Do you miss eating sandwiches and burgers and pizza? I know the link you just posted mentioned how going grain-free opens up your eyes to other recipes (using meats, vegetables, etc.), but it's so hard for me imagine a diet without the aforementioned. :O
I do and I don't. I missed them more at first, but they've gotten less appealing to me as time has gone on, because when I do eat them the consequences are so unpleasant.
This past Thanksgiving, for instance, I was really restrained. I ate very lightly and within my usual guidelines except for one meal, (and even that meal was mostly meats and veggies), but I was still miserable the next day. I ended up having to skip the yoga class I'd planned to take on Friday morning because my stomach was in such turmoil.
Really, the hardest thing to give up is pizza, which seems to be a universal constant for people like me. A couple of the guys at work are Paleo (I don't consider myself Paleo specifically, it's just the closest descriptor to how I normally eat, but they're full-on Crossfitting Paleo beasts), and every time there's a free pizza lunch at work we're all in there loading up our plates.
That happened just last week actually, and I had two pieces for lunch and then regretted it the rest of the day. Maybe it was worse this time because it was so close to the Thanksgiving indulgence but oh man was I miserable. Just thinking about eating pizza right now is kind of gross.
So that's how it works. Negative reinforcement haha.
