It all began like any normal Monday, get up, get ready and go to spin class! I threw my bananas in my bag and headed to teach class. I usually push myself pretty hard, I love a good challenge, but today I decided to really crank the tension up and focus on hills!! The hour flew by, I was drenched in sweat, legs shaking, and I was starving!!! I began to eat my bananas...and did so in between training my clients. I was down to the last banana, number 7. I knew that 7 bananas wasn't enough.
As hungry as I was, I decided to make a "quick" stop at Walmart to grab some crafts I needed for my vow renewal projects...and then it happened! After walking through the craft section for about a half hour, I was ready to eat my own arm :( What was I doing...I needed to get home and eat! But...instead I got a bag of raw almonds to eat on the ride home! So...first mistake fruit & nuts...never go well together. Second...when hungry, fat (almonds are a high fat food) will not work. I was in need of fruit, water, carbs!!!
Despite knowing better, my hunger took over and I ate almonds. Each bite was actually worse than the other....not satisfying at all! Bland, boring, dry...now I was thirsty :( Finally home, I grab a huge bowl of cherries!! Not only was I still hungry, but I had a bloated belly and a little tummy ache...but hungry enough to ignore it.
The cherries were amazing I ate about a pound and then they were gone...still hungry! I reached for mangoes!!! I peel the first one and it was too ripe, pretty much gone bad :( Now...there is nothing worse than the taste of bad fruit, omg, gross! Peel the second one...and I could not get the awful taste out of my mouth! Time to move on...leave the mangoes alone!
At this point, fruit was not going to happen, I was still hungry and needed energy. I was already bloated and uncomfortable from the banana-almond-cherry combo, now here goes the next worst thing I could have done: EAT CRACKERS, lol! I needed something, quick while I prepared dinner! Nom, nom, nom, went the crackers! As I waited for dinner, my stomach ache turned into gas and even more bloating (gross I know) and I looked about 5 months pregnant! Not to mention I was in terrible pain and tired :( My energy was plummeting, I was under carbed, I under ate, and then filled my belly with poorly combined foods...that were now slowing me down. My body went into over-drive to digest this terrible combination! So I made a cup of coffee, lol!!! Now I was asking for it! And then I ate my cooked meal horribly bloated,strangly hungry and uncomfortable.
One would think, but all these foods are semi healthy and vegan, so what happened?
1st. Waiting till you are starving to eat is a really bad (terrible) idea. You tend to eat too fast, make bad choices, and this will cause you to bloat and usually over eat.
2nd. Practicing food combining is important when you eat a clean, natural diet (any diet really, but it is hard to food combine on the S.A.D). Stomach aches become a thing of the past...and when something like this happens, it is very painful. Your body lets you know quickly that it is not happy with you! Unlike people on a S.A.D, where gas, bloating, heart burn and indigestion is a normal occurrence...this is not normal for me. I have become a clean, really efficient machine!
3rd. Mixing fresh fruit & cooked food (crackers) and coffee is not ever a good idea. It causes very poor digestion as well as fermentation...hence the gas, sour stomach, belching, etc. This is one rule I try very hard to not break! It is not optimal to allow fermentation to occur in the body!
What could I have done different. EVERYTHING!! I should have prepared a smoothie in the morning, drank it on the way to spin...and packed dates as well as bananas. I should have gone straight home as the hunger increased...starving myself to do some shopping was a bad decision!
We all have those days, we are human...tomorrow is a new day :)
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