October has been beating my healthy eating, healthy living goals. It's all down to me, and my less than stellar choices.With tongue firmly in my cheek, here are a few lessons I can share on how not to lose weight.
- Don't worry about the amount of bread and refined grain products you consume. All calories are equal right?
- If a few pieces of candy corn taste a treat, a handful will taste better. It's only once a year after all.
- When your thirsty, rehydrate with whatever is handy, even if it is a sugar filled can of pop. When eating out, go ahead and let the server refill your glass of pop-what a bargain.
- Eat fat filled appetizers before your meal with extended family. Someone worked hard making that spinach and artichoke and the buffalo chicken dips.
- Don't worry about your five a day for fruits and vegetables. It's just a suggestion anyway, right?
- Go ahead and Internet surf for 30 minute before heading into the shower instead of taking a walk. It's cold and dark in the mornings now.
- When eating out, order whatever you feel like on the menu. Food eaten outside the home, even when portions are double, don't really count in your diet plan.
Now, as Willy Wonka once said, "Stop. Reverse that."
Bread....my definite nemesis. Cutting back on food is so bloody hard for people who love to eat like me. My only option is to increase activity :(
ReplyDeleteI need to do both-I loe food, but need to find healthier alternatives, plus increase exercise.
DeleteI am laughing as I read this. I might need to add one more item to your bullet points
ReplyDeleteMassive doses of chocolate
Ah, yes,. I did not buy any Halloween candy until this weekend for that reason-still, two more days to undue my resolve now that it is in the house.
DeleteYep I know all about that. My ex was a skinny Lizzie (think 112 pounds) so particularly when I was pregnant we looked like Laurel and Hardy! I put on about 40 lbs with the menopause and still have to get my head around the fact that I can't eat like I used to (even though I eat very healthily) without putting on weight. On the other hand, I love to cook and think anything can be improved by the addition of full cream! Oh sod it, I guess it will go subliminally at some point. Anna
ReplyDeleteI tweaked a cheese tortellini soup recipe and used skim milk instead of cream. Still cheese filled pasta, but a few calories saved. It was good but noticed cream was missing.
DeleteDo you have a "hover weight?" That's what I call it when you're close to the next highest weight you don't want to be...like 129 lbs or 139 lbs or 149 lbs. As long as you don't go into the next number, you feel okay. That's me. I'm hovering at 139, the most I have ever ever weighed, even more than when I was 9 months pregnant!! I need to go on a diet, but I will go insane if I have to eat less than I do now. :-/
ReplyDeleteIf I hovered at 139, I'd be so happy!. I know what you mean, but I need to lose a lot of weight, so my hover weights need to be pulled way down as well.
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