I read on a blog that I checked on for awhile-- she's quit keeping it up now-- that trying to figure out the foods you could eat while on a diet was like having a second job.
That really "rang a bell" with me because I had come to the conclusion myself that it was such a huge "project" that left no time to do anything else. Whatever other stuff I would like to get done has been "put on hold" while I figure out the number of calories I'm putting in my mouth.
I certainly can see why some people would rather just pay to have someone else decide what they can eat every day.... if you have that kind of money to spend.
But as I've worked my way through this, I'm really trying to keep an eye on the future when I reach my goal and want to maintain the weight loss. I want to be able to put together for myself a "scrapbook" of meal ideas and recipes so that I can just pick it up and look through it for something that I know I'll like that is SIMPLE to fix. Something that will already have the calories figured out for me based on the ingredients I've used.
I read once that most people eat basically the same menus week after week, that is, they have about TEN different things they fix and then cycle back through those same ones over and over AS A RULE. They may use a slight variation on the "theme" but basically it's the same. (For example, spaghetti OR lasagna or something that is pasta with a sauce.) So I figured if I could come up with two weeks of menus for things that I LIKE that are low calorie, I'd be setting myself up for success.
Why do I tantalize myself surfing through these food pages? The pictures on this site take awhile to load but they give a step-by-step picture of every inch of the progress toward creating what you see here.
