After an extended period of back-sliding, I’m back on the low-glycemic wagon.  Due to a raft of stress-inducing circumstances over the last couple of years I’d gradually gone back to less-than-healthy eating habits, which lead to weight gain, and general unwellness. 

In the last month or so, the backbone has reasserted itself, and I’m back to eating low or no sugar added foods, wheat and “low carb” bread products (mostly low carb tortillas, which I happen to like anyway) and a lot more fruits and vegetables.  Not only have a lost a few pounds, but I feel way better.  I’m always amazed at how much of a difference diet makes in everyday wellbeing. 

It does take a while to power through the week or two of feeling like you are starving to death all the time, but the worst is over. 

The other thing that really makes a difference for me is the realization/remembrance of the fact that cooking is one of the things that really brings me joy, and when life gets “too busy” to cook I suffer for it more than just through eating crappy, soul-less food.  With that perspective in mind, it’s that much easier to make time to prepare tasty healthy food.  And it doesn’t really take as much time as all that to make a real difference in the quality of the food we eat.

OK, ranting finished.  Hopefully I’ll have some interesting cooking to report on soon.