Little care goes a long way :)

[Guest guest]

Hubby and I go to 'the big city' (ha ha) for a day of shopping and eating out

too. We generally get up early anyway, and leave early too as it can be a long

day for us. While we do eat something before we go, we both seem to want to

'save' our hunger for our treat meal - about 1-2PM-ish. Needless to say we have

found ourselves over hungry and snappish before which can put a damper on the

day, not to speak about making shopping tense instead of fun. I've thought of,

and taken apples and other easy-to-eat things but none of these worked well for

me. Then bingo! it occurred to me that what I wanted mid morning was something

protein to help carry me. I bought a package of beef jerky - gnashed a few

pieces and it did the trick. I still enjoyed my meal, and didn't overeat as I

might have if I had been soooooo hungry.

Its amazing how just so little as a few pieces of jerky not only satisfied me,

it returned my thinking to tasks at hand instead of being constantly distracted

by hunger/headache.

Katcha

IEing since March 2007