Sunday, March 28, 2010

Return of the monster cravings!

It is 6 32 I am in my hotel room, and I have been having my first monster bout of cravings in a great while. they started last night at about 6pm and they are still here this morning :(
Last night I was sort of climbing the walls. I am trying to figure out why, these are my suppositions...

  • On Friday I ate 3 servings of fruit, 2 of which I had not done the recommended slow introduction of. Bananas (which I shall not miss at all) and oranges. I am going to cut them out again, although I had forgotten how blissful oranges were. I know I can take apples and grapes, so I will return to phase 1 for 2 days when I get home, and then re-introduce oranges and hope they were not the culprits. I also ate white rice with my sushi and that is a south beach no-no, so it might just have been that, perhaps my GI was spiked.
  • Saturday I needed to order take out as I do not live close to a grocery store and I have no car while I am here, the only available options were pizza and chinese food, so I tried the less of 2 evils (I thought) and ordered shrimp and veggies, however they were cooked with some sauce, which I ate, and perhaps it triggered the cravings.
  • I am not on a regular food schedule, I have been careful to be ultra organized through this, and that has paid dividends (when I know I am working over lunchtime I ALWAYS pack a salad and string cheese which is kind of an unsung star of south beach astonishingly, it works like a charm for me actually, and I should have thrown a bag in my suitcase before leaving) Lack of organization leaves me vulnerable to cravings! One of the cornerstones to South Beach is a pretty constant eating schedule. It is actually something I can find exceedingly unpleasant about this, as I feel like I am constantly feeding myself, but it actually works very well at keeping hunger at bay, and I will return to it ASAP.
  • I have one more day in the hotel, and then tomorrow I leave early for a horribly disjointed flight back to Philly via Detroit... yeuch, connecting flights in the US are such an extraordinary gamble and in my experience I do not make the second leg around 50% of the time. Once I get to the airport I have a game plan though, the cob salad from Au Bon Pan is usually pretty high quality food, and nice and filling...so just 24 hours of white knuckling or perhaps I will be over this by tomorrow.
  • The singer I am covering feels much better today, and so she will be going on, and I wonder if just that huge release of tension made me want to 'reward' myself with food as I would have before. They say it takes 3 months to create a habit, I have only done my time for just over 30 days now, so 60 to go before hopefully I don't have to worry about strong cravings anymore. plus I will have learned my lesson about traveling... always pack string cheese!

Okay it is very early but I decided to blog instead of eat the ice cream, which is calling my name, my first ice cream craving in weeks in fact, the coke craving is somewhat ever present but has become very strong again. I wish junk food were banned from hotels...lol, yes I am becoming the grinch who stole junk food.

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