The last time I had a salad obsession I ate salads at every opportunity for 6 months. I lost interest when I didn't lose weight and when I didn't gain weight on large portions of meat.
Recently I've tweaked the salad regimen by adding wakame bits and sun dried tomato slices, which cranks up the enjoyment (like I needed that?!) I also add bacon bits to counter the light seaweed taste of the wakame. The chewability gives it a meat like feel. My salad obsession has exploded back.
The main motivations of eating salads, besides just the crunchy factor, is the feeling of well being, similar to the intermittent fasting. Since I accidentally trained my body to burn fat instead of carbs, my hunger pangs are very mild, unnoticeable if I am busy or occupied. A salad is one way to keep myself joyfully occupied, even when others are eating other things in front of me.
The wakame and dried tomato slices are also surprisingly filling. If I should find myself in the unlikely dilemma of losing too much weight (knowing how my body tenaciously, with kicking and screaming, holds on to every globule of fat, I think it unlikely) I will have to drag my self away from salads intermittently and load up on double whoppers. with bacon. For me, it sounds like a win-win.
Next post: After two big meals on Friday and Saturday (thanks, Pablo Montez for last nights delicious dinner!) I am down 4 pounds. The difference to my latest salad obsession is Wakame sea weed flakes, which are reputed to help with weight loss. I think the Wakame flakes have calmed my body into not panicking when I eat less.
To help with the mild fishy odor, I sprinkle a teaspoon of flakes on the bottom of a bowl. I put in dashes of soy sauce, sriracha, liquid smoke, and Ranch, and sprinkle bacon bits in, then add salad ingredients. including sun dried tomato strips.
I realize I am not normal. I get obsessive and compulsive. I really, really love this salad. I will be able to take the Wakame flakes with me when we eat out and add it to a soup or salad when I need to eat light, for a long nights drive ahead.
Final post: God is good.
My body's weight loss mechanism has 2 very stubborn set points, 305 pounds and 300 pounds.
Last week I broke, for the umpteenth time, the 305 set point. But I was delighted to see that my body did not take emergency fat building powers. I hovered as much below the set point as I did above.
4 PM is my low point for the day. Today at 4 PM I weighed 299 pounds, a historic low, since I've been married to Mary and retired, two simultaneous and life changing events.
Wakame sea weed, my latest change to my diet, has a reputation for aiding weight loss. My experience seems to verify that. It appears to help set points.
It also helps with my main goal of eating and not eating to feel better. (I practice intermittent fasting). I am also enjoying other benefits, such as more available time and less expense.
May I say it again?
God is good.
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