Over the past few weeks I have been pretty hit and miss with this diet. As I've mentioned before, my decision to go on maintenance was premature. However, it's been difficult trying to get back on the diet. I'll have a few good days, then something will happen and I'll eat something I'm not supposed to eat. The next day I go back on ... then a few days later ... I eat again.
Sigh.
However, it's important to note the lessons I've learned from this. When I've eaten "real" food, I actually don't feel good. It's less about stomach pain from not having eaten food in a while and more (I believe) about not getting the nutrients I have been getting from the meal replacement. It's kind of fascinating, really. When I have eaten "real" food, I have felt lethargic, draggy and almost depressed for at least a day. Then, I go back on the meal replacements, and within a day or two my energy is back and I am feeling good again. I think it's a real demonstration about the power of food.
Now, if my meals had been full of nutrients, something like a spinach salad, it might have been different. However, other than my first few meal attempts at maintenance, my diet was anything but super-healthy. Again, a good less on the power of food.
It's important to remember that food is supposed to fuel our bodies to help them run properly. Most of my life food has been something to enjoy. I really need to wrap my head around a different way of thinking about food. This isn't anything that's going to happen immediately. It's taken 43 (ahem) years to get to this point ... and it won't take a few weeks or even months to reframe my thinking.
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