Thursday, June 7, 2012

Touching Base

First up, I want to say thank you to everyone who has left comments and emails over the past - what, year? I have checked in intermittently, usually when I've come back here to check one of my recipes, and it has been nice to see that my efforts to document my Primal journey are still finding an appreciative audience.

Second, I really want to get back into regular cooking, but we bought a house six months ago and the kitchen is HORRIBLE. The oven is even worse than at the old (rental) house and the stove often loses its flame (but not its gas flow, yikes...) so I have really been avoiding my usual fry/saute cooking methods. BBQ is fun in the warmer weather, but it's icy in Melbourne now. I've been living on frozen food a bit that only needs boiling or baking, and there has been quite a bit of ready-to-eat food too.

So, I'm a long way from the Paleo WOE, but you know what's funny?

I've been losing weight.

I've held on to the massive regain-and-then-some that came from the DepTran horribleness for two solid years, seeing little improvement in my raging appetite and emotional dependency on food. Mostly, I never felt full - my connection to satiety was still broken. I would try fasting and eating to hunger, but nothing was working.

Then, about three weeks ago, I closed my latest play. During this stressful week, I noticed that suddenly I wasn't as hungry; I would eat a little of something - anything, even chocolate - and I would 'know' when I'd had enough! This basic, biological connection had been absent for over three years. And, for reasons I won't elaborate on here, I have a strong feeling that this change is due to emotional reasons, not immediately physiological ones.

So, three weeks of eating 'normally' and I have dropped five kilograms. I'm half-way back to my old 'set point' weight before I originally went low-carb. I would rather eat nothing but primal foods, since I enjoy the other nutrition benefits, but hey! I probably won't keep losing weight once I'm back to the weight I maintained on my pre-2009 junk food diet, but it will be great to get rid of this 'excessive' excess.

Who knows how long this 'normal' appetite control will last, but I will certainly be pleased if its reign is long and joyful! I eat when I'm hungry, and now I can stop easily. Hurrah!

And, when we have enough cash to renovate our kitchen, I'll be able to share my latest yummy recipes with you all - without fear of my oven exploding mid-meal!

12 comments:

Unknown said...

Glad to see you're back!

Unknown said...

Just found you! Thinking this might be good for me ....

Denise said...

I have a horrible kitchen, too, so I use my little toaster oven and my Super Wave a lot. The Super Wave is just the greatest for meat, you can put it in frozen and it comes out moist on the inside, browned nicely on the outside, and in less time than the oven would take. It also does fantastic roasted vegetabless. It's made by The Sharper Image, you can just google it.

Jezwyn said...

Thanks lovelies!

Denise, I'm in Australia! No Sharper Image over here. :) That Super Wave is hilarious if you're a fan of the TV show 30 Rock! :P

I've been a power-user of my wonderful grill for years (like a George Foreman grill) so I'm still able to do steaks and lamb chops (and chicken and sausages and burgers and..!)

Sue said...

Nice to have you back. That's great about the weight loss without even trying.

Kristin said...

Watch out for that stress thing. It'll mess up ALL the things. Good luck managing it and staying healthy.

Unknown said...

It's great that you're back!

Unknown said...

I'm waaaay late but it's so great to see you post an update. Hope all is still going well for you, Jezwyn.

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Unknown said...

I wondering if you have managed to renovate the kitchen? :)

Unknown said...

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