Is It Just ... Salt??

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

As I was eating way too many almonds last night, it hit me.  Is it just the salt?  

I mean, nearly all of the foods I eat to excess are loaded with salt.  Chips, chain pizza, nuts.  Is it more that I'm craving the salt than the actual item?  I'm not sure that's 100% it, especially in the case of pizza, but it may be a big big factor.  I occasionally crave sweet but not nearly as often.  Binges on sweet aren't as often, though I certainly can eat ice cream or cookies to excess.  Most of the time, though, it's salt.  And not always -- much of the time I can control my nut intake, for example.  But not always.  I can control my popcorn intake.

Hmm.  Something to ponder on some more.  But for now, I'm going to try dialing back the salt.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup and toast, raspberries

Standard, plus some fruit.  They were on sale this weekend.  They were ... uninspiring.  Not notably tasty or the least bit juicy, more fibrous and just blah.  Strawberries are better.

Dinner:  Leftover roast beef, tomato gravy, leftover bacon, roll with butter, 12 oz All Day IPA

Cleanup.  Still have bacon left but wiped out the beef, gravy and roll.  Going to let that sit a half hour and see how I feel - the satiety feeling has definitely NOT kicked in yet, which has been annoyingly common of late.

Add popcorn.

Exercise:  Nope.  Did get lots of sleep and woke up at a reasonable hour, so a little encouraged by that.  No end to winter in sight though.

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