What are your principles in eating?

[shootingstar]

have come to enjoy steel cut oats, but white rice, bagels, crackers, and bread from the French Bakery find their way into my diet a lot

Azfiddle, I thought I would never see the day that I would not eat white rice since it was so central to my diet.

But it's been a move away from it where instead I substitute with several other different types of carb that taste good to me and it was so gradual that move for me.

I don't regularily buy egg-based pasta for home anymore. It's an eggless noodle...made from egg white. A little more expensive. I will have an egg-based pasta ....in a restaurant which amounts to only a few times per year.

My body has now been genuinely "trained" to want a lighter carb. I will eat sushi and sashimi several times annually but if it's too much white rice in it, then I don't feel fantastic, meaning it feels like a sugar crash for me.

I do love sushi and sashimi and will never give it up totally.
Unfortunately now I'm discovering that wine not only gets me "drunk" fast (which has been like that for decades), now I tip towards a sugar crash. Which results in me wanting to nap more quickly.

As for hard riding, which for me is long distance bike touring with my stuff, I can adjust temporarily if I have no choice to eat the foods I want when visiting an area. The amount of energy required during those rides, temper my body's reactions to high glycemic carbs.