Day 16: Side Plates

Day 16: Wednesday 16th January 2013

Wednesday's Menu:
Breakfast: Same porridge and fruit combination as everyday.
Lunch: Half can of beans and sausages.
Dinner: Small portion of rice with 1 small onion, 4 tbsp of mixed veg and left over curry sauce from last week.
Snack: Cup a Soup and 1 small potato

I couldn't resist.  I had to have the tinned beans and sausage again for lunch today. I  don't know what came over me I couldn't stop thinking about how delicious they were, nor the fact that there was the leftover half of the tin waiting for me in the fridge.  I know I sound weirdly fixated on what to most, is a rather uninspiring if not disgusting meal, but the novelty of having meat (no matter how fake a processed) was such a treat. I can't believe that something I would normally have snubbed is now the best thing I have eaten in 2013. I have now realised by eating the whole tin of sausage and beans over 2 consecutive days I will have to wait at least a week to experience the joy of it again, but what can you do. It really saddens me that for some people, things like a 40p tin of sausages and beans is something they can only ever treat themselves to.

The portion definitely looks much bigger on this!

I have been struggling the past weeks with the generally small portions. I just don't seem to ever feel satisfied. I did wander if there was something psychological about this.  Dinner plates are massive, and make the portions look so tiny. Maybe I would be full if my brain thought it had, had a proper meal.  Today I decided to take my friend's advice and plate up the evening meal on a side plate. I hoped the portion would look bigger on this and so I would be tricked into feeling fuller. I have to say something about it worked. I was far more satisfied with this dinner than the exact same meal I had on Saturday. It did feel like I was having a proper meal today which was nice. I can't say the psychology worked all evening, I was hungry again by 9. I think this was partly due to the fact that I had had dinner really early. Having spent alot of the day walking around in the freezing cold, I arrived home famished. I was so hungry I  ended up eating dinner at 5pm. I think I had also burnt alot of calories trying to keep warm having spent most of the day outside and so possibly was also more hungry because of this.  I will from now on definitely be eating off a side plate, hopefully this will help over the remaining few weeks.

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