28th Jun 2008
If you don’t drink beer there’s no need to read any further, unless you know someone who does and then by all means pass this on. If you do occasionally like a cold brewsky (how do you spell that - can someone tell me?) and because of your diet you can’t drink anything but lite beer - AND most of it tastes like half beer and half water - HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU!!!
It’s Friday afternoon and it’s hot here in SoCal. My week has been like most everyone’s - good and bad and ready for Friday! I stopped by the grocery to pick up a few things and low and behold in the beer cooler there sat a revelation, Miller Genuine Draft that is 64 CALORIES! I knew Becks had one, but Miller? When did this happen? Where have I been?
SO I purchased it, came home, put some in the freezer and waited patiently. Now I’m not big on beer in a can. I MUCH prefer my beer in a bottle, but after about fifteen minutes to get this really cold, I popped a top and poured it into a glass and MAN, this is real beer!
And I’m not promoting drinking by any means, but one thing that trips a lot of people up on their diet is the restriction of alcohol. You can’t drink very many beers when you get 19-20 points a day. HA! One lite beer is 2! And all you sticklers for the WW code of honor, I do know that it should come out of my 35 extras. This Miller is a 1 point by my calculations. So, I’ll probably have another! Yeah! It is Friday after all.. CHEERS!
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25th Jun 2008
Do you do that? Make bargains with yourself about what you’ll do?
I had a day like that yesterday. I got up yesterday morning and weighed myself. I don’t weigh everyday but on Tuesday I always do. It is the day I go to Weight Watchers. If I’m up sometimes I go and sometimes I don’t go to my meeting - BUT if I’m down I ALWAYS go, because I feel good about going. Crazy, but hey, who said anything to do with weight is sane?
SO I got up and weighed and I was down. Big problem was I was taking a co-worker to lunch for his birthday and I never eat lunch on my Weight Watchers day. I have breakfast and drink my water but after about 11:00 I have nothing so I will weigh as little as possible by the 5:00 weigh-in.
Okay before you say anything - this is how I make this work. This is the bargain I’m talking about. If all of the moons are in the right house - I go to WW, but if one thing trips me up, I may go or I may not.
I’m being honest here. I could lie, which I’ve done all of my overweight life, but honesty is key to my keeping the weight off now, so here it is - healthy to do or not, it is a fact and is what I do every Tuesday.
So Ron, my co-worker, and I went to lunch and had a wonderful time. It was a Cajun restaurant in Burbank and since I’m from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, not far from New Orleans, the cuisine was right up my alley. We had Shrimp Creole and Gumbo and I had a bite of spoon bread (and I only had a bite). I found myself adding rice to my gumbo and Fat Kitty kept telling me it was alright. She really can get on my nerves sometimes.
After I was finished eating I noticed Ron still had plenty on his plate. I wasn’t aware but I had gobbled my food down. He must have taken a full ten more minutes to eat. I saw how much he was enjoying the meal and how he was taking his time to eat. (Ron has never had a weight problem in his entire life). He would take a bite and talk for a bit and then take another bite. Sometimes he just sat and talked, not even eating. He wasn’t consumed by the food in front of him. He was more interested in talking to me. This was amazing to me.
We got back to work and our work day resumed. But I had to think about WW and if would go or not.
Okay, I didn’t go and today I feel really guilty. And I didn’t weigh this morning so don’t know if I’m up or down. But I stayed within my points yesterday, so that’s a victory and one I will think about everyday until next Tuesday when I go to my meeting.
No matter what, I promised myself, I will go to the next one. We’ll see if I do..
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20th Jun 2008
My good friend in Mississippi, Carol T., (she created the Accidental Shortcake recipe that you simply MUST try. This gal is one GREAT cook!) just emailed me and we had a discussion about salad dressings. It occurred to me that I make dressings but haven’t put them up on the web site as recipes. One of my favorites is Honey Mustard. Here’s how I make it.
