Carb Counting Part 1

Today has been an interesting day.  I had a less than stellar breakfast, but it used what I had in the house to use.  I was hungry through a good chunk of work, but my breakfast lasted with me far longer than my lunch did.  My lunch lasted for about 2 hours before it left me starving.  Why did I ever eat spaghetti and meat sauce?  I mean, I love the way it tastes.  It's savory and mildly sweet with plenty of good, chewy textures.  However, it goes right through me.  I feel full and then I crash.

Sadly I'm not as done with pasta as I thought I was.

le sigh.

I "cleaned" out my pantry, which means I really just put everything on the kitchen table so that I could get a good look at it.  I need to see what I have left to use, and I think Rob and I have enough food to last us approximately two weeks... except for that we ran out of eggs.  My blood sugar won't stay in a good way out of most of the stuff we have in the house, and I'm making some "left overs" for tomorrow.  I'm going to be testing my freshly made coconut milk.  I hope it doesn't taste too bad.  If it does I'm going to have to give my husband my wonderful dinner that I made for me and the mess... and put the leftovers away for.

Not enough for him and left overs for work tomorrow.

I wish I could work without eating like my husband can.  Sadly, my crank-o-meter goes off when I'm hungry and I can't do customer service that way!

So, today was a pretty slow day in the Box, and I was thinking about carbs.  Not about counting my own personal consumption of them, but what people say about the Paleo diet and it being "low carb".  From what I've read of it so far, it isn't necessarily low carb unless someone is trying to lose weight and isn't expending enough energy to eat up their carbs before it turns to fat or whatever.

Personally, I don't see it as low carb.  I once went on a "diet" where I got shots and had pills to suppress my appetite in order for me to lose weight at a stupidly fast rate.  I was restricted to 1000 calories a day and I was told that I should keep my carb count under 30.  Do you have any idea how impossible that is?  I ate the low fat yoplait yogurt because it had volume and low calories and that had, if I remember correctly, 42 g of carbohydrates in and of itself.  It also made it impossible to eat anything but the most unappealing stuff like lettuce with 0 calorie dressing that felt like liquid rubber and didn't taste too much better.

My parents swore by that stuff and it still grosses me out thinking about it.

So, I think that I'm going to be compiling a list of things I ate on a normal day of my SAD diet in all it's horrible magnitude and count up the carbs I ate.  Then I'm going to make a list of things I ate trying to do the "heart healthy" grains, legumes, and other such foods plant based diet and do the same.  Then I will do an ideal Paleo day and see how my carb counts look.  I bet it won't be as "low-carb" as critics think.

On another note, I remember my chiropractor from days long past saying that I was allergic to milk.  I hope that isn't the case.  I'm really hoping to eat Primal.