There are still three meals of the day, but if you're like me, obsessing over what to eat about them makes it that much harder to stay on track. So, I keep it simple. Keep your breakfast and lunches inexpensive, healthy and goal-oriented. No measuring, no calorie counting, no fussing. Straight to the good stuff.
Breakfast is about one thing: getting as much fiber into your system as possible Find yourself a high-fiber, crunchy breakfast cereal. Throw a little 2% milk over it. Voila! Get to work!
Diana Mirkin has a great list of high fiber, whole grain cereals to choose from: How To Pick A Breakfast Cereal
Lunch, on the other hand, is about one other thing: getting as much calcium into you as possible. I recommend plain, non-fat yogurt (with live or active cultures) dressed up with some jam or cinnamon or dill or raisins or ... really, whatever you have lying around. I throw a little wheat germ in for the texture and a little bit more fiber.
The advantages to buying plain, no fat yogurt with live or active cultures is it is extremely low calorie, high in calcium and inexpensive. And you can take it to lunch. Usually a two-pound container lasts me about five days; perfect for storing in the refrigerator at work.
Found this 1994 article from USA Today that has a great deal of good information on yogurts: Yogurt
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Tip #3: Know what you're giving up
Okay. I'm not absolutely positive I should be telling you this, because I didn't know it when I started changing my life to lose weight. I'm slow, I guess, because it is, when I think about it, a no-brainer.
You know how wonderful it is to overeat? I mean, seriously, to enjoy your food and have a big feast at Christmas or Thanksgiving. Watching football through your eyelids because you're too full to look at the TV screen. Or those wonderful lunches with your girlfriends, when you all goad each other into getting desserts to share. You know—you take the chocolate mousse, I'll take the creme brulee, and Sue will take the tiramasu and we'll share! Or when you go to your mom's house and she plops a second helping of mashed potatoes on your plate with a big slab of "I can't believe it's not butter" in the middle and just a lake of roast beast gravy. "Eat, eat, don't ya love me anymore, ya look so thin!"
I can hear Homer Simpson right now. "Donuts!"
But, sadly, I can't do that any more. It's not the diet; you can always cheat on a diet (and in fact I recommend it—more on that later), but I can't, physically, overeat. This was a huge surprise to me—if there was something I could always do it was eat, but now, well, I just can't do it any more. No more clean plate club for you!
Weird, huh? So give it some thought.
That creme brulee picture is from avlxyz. Oh, I can still eat creme brulee. Just not after a huge dinner.
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