This was a very busy day. I was out all day helping a friend and they helped me a little while. It all started with a phone call at 8:00 am. I had just had my coffee and they needed help. I didn't really think of calorie counting at the time. But, I did make the decision to eat sort of light. I had a piece of toast with one sausage link, wrapped it up together like a sandwich and ate it on the way. For lunch we ate some leftover hamburgers they had made. I kept it light and choose spinach over iceberg lettuce, and I did not get any of the French fries even though they were baked in the oven. I knew my calories would be high with just the burger. I could have made my burger less fattening by not adding the mayonnaise and the cheese. But that is the grandness of this calorie dieting. I like my burger with mayo and cheese, that is how I want to eat my burger and I did! At a cost that is. I only had 165 calories left for supper. Here in the south when we want a hot quick meal we often choose to cook cornbread. It may be a skilled fried version we call couche couche that you put in a bowl, add milk and eat it like cereal or you bake it. We choose to bake ours in our little black skillet, as us southern Louisiana people like to do. My mother wanted it like couche couche so she just crumbled hers with milk. I wanted mine all slathered in butter. So that is what we did. The cost of not calorie counting earlier in the day and having that mayo and cheese for lunch, I only had calories for the cornbread and butter. Nothing else. I was fine with that. I was tired from my long day and was not that hungry anyway. I didn't eat much and still went over on the calories by only 5 for a daily total of 1335 calories for the day. I didn't starve as the meat I ate for breakfast and lunch was very filling. I do recommend that if you don't eat much at a meal that you should do protein over salads and stuff. The meat holds you for longer. If you like my meal ideas just check out my diary for a list of ingredients for that meal. And yes! I measured and weighed everything. A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity.
It's how southern women diet!
Happy Eating
Angell
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