Agh I am so behind!!

I'm sorry! It's been a whole month since I've posted on here. I've been working non-stop in preparation for a huge move. Later tonight, I'm hoping to write a post about how to do Macro in different cities.

For now I'm going to write about

Corn

Corn is the new chocolate for me. I eat corn like nobody's business. This week I got stranded on the highway for an hour in stand-still traffic with nothing but some uncooked vegetables and a bag of corn chips. I ate them all like it ain't no thing. The kinds of corn I eat now fall into three categories:

-Smeared with lime juice and rock salt and grilled

-Chopped up and baked in salsa

-In the chips I dip in the salsa

Like many Americans, I used to believe that my body didn't have a "corn problem." In my Pre-Macro life, I ate popcorn all the time. I was a college student... it was practically its own shelf of the food pyramid. Corn is wildly cheap in this country. It's used as "filler" in commercial sausages and burgers. If you ever go to the United Kingdom and eat at a certain greasy Scottish spoon-chain known as Gregg's, they'll tell you how much meat is in the sausage patties... by the percentage.

Can you imagine if American burgers had to label like that? I mean, it was truly frightening to plow my way through a pork pasty only to see in tiny letters on a sticker at the bottom of the wrapper, "64% meat." What is the other 36%? If I hadn't known better, I would have SWORN that entire patty was meat.

Okay, so there I was, non-macro, eating pasties that were 36% Something Else, some of which was corn, and it wasn't making me sick.

Not at all like corn makes me sick now. If I have corn one day, I'm fine. Two days, I start to feel the rhythm of my body getting off a little bit and I have trouble sleeping. Three days in a row or more and I start experiencing horrible intestinal pain and my old buddy nausea begins to flare up at bed time. I think this nausea is a response to the intestinal pain. I won't go into details from there, but it's not a nice feeling.

It's funny... I wondered at first why I was fine eating high-fructose corn syrup. And then I realized that eating high-fructose corn syrup could have been the cause, and not just a side-note to some of the weight gain I experienced in college.

Which brings me to my final point for today... that excess weight is not just a cosmetic thing, but an external symptom of an internal imbalance.