Take 1/4 cup of Smuckers sugar free pancake syrup and start adding zero calorie Dijon mustard to it until it tastes like you like it. I like mine not so sweet so I use about equal parts of both. And presto chango - Honey Mustard Dressing! Is that easy or what?
AND becasue the syrup only has 20 calories per 1/4 cup and I use almost the same amount of mustard - the calories for 1/4 of this dressing is 10 calories.
NOW THAT’S INFO YOU CAN USE!!! And I think I might have a chicken salad tonight for supper. That’s the best with this dressing!
WooWee! I just had a brain storm! What if you baked chicken with this?? I’ll get back to you on that…
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18th Jun 2008
…have you ever had one? The kind of morning that you know is going to go downhill fast? I’m having one today and I knew it before I left for work this morning. I used to stop off at Carl’s JR and get an order of fries when I had a day like this. I tried something today and I have done it in the past and I hope it works. It’s always a gamble for me when it comes to food.
I brought a 100 calorie pack of popcorn to work. It’s 9:33 am and I’ve already eaten it. I have a big bean burrito for lunch waiting on me and I may eat that soon. That’s all I brought so that’s all I will be able to have. I can somehow keep myself from ordering lunch to be delivered, but if I bring food with me on a “Hungry Day” I’m gonna eat it all - no doubt about it.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, if you have a habit of bringing a lot of food to work OR if you have a habit of going out for lunch, why not try what I did? Restrick what you bring but don’t deprive yourself. And on a day like this maybe you need to bring your lunch to work if you normally go out. I gobbled down the popcorn, but it was a real treat and I knew that if I didn’t treat myself somehow I would end up at the gas station next door buying a candy bar. The jury is still out and the day is too young for me to promise I won’t go next door for that candy bar…but so far so good.
Do you have a tip that helps you? I’d sure love to hear from you. As I have said many times. This will be for the rest of my life. I still need all the help I can get! Thanks…
And I gained a pound last night at my Weight Watchers meeting..ugh. (Too many taste tests for my TV Appearance last week - okay that’s the excuse I’m using today) I have gotten very lazy counting my points. Time to get the ole pencil out and start writing them down again.
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16th Jun 2008
And I have made some as a result of my appearance on Good Day LA last week. The emails from new friends and old are overwhelming and so supportive! As I’ve said many times - I gain just as much support from the people who look to me as they may get from me. We are here to lift each other up and we are doing it! YEY US! Keep those cards and letters comin’! Congratulations to all of us. We’re gonna kick this weight and food issue all the way down the street just like an empty can!
Now back to food. Have you tried my milkshakes? I had a strawberry this weekend and YUM! Almost no difference in that and a fast food strawberry shake! But they are better with fresh - frozen strawberries. FYI!
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13th Jun 2008
Well, I’m finally back on the ground after my TV appearance yesterday! Whew! It was great! If you are reading this blog for the first time because you saw me yesterday, please search back through the blogs till you get to Hello World - my first entry. It will tell you a bit about me and what I hope to accomplish with this site and my recipes. You see, I’m an RFP (recovering fat person) and I will be for the rest of my life. I lost 60 pounds a year ago and I am trying to stay within the 5% of people who successfully keep it off. No magic bullet is going to save me from overeating. There’s just me saving me. You can do this too. If you have a food or eating issue I know you as well as I know my own name. We are all brothers and sisters in this together. My first appearance yesterday will hopefully be the first of many. You see as I lost my weight, I found my voice. I’ve never talked about what it was like being overweight - because I was in the middle of being just that - overweight. Now that I have lost weight I feel compelled to speak up for the overweight community. I’ll be blogging here as much as possible about Fat Kitty (the voice in my head that STILL wants me to overeat) Lazy Kitty (the part of me that can’t stand to exercise) and Normal Sized Kitty (I still cannot bring myself use the adjective “Slim” when describing me) who I am just getting to know. I hope to hear from you about your hopes and dreams, about your disappointments and about your triumphs. You will have all of these. Just remember life is a journey and losing weight is a path in that journey. Keeping it off, now that’s a trip!
