No, I am not making any New Year's Resolutions. I DO have thoughts, ideas, goals and objective. Sort of GUIDELINES.
As always, weight is a burning issue. So burning that I do nothing except BURN MYSELF. So, in an effort to not burn myself anymore, I've decided not to diet. There is no plan. I know what I must and must not do. After all, I've been at this my entire life, or so it seems.
Yesterday I had a plan for breakfast and promptly forgot to eat. I went to work armed with a couple cups of coffee under my belt but that was about it. Come lunch I was not terribly hungry but I went home (yes home - another change for 2010) and made myself a sandwich. That turned out to be more than enough.
Dinner was hamburger helper but not out of a box. I found a recipe with five ingredients - 1 lb ground beef, 1 cup elbow macs, 1/3 C tomato paste, 4 C water, and minced onions, garlic, chili powder and salt/pepper. I ended up with more H.H. than I would have gotten from a box mix and NONE of the unpronounceable additive words that you find on the edge of the box. AND - it was good too. Didn't use enough salt but that's okay. Adding to taste worked for everyone.
Today I ATE breakfast - or rather I DRANK breakfast. Here's another recipe from the same book:
1 C milk
2T peanut butter
1T honey
blend in blender and drink. Filling. Satisfying. Next time I'll add ice to chill it.
Went home for lunch and made a sandwich and had some coffee. That was that. At 2:30 I'm still feeling just fine, thank you very much.
Dinner tonight is navy bean soup. I saved the ham bone from Christmas and it's been slow cooking all day with the beans. That and some crackers and we will be good to go for dinner.
So far I'm liking this new no diet food program. All it requires of me is a little thoughtful organizing and planning and I'll be eating better and so will everyone else in the house too.
4 comments:
Sounds a lot like Weight Watchers. Real food. No crap out of a box if you don't want to eat it. Plan ahead just a little bit, and you are good.
You are on the right track. Just watch your portions for dinner, be careful how much oil you use in cooking, and use the leanest meats you can.
Next to human relationships, I believe dieting is the most difficult, impossible, frustrating, unforgiving, inhumane way to spend any moments of our lives. But we live in a society whose rules of physical beauty are created and devised by idiots. I stay away from most tv, never go to the movies, and avoid Sacks 5th Avenue. Look at who is advertising what? And somehow, those of us with brains, suddenly feel that we don't know from squat, can't pick out our own comfy clothes, and then wonder what's wrong with us!
If we go on a diet, we wonder if it's the right one. We want to eat out, and are bombarded with so much food, that we feel we have to eat it all, or take it home so we don't feel guilty. This is crazy. Don loves you, Anne. Your kids adore you. The Music Department can't get along without you. Trust yourself. You really do have a brain, believe it or not. If big goals don't work, try a wee one. That's it. But, as your pal, I am recommending that you not skip breakfast too much, nor go to bed too late. I know, blah, blah, blah. I love you, though, Lady. Biene
Hugs, B. Big hugs.
I've got to get some honey to try that drink!!! Sounds very yummy! I'd like to start making some yummy smoothies because I used to enJOY them so!
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