Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Got Lettuce?

Yeah "Title" is Working Again!

Nothing exciting today yet. Just food. Bored yet? I would like to stop posting my menus once this week is over as I am embarrassed by sharing my high use of lettuce and spinach as the cornerstone of my "diet." But "salads" make everything bigger, even nibbles that just start as "bites" "licks" or "tastes." Eating these things as part of a salad forces my brain to register what I am eating is in fact food to be counted in some way.

Anything can become a salad. Got some crackers? Break them up and toss them in with some lettuce. A little leftover corn? Toss it in. One ounce of turkey? Add that too.

On the other hand salad is the food that keeps on giving. Still want to munch on something? Add more lettuce. Need some crunch? Add a couple baby carrots. Need to make it through an episode of "America's Got Talent?" Throw together a two point salad in a HUMONGO tupperware bowl and you are set :D

Tonight is the start of a new BD session yippee!!!!!!

I thought I would share an NSV (non-scale victory). My co-worker last night remarked on my "muscle tone" while I was reaching to put product away on the high shelves. I was wearing a tank top ;)

Ok, so call me motivated to keep up the tv weights.

So here's today's eats:
coffee, splash ff milk, splenda
yogurt, fiber one, small banana, sf ff van pudding mix

broke down and had bread, alt. pita, just because, pita (1) Darn it!

diet coke
gum

apple before my 2nd meeting -- this was "fast food" I picked up at Walmart, down from Taco Bell, on the way to my meeting, taking the same amount of time as "fast food." It thought I could just break into the bars in the trunk or I can bide my time until I passed a supermarket and get to enjoy a nice big juicy apple. Notice how these things taste better when we are actually hungry? And the world didn't stop spinning on its axis because I had to wait 20 minutes until I found a store.

BIG salad with corn, shredded chicken, avocado, salsa, evoo, rwv, mushrooms, carrots, lettuce, five spritzes of Wishbone cesar dressing

20 cal creamsicle (0)
British herby WW biscuits (1)
ww choc smoothie w/coffee, ice, little sf pudding mix

pretzel thins (2)
gum

2 hours BD classes (veil, zills, basic moves)

eggwhite omlette w/onion, mushrooms, Core guac, evoo, Core fried potatoes, ketchup, carrots, brocc, ff cheese
ww cookie dough sundae (3)

Extra points: 7
WPA's left:20

2 comments:

Jack Sprat said...

I completely agree that a "salad" can be anything. In fact, I think a salad should probably NOT ever be just lettuce and carrots. Things I've put in "salads" lately:

-grapefruit
-jicama
-yellow squash
-cherry tomatoes
-pickled asparagus
-pickles
-shredded cabbage

Hmmm... that's making my mouth water!

-J

Anonymous said...

Salads are great! I like to throw lots of different things in them when I'm able. And they make it easy to get those healthy oils in!