Let's see. . . well, as I sit down to my first home-cooked breakfast since Christmas (I kid you not), I figured I'd give this a quick whirl. And may I say that the home-cooked breakfast is not exactly diet-friendly, but I love it: 3 pieces of bacon and an egg-in-a-basket. I already had a hyooge mug of french vanilla coffee with sugar and cream, so I think I shall settle for apple juice this time. Yaay!
Thursday night: We ate out - I had a monster burger with bacon, cheese, onions, tomatoes, pickles and lettuce, with french fries. I very rarely eat hamburgers, but this one was from a local eatery known for its burgers, and I was in the mood. The water I had was probably offset by the double Crown & Coke - it had been a very long day.
Thursday lunch: I ate out. Had a steak and mushroom burrito smothered in cheese sauce, with a ton of rice and as many chips as I could fit down my throat. Drank water.
Thursday breakfast - I skipped, which I regretted - I need breakfast. But I had a cup of french vanilla coffee with sugar and cream, and I hoped that would work. It didn't.
Wednesday dinner: A multi-meat thin crust pizza from Sam's. And a sprite. And two glasses of wine with Big Daddy, who had a bad day. I didn't eat a whole bunch of the pizza - it's not my favorite meal.
Wednesday lunch: very, very, very late in the afternoon, I had a chicken nugget Mighty Kid's meal from McDonald's, with a sprite.
Wednesday breakfast: A big mug o'coffee (duh - that Keurig is a dream!) and really too much leftover Chinese food - rice, chicken and vegetables.
Tuesday dinner: We ate out. I met the 'rents for Chinese at our favorite mom n pop place, so we had: wonton soup, sizzling rice soup (no crunchies for moi, because I dislike fried flour, essentially), house fried rice, chicken & veggies, happy family and one bite of sweet & sour pork without the sauce, but I don't like sweet & sour anything. I had 2 plates full, and water and hot tea.
Tuesday lunch: I have no idea. I think it was a bowl of ramen, which was grossly unsatisfying. Somewhere down the line, I had two mallomars (my favorite cookie) and a piece of chocolate, and I was really wishing I had some popcorn. I have a dim memory of a handful of chips, and possibly a sprite. Meh.
Tuesday breakfast: might be why I didn't eat much lunch. Two packs of maple and brown sugar microwave oatmeal and a huge mug of coffee.
Monday dinner: boiled chicken thighs, seasoned with garlic and S&P; served over rice cooked in broth, with a side of corn that Noah didn't like. (We don't eat a lot of corn because BD can't eat it unless it's creamed - the kids have lost their Iowa roots that way.) Another sprite, I think, or maybe some water?
Monday lunch: leftovers from Sunday dinner, which was the pork chops extraordinaire. I think I had a sprite.
Monday breakfast: Bowl of cereal (frosted mini-wheats) with 2% milk. Hot tea.
Sunday dinner: boneless pork chops a la southernaire: browned in olive oil, seasoned with garlic, salt & pepper and thyme, then smothered with onions and a can of cream of mushroom soup, topped with half a can of water and half a can of Dale's sauce, then simmered until tender. White rice and mixed broc/cauli/carrots in cheese sauce, which I didn't really eat a lot of because I don't like cheese sauce.
Sunday breakfast/lunch, because I got up very, very late: homemade chili, because it was a snow day and BD had to work late and I wanted to try to make sure that 1) he ate, and 2) it didn't come from a Burger King.
And that, chicas, is all I can remember!
5 comments:
Hee...you might want to cut back on things requiring the descriptor "monster," "hyooooge", "smothered with cheese", "tons", and "as many as I could fit down my throat"
And always have breakfast. Only other things that come to mind is that there's not a lot of fruit or veggies in this, and an awful lot of Sprite--if it's not diet, it's pretty much the same difference as sweet tea or Coke.
I want to have come over for dinner on Monday, with the addition of something green, and Sunday with the subtraction of the cheese sauce--and I LOVE cheese, just not commercial cheese sauce.
I second the breakfast recommendation. I have a granola bar every weekday morning (Fiber One Oats & Chocolate - lots of fiber and moderately filling).
Rather than go whole hog into changing your whole diet, you could set a weekly goal. I have had several over the years, and their simplicity has helped them change behavior. They have included only eating french fries once a week (during a time I was eating a lot of fast food), only drinking water with meals (I figured I should taste the food I was eating, not the drink), and eating breakfast every day. The french fry one helped break my fast food habit, and now coupled with access to Five Guys has made McDonald's fries almost inedible. The eating breakfast one has stuck, provided I keep a box of granola bars at work (otherwise I tend to get something wickedly unhealthy). I've fallen off the drinking water one. It's mitigated by the fact that I almost always drink diet drinks (the 3 glasses of sweet tea at our lunch not withstanding :), but I should drink more water so I'm thinking about doing that one again.
Anyway, small steps. That's the only way to make it approachable and not feel as much like torturous deprivation.
This is why it's good to do the food journals, I think - you realize after completing one that in the course of a week you ate NO fruit and extremely limited amounts of vegetables, and that unless tomato sauce qualifies as a vegetable, you really didn't eat any veggies that weren't covered in soy sauce. And why that comes as a surprise to me, I couldn't tell you - but it does. You think you are doing well, and then you realize that you are living on meat and starch and french vanilla coffee from the Keurig.
Ha---I just bought a bottle of V-8 in order to up my veggie consumption! It counts!
I think Alice has some excellent advice there. If you've got a habit for some particular food you *know* is a complete diet crasher/nutritional black hole, rather than cutting it out completely, thereby causing you to crave and obsess, cut it back to twice a week, then once a week, etc. That, and consciously adding one or two more fruit/veggie servings per day, and reducing portion size, and you are well on the way to a healthier plan that's not overly complicated and over-whelming at the start.
Ooh! Also re: granola bars--South Beach Diet hi-protein cereal bars are really good too, they've just come out with some new flavors.
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