My attempt to lose the 10lbs that I somehow managed to gain over the summer is not going so well. Oh sure I'm eating salads and going to the gym where I have been doing some RUNNING (Seriously. I have been running. Who am I?) but I'm not actually losing any weight. This is probably due to my love for food.
You see, I love food a lot. Often I'll find myself eating some food and excitedly thinking about the food I might eat next. It'll be lunch. I'll be munching on a nice crunchy salad with artichoke hearts and boiled egg and blue cheese and thinking to myself, "hmm what shall I eat for dinner? I could make spaghetti! Or order Thai basil chicken! Man tomorrow morning I get to have that yummy yogurt again, with the dried apricots, I CAN'T WAIT!" This cannot be healthy, right? Surely I must have some sort of hole in my heart that I'm trying to fill with food but when I try to recall being abused by the elementary cafeteria lady I quickly get distracted by thoughts of sloppy joes and chocolate malts. I think the hole I'm filling might just be my bottomless stomach.
I recently observed that having few buddies at my new jobs means I'm much more likely to eat a healthy lunch to which my friend Lisa replied, "Good Point. If you [worked here] we'd be all 'hamburgers!' every day." This is not true, sometimes I would want mac and cheese and some other times I would want Chinese pork buns, and least you think I only want to eat food bathed in grease sometimes I would just want roasted broccoli covered in lots of red pepper flakes. Part of my problem with food is that I love healthy foods which seems like a good thing until you're eating a trough of it and gaining 5lbs JUST FROM BROCCOLI.
Sometimes I fantasize about getting really fat. Because sure, I would miss my toes and sexy underwear and living past the age of 50 but maybe all of that is a reasonable price to pay for unlimited ice cream consumption? Maybe once I got past being the woman that kids moo at in the grocery store I could cover myself in a yummy blanket of ranch dressing and dig my way out with a truck load of french fries. Perhaps TLC could do a show on me (Half Ton Blogger?), perhaps they would pay me for humiliating myself on national television not with a free gastric bypass surgery but with my own personal chef who will make me endless supplies of fresh pasta covered in spicy tomato sauce. Doesn't sound half bad, right?
This fantasy is partially fueled by my desire to succeed. I am not always successful at eating less than 5 servings of jalapeno corn bread or doing my personal trainer prescribed squats at the super slow speed that makes my thighs shake in fear. Despite past successes I am not at all sure that I can succeed at losing the 10lbs that appear to be cling wrapped to my thighs. But I know without a doubt that I could kick ass at being really fat. I would eat ridiculous quantities of grilled cheese sandwiches. I would lounge around in a muumuu. I would be very good at sitting in a very large chair.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
New Blogger!
I've invited Brianna to join the party! She's trying to drop 10lbs (to get back into the 130s) and also loves All Things Food.
Wintertime... And the Eatin' is Clean
OK, let's talk about Clean Eating, the magazine, the philosophy, what have you.
The truth is, I love sugar. Well, I love baked goods, and I've found they're just so much more delicious when they're made of some combination of flour, butter, and sugar. And optionally, chocolate. That said, I've been trying this clean eating business, I'd guess about 50% of what I've eaten the past 4 weeks, and I really like it. And I'm going to try my damndest to increase that percentage while still counting points like nobody's business.
About the magazine, one caveat: Use Weight Watchers' Recipe Builder (WW) or another nutrition site to figure out the nutrition information for any of the recipes in there. I swear they haven't tested them all, or did so half-assedly, because some are just plain wrong. I'll post a few errors I discovered later when I have the magazine in front of me, but for now just take my word for it.
Here's my clean menu for today:
Breakfast: Mouth-Watering Oatmeal (5 POINTS) (+ a few blueberries)
Early Lunch (pre-gym): 1 scoop protein powder + 1 c skim milk (4 POINTS)
Late Lunch (post-gym): Weight Watchers' Hearty Turkey Chili + 1/4 avocado (6 POINTS)
Dinner: NY Times' Pureed Carrot Soup* + 1/2 T flax seed meal + 1 tsp olive oil (3 POINTS)
That leaves me 2 POINTS for hot chocolate before bed. Perfect.
