Pre-walk breakfast snack: 2 pieces primo, hand cut bacon from Dominick’s, grease blotted off with paper towels and a few almonds.
After the 5-mile walk, it’s now 11 o’clock: Tried a Healthy Choice Café Steamer – the lowest carb one I could find. Beef Merlot: beef steak and red skin potatoes with vegetables, merlot wine sauce. 220 calories, 23g carbohydrates, 5g fiber. Now, that’s all the dietary label info I’m interested in for my personal low carb weight loss plan, however, the meal also contained 6g fat.
These new steamer meals have a unique double dish steam cooker setup that is quite interesting and worth trying if you like the steamer selections they offer.
For those of you who eat low carb, beware: most of the steamer dinners had high carb content. I stood there in the open freezer and checked each one, so I know.
Remember: try not to go over 25 carbs a meal when you eat these things. And that’s before subtracting the fiber. So read the carb and fiber content on all labels. And if you’re just starting your weight loss plan, go easy on these prepared frozen meals as you’re better off with a piece of broiled protein and a nice, big salad with lots of your favorite low carb veggies – you’ll come out with less carbs per meal that way, too.
Personally, this particular Healthy Choice selection was just OK. I much prefer some of the South Beach frozen low carb entrees as well as the Lean Cuisine low carb collection. It’s all a matter of taste
3 PM mid-afternoon snack: A fresh, crisp apple (COSTCO) with a side of wonderful 5-year old aged Gouda from Binney’s on Grand’s International cheese collection and a small handful of almonds (COSTCO).
Now I’m nice and full till 6:30 PM’s huge dinner salad. COSTCO carries these double bags of wonderful mixed lettuce called Parisian Blend with just the right portion size mini bags of feta cheese, dried cranberries (not many as they’re high on the glycemic index), and a small bag of toasted almonds.
Their portion control is handy because that way you won’t get carried away like you would if you had full bags of each of the three condiments. And you know you would, too. Little by little, your portion sizes of these tempting goodies would increase until, before you know it, your weight would not be budging.
Laura Lifestyle Law: If you’re weight ain’t moving in a downward direction, look at precisely what you’re eating and you’ll see exactly why.
Also, I do not eat the delicious dressing that comes with these salad packs – white balsamic vinegar, which in itself is wonderful, but this particular packaged dressing is too high in sugar, so I will use a small tablespoonful and then dilute it with fresh olive oil.
Now, maybe around 8 o’clock or so, I’ll have a frozen strawberry (COSTCO) smoothie with whole milk and a blop of Watchin’ Carbs brand vanilla ice cream from Donimick’s.
The frozen berries and the ice cream make for a nice, slushy combo when pulverized in your blender.
We have one of those awesome Vita Mixers that can grind up a car bumper if you’re so inclined, but any blender will do ya.
