Let’s first define the word Diet (this four letter word gets a bad reputation all the time)… Diet is simply the food someone consumes. So I say, “Consume it all!” How’s that for a tip? The holidays only come once a year. So what if they last for 5 weeks. That is part of the fun. Thanksgiving, Christmas parties, Christmas, New Years…Then come New Year resolutions to shed the 6-8 pounds we packed on our bodies….
Truthfully, I have never really had a weight problem. I usually gain 45-50 pounds with each pregnancy and I have always lost them all until this last baby. (hmmm that means I have lost close to 300 pounds during my life, Tink!) Now I have to ‘do’ something about this last 15 pounds. I like steps. I have 14 of them. So instead of bringing a pile of things down to the basement (my hangout, my schooling place) once a day, I only take one thing then run up again, taking the steps two at a time probably 50 times a day to retrieve even more things that need to go various places. I know that probably doesn’t count and my body is used to it, but I figure it helps maintain (but does it maintain the figure?). Also, as a recovering diabetic, I know some tricks.
You want that piece of apple pie? Go for it. Check out the label on your favorite breakfast cereal. Healthy Grape Nuts (or the generic version of them): ½ cup of the cereal plus ½ cup ‘skim’ milk (yuck) packs 250 calories and 53 grams of carbohydrates. Face it, who uses just ½ cup? My kids use maybe twice to three times as much. They fill our cereal bowls to the maximum content. They learned that from My Man. This is a diabetic nightmare. You are MUCH better off eating the apple pie, trust me…
Cinnamon raisin bagel: sounds nice and innocent. Slap some cream cheese in lieu of butter and you have a nice breakfast. 50 carbs… Bagels are high on the glycemic index and therefore quickly raise blood glucose levels. My choice: a nice bowl of ice cream. Or as the case this morning, some peppermint bark from my sister in Seattle. No brainer. Chased down with my coffee-that-must-not-taste-like coffee. It makes the chocolate melt on my tongue in quite a nice, luxurious way. And then to inhale the coolness of peppermint – smokin’…
How about your dinner. A roll or ice cream? Hmm the sweet roll is rather tempting… however 28 grams of carbs for one. Can I stop at one? Oh, wait, I will skip the rolls and bring out the ice cream. My Edy’s French silk has 20 carbs per ½ cup. If you can double cereal then I have no guilt to double my ice cream. I only will consume 40 carbs where you will be consuming over 100. Plus the rolls didn’t involve any chocolate.
Happy dieting! Meg, you’ve talked me into it; I’m off to eat another piece of bark. And then a run up the stairs for a drink of coffee…
breakfast
6 comments:
I LOVE the ice cream tips! Thank you!!
Ahh some very interesting info there... who knew icecream was so good! Take care on those steps now!! LOL
ahhh, you are my kind of gal...I love the way you think (especially coffee that 'should not' taste like coffee!)
ahhhh. before I get into trouble with the american diabetic society, I must put the disclaimer in that if you are truly diabetic, you really ought to walk 1/2 hour after consuming the ice cream or peppermint bark or brownies or cookies or.....
ROFL..... 300 pounds, huh? Well if we had to total it up over the years, I have probably come close due to the babies and then the steriods I had to take. Losing weight from babies is a lot easier to take off than trying to take it off after steroids, though.
I think you are a genius. You should open a spa.
Debbie
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