Healthy eating?

Much as I predicted over the summer, I have lost weight since going gluten/corn/soy/casein free this year. In fact, I have lost about 35 pounds since September. Yay me!

If this was an actual diet, I think I would be doing a lot of things right. I completely cut out junk food (well, unless you count Rice Chex as junk food, but I'll get to that later) and instead I have been eating lots of fruits and veggies. Also, I have shifted the focus off of meat in the meals. We only use meat in about two of our dinners every week, and now even that's starting to feel like a little too much. Of course, that's probably because I recently got my boyfriend hooked on bacon and we've been adding it to things like magic fairy dust. I think we might need to stop buying so much of it (sad face).

I'm not going to lie, I feel great. I still have a few rolls of fat here and there, but I'm comfortable with them. Plus, I have some confidence that if I keep eating this way they will start to recede. If not, well, I've lived with them for almost 20 years so far. It's gotten to the point where when I eat Rice Chex, I feel gross and bloated afterward. They are almost too sweet and taste too fake compared to the other things I've been eating. After I finish off this box, I'm not going to get any more. I hope the trend of being disenchanted with "normal food" will continue, because I feel guilty sometimes for craving junk food. I hope the next time I have a chance to eat them they won't taste as good as I remember. Odd, I know.

Even though I have sworn off junk food, that doesn't mean I don't eat fat. As I mentioned before, we are cooking with bacon and even go so far as to cook the veggies in the bacon fat so we get more of the flavor. We also sometimes splurge on Coconut Bliss ice cream and use massive amounts of potatoes to get our starch fix. However, these things don't feel "bad" to me and I don't feel guilty eating them. Sure, they're indulgences, but not the dirty secret kind.

That being said, I don't know if I am eating healthily. Dinner is really my only meal of the day, because for breakfast I usually eat a Larabar and lunch is either non-existant or (more commonly), a bag of safe chips from the on-campus market and a bottle of Reed's Ginger Beer (so good!). Sometimes I snack on Rice Chex or just go hungry until it's time for dinner. Or I cave and make myself some home fries. Sure, I'm eating "good" things but I don't know if I'm eating enough. Am I getting the right nutrients? Should I be worried about skipping meals? In all truth, I would probably eat more meals if I had the time or the resources to cook them. However, leftovers are usually saved for the next night's dinner or are lunch for my boyfriend (the food is housed in his room and he tends to get to it before me). I can survive this way and I don't feel weak or sick in any way, but I hope that I am not depriving myself of anything.