I probably should have done this before menopause

I am back down to 139 but probably because I didn't eat dinner last night. I made a dish of roasted veggies and shrimp for lunch. I was full halfway through (miracle of miracles!) and ended up eating the last bit at 3:30. I had some nuts at dinner time.

This feeling of hunger or not is what hunger feels like. Once you eat enough you get full and can't and don't want to eat anything else. A feeling of insatiable hunger is a craving. You want to avoid all foods that give you that feeling. For me it is not only sugary things, but anything with white flour, red meat, cheese, fried stuff like french fries and chips of all kinds. Read on.

The Rising Childhood Obesity Epidemic
Posted on March 10, 2011 by helenpapas| Leave a comment

March 04, 2011

Helen Papaconstantinos, R.N.C.P., R.O.H.P.

http://helenpapas.wordpress.com/category/glycemic-index/

Another reason to stay away – cheap processed food is biologically addictive:

Foods made ‘in a plant’ (rather than grown on a plant), as Michael Pollan would say, are biologically addictive.[17] Sugar stimulates the brain’s reward centers through the neurotransmitter dopamine exactly like other addictive drugs.[18] Brain imagining (PET scans) show that high-sugar and high-fat foods work just like heroin, opium, or morphine in the brain.[19] Both obese people and drug addicts have fewer dopamine receptors, making them more likely to crave things that boost dopamine and that feeling of reward. Foods high in fats will also raise opiate-like substances. And just like drugs, after an initial period of “enjoyment” the user starts regularly consuming them to feel normal.