By diet I don't mean I'm going on a diet, but rather what I'm eating. I mentioned chocolate chip cookies in my last post and I have indeed been enjoying them...very much in excess. I always kick myself for making or bringing in certain sweets into the house. There are foods I simply have no control over. Candy, cookies, pie, cake, and even ice cream at times. Sugar is like crack for me. I take medications to sleep and if I wake up in the middle of the night I will go out to the kitchen and binge. Partly this is due to the medications. They can give me the munchies and also I'm half asleep and therefore I don't have a whole lot of self control or even self awareness at the time. It got so bad that if there was something in the house that I was likely to "sleep eat" my husband would hide it before bed. I know, pretty pathetic. It does work though.
Since I've started yoga my appetite for sweets hasn't really lessened (see above), but it's easier to avoid the foods. This is a pattern I've noticed before. When I'm exercising regularly I pay more attention to what I'm putting in my mouth and I tend to make better food choices in general. One thing that seems different with yoga vs. other forms of exercising is the change in my appetite. In the past my appetite would increase. With yoga I find it hard to find anything that sounds good. Except for the sweets of course. But when lunch or dinner time rolls around I struggle, food doesn't appeal to me and often I feel as if I'm forcing it down just to get something in my stomach. From what I've read this isn't abnormal. Most people notice a change in their appetite when doing Bikram, either an increase or a decrease. This isn't necessarily static, it can always shift and change. For now I think the best thing I can do is keep the sugar out of the house and find a few things that don't completely disgust me food wise (today I made a smoothie and added some protein to it).
Side note: I'm definitely more thirsty. During class today my thoughts kept wandering to how good a gigantic lemonade would taste. So I picked one up at Subway on the way home, at least it was the light kind. :-)
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Do you like fruits? I went through a sweetie phase and did the juicing and smoothie business daily. And you can mix all sorts of fancy stuff in that you normally can't stand to eat. I would do orange carrot and apple base (they are the cheapest) and then add some veg. You can't taste anything but orange and apple. I actual have an extra juicer if you want to give it a try!
ReplyDeleteeating is my hardest challenge especially for a 6pm class. I especially hate it when I've eaten too much in the afternoon and then my stomach feels disgusting and in the way when I do the half moon forward bend. yuck. I much prefer 6:15am classes for this reason - my stomach is much emptier and doesn't feel as squished in that position :)
ReplyDeleteA--I love fruits and am a big smoothie fan. I try to steer clear of juice because I tend to overdue it (because it's sooo good) and it's not as filling. Thanks for the ideas...I really should try stuff I don't normally have.
ReplyDeleteC--Thanks for stopping by! I love having class first thing in the morning too, unfortunately my schedule doesn't allow for it, boooo! :(