Monday, May 18, 2009

Still hung up on food!

I am really enjoying using sparkpeople - it's great being able to put in what I eat and have the program tell me how many calories, etc. I have used. And almost all days I am totally within my limits. But, the thing I am also finding is that, even if I am not hungry, I want to eat all that I am allowed to eat that day. I plan ahead what I will eat each day (it works better for me that way) and so I know what I am allowed to eat for that day. Today, for instance, I still have half a cup of pineapple left over to eat today. I am full right now from supper (Mike and I eat late when he is working) and yet I still want to eat that pineapple - not now, but I will eat it later. I just love to eat and if I have it on the menu, I want to eat it. I know that I should eat to live rather than live to eat, but it's hard to change years and years of eating style overnight. I did do something today that I thought really worked well - I put my snacks (pineapple and fruit salad - half a cup each) into containers earlier today so that when I was ready to eat them, all I had to do was go into the fridge and it was ready to eat. So, still learning. Menu for today: breakfast - pancakes, strawberries and milk, lunch - pita with chicken, tomatoes and cucumbers, green peppers with dip, snacks - fruit salad, pineapple, supper - macaroni with spaghetti sauce and green peppers topped with shredded cheese. Supper was really yummy with the green peppers added in there - added a lovely flavour to the meal. I also added turkey meatballs to it. They didn't taste as yummy as beef meatballs, but they have less than half the fat and they were good. I would be fine without any meat, but Mike likes his meatballs with his pasta.

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