Ounces, Favorites, and a Recipe

Good suggestion by my friend because I've been drinking water like a maniac. Yay me. Yesterday I got in about 150 ounces. Today over 100. So, good for me.

I started thinking about what makes eating right easier for me. One thing is fresh fruits and veggies. I will almost always make a healthful choice if it is available. The problem is when I have no good choices available. Like, I'd always prefer an apple to a vending machine snack. But if I don't have an apple, I feel compelled to get M&M's from the machine. Sure, I could get pretzels, but if I want something sweet . . . .

So having good foods in the house and not having redlight foods (read cheetos, Captain Crunch cereal, chocolate chip cookies) helps me a lot.

What good foods you ask? Apples. Always apples. And clementines. I don't care how much they cost because they are cheaper than a lap band, thank you very much. Bananas too. Oh, and a bunch of frozen and canned fruits. These things make it possible for me to make smoothies which save me on those days when I realize it is 7:00 and I've not had any foods from the ground all day.

Sandwich thins are my new favorite bread, but I still love wraps too. Salsa is a great snack enhancer. It can turn pretzels into a real treat. (1/2 cup = 1 veggie serving too!) Popcorn is another snack stable for me.

But here's what I did today that I'm just tickled pink over. See, I have the mega sweet tooth. I want sweets all the time. In fact, I think that I could eat sweets and only sweets and I would be happy as a clam. (For those who are counting, that's two cliche's in one paragraph. . . so far.) I'd forgotten about a great sweet that saved me when I was on WW before: frozen graham cracker and coolwhip sandwiches (we call them frozen grahams). This, by the way, is not for the gourmet cook. (You folk can just skip right onto the next paragraph with my sister.) This one is for the quick, short-cut, easy recipe cooks like me. Ready? Here's what you do: You take two graham crackers (squares not the full rectangle), put a dollop of fat free coolwhip between them, freeze, and feast. Yum! They are great. I'm not even kidding.

Still loving my shape-up athletic shoes. Awesome.

That's all for today. Wanting to decrease,
Aileen