Well, hell. In a fit of creativity, I had made a blog - I was so proud of it! Picked out templates, did an introductory post, invited Vic to join, etc. I was sooooo good! And then I checked my email, to find that Vic had done one, too, and since I liked hers better than mine (she is much more of a taste and design person than I, although my little blog was perfectly fine) and she had posted 3 x to my one little lone post, I decided to delete mine and join hers. So, I got rid of it, and brought over my introductory post. And then, since it was long and she had chewed me out (and edited me! Scandalous! Offensive!) for a very long one I did on Tabula Rotunda, I thought, "Hey, I'll make this smaller." Only by the time I got through the convoluted process, it was the size of a postage stamp, and utterly illeglible. And also not recoverable. All my creativity, gone! Sigh. . .
Well, hell. Here's a food diary, at least, and when I feel creative and have done a few more loads of laundry, and taken K shopping (at least Daddy took Bubba to get a haircut!) I will talk about myself and food . . . dammit!
June 16:
Breakfast: At home! A large bowl of Life Cereal with unfortunate whole milk - I was a skim devotee for years, but in an effort to put some weight on very skinny Bubba, we have switched to whole. My milk consumption is down, because I can taste the fat on my tongue, but buying 2 kinds of milk is a pain in the ass.
At work: A bottle of water with Crystal Light Red Raspberry in it. VitaminWater Energy! Not a bit of tea, nowhere! A blow pop - I love Blow Pops.
Lunch: From local catering/meat 'n' three joint, 2 cups of chicken salad with grapes and pecans; maybe 6 crackers. A side veggie of broccoli casserole *yum* and a large lemonade. Still no tea!
Dinner: At a nasty Southern Foods buffet place that was good the first time we went there, Dinner with the Family and Potential In-Laws. My 2 plates consisted of: turnip greens; butterbeans; creamed corn; a bite of some broiled fishy substance; a fried catfish; 2 bowls of grits topped off with yummy, yummy, yummy perfect fried shrimp. Loads and loads and loads of tea in huge 40 ounce or more glasses which the lady insisted on refilling - one would have been enough, but as a result I have no idea how much I got down. But it was gooooooood.
Evening: 2 large Crown and Cokes with BD. Am constantly searching for hair on my chest, but they were goooood, too.
June 17th, so far:
Breakfast. . . I don't think I had breakfast. Oh, yeah - a ham & cheese sandwich on wheat bread, adn water. (Mainly because I haven't been to the store, but the only thing in the house to drink right now is coke and water, and I don't like Coke.)
Lunch: Another ham & cheese sandwich. More water. A few bites of Lay's. Maybe 3/4 cup of mandarin oranges, and I drank the juice, too.
I am starving at the mo', and have identified more ham that needs to be cooked in the fridge. As BD is not home, I shall probably mix the ham in with some boxed pasta concoction that involves mayo - BD got food poisoning or something from mayo once, and now refuses religiously to eat ANYTHING that involves mayonnaise, including the beloved potato salad. Either that, or we will pack up and I will take the kiddies shopping and go to the Chinese buffet. . . naah. Not in the mood to leave, since we haven't all day. Yup. Boxed pasta concoction, here I come. Maybe I"ll make some cherry Kool Aid, to boot. Whee!
***EDIT*** Well, I blew it at dinner - took the kiddies to a Chinese buffet/smorgasbord place (trust me, will be taking Vic there when she visits in July, whee!) The boxed pasta concoction wasn't doing it for me, and besides - will use the ham in the morning when I make my traditional Sunday Omelete and Pancakes breakfast. Anyway, held myself to one plate and some snacks, but having egg drop soup for "dessert" probably wasn't very healthy. That, nor the gyoza, or the coconut shrimp, or the tea. Ahhh, tea. Am now having a mini-sprite (I love those little cans! They keep you from drinking a whole one) and that will be it for the evening, as I am FULL.
***ADD'L EDIT*** Uh, I had a Krystal - and it was cold, and had onions on it, and that prob. wasn't a great idea. Krystals are best eaten in the car, 30 seconds out of the drive through, with sweet tea and hot, hot, hot fries. ..mmmmmm. Makes me hungry!
