Could I have made a more obvious statement about food than the one in the post title? :-P
Anyway, lately I have been trying to lose weight and
eat more healthfully. I pack a lunch
nearly every day of the work week of every week of every month of every year
for about 6 years for hubby and I. (If
anyone wants to calculate that, go ahead as I would like to have a dime for
every one of them!) But it has really
been on my conscious lately to eat better and definitely eat in moderation;
though come Friday or Saturday night, the careful eating goes right out the
window, crashes and burns. The older I get the more easily
the fat packs on and the more difficult it is to shed. (If our bodies were really intelligently
designed, then why can’t we tasty, salty, sugary, high-fat foods that we all
love and enjoy and still be slender, well-muscled and in good shape? I ask that sarcastically of course. Maybe.) I know I need to take better care of my body
especially if I want to live to my 90s.
Granted, I realize that an incalculable number of things can go wrong
and prevent that from happening, but if things go as planned, I will be an
awesome, funny, cool old woman who people still want to hang with. So I have to eat better.
Hubby and I are now counting calories for most meals. Honestly I hated, I mean truly hated, the idea of counting calories. I don't think I can accurately express my level of hatred-ness of this idea without using expletives. It seemed completely tedious, aggravating and
a time waster. In reality it is a
time-consumer and tedious, but not aggravating.
After seeing results of counting calories, I am super happy that we are
doing this now. It actually
WORKS!!! I am much more conscientious of
the food I consume and don’t want more than I can work off – except for the 1
or 2 cheat weekly meals that I need to keep me sane. (Obviously we exercise too. I mean our dog is not going to walk himself. haha!)
Back to the lunches. For a while, I ate a salad for lunch every
day for about 4 weeks and it was delicious.
Then I got tired of it and moved on to other foods, about as equally
healthy. The salad I thought was
awesome. It had iceberg lettuce, spinach
sometimes, beans, cauliflower, cucumber, carrots, mushrooms, bell pepper and
dried cranberries. Basically veggies with a little bit of lettuce. It was truly tasty; I
actually looked forward to eating my salad.
I was excited about lunch and not because I was hungry! I used a Caesar Vinaigrette dressing by Kraft
for my dressing and it was delicious.
But after about 4 weeks of salad I was ready to move on to other foods.
(pic of the salad below). Now I make a
wrap, have fresh veggies (with awesome hummus), cuties and string cheese for
lunch. This particular lunch is less
than 600 calories. Love it! I will be an armchair nutritionist and say
this and the salad are really nutritious and healthy meals to have.
So here’s to many good, nourishing meals! And the night (or two) of wine!
salad components
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