Friday, February 10, 2023
Yeesh. Last night may have been the worst one yet. Pizza, breadsticks and they threw in a cookie because they screwed up my order and I had to wait. Ugh. And because it was the Hut it was all saturated in oil and you just feel even worse than you should feel after eating all that. Actually it's vaguely disturbing that I don't feel worse yet and this morning it's just some bloat and a lot of backup.
I was actually very surprised that the scale wasn't a LOT worse. I predicted several pounds higher with an outlier number equal to my recent high, actuality wasn't any of that, just a little, and I'll lose that once the system unbinds. So it could be worse. Much worse.
Anyway, I was already thinking about it, but that meal really got me to thinking about industrial oils. We'll call them seed oils, since canola/rapeseed, grapeseed, cottonseed, soybean, peanut, they're all going to fall in the same bucket here. They are in EVERYTHING. It's insane. It's no wonder we're all fat, we eat crap and that crap has these added seed oils that make it even worse. You can hardly eat out or buy anything processed and feel like you've avoided them.
So much of it is so unnecessary, too. I mean, there is a boatload of seed oil in commercial pizza. There is typically none in the pizza I make at home. It's true of bread products in general. Some of it I get, they care about shelf life and stuff, but some of it is pointless. Okay, that's not the right word. I guess I'll stick with unnecessary.
If I have the time I may delve into a day or more and outline just how challenging it can be, see what that looks like. I definitely would like to try again to really cut them out of my life as much as possible. It will never be likely that I hit 100% -- too many social issues with that -- but I can definitely get close. Eating out, which happens and especially during golf season, will be a problem. But I eat 80% or so of my meals solo and I can control those. So let's do it.
Whew, lots of words. Maybe not 10k, but lots.
Breakfast: Coffee
Unsurprisingly, I am not the least bit hungry. I will double check the box but I'm pretty sure that Meijer bold coffee pods contain nothing except coffee. (Edit: Confirmed. No oils.)
Lunch: Soup, grilled cheese
Standard. One of the best grilled cheeses I've had lately. First of the new batch of soup and it's intentionally a lot less soupy. Will be more hearty.
Oil check: Bread is clean. I bought the one loaf I could find the other day in the grocery store from the local bakery outfit that didn't have oil as an ingredient. I don't use oil when I bake bread at home, so I know it's not needed. Butter, clean. Cheese -- checked the label, it's clean. So none in the sandwich. Soup should also be clean - I sautee the veggies in butter (though in this batch I also used a little EVOO). The garlic is packed in olive oil, I don't buy the other kind. The ground beef, carrots, celery, onion are unprocessed. Nothing in the can of tomatoes. Actually I still need to check the labels on the V-8 and beef broth. Both should be clean. (Edit: Whew, they are).
Dinner: Roast beef sandwich, Boulder Canyon olive oil chips, 12 oz Miller Lite
Satisfactory.
Oil check: Clean. Same bread, Meijer roast beef, Cabot cojack cheese, butter, French's mustard. Went olive oil over avo oil for the chips, they were good. Beer. Had a Starry Zero Sugar a bit later.
So I managed a clean day but there was always nagging doubt. I mean I checked the labels on cheese and mustard and coffee FFS.
Exercise: Nope.
55.4
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