2 comments:
okay--I'm gonna lecture now. I do it with love-so bear with me!
1) just because it's gooooooood, does not mean it's good for you. Loads of fat and sugar and salt tast good to our palates which have become acclimatized to them. However, You can break the cycle. There are plenty of fresh food that taste goooooood and there are lots of ways to prepare the foods you like in ways that taste great but are better for you.
2) Buy two kinds of milk. It has to be done. Just do it! Depending on how much milk you or Bubba consumes, you probably won't have to buy a gallon of each.
3)Uhhhh, was the *2 cups* of chicken salad YOUR portion?? Tu sola?? Toi seule?? Lord honey, if that is the case, we will have to have a serious talk about portion sizes.... Also, commercially made meat "salads": tuna, chicken, seafood, oh, and also egg, and veggie salads: potato, coleslaw, "southern style" broccoli salad and etc. are made (as you duly note) with gobs and gobs of mayo--which is a) full of fat, 2) full of cholesterol, 3) full of calories, 4) has no, I repeat, NO redeeming qualities. Make the salads at home, and use either a store-bought fat-free mayo and/or light sour cream or non-fat plain yogurt (the latter being my choice ingredient). Use herbs and spices to give the salad extra zing--depending on the ingredients: Pepper, garlic powder and sage/poultry seasoning for chick. salad; P, g-p, and dill for seafood (although I like to add a tiny bit of horse-radish to tuna salad for extra zzzzzing!), or otherwise experiment to taste.
4) Fried...sigh!
5) 40 gallons of tea (double sigh)--I'm assuming it was sweet? It's funny, here in Tejas most restaurants don't automatically serve sweetened tea--you either have a choice or they serve regular and you sweeten to taste. Tell servers you want *UNSWEETENED* tea and become reeeeeeal good friends with Splenda (best non-sugar sweetener)--if they look at you like you fell off the moon, tell them diabetes runs in your family and you are not about to go blind and have your feet fall off, just because they are too lazy to go back and get the pitcher of "regular"!!!!!!!!!
6) I find it interesting how "hungry" you get late at night. Either you have trained yourself to have the munchies when you are bored, or your stomach has enlarged and your brain has also been trained to the point that the minute one meal has been digested, and the stomach may not be "full"--you perceive "hunger." The point is this something that you will just have to un-train. And while you are getting there, have things around that will provide for your oral/food fixation (like veggies or fruit, or a protein bar, even the bagged snacks that are in 100 calorie portions) to help prevent the late-night gorge.
Moral for these two days:
1)NO mayo! BD don't like it anyway, so hey, use this as an opportunity so stock up on light sour cream and plain yogurt
2)Fried foods in MAJOR moderation.
3) Watch the beverages with added sugar--they are absolutely empty calories; this includes sweet tea, lemonade and regular soda. Just start determining to drink only alternatively sweetened bevs. Sorry, but study after study have shown that Americans are fat largely due to the large amounts of sugary beverages they consume, w/o really stopping to realize how many empty calories they contain I guess b/c drinks are not food...
4) cut down on eating after, say, 7 or 8:00. Just plan on a nice dessert after dinner and that's that until the morning. There is no reason that ANYONE should have a burger (no matter how small) after one has had three solid meals, and the latter being particularly large. No reason. Period.
You start doing these things, and I will GUARANTEE you, you will lose weight! AND you will be teaching your kids good eating habits as a bonus!!!
Oh--and wanted to add--Chinese buffets need not be bad! Just steer clear of anything fried and load up on soup and meat and veggie stir fries. I usually get a cup of hot and sour and a cup of egg-drop soup first--I love both, and that's filling. And I love gyoza--I get a couple gyoza. (When I'm at a restaurant or doing take-out I would order the gyoza steamed, not pan-fried but you don't get that choice at the buffet usually.) Bottom line, if you eat more than you ought every now and again at the Chinese buffet--no biggy. But if you are stuffing yourself at the Chinese buffet every week--a problem.
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