For two whole days the other half of the delicious cheese and noodle meal sat in the cupboard uncooked and forgotten or so it seemed. Then came the other half of the box which boiled in the pot completely at the mercy of my willpower. Then came the sharp cheddar. Little did this blogger know that the sharp cheddar variety was laced with monosodium glutamate, an addictive form of salt that causes a massive pleasure response in the brain. The addiction began to take over and replace my morning oatmeal. All I thought about all day at work was when I could get my next fix. All of a sudden I was KD's bitch. I knew I needed help but where? How? Who?
http://naturalsociety.com/the-real-reason-to-avoid-msg-industry-secret-ingredient-for-food-addiction/
Then one day I was riding public transit after the brakes on my van jammed up and I met a nice lady who shared her secret with me in overcoming the power of KD. What helped her was to start making her own homemade noodles and cheese sauce. I knew there was a reason I had met her and I nodded my head feeling hopeful that her advice might work. I have yet to try her method as there is still one more box of KD in the cupboard and it seems harmless enough. It's not like I'm smuggling it into the house at night and hiding it in the closet. I might still try to break free by exposing myself to a variety of other addictive substances and see if I can replace the addiction with something else like chocolate or beer. Chances are I could just eat the original KD and I wouldn't have to worry about willpower because there's no MSG in it. Anyone could eat the original Kraft Diner and be perfectly healthy as long as the wheat used for the KD wasn't sprayed with glyphosate and the cows weren't fed corn sprayed with glyphosate. Maybe it's possible I could eat it for cheap calories without creating a habitual pleasure response. Maybe I could just go find some Roundup and take a nice chug of it and feel even better about myself than I did yesterday. Maybe I could take a flying leap off the Empire State Building and still be okay.
http://roundup.ca/
In addition to providing a pleasure response in the brain I find what Kraft Diner does is induce a state of sedation. In a way it takes the stress out of the schedule to suddenly enter a state of conscious hibernation. Doesn't regular Kraft Diner have this affect also of initiating a sedation that is so strong it feels like conscious hibernation? Is it because the taste is associated with MSG and triggers an anticipated response? I suppose I allowed this rare form of comfort food as I have been through a lot the last couple months. I moved to a new city, started work at a new job, moved into a new house, and have been recovering the proper alignment of my neck with the help of the Atlas Orthogonal. I am seeing a chiropractor who specializes in neck vertebrae and is a member of the National Upper Cervical Chiropractor's Association. These doctors graduate from one of two universities in the United States and are qualified to analyze x rays and set up a machine that delivers only a slight pressure to the cervical vertebrae via sound waves.
I had been in a real funk as a result of my C2 getting jolted out of alignment. My last chiropractor had my spine in good order then Mr. Halloween came along and fucked it to all to Hell. I really would only admit as far as it felt like a "constant annoyance" as I don't like to call attention to any type of suffering I am going through. All I wanted to do was rest. I was so tired and my body was tense in all the wrong places. I was very easily irritated and quite often got dizzy and stumbled walking from room to room. What happened was with the C2 vertebrae being so far out to the right my head tilted left and restricted the amount of blood flow getting to my brain. To compensate for the head tilt my hips tilted curving my spine to one side. Now my muscles were forced to work to hold all the tilts in place to maintain proper balance and they were hurting. I was not happy. Now finally I can relax into a balanced alignment and not be constantly fighting against my own body.
http://www.atlasorthogonalchiro.com/About-Us/Our-Techniques.aspx
http://www.atlaschirowellness.com/
After all the tumultuous changes Project Munch is still alive and well and rooting for organic food for the most part. Each day my food choices are 50-80% organic. Each week I try to introduce a new organic food into my home. I always felt better eating organic eggs from free ranged birds and I feel better drinking coffee knowing the coffee farmer didn't have to work around the clock to support themselves with two jobs. I have yet to get in the habit of buying organic milk and cheese but for the sake of this project I will make a point of doing so. The ultimate goal is 100% organic which I expect to pay off handsomely with vibrant health as my reward. With an average of 70% organic food purchases my daily food costs are at an average of $10.45 which is where I need them to be.
I am keeping a nervous eye on my calorie consumption which lately has been headed for four thousand calories per day. I have my fingers crossed that this is just because of the colder weather setting in and hopefully it's not a sign that I need to start attending Overeaters Anonymous. I have been walking a lot while the van was getting repaired. It's uncommon for me to walk 1.5 to 3 hours per day to get around so no doubt I would be jumping the gun to start worrying about calories. Good news is the van is fixed so now I can go get more Kraft Diner, I mean, now I can start making my own organic cheese sauce.
https://oa.org/
A KD Free Day
$11.50 for 1947 calories
24 organic walnuts
1 cup cooked organic oats with apple, raisins, cinnamon, 1 tbsp maple syrup
2 cups fair trade coffee each with 1 tbsp maple syrup and 1 tbsp organic cream
2 organic cookies with coconut spread on top
1 cup cooked brown rice rolled in Nori sheets with one umeboshi plum
2 Temple bars (on sale for 0.90)
The highest cost for this day was coming from the Nori sheets which are hazardous to eat anyway if you are on blood pressure medication. The rice was brown which is probably going to kill me because brown rice contains bran and germ which can go rancid easily resulting in toxins. I may as well have just eaten the KD as long as it was the original kind.
http://www.ancestral-nutrition.com/why-white-rice-is-healthier-than-brown-rice/
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