This week was just a blur, so I hope I remember this all...
Wednesday:
Breakfast: usual cereal mix (Spec. K red berries and South Beach Diet) with blueberries, skim milk, 2 links turkey sausage, coffee w/ SFVSC
Lunch: damn--can't remember...but probably Spirutein protein shake...
Dinner: Asian Chicken Stir Fry: 1/2 of leftover rotisserie chicken, both white and dark meat, plus freezer-cleaning three 1/2 bags of veggie-stir-fry mixes, sauteed in a bit of olive oil and a few drops of chili oil, added spicy thai simmering sauce, seasoned with "dark opal" basil from garden (this is the type of basil in a lot of Thai dishes), and, lacking fresh ginger-root, ground ginger and garlic.
Dessert: slice of Key-Lime pseudo-pie
Thursday:
(Wayyy late) Breakfast (more like Brunch): usual cereal mix w/ strawberry slices and skim milk, coffee w/ SFVSC (didn't feel like cooking turkey sausage)
Lunch/mid-afternoon snack: Pria Carb-select protein bar "choc/caramel"
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Dinner: Mexican at the usual place--too many chips, frozen margarita, Shrimp fajitas (shrimp, onion and peppers sauteed in lots of buttah, refried beans, dollop of guac., dollop of pico de gallo, on three flour tortillas)--I've had too much Mexican lately--will be taking a break...
Dessert: non-fat, sugar-free vanilla latte from Starchuck's
Friday:
Breakfast: 2 turkey sausage links, 1/2 c. non-fat vanilla yogurt with sliced strawberries, english muffin w/ peanut butter, coffee w/ SFVSC
Snack: cinammon and raisin South Beach Diet hi protein cereal bar
(Late) Lunch: 1 shrimp eggroll (from WW prepared food section--these are surprisingly good and come in chicken and vegetarian too. The brand name is "Van"--the shrimp ones have 110 cals. each and have pretty equal amounts of protein and carbs, which is good for me. You can microwave them, but I usually heat in a skillet on the stove to brown the sides), my left-over coleslaw
Dinner: Leftover Fruti di Mare, finished the coleslaw
Dessert: diet berries and cream Dr. Pepper float w/ sugar-free vanilla ice cream
3 comments:
How do you not get horribly bored, eating the same thing all the time? And would you believe my stomach is trying to tell me it's hungry, when I know it is full because I just fed it 2 hours ago, and that was 4 drumsticks, green beans, rice, and ice cream? I think your theory on my stomach is correct. Oy. How to shrink a resistant stomach. . . and I am totally not into deprivation.
Well, this week, I was just not much up for imagination, especially at breakfast--which is where perhaps it seemed most monotonous. Anyway, those combinations serve their purpose, and that was all they needed to do. Besides--I really like the cereal!
On shrinking a stomach--you just have to EAT LESS. And you WILL feel deprived and your stomach may growl, but only for a while--until it shrinks and is happy with smaller portions. See, here's the thing. Your current lifestyle and eating habits got you where you are--admittedly over-weight, and not too happy about it. Now you cannot expect your body to change if you do not do, indeed refuse to do, anything different! Bottom line--you have to expend more calories than you consume to lose weight, and do both expend and consume equally in order to maintain.
My advice is to start cutting back on your portions--all around. For example--tonight two drumsticks would have been fine. If you usually have a big-ol' scoop of rice, have a small scoop of rice. Pretty simple. Next you need to consider, and this is very important--the quality of the food you eat. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, more lean meats rather than processed meat-products or fatty cuts, replace white-flour products with whole grains. Eat to live--not live to eat.
In the interim I can offer some coping mechanisms. If you get 'hunger-pangs' when you know you have consumed enough calories for your daily needs (and perhaps more), drink something! It fills up your stomach--and no I don't mean sweet tea. For snacks during the day, keep lite microwave popcorn around, and small-portioned snacks that offer some protein and complex carbs over sugar--which will hype you up for a while, but then throw you down right quick--making you want more sugar. Actually eating more smaller meals a day, or more practically for working, on-the-go people, three reasonable meals and a couple of good snacks, will mean you are less hungry and have more energy throughout the day. Take things to work that will help keep your energy up but your blood sugar under control.
We are talking a changed mind-set and an over-hauling of habits, a learning curve--it is not easy-peasy in that sense. If you want change, you have to make it (as is true in sooooo many damn aspects of our lives, I find...)
Oh--and "boring" is pretty funny coming from the Sweet Tea at every meal, Nu-way for breakfast and Chinese take-out for dinner times several times a week chick...Hmmph!
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