The Last Straw

12 Oct, 2008

Food, food everywhere and not a bite I can eat.

Posted by: getupnow In: General

Again, I am under attack by FOOD. This morning, there was a little brunch thing.  Now, I must admit that there was some sort of mixed fruit. But other than that? Just the stuff you would expect at any type of covered-dish anything. Sausage/egg/cheese casserole stuff. Gravy. Biscuits. Other cheesey eggy artery clogging stuff, what seemed like miles of it. Then of course there were the sweet sugary empty calorie types of things. Most days, I am fine with the fact that I can’t eat that way while most everyone else in the room does. But this weekend!! ARGG! The food I have had to look at and not eat for the past couple of days is getting really, really ridiculous. But regardless, I ate nothing. Not even the fruit since I am really strict on my calories right now and I already had eaten my normal breakfast at home.

Breakfast was the norm, as will be lunch. I am thinking fruit of the day will be pineapple mixed with some papaya. Dinner is yet to be determined. We are going to a campaign rally late this afternoon. So dinner will be something either really early or really late.  Calorie goal is around 1,200-1,300. So whatever we end up with for dinner will need to fit that.

***Dinner was turkey bratwurst with sauerkraut on a bun with horseradish mustard and banana peppers. I am all about BIG flavor today, obviously. With that, had some refried beans and sweet potato fries. Calories are 1,277 but feels like more. I don’t know the calories for the bread (sweet italian) and had to just call it italian. Whatever. So anyway, the rally was awesome and one cool part is now I can check off “see a US president in person” on my life list that doesn’t really exist, but if I had a life list that would be on it. It was a former pres., but that still counts especially because he is a super cool former pres.

3 Responses to "Food, food everywhere and not a bite I can eat."

1 | tiny2b

October 12th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

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You are a super woman. I need just a little dose of your JUST SO NO super power. But alas, I am a mere mortal who cannot say no to temptation. But it’s not my fault. It’s the food’s fault, right?

2 | Eileen2bLean

October 12th, 2008 at 10:45 pm

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I can totally relate to being surrounded by food that I can’t have! On this low carb / low calorie diet I’m doing, there ain’t much out there that I CAN have! It’s okay, though because I keep saying to myself, “It wouldn’t be worth it anyway.”
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A few seconds of flavor as it passes by my taste buds… it’s such a fleeting sensation that I’m learning how to minimize it. Those sweet sugary empty calories you mentioned? I pictured a platter of gooey sticky danish pastries, which not so long ago would have majorly tempted me. Now I see it - like you said - as “empty.”
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Congrats on your smart choices!

3 | feathers

October 13th, 2008 at 2:24 am

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I just hate it when there’s food I want but won’t let myself eat. I don’t feel good, I just feel deprived, and I want to pinch those people who ARE eating all that stuff.

I’m glad you resisted temptation the other night and emptied your dishwasher instead of eating. Have you been doing that every night now?

And I SO know what you mean by the slacker meltdown thing. I have the same problem and I don’t even have to go anywhere. Ican see the room my treadmill is in from here. Just turn my head to the right, and yep, there it is. So how come it’s so hard for me to get there?

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