Eat bad tasting food

I believe the key to this project is to eat food that tastes bad. The reason is simple: if you eat food that tastes good, you can never know whether or not you are eating because you are hungry or because you want a treat. When it comes to something as primal as food cravings, I don’t trust that I will ever be able to make this distinction honestly. In addition, for carbs, the source must be extremely low GI, since then you avoid the craving for a sugar rush.

Some foods that may fit this profile:

• Yam Powder
• Pearled Barley
• Quinoa

News and links

Gut flora and the brain

First Steps

First step along the way is to stock up on some prebiotics. These seem to come in two basic varieties: FOS and GOS. GOS seems to help with indigestion and flatulence, so I will start with GOS.

From there, I get confused. How does one determine the best quality? For no great reason, I will start by ordering Prebiotin brand.

Basics of carbohydrates

Here’s a good series of articles about carbs and fiber:

Basics of carbohydrates

I also found this guy from Popular Science magazine. Interesting, but he doesn’t include all his recipes, apparently believing he’ll make a killing selling them. Color me skeptical, but power to him.

Intro

I wish to live without eating, just to get off the endless cycle of cravings and “discipline”, which really means unpleasant denial of cravings. Why not just fuel up like a car? People are of course more complicated than cars, but we are learning more about nutrition all the time, and I think the basic human needs could be covered, which I am sure is better than what I’m doing now.