I can't stop thinking about pancakes. Bad carb pancakes, to be precise. The kind you get at a roadside diner. The kind that taste extra good because the place is family run, and it feels like home, and the plate arrives with the cakes stacked high, each one soaked in a generous amount of butter, the whole thing swimming in syrup... Oh god, I feel dizzy.
The crazy part is that haven't had a flapjack in over a year, or even given them a second thought until this week. So what's going on?
My brain is making up cravings to compensate for what my body is missing. And, since I'm the queen of efficiency, my mind has come up with the single best way to get everything my body craves in one go. Pancakes soaked in butter and syrup is a one-stop shop of sugar, bad carbs and bad fats.
What to do?
Surprisingly, the most effective snack for keeping the cravings at bay has been almonds. Thankfully, scant handfuls of nuts are allowed in phase 1. Raw almonds don't do much for me, but roast 'em up with a tiny bit of olive oil in a 350 degree oven for 15 mins, and it's a whole new world of flavour. Maybe I'm delirious but I'd almost put them in the same category as really good dark chocolate.
Hey, you take what you can get, right?
