yeah, I think I am going to lay down and set the alarm for 7. Then go to bed at 9 or 10.

I am watching the Germans and the Italians not score. It's a fun game, though. And nice not to have a dog in this fight, so I don't get worked up.

I am always amazed at what people don't know about nutrtion. I recently had some complain about the wide variety of foods things. As if it meant they had to eat tons of different food. every day -- when what it means is different food groups every day

actually - to get your greens - steam or sautee greens, add a layer of grains and then the protien layer.

I couldn't sleep, so now I have showered, and have a grocery list, and put outside pants on. I am pretty sure I am even going to make it out of the house soon.

Only to the local safeway though--I'll do a TJs run tomorrow for actual shopping.

steam or sautee greens, add a layer of grains and then the protien layer

Heh. These days, I don't seem to be making it to the grains layer. I'll happily eat a pork chop and be done with it.

A little while back I IMed Kat for details about when to take the asparagus out of the oven. I think the first thing she asked was if I had anyone over.

The asparagus was great (if cooked, which is not optimal) and I ate the serving all up. There was just no way I was finishing the rest of the packet before it went bad.

I need to sit down and plan this stuff out hard. Each time I do, I don't keep all the improvements, but I do keep some.

Lee, is your headache better?

It's amazing how challenging feeding yourself can be.

So, if you were preparing to move abroad for the forseeable future, what would you do to get your affairs in order before you left?

I'm going to learn about nutrition, tomorrow, ita.

I want to know how many calories I actually need, how much protein and what sort of carbs. I need to know why it is that I constantly crave bread, I'd eat nothing but fresh bread and cheese all day if I didn't know it was bad for me to do so.

My doctor says it's "good peasant stock" given my family history, which doesn't suit my first world life. Both of my great grandmothers (and grandfathers) went through periods of starvation in their lives, and so on fa back into my genetic history. So I think maybe there's something inside my skull that wants the carbohydrates and fat.

The other thing about bread and cheese is that they contain the same amino acid in turkey that makes one sleepy. Sleepiness aside, there's evidence that tryptophan triggers a rise in seratonin, the lack of which causes my depression.

So I think I'm getting a double whammy in fattening foods. Knowing why makes it easier to control, though.

I'm just really excited about learning to eat properly for the first time in my life. No, no one ever taught it in school.

ita - think cooked greens will do most of what raw ones will. And cooked greens mix well with protein. I know cooking loses some vitamins - but you still have most of the nutrition plus all of the fiber. So if you can do cooked spinach and still get your protein and complex carbs you are doing well. From what I gather you are saying even this is tough? If you eat cooked spinach you will eat fewer of other foods?

Other than liking bread and pasta, all my natural instincts regarding food seem to point in a healthy, low-fat direction. Yet my metabolism's ability to sift everything I eat (and apparently the air around me) for every last bit of cholesterol works to defeat good intentions at every turn.

Oh well, at least it also seems to deal with large amounts of sodium without difficulty.

I know cooking loses some vitamins

This is a myth. Heat makes far more nutrients available for human absorption (heat breaks down cellulose more efficiently than human teeth) than are lost by the cooking process.