My ankle doesn't feel too bad right now. So, tomorrow, I'll see about getting back on the treadmill. I need to do my wall-ups if nothing else! The good news is that I was good with food. As you can see there I started with a bowl of cereal. Unusual for a low carb diet, you say? You are correct! But, remember it's LOW carb, not NO carb. I'm not saying I would do the cereal thing everyday and consider myself to still be on the diet, but it was indeed a nice change of pace. Steph wanted me to try this Puffins Cereal. Click on the link and have a look at the Nutrition Info. Do you notice anything odd? 100 calories a serving and about 20 net carbs for those of you that speak low carb - nothing out of the unusual there. Look at the serving size: 2/3 cup! *Snicker!*That serving size is totally hilarious to me. I actually broke out a 1/3 cup measuring cup and measured up 2/3 cup. I nearly counted the pieces, it couldn't have been more that 50 total, you can probably count them in the picture. I know I have wanted to work on portion control, but this felt so silly to me. I've shown pictures out here of my black salad bowls. Those hold a small bag of "bag salad" - I used to use those as cereal bowls. Fill it up with cheap cereal from one of those bulk bags that you get in the store and milk. Then, I'd go back and add cereal to the milk and milk to the cereal until I popped or ran out of one. Now, I have 2/3 cup of cereal, a banana, a handful of grapes, some Splenda and enough soy milk to cover and it barely half way fills a MUCH smaller bowl. Look at the size of the spoon compared to the bowl! I giggled through the whole meal, which was pretty tasty, BTW. I stopped giggling an hour later when I realized I wasn't hungry and that half a bowl of cereal and fruit filled me. (Portion Control Success!)
I'm not laughing now. I'm thinking back to the hundreds if not thousands of calories of cheap, sugary cereal and milk I used to pour into my body. All that sugar! Now I'm diabetic and lactose intolerant. Wow, no shock, huh? Geez. Dinner was good, too. Steak, mushrooms, pretty peppers, onions and garlic. I have leftover veggies for the next steak I make. Other than some lightly salted nuts and some sugar-free Jell-O, that's it for the day.Not bad, huh? Keeping the food from feeling like I'm starving or depriving myself is the key, I think. (I hope!) I'm looking forward to next week's weigh in. Seeing 465 would be a tremendous thing! Keep your forks crossed.
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Here's a weird fun-fact I learned in design school: the color blue makes you want to eat less. There's very few blue foods in nature. They say if you put your food on blue plates, you'll eat less, hence "Blue Plate Special".
http://www.colormatters.com/appmatters.html
Well! We'll just keep going with the blue plates and bowls, then! :)
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