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12th Jun 2008
Watch my appearance on Good Day LA and my Web Extra interview both broadcast today, June 12th.
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12th Jun 2008
If you’re new to this blog then you might not have heard that I will appear on FOX11 out of Los angeles this morning between 9:00 and 10:00 on the show Good Day LA. I spent yesterday preparing all the food and it was so good I had to stop myself from eating so much I wouldn’t have any left to take. HA! (I guess that’s not funny after all because it’s 4:15 am right now and no store open to buy anything I ate too much of..
But alas I did stop and I DO have great food to take and I’m SO EXCITED I CAN HARDLY STAND IT. Nicole the producer called yesterday and they wanted photos of me before and after (Like I have on the front of this web site) It seems they are going to focus on food and weight. I thought I might get to squeeze in that these are low fat and low calorie dishes, but now that is going to be the topic - I lost 60 pounds a year ago and this is what I eat to keep it off! And that this food is a tool for any diet plan, if you are in the middle of your weight loss journey right now or trying to maintain.
I have a mission. And it’s one I know well. I am an RFP after all (recovering fat person) and I always will be. My mind didn’t change, just my body.
Gotta go. It’s almost 4:30 and I have to be on the road by 5:15. Supposed to be at the studio by 7:15 for hair and makeup and I have to set the table and present the food!
Thank you to everyone who inspired me. There are many and I think you know who you are…thanks.
Love, Kitty
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11th Jun 2008
As some of you know I began my weight loss journey two years ago by joining WeightWatchers. I still go to meetings and love them. You may not need that reinforcement, but I feel that I do. I say, you should do what it takes to help yourself. This helps me (along with all my great recipes that I can dive into and eat) so I do it.
I’ve know for a while that I was going to appear on Good Day LA (this link will take to the FOX11 site and you can click on the GDLA link to watch me tomorrow in the 9:00 hour Pacific Time!) but I hadn’t said anything at a meeting because I guess I didn’t want to seem like I was selling out. I have mixed feelings about much of the multi-billion dollar weight loss industry (I’ve tried everything and feel resentful of some of the money I wasted on quick fix weight loss products) and felt like I might appear to be trying to tap into that.
My WW leader Shelia allowed me to make the announcement about the TV appearance right as the meeting came to order and what a wonderful response I got. Better than I ever dreamed. All of my apprehension went away immediately. My recipes are just a tool (and a free one at that) to help anyone on any weight loss plan. I really want to get that out and tomorrow I have the chance to do that!
I FINALLY figured out a way to keep the dad-gum (and believe me I can use a fowl word here but won’t) weight from coming back. Losing the weight is very hard. Probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life, but keeping it off - MAN that’s a killer. I look at myself now and wonder if I deserve to look like this. Crazy stuff like that used to trip me up and I’d just go to eating - anything.
I still do have moments like that and I guess I always will BUT now I eat an Eat Great Lose Weight recipe and magically nothing about my body changes - I’m just full.
Someday I hope to not think about food so much. But I can’t guarantee that will ever happen, so I just go forward with what I’m doing now, developing dishes that I CAN eat.
If anyone from my WW meeting is reading this, please know that you lifted me up last night. We all need each other and we need to lift each other up. Thank you for that..
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10th Jun 2008
In the June 2nd LA Times there is an article titled, “Keeping It Off” and it’s about keeping already lost weight from reappearing. This is a FANTASTIC article and explains so much to me. As you know I’m no expert, I’m just an RFP (recovering fat person) with a Phd in being overweight. This article shed so much light on why I think about food all the time. And I DO! Check out the article! Click on “Keeping It Off’ and you should get it. I set up a link.
I have felt downright crazy sometimes. having food urges that I simply cannot control and finally I don’t care because they get so strong. I’m not sure if knowledge will help me in that, but it sure can’t hurt. I always say that knowledge is power over food. Well, now I know more, so I feel more powerful!
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