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What are the ways to save energy every day by being mindful about the way we eat?

We can choose types of food more carefully. We can buy food more carefully. We can cook more carefully.

Maybe we could eat more carefully, but I have not thought much about that.

Oh! Of course! We could eat less…

Give us your ideas on this!

hi,

In my experience, it's the feeling of being over-full that
saps my energy. I feel like the reason I feel drowsy after Thanksgiving isn't
the turkey (there really isn't that much tryptophan in a regular serving of
turkey), but because I've just eaten a lot of food, and feel extra full.

Now that you mention it, a lot of the over-eating type foods
are grains – cereal, sourdough bread, cookies, cake… I suppose that the
grains could play some role. I have also heard that refined grains, like things
made with white flour, don't hang around in your guts as long as whole grains,
so that might play a role too.

Thanks for asking the question, I'll keep better track of
the things I'm eating a little too much of to notice if there are a lot of
grains. Now that you bring it up, I imagine that things like stuffing at
Thanksgiving and grits and cornbread with a chicken lunch might be part of the
reason for the lowered energy.