CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
I met a friend to exchange eggs for cash <g> today. She asked me how I'd lost so much weight (I don't think I've lost that much, but I have shrunk 2 sizes since June). The simple answer--I ate breakfast and ate whatever I wanted for breakfast. Let's start with the fact that I was a non-breakfast eater. Food in the morning--ugh. It had nothing to do with time, it had to do with I had conditioned my body not to expect food in the morning. So I told her what I did--greens/veggies + protein + a serving of carbs (in my case, whole grains) for 30 days. In part this was motivated by a segment I saw on Dr. Oz--but it was also motivated by the fact the Girls were laying the best eggs, I didn't have enough people interested in buying the eggs off me, and the garden was producing, and I was operating (still am) on a limited budget. On the days I didn't make breakfast (and there were those days), I made sure I ate a grapefruit or some cheese cubes or veggies or hummus, or something and drank my glass of water with cider or other vinegar added. To make life simpler, I would take a brick of cheese and cube it, put the cubes in those little snack ziplocks so there was one portion (1 oz of cheese) ready for me to grab and eat. I hardboiled and peeled eggs so I could grab an egg. Let's face it, a hardboiled egg is something you can hold and eat while driving. So are cheese cubes or veggies (carrot sticks, celery, green pepper, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini spears) and apples or orange segments. I would buy yogurt and split it into the recommended serving sizes in little tupperware containers. I stopped buying chips, etc., stocked up on nuts, packaged those into "take along" portions (even though my office is 30 seconds from the kitchen). And, I stopped eating white sugar and bread (for the most part). Now, I did indulge and make waffles every now and again--excellent for toaster waffles--whole grain or whole wheat flour, they freeze well and pop in the toaster. Wish I could vacu-pac my breakfasts and sell them in a supermarket to make it easy for a person to grab a breakfast made of something other than sugar and carbohydrates and pop it in the microwave or a "eat in the car, not messy breakfast"! Enough of my rant.
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