If you let it, your body knows...

Every single day I languish in the fact that I can eat whatever I want, and at whichever meal time. There are no rules to my eating patterns, except the ones that aren't really rules, but are the things I've found I like to do that seem to suit me best - probably because they suit the needs of my body nutritionally.

I still haven't got off my sausage roll (are you laughing at the minor pun? I do hope not - hehe) and at the moment, I don't feel I can truly start the day without sausages for breakfast. My morning meals tend to be a high-fat, high-protein and high-carbohydrate affair - in fact, everything your body needs to begin its day!

A couple of weeks ago I tried to have sugary cereal for breakfast, having not eaten it at this time of day for almost a year. I felt rotten by 12pm - the angry, gritty feeling I experienced I knew was down to the blood sugar crash I was undergoing. When I got home at 1pm, I was biting off the heads of everyone and thing in sight, no pet or family-member was spared.

I'm rarely like this after my sausage-with-onions-fried-in-butter-on-buttered-granary-
bread extravaganza. And while you might be thinking that if I eat this everyday, surely I must be fat? Not at all. As I've said on a recent post, I weigh a bit less now than I did 5-6 months ago. I don't stuff myself with this meal, but it is so satisfying that I'm likely to eat less later on if I'm truly eating according to hunger.

The only exception to this is when I've been drinking alcohol the night before! Obviously due to its effect on blood sugar, I end up needing more food the next day.

Anyhow, I've just eaten strawberries, cream and a square of gorgeous Amedei 66% chocolate for lunch. Oh the freedom. My body definitely knows what is good for it!