calorie awareness

[Guest guest]

I was wondering the other day if any food-calorie

lists, list the actual calories and other constituents

per UNIT as consumed. What made me think about

this was eating nuts. Eating these tempts me to take

just one more. Shelling peanuts, i was thinking, how

many calories each peanut? How many calories for

each walnut, or for each broken walnut piece? How

many calories for each spoonful of sweetpotato? Well,

i suppose i will have to work this out for myself. I

do not think this is obsessive behavior any more than

tracking where your pocket money went, is. For

example, after eating x walnuts, i could easily do the

mental math of x times y calories, x times z protein

grams, and i would quickly have a handle on where

i stood, rather than having to weigh out a portion

ahead of time, which is not the way i like to eat.

( I am also the kind of person who memorizes the

number codes for grocery produce.)

I was also thinking that nuts still in shells is the way to

go. You have to go thru some manipulations to get

to the seed, this slows out the eating process and to

some degree, i wager, actually assists in the satiety

feeling process, the manual manipulation does. The

opposite of this kind of basic, primitive harvest-eating

being, for example, pouring the calories of a milk

shake straight down one's gullet, pure calorie binging.

I also relearned something i suspected long ago: avoid

salted nuts (salted anything), specially flavored or what

ever, that just seduces one to eat just one more. ( Of

course, this is 180 degrees out from conventional

thinking.) The closer to basic, primitive, call it Paleo

foods if you wish, the more control you have over your

appetites.

Hue