Smart Eating

For several years, I ate a vegetarian diet; the only problem was that my definition of “vegetarian” was too limited; I had a meatless diet, but in the regimen that I kept, there were very few alternate protein sources, like soy or fish. I ate mainly low-fat complex carbohydrates ( brown rice, whole grains, pasta, vegetables and legumes),believing that as long as I avoided fat, I was on the path to nutritional salvation. Despite my running, my weight soared. I was hungry all the time. By 5 o’clock, I felt I had been run over by a truck and more often than not, steered straight to my favorite Tim Horton’s for my almost daily fix-coffee and bagel. Those were the days I felt sanctified for not succumbing to a donut; but little did I realize then that my whole-grain bagel fared little better than a Boston Cr