I don’t even want to get on the scale today, so I’m not. Neener neener. The caveats for me not getting on the scale are that
1. I must go buy a new scale before next Thursday, and use that weigh-in as God’s Word, and
2. I must swim tomorrow, Monday and Wednesday.
Not that I can go back in time and weigh myself today if I don’t do these things by next week, but still.
It is consistently difficult, I find, to both eat right and write. I have absolute fuckloads of writing to do over the next 2 months. I’m going to try extremely hard to manage the eating thing as well. It *should* be easy, dammit. I should be able to just … I don’t know. Follow a set menu and voila, be on track. I guess it’s the set menu that’s the problem.
*Part* of the problem, no question, is that I desperately need low-point non-sweet snack foods. I guess I can boil up some vegetables every morning so I’ve got a couple kinds of those on hand to nuke and eat, but that’ll get old fast, and I’m genuinely tired of eating sweet-flavored things. :p
Ok, better go to work.
Buy a new scale, you! *shakes fist*
Okay, done now.
Y’know what? I don’t do well with snack foods. But here are some ideas at least:
* Par-boiled or blanched broccoli florets
* Ditto cauliflower, or the WW Cauliflower Poppers (if you can’t access this recipe, lemme know and I can post it)
* Blanched green beans. They taste kind of grassy purely raw, but either blanched in hot water for about 4-5 minutes or even microwaved for a minute wrapped in a paper towel, they make a good crunch snack.
* Mushrooms
* Sliced green peppers
* Sliced, unpeeled English cucumbers, which can either be eaten like the other veggies or used liked crackers
* The ubiquitous baby carrots (which I can’t stand, hence the other ideas)
The green beans (3 oz), mushrooms (4 oz), cucumbers (half a medium), and about 1/4 cup of fat-free ranch dressing (2 POINTS all together) is one of my standard lunch fares on days when I otherwise don’t get much fruits and veggies.
Fat-free Pringles, if you can find them, are 1 POINT per serving (15 chips/1 oz.)
And if you have access to them in your groceries, Nabisco and…whoever it is that makes Doritos are also putting out 100 calorie (2 POINT) snack packs of things like Wheat Thins, graham crackers, nacho or ranch Doritos, etc. I keep those on hand when I want something savory and chippy, and because they’re portion controlled, you can’t sit there and eat the entire bag without thinking about it. :)
I guess I can boil up some vegetables every morning so I’ve got a couple kinds of those on hand to nuke and eat
Oh, and I should note, that with the exception of the broccoli, cauliflower, and green beans, all of those veggies can be raw the way I described them. And you could cook all of those up in advance and keep them in the fridge over 2-3 days and eat them cold so all you have to do is grab them and go, and not have to cook them or re-heat them again or something.