Steak, Potatoes, and Gratitude

I took my wife to Outback for dinner Sunday night and ordered a 14 oz. New York strip steak with a loaded baked potato on the side.  I probably overdid things slightly since I left completely stuffed and thats okay.  I was able to treat myself to a special meal out that didn’t have the least bit of refined sugar or white flour.  By the way it is almost midnight and I’m still satisfied from dinner and not in the least bit hungry.

When we used to go out I would inevitably end up getting the burger and fries entree preceeded by a deep fried appetizer and wash it all down with four to six glasses of soda.  I would leave the restaurant absolutely engorged with food and still be “hungry” enough to eat again before bed.  As much as I miss some of the food I’m not eating, I definitely enjoy eating now more than I ever have.

At the end I was constantly eating tons of fast food and downing enormous amounts of Coke when it didn’t even appeal to my sense of taste anymore.  I was incapable of taking much satisfaction out of eating anything at that point.  I would guess that I probably ate twice as much and only got a fraction of the nutrition I do from the way I eat now.  Oh and I was probably four times more miserable.

I actually notice what I eat now and enjoy much more variety.  Things are a lot less chaotic once a person actually stabilizes his or her blood sugar and gets a more accurate vision of how the human appetite works when it has not been hijacked by the surges and crashes caused by a sugar heavy diet.  Even better is the knowledge that I never have to go back to the unmanageability of how I used to eat if I don’t choose to.