I like the title of this post because it makes me feel I really achieved something after I had gotten my work lunches all figured out and then started looking at what else I could find in my radar to blitz! I saw pasta and often thought it was really only a filler and had no real nutritional value of its own. So after doing some research, I discovered I was right! Pasta hasta go!
I read some things that I'm pretty sure loads of folks haven't a clue about and happily carry on stuffing their faces with all the different shapes and sizes of pasta they can cover in some kinda sauce. I know so, cause I used to do it too! Yeah, I loved spaghetti bolognaise like everyone else and would happily ladel huge portions onto my plate, eating it as fast as I could to get it all down me before it went cold. Well, no more!
You know, pasta is made from refined white flour and I learned a thing or two about that very common item in everyone's kitchen pantry. Folks, its empty calories! It rates high on the Glycemic Index for carbohydrates that make your blood sugar level zoom up and then come crashing down an hour or so later. You get a rush of energy, followed by a burst of insulin that grabs the excess sugars in your blood and carries them away to be processed into fat! Yes, FAT!
I couldn't believe what I was reading, but its true enough. It turns out there's a helluva lot of products made with refined white flour and pasta is one of them. I made the decision to cut pasta out of my diet completely thanks to learning this stuff about it. I know there is brown pasta that's made with whole wheat flour and its supposed to be tons better for you, but I tried it and I didn't like it much, so I think its netter to just draw a line under that one and find other things to eat that I can enjoy just as much without them carrying all that calorie and fat baggage.
Well, I didn't do anything different to what I have been doing except I don't eat pasta any more over the last eight weeks. Yeah, I know it’s a long time and its okay, cause I have decided to go at this slowly and steadily after all. But after eight weeks, my weight has dropped a little, but only a little to 186 pounds. That another 6 pounds off and I'm still pretty happy about that cause its going in the right direction.
Categories: diet
