Re: Dinner tonight - Judith

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In a message dated 5/23/2006 11:02:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

helperdogs2@... writes:

Had no dinner except for my delicious strawberry dream which I am sure does

not count as a healthy meal, but at least I was satified a bit and the

freaking stopped.

Hi Judith,

I'm not sure I should even think about posting this, but I am going to tell

you what I had for dinner tonight. Not healthy at all, or some of it wasn't.

No planning on my part whatsoever.

I was going to fix a salad, but was fixing shrimp, so I ate some of the

shrimp, a cup of yogurt. A hour later, I ate some SF jello with cool whip,

then a couple of tortilla chips with cheese. Around 10:30, decided I wanted

a cup of flavored coffee. I made a cup of coffee, added some SF hot

chocolate mix (thanks Lainie) and a dollop of cool whip to that. I hope I

sleep

tonight. I did use lite coffee.

hugs

Eunice

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Thanks, Eunice,

I think I've gotten to the point of stressing myself out trying to be

perfect with figuring this food planning out so I can stay diet controlled.

I think I am going to just try to take a break from it as best as I can but

still watch the carbs at each 'eating' and not worry about whether it is

healthy or not at this moment. Of course I'm still going to calorie count

to loose weight if I can (I'm stalled/plateaud on the weight loss which is

normal) because I really believe I will have an easier time of it if I get

back to my 'normal' weight.

Thanks for putting down what you ate. Made me feel more confident that i'm

not killing myself!

hugs back for sure!

JUDITH

> Hi Judith,

> I'm not sure I should even think about posting this, but I am going to

tell

> you what I had for dinner tonight. Not healthy at all, or some of it

wasn't.

> No planning on my part whatsoever.

>

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> Thanks, Eunice,

>

> I think I've gotten to the point of stressing myself out trying to be

> perfect with figuring this food planning out so I can stay diet

> controlled.

>

Judith, I don't know if this will help, but something that I like to do is

to make sure to include something with dinner that I can eat a lot of - a

" free " veggie, for example. Then I pile my plate high with that thing and

try to fill up on it before starting on the other stuff. Tonight for

example we're having grilled salmon, corn on the cob, and asparagus, and I

think my husband is making cornbread. This is a major temptation for me,

because I love cornbread. So I will take a portion of salmon, take a HUGE

portion of asparagus (which I love), one ear of corn on the cob or maybe

even just a half ear.... and then maybe a small cube of cornbread. If I

have enough stuff to fill up on that I like and that is actually good for

me, I'm less tempted by the junk I shouldn't be eating. :-) And this way I

don't have to precisely weigh my food and count every gram of carbohydrate

(although there is nothing wrong with doing that if you have the stamina for

it) - I just know that asparagus and salmon don't affect my BG at all, so I

eat a lot of those, then I limit my portion of corn as it does affect my BG

slightly, and I strictly limit my cornbread (huge BG effect).

Hang in there, it does get easier, I swear.

Molly

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Molly,

thanks for the suggestion but there are no free veggies. 4 florets of

cauliflower or broccoli have 4 carbs - add them up and a decent portion make

over 25 carbs which spikes my BS#s. Add a meal to that? how?

same thing goes for any cereals that I have checked. one cup of rice

krispies or cornflakes is something like 11 or 24 carbs + milk carbs and

where is the meal??? no meal at all, just a cup of cereal and milk. Very

depressing.

thanks for trying. that is all we can do: keep trying!

JUDITH

> Judith, I don't know if this will help, but something that I like to do is

> to make sure to include something with dinner that I can eat a lot of - a

> " free " veggie, for example. Then I pile my plate high with that thing and

> try to fill up on it before starting on the other stuff.

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> Molly,

>

> thanks for the suggestion but there are no free veggies. 4 florets of

> cauliflower or broccoli have 4 carbs - add them up and a decent portion

> make

> over 25 carbs which spikes my BS#s. Add a meal to that? how?

>

Have fish, or chicken, or turkey - if prepared without additional sugar, all

of those have 0g carbs. Sliced turkey with a side of cauliflower and

broccoli sounds pretty good to me! Or baked chicken...meatloaf (made with

ground-up wasa crackers instead of regular saltines or breadcrumbs)...a

hamburger w/o bun....baked fish with lemon juice sprinkled on top... grilled

pork skewers....

Now I'm getting hungry. :-)

Molly

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Hi Judith,

I can appreciate the need to take a break. I have been totally stressed out

over carb counting, and I¹ve only been doing it a couple of weeks. My

nutritionist says it gets easier as you become familiar with your body¹s

response to different foods (type and quantity). I am SO looking forward to

that!

> Thanks, Eunice,

>

> I think I've gotten to the point of stressing myself out trying to be

> perfect with figuring this food planning out so I can stay diet controlled.

>

> I think I am going to just try to take a break from it as best as I can but

> still watch the carbs at each 'eating' and not worry about whether it is

> healthy or not at this moment. Of course I'm still going to calorie count

> to loose weight if I can (I'm stalled/plateaud on the weight loss which is

> normal) because I really believe I will have an easier time of it if I get

> back to my 'normal' weight.

>

> Thanks for putting down what you ate. Made me feel more confident that i'm

> not killing myself!

>

> hugs back for sure!

>

> JUDITH

>

>

>> > Hi Judith,

>> > I'm not sure I should even think about posting this, but I am going to

> tell

>> > you what I had for dinner tonight. Not healthy at all, or some of it

> wasn't.

>> > No planning on my part whatsoever.

>> >

>

>

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LOL and :-)

thanks Molly!!!!

JUDITH

>

> Have fish, or chicken, or turkey - if prepared without additional sugar,

all

> of those have 0g carbs. Sliced turkey with a side of cauliflower and

> broccoli sounds pretty good to me! Or baked chicken...meatloaf (made with

> ground-up wasa crackers instead of regular saltines or breadcrumbs)...a

> hamburger w/o bun....baked fish with lemon juice sprinkled on top...

grilled

> pork skewers....

>

> Now I'm getting hungry. :-)

>

> Molly

>

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