NiteOwl
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"Splurge day" was always a diet killer for me. I know a lot of people can do it successfully, but I can't. I'm addicted to food.
In the beginning of each diet, I'd pick one day to be a splurge day and go off. In the beginning, when I was mostly losing water, that wasn't such a big deal. But as the weight loss slowed down, and my food-addictive thinking started to kick in, Saturday Splurge Day shortly expanded to Friday night/Saturday... and then Friday night/Saturday/Sunday big breakfast... and then all day Sundays.... and what the heck throw all day Friday in too, and the next thing you know - BOOM.
Right back where I started.
Last time I lost a significant amount of weight, what worked for me was a modified splurge day idea. I still needed to keep my goals in mind, but I'd just have huge portions of the kind of veggies I really like, cooked the way I really like.
So here's my Saturday, hubby's at work so I'm cooking for one, I'm really in a rush so I want to eat FAST, Spluge Day quickie meal
Ingredients:
1 Soy FlatbreadTortilla
1 1-inch cube cheddar cheese, shredded
1 tsp sunflower oil
1 tsp lite soy sauce
1 ENTIRE BAG Bird's Eye Stir Fry Frozen Veggies
Heat sunflower oil in large wok
Dump on bag of Bird's Eye Stir Fry Frozen Veggies
add 1 tsp lite soy sauce
cook until BURNED (yeah, I know it cooks away a lot of the nutrients, but it's splurge day, 'member?
)
Shred 1 cube of cheddar cheese and place on soy flatbread tortilla
Dump the hot veggies on top so they melt the cheese
Yum
I can't eat all of it, and it keeps me full for hours. I'll usually have a very light breakfast, and by the time dinner time rolls around I'm still stuffed. It helps for Saturdays, especially since I'm alone and on my own for a good portion of the day - always a trigger for me to eat.
Here's how it breaks down nutrition wise. It's higher in Fat and Sodium than I normally eat during the rest of the week, but the Saturated fat is low and drinking lots of extra water and going on a longer walk helps with the sodium:
Calories: 310
Total Fat: 13 g
Saturated Fat: 4g
Carbs: 37g
Fiber: 13g (wow!)
Protein: 15g
Cholesterol 17mg
Sodium: 498mg
In the beginning of each diet, I'd pick one day to be a splurge day and go off. In the beginning, when I was mostly losing water, that wasn't such a big deal. But as the weight loss slowed down, and my food-addictive thinking started to kick in, Saturday Splurge Day shortly expanded to Friday night/Saturday... and then Friday night/Saturday/Sunday big breakfast... and then all day Sundays.... and what the heck throw all day Friday in too, and the next thing you know - BOOM.
Right back where I started.
Last time I lost a significant amount of weight, what worked for me was a modified splurge day idea. I still needed to keep my goals in mind, but I'd just have huge portions of the kind of veggies I really like, cooked the way I really like.
So here's my Saturday, hubby's at work so I'm cooking for one, I'm really in a rush so I want to eat FAST, Spluge Day quickie meal
Ingredients:
1 Soy FlatbreadTortilla
1 1-inch cube cheddar cheese, shredded
1 tsp sunflower oil
1 tsp lite soy sauce
1 ENTIRE BAG Bird's Eye Stir Fry Frozen Veggies
Heat sunflower oil in large wok
Dump on bag of Bird's Eye Stir Fry Frozen Veggies
add 1 tsp lite soy sauce
cook until BURNED (yeah, I know it cooks away a lot of the nutrients, but it's splurge day, 'member?
)Shred 1 cube of cheddar cheese and place on soy flatbread tortilla
Dump the hot veggies on top so they melt the cheese
Yum
I can't eat all of it, and it keeps me full for hours. I'll usually have a very light breakfast, and by the time dinner time rolls around I'm still stuffed. It helps for Saturdays, especially since I'm alone and on my own for a good portion of the day - always a trigger for me to eat.
Here's how it breaks down nutrition wise. It's higher in Fat and Sodium than I normally eat during the rest of the week, but the Saturated fat is low and drinking lots of extra water and going on a longer walk helps with the sodium:
Calories: 310
Total Fat: 13 g
Saturated Fat: 4g
Carbs: 37g
Fiber: 13g (wow!)
Protein: 15g
Cholesterol 17mg
Sodium: 498mg
