{"id":4327,"date":"2009-08-17T12:24:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T17:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2009-08-17T12:24:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T17:24:36","slug":"1-ounce-of-pretzels-4-pounds-and-a-2-day-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/1-ounce-of-pretzels-4-pounds-and-a-2-day-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Ounce of Pretzels = 4 Pounds and a 2 Day Slump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Looks innocent, huh?<\/p><\/div>\n

I discovered something the other day that I forgot about snack type things.\u00a0 They contain sodium and make you retain water!\u00a0 The last time I ate anything like pretzels or chips or packaged cookies was like 5 or more years ago, so it’s easy for me to forget about what they do to the body.\u00a0 I’d picked up a one ounce bag of little pretzels and nibbled on them through the day.\u00a0 There were 120 of them in the bag.\u00a0 You know, those little half dollar size pretzels with big chunks of yummy salt.\u00a0 I was working away and thought, what a great idea pretzels are since they are low fat and easy to eat while I work.\u00a0 I don’t usually eat in the office.\u00a0 So I worked through lunch and dinner and didn’t feel hungry, although about 3:00pm I had the urge to make iced tea.\u00a0 Which I had not done for maybe a year.\u00a0 And I wanted lemon and sugar in it, which I haven’t done for several years.\u00a0 The snack made me thirsty and I guess the salt made me want sugar and the sweet made me want sour.\u00a0 Typically I simply drink water, but I made a big pot of iced raspberry tea and by midnight had drank all of it.\u00a0 A day later I got on the scale and weighed 4 pounds more.\u00a0 WTF?\u00a0 My weight has stayed within 2 pounds for the past 4 years. I forgot that is what that kind of food does!\u00a0 Two days later I was back to normal but I reflected on the body changes.\u00a0 The tummy satisfaction made me forget the purpose of eating is for body fuel and to maintain cell structure so, since I wasn’t hungry, I skipped 2 meals of nutritious food that day.<\/p>\n

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Never-ending wheel<\/p><\/div>\n

I felt sluggish about halfway into the bag, and had no real energy for 2 days.\u00a0 My tum defnitely felt gassy for 2 days.\u00a0 After a day of eating salads and veggies and protein, I felt back to normal again.\u00a0 Interesting I’d forgotten about that whole salt and sugar hamster wheel that happens when I eat the processed food.\u00a0 I wonder how many other people who have no energy eat stuff like this and don’t see the connection?\u00a0 How many are on the hamster wheel and don’t realize it?\u00a0 Hmmm.<\/p>\n

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