*I modified this recipe slightly:
- 1 tsp butter (instead of 1 T)
- 1 tsp olive oil (instead of 1 T)
- sub brown short-grain rice for the arborio
When I Recipe-Buildered it, it came out to 1 POINT per 200g - I usually eat 300-400g in a serving.
P.S. I'm still hovering at 155. Will post after weigh-in tomorrow. My goal is 144 by March 1 - tough with Super Bowls and Valentines' Days and birthday brunches and baby showers and all that, but not impossible.
The truth is, I love sugar. Well, I love baked goods, and I've found they're just so much more delicious when they're made of some combination of flour, butter, and sugar. And optionally, chocolate. That said, I've been trying this clean eating business, I'd guess about 50% of what I've eaten the past 4 weeks, and I really like it. And I'm going to try my damndest to increase that percentage while still counting points like nobody's business.
About the magazine, one caveat: Use Weight Watchers' Recipe Builder (WW) or another nutrition site to figure out the nutrition information for any of the recipes in there. I swear they haven't tested them all, or did so half-assedly, because some are just plain wrong. I'll post a few errors I discovered later when I have the magazine in front of me, but for now just take my word for it.
Here's my clean menu for today:
Breakfast: Mouth-Watering Oatmeal (5 POINTS) (+ a few blueberries)
Early Lunch (pre-gym): 1 scoop protein powder + 1 c skim milk (4 POINTS)
Late Lunch (post-gym): Weight Watchers' Hearty Turkey Chili + 1/4 avocado (6 POINTS)
Dinner: NY Times' Pureed Carrot Soup* + 1/2 T flax seed meal + 1 tsp olive oil (3 POINTS)
That leaves me 2 POINTS for hot chocolate before bed. Perfect.
*I modified this recipe slightly:
- 1 tsp butter (instead of 1 T)
- 1 tsp olive oil (instead of 1 T)
- sub brown short-grain rice for the arborio
When I Recipe-Buildered it, it came out to 1 POINT per 200g - I usually eat 300-400g in a serving.
P.S. I'm still hovering at 155. Will post after weigh-in tomorrow. My goal is 144 by March 1 - tough with Super Bowls and Valentines' Days and birthday brunches and baby showers and all that, but not impossible.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Rainbow
Gillian's clean eating post inspired me to work more at healthy food. So, instead of just getting in my fruit and vegetable servings today I'm going to try for as many different colors as possible:
Breakfast - oatmeal, protein powder, blueberries
Morning snack - orange and light string cheese
Lunch - Kashi chicken florentine (has a decent amount of spinach, red peppers, and mushrooms)
Afternoon snack - beets and an egg white with hummus
Dinner - pork chop with roasted cauliflower
And holy crap, all of that is only 17 points.
Breakfast - oatmeal, protein powder, blueberries
Morning snack - orange and light string cheese
Lunch - Kashi chicken florentine (has a decent amount of spinach, red peppers, and mushrooms)
Afternoon snack - beets and an egg white with hummus
Dinner - pork chop with roasted cauliflower
And holy crap, all of that is only 17 points.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Worst weight-loss comment ever
One of my coworkers said "Wow, you've lost a lot of weight" today for the third time. Then she asked "You must feel so much better now that you're eating healthy food?". Aargh! I have always eaten healthy food. Just, too much of it maybe, or healthy food plus ice cream. I think the perpetual dieting is still making me grumpy.
And I am still dieting. I've been bouncing around between 139 and 135 for months now. Which is a fine weight to be, but I'd like to stay here (or 10 lbs less than here) without this cycle of being on points and then eating too much on weekends/holidays/vacations.
And I am still dieting. I've been bouncing around between 139 and 135 for months now. Which is a fine weight to be, but I'd like to stay here (or 10 lbs less than here) without this cycle of being on points and then eating too much on weekends/holidays/vacations.
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