What to do with the food stock?
Probably everyone, who are eating at home on a day to day basis, have a pretty significant amount of different foods in stock. Beans, rice, some dressings and sauces, canned stuff—you name it.
When the time comes to change the diet dramatically, the dilemma arises: what to do with all that carefully picked and aptly stacked eatable goodness. It’s great if you were stocking only the healthy foods that will fit your brand new diet, but this scenario is the most unrealistic one—if you are keeping only the healthy groceries inside the cabinets of your kitchen, you have no need to change your diet. In the real life scenario the problem is real and should be thought out well before taking any action.
On the first thought the one who are adopting the new diet could experience the urge to throw it out into the garbage without remorse. It works perfectly well with the cigarettes—it’s nearly impossible to quit when there are packs of your favorite brand cigarettes lying around the house (and not so favorite, even cheap, filterless ones). Same with the booze.
Despite the fact that sweets can certainly make you crave for them (and there is an actual biology behind these cravings), no sugars, no starches are not even close as addictive as the nicotine and alcohol.
On the other hand, any groceries cost money. And sometimes, quite a lot of. Also, the food crisis is becoming more and more imminent as the topsoil is disappearing, fish of the oceans is dying out of overfishing, fresh water resources are deteriorating at an alarming rate and demand is growing every single day. In the world of today it is not only just unwise to mindlessly throw out valuable goods, it’s irresponsible.
If you won’t throw out all the unhealthy foods on the first day, it won’t really harm your diet unless you will use this may be not so honorable fact as a self-excuse to go off the diet. It means, this is the question of willpower.
It surely slow down the progression a bit, but I, personally, truly believe that when it comes to the diet, there is no room for hurry. Several days of mixing up healthy and unhealthy foods won’t hurt you more than the years of constant overeating. Furthermore, it will help to smooth down the transition to the whole new nutrition habits.
In the case of the low-carb, low glycemic index diets, the unhealthy foods are mostly starchy and sugary ones. Everybody who start the low GI, low-carb diet are experiencing increased hunger and sweets cravings for the first couple of weeks. And the more carbohydrates they will intake, the stronger cravings they will feel and for the longer period of time.
So, if you are stockpiled for the sweets and cookies, give ‘em away or though ‘em out without remorse. Same with the pasta, frozen pizza and such things. If your kitchen cabinets hide the packs of muesli or beans inside, use it up slowly, eating them in small quantities, like the quarter of your usual serving.
However, this doesn’t work if you are going for the ketogenic diet. Eating muesli and beans won’t let your body enter the state of ketosis. So if you are starting keto, either plan your grocery shopping ahead, or give away/through out the food that doesn’t fit, i.e. the foods with high carbohydrates content.
What to do with the food stock? was posted by Vitali K. on 16th January 2012 as part of the Lifestyle section. Share your links or pictures with us by email: paradoxoff@gmail.com. Check the front page for the latest posts or use navigation links below: