Perhaps not. Especially when said Excel chart merely answers that quotidian question "What did you eat today?" But it can provide structure if one is in need of such a thing, and I is. (Sorry, I've been watching Tina Fey on 30 Rock**).
I like eating with rules, it turns out. It's easier to eat healthy when I'm set on shunning certain items. It becomes a black and white world where I don't even think of anything containing dairy, wheat, meat, or sugar as an option and, for me, that's liberating. More liberating than choosing from an array of things with no guidelines whatsoever except what I want. How conflicting. Why wouldn't I want baked cheese? To feel lithe and not lethargic? I can do that tomorrow. Free choice is simply a burden I cannot shoulder right now.
Hence, the Excel chart, which I started this Friday. I'm allowing myself two allowances a week of the aforementioned dairy, wheat, meat, and sugar, so I better make it count. I love all sorts of food too much to give up on one category altogether, but this way I won't fritter away valued dairy and sugar slots on Oreo cookies dunked in milk, unless I really want them. Nothing keeps me in check like a multi-colored font system.
And in the meantime, I hope to build up a repertoire of dishes emphasizing vegetables, fruits, and healthy grains that are worth repeating for sheer taste value. Anthony Bourdain says vegetarians have no palates. And he's right in a way. Once you start cooking for yourself a lot and eating mostly simply prepared vegetables and natural foods, restaurant food can taste salty and maybe too unctuous and rich. But, perhaps that's the better palate--to be more sensitive. To have a raisin taste super sweet.
**A show obsessed with food, by the way. To wit: main character Liz decides not to break up with her boyfriend after he brings her a meatball sub; Jenna gains a significant amount of weight starring in the Broadway adaptation of Mystic Pizza; and Alec Baldwin's Jack, post-heart attack, makes people eat red meat so he can watch.
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Posted by: Tiffany Rings | January 27, 2011 at 01:52 AM