsgroups are on my reading list, and I can easily spot good ones that often can be great for LC with just minor changes. A lot of recipes have a tablespoon or so of sugar that is absolutely unnecessary, in fact I would omit this even before LC as my SO doesn't like the sweetness. I try things and if they're good they go into my repertoire to be put into the rotation. In news:2006052809473016807-novelspotstaffdusty@yahoocom, Dusty <novelspotstaff-dusty@yahoo.com> stated | It was lovely reading about your spinach/egg recipe. The attention to | detail reminds me so much of, well...me. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] | compulsive--replacing the evil old habits with something less | destructive. > It was lovely reading about your spinach/egg recipe. The attention to > detail reminds me so much of, well...me. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > compulsive--replacing the evil old habits with something less > destructive. That's why I joined rec.food.cooking. ;-) More ideas.... Not a low carbing list but there sevcral there. I'm grilling chicken hindquarters today ($.51 per lb.) and they are marinating in that new Kraft "South Beach Italian dressing" that they came out with and just a little added fajita seasoning. I'll grill them over mesquite. Side dish will be kebabs made with shrimp, whole mushrooms and thick cut zuchinni medallions. I'll also serve a small garden salad with a little more of that dressing. It's quite good and has an excellent nutritional breakdown. ;-d SignaturePeace! Om "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson Tonight was my son's birthday and he wanted to eat at home. (Damn, i was hoping for a shot at crab at red lobster!) He wanted chinese. So I did a stir fry with tofu, cauliflower, broccoli and water chestnuts, egg foo young (a dozen beaten eggs with a couple of minced cooked chicken tenders, dash of salt, couple of cups of bean sprouts) which is fried in about 2 tbsp portions in oil. I didn't touch the gravy or the rice, but I did have the egg foo young and a little of the stir fry. And a cuppa hot tea, and diet hansons lime/tangerine. My whole (skinny) family would be low carbing if I didn't feed them their rice or potatoes or pasta. I didn't have any birthday ice cream cake though I did drink my secret weapon when they were eating it-- My secret weapon? Ahhh, suisse mocha (diet.) General foods makes one of their low cal coffees without gobs of added powdered milk carbs. I didn't add cream because...well...my quart of cream has turned to sour cream. Allie aka Dusty |
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