Grains

When you go on a low carb diet, people often ask about what you can and can't eat. They often lament the lack of grains. I don't actually love grains, so while I occasionally miss crackers as a tasty, salt-covered cheese-holder or rice as a bland base for a tasty sauce, I don't actually have any desire to eat wheat or rice. Recently, because I am having to eat more and more carbs (I'm up to 113g/day) to keep from passing out or collapsing, I have started eating some grains. I started with oatmeal. It is boring, so I eat it with yogurt, applesauce, and peanuts. Today, I added some banana (cutting out some of the oats). At the start of this week, I added in some quinoa to my lunch. That didn't work out well, but buckwheat (beloved by Russian cuisine, although not by all Russians) seems fine. However, I don't actually look forward to the grains. I look forward to the vegetables and fruits (and peanuts and cheese). On the flip side, the grains give me a lot more energy. Tomorrow and Sunday, I'm going to experiment with eating starchier fruits and vegetables (peas in with my farmer's cheese and cucumber for first breakfast and more banana instead of oatmeal to go with my yogurt, applesauce, and peanuts for second breakfast). I'll keep the tiny bit (10g) of buckwheat that I'm eating with lunch for now. Depending on how that goes, I may try to find a yam at the store and put that in the diet somewhere. I absolutely adore then, so we'll see.

I don't intend (at the moment) to go back to a "normal" diet. Eating unweighed, unplanned food regularly is guaranteed to lead to instability. I can't eat wheat, eggs, or nightshades, anyway. Besides, who cares about grains when you can eat a delicious yam?