Tip: Cut back on the binge snacking by immediately portioning out your snack into baggies as soon as you bring it home. Even better: number the baggies with a permanent marker so that if you start to eat more than one, you have to come face to face with the number of servings that you are consuming. Sometimes that honesty is enough to make you rethink your decision to munch.
Trick: When you find yourself repeatedly opening another snack bag or even eating standing up in front of the cupboard, try this little trick. If a snack comes in prewrapped individual packages, hide them all over the house. Trust me, a hungry girl never forgets where the food is hidden... that's not the point. Often, we eat because it's accessible, but if you actually have to get up or walk up the stairs or run around to find snack after snack, you are not likely to do it (or at least, not as often). If a bag does not come with individual packages, portion it out into baggies, as was mentioned above, and then hide them. Hey, with any luck, someone else will find it and eat it before you ever do, hahaha.
Recipe: 'Tis the season! When the leaves start to change, fall foods fill my face. One of my favorite autumn treats is "Pumpkin Fluff"; you can have one whole cup of pumpkin fluff for only ONE POINT! Often, a half cup is satisfying, and then you can come back later for the other half cup. The fluff is basically a kind of pumpkin pie without the crust--just delicious! To make it: Mix one cup skim milk with a package of Jell-O sugar free cheesecake pudding in a large mixing bowl; it should take five minutes or so to set. Then add the following ingredients: 8oz container of FF whipped topping, one 10 oz. can of pumpkin, 1/2 tsp pumpkin spice, and 1/2 tsp of cinnamon. Mix it all together and you have pumpkin fluff! You can also use graham crackers for dipping, adding a "crust" taste to the pumpkin pie. Enjoy!
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Are you shameless? Then try this little trick: go on a LoseAThon. Solicit people who care about you and want to see you happy. Ask them to make a committment to donate a small amount of money for every 1/4 or 1/2 pound that you lose a week (or for a predetermined number of weeks). Use that monetary motivation to rocket you to your goals!
The pumpkin fluff sounds de-lish! I can't wait to try it out!
I have found some yummy foods that are lower fat versions of some of my favorites.
Morningstar is a vegetarian brand that I thought I'd try. I heard that it was good, and I was attracted to how much lower the fat content was compared to the meat versions. So far I've tried "chicken" nuggets, corn dogs and ranch parmesean "chicken" patties. I really enjoyed all of these products and will definitely continue to buy them. I just bought some broccoli cheddar bites, but haven't tried them yet. I'll let you know how they are!
I'm willing to give Morningstar a try. Brad will be gone for a week, and that's the perfect time for me to try out new things before introducing them longterm.
I also tried something new this week that I highly recommend to everyone... Fiber One oatmeal and chocolate bars. They're DELICIOUS (of course that's most important), only two points a bar, and each one gives you 35% of your daily fiber requirement. Much better in all aspects than any other granola bar I've tried (and even bigger than Quakers). I guess you can buy a pack of 30 (or some other large number) for only 10$ at Costco, or at least that's what the receptionist at the Chiropractor's office told me. To compare, WW will charge you 5$ for 4 WW snack bars.
I feel like writing on this site is like writing in a diary, and I like how it makes me think about eating properly. A constant reminder. Even if everyone else were to give up completely on this (and I'm not saying they are, I know Sara is on vacation), I believe I would still continue to write on here for my own benefit.
I agree. Even if no one posts, they are reading my posts. so I need to own up to whatever I've done the past week.
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