What do you do with 4 pounds of strawberries? Make pie! That’s one of the choices. Generally, I prefer a strawberry shortcake roll, but I admit it won’t use up pounds of strawberries. So pie they became. While it is nice, it’s not nearly as nice as blueberry pie. Apple pie. Cherry pie. Those are all very, very nice pies. My grandmother was fond of making pineapple pie. So while strawberry pie was nice to try, the others are not in danger. Did I mention pecan pie?
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – 3x slices cold Aldi pizza (100)
- 300 calories
Lunch – Bratwurst wrap (280); 2x corn tortillas (40); 100g Mexican shredded pork (156)
- 516 calories
Dinner – 13oz kale and beans (300)
- 300 calories
Snacking – chicken (100); 1/8 strawberry pie (240); cool whip (75);
- 415 calories
Total for the day: 1531 calories (limit 1850)
Shortcut and shortcrust
For this pie, I cheated a bit and bought the crust from the store. But I have never gotten the premade crusts to work properly. The crust always shrinks and any fluting I put in always goes limp. The advice on the internet is to make your crust and briefly freeze it before baking. Maybe I’ll try that, but the store bought crust was kind of disappointing. The dough seems very thin and not substantial. When you are restricting your calories as much as I am, you have to find your rewards where you can, and for me that means food disappointments are very disappointing.
I am finding that concentrating on my office work is really making this easier for me. I am working from home on the computer, and you would think food temptation would always be a problem. But keeping my focus on the work means I am less inclined to indulge my emotional needs with food. Eating for non-physical reasons is what got me into this mess, and it never ends. Physical hunger can be satisfied pretty easily, but emotional needs can eat you up if you let them.
I am thinking about my body goals. At the highest level, my goal is and ought to be weight control, and not any particular weight or look. But in the course of losing weight, I will find a weight range that works for me, and while that range is not a goal, keeping in that range does mean my body is under control. And that is the goal, to be in charge of my body’s weight. What is that range? I don’t know, but probably 180-190 is a good range for my height and shape. I will see how that looks. Maybe this kind of talk is overconfident. After all, I just came off a 6 month pause in which I neither gained or lost anything! (That does not count as under control, in my terms. But at least it was not a disaster.)
-The Doctor
I’m afraid I must disagree with the Doctor. Maintaining weight, without gain or loss, is an admirable feat. Otherwise, when you “hit” 180 or 190 or any other limit, how do you stay in the zone???? Self control. self knowledge, whatever you want to call it helps keep you straight. Otherwise, your ideas are in agreement with my own.