A Snacking Snafu

For months I set idly by in bed, enduring the snack fest my husband embarks upon each evening around 9 PM. I was so strong and empowered as I occasionally turned to him and offered unsolicited advice on the horrors of his food selections. Day in and day out my will power held steady. Then slowly I began to catch myself staring at his food while he was eating, having an internal argument with myself over my weakness. So, I began purchasing more snack food items that were organic, but not necessarily a raw vegetable (read: organic pop tarts). As this happened, the amount I would allow myself to snack on, alongside my genetically blessed husband, began to creep up, until one day we were on even 'eating' ground. Of course this switch in my diet has caused an obvious negative reaction to my attempts to progress. I thought maybe it was because I was eating less all natural things and so I began to include celery sticks w/ raw almond butter, fresh fruit, etc as my snack foods instead. However, the enhancement in snack time nutrition yielded very little improvement from the way I had been feeling. Today, while re-reading through Crazy, Sexy Diet, I came across this little nugget of information that lit a light bulb over my head. I'll paraphrase:

'95% of your body's activity is dependent on minerals and one of their most important tasks is to help produce enzymes. The two main types of enzymes we make are digestive enzymes and metabolic enzymes. The digestive enzymes are responsible for helping you to digest your food at each of the check in spots it hits along the way to your pooper. If you are lacking the proper enzymes to do this at any of the locations, your body will try to balance it out and create more digestive enzymes to help. Same for if you overeat; your body will work overtime creating these digestive enzymes. (Hint: If you eat foods rich in enzymes, such as raw plants, you save your body the trouble of having to create more digestive enzymes.).  The problem with your body having to create all these extra digestive enzymes for food that doesn't bring its own supply to the table or consuming more then your body can keep up with, is that is inhibits the creation of metabolic enzymes. Metabolic enzymes are responsible for running your body. They create every biochemical reaction in your 100 trillion cells including, build blood, tissues, and organs; repair your body; help your cells produce energy and carry away waste.'

What this means for me is that it is possible that my lagging in progress has less then I thought to do with what I have been eating and more to do with how much of it I have been eating. I have been snacking (read: pigging out) in the evening, forcing my body to spend all of its time creating digestive enzymes to break down all of this food I don’t even need. Meanwhile the repair work that needs to be done in my sacrum has been put on hold until my body has a free spot in the schedule. That is total bullshit! Screw food, I want my life back! Now that I have actually retained this information, since I evidently read it before, it makes it easier to put down the seed crackers and slowly back away. Tonight will be my first official night to lay-off the groceries and I have a really good feeling I am going to have measurable results from it in the morning. If so, this marks another important tip to living with/self-treating Tarlov: Overeating = Pain.