{"id":3575,"date":"2009-07-11T04:15:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T09:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2014-05-28T05:38:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T09:38:07","slug":"the-egg-drop-soup-and-ramen-noodle-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-egg-drop-soup-and-ramen-noodle-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Egg Drop Soup and Ramen Noodle Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image\"<\/a>I like to do experiments to see how my mind and body reacts to changes. One thing I typically experiment with is how different foods react in my body. Recently, I ate Ramen noodles for 30 days straight, in egg drop soup.\u00a0 I had not eaten Ramen noodles in about 10 years, but I suddenly had a craving.\u00a0 And it had to be in the egg drop soup.\u00a0 I was not surprised at what I found.\u00a0 My cholesterol went from 172 to 201, my LDL went from 105 to 123 and my sodium went up 2 points.\u00a0 I had no other salt those 30 days.\u00a0\u00a0 My triglycerides doubled from 69 to 138. No more soup for me!<\/p>\n

And no more Ramen noodles. I am glad that kick has passed, and it was good to know.\u00a0 I can still have it if I want, but I don’t need to do it for 30 days straight again. My weight stayed the same since I stuck to my usual 50 grams of fat per day.\u00a0 I expected to gain weight but wasn’t eating too much otherwise, just veggies and protein, so I actually lost 2 pounds.<\/p>\n

The soup and Ramen was a small meal but I knew it had 14 grams of fat and 380 calories<\/a> as well as 1580 mg of sodium per packet of noodles.\u00a0\u00a0 I can only guess how much in the soup.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t count calories or carbs or anything else.\u00a0 Fat grams is all I watch the past few years and my weigh has easily stayed the same.\u00a0 Since I don’t eat much meat, no sweets and no alcohol, calories aren’t a problem.<\/p>\n

One problem I had in the past was portion control.\u00a0 That’s less of a problem now since I know about the digestive process; now I eat pretty much to keep efficiently fueled.\u00a0 But I’d have 20-30 pounds less if I didn’t eat too much bread or pasta on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

Eating them is not the problem, the problem is I may eat 3 pieces of raisin toast or 2 cups of pasta in one sitting.\u00a0 I know it’s not needed fuelwise and that I am only doing it for emotional satisfaction.\u00a0 So that is when I make sure to enjoy it, to make a feast of it and not just something to do while I bang away at the keyboard.\u00a0 I make sure the food is the focus, the meal is the main event.\u00a0 No tv, no computer, just me and my dinner.\u00a0 And without fail, everytime I do that, I feel that all of my senses have been fed, and I know that’s as important as fueling the body.<\/p>\n

But I didn’t always know that and didn’t always make good food decisions. Like eating egg drop soup and Ramen noodles every day for a month.\u00a0 Not my healthiest decision, but a revelatory one.<\/p>\n

I was looking for something in my journal file for 2006 and found an entry that I added at Making the change to a healthy eating style<\/a> with a 2009 update.\u00a0 My transition to a healthy eating lifestyle has been done in stages, and has been relatively painless (hunger pangless) and easy.\u00a0 As I read my 2006 food entries, I think OMG that was far more meat than I eat now. And I don’t even miss it.\u00a0 Slow and steady wins the race.<\/p>\n

Or at least gets me healthy and maintains my weight.<\/p>\n

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