Thank goodness for soup. It’s perfect for fall, it doesn’t take long to make (lentil soup anyway), and it doesn’t have a lot of calories. The soup base is bacon, and chicken stock. The vegetables: onion, celery, and carrot. The seasonings include thyme, garlic, balsamic vinegar and bay leaves. Finally, a pound of lentils. It all took about an hour. Pairing is easy too – warm baguette. A meal worth anticipating.
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – sausage (230); wrap (70); peppers and onions (15);
- 315 calories
Lunch – meatballs (235); wraps (140); hummus (100); olives (25); potatoes (75);
- 575 calories
Dinner – lentil soup (300); bread (160);
- 460 calories
Snacking – tea with half and half (80); Twix bar (250);
- 330 calories
Total for the day: 1670 calories (limit 1700). Fitbit says I have taken 21,178 steps and burned 4137 calories. I did take an exercise walk today.
What do you want? Make sure you get it...
One of the tricks that has worked for me is to embrace hunger. It’s a different way of looking at things than I had when I was gaining weight. Now, I make sure I have something to look forward to at every meal. It makes controlling my food portions possible. I balance hunger and eating.
By possible, I mean it’s possible to keep on doing it, day after day and month by month. It’s no good forcing myself to eat less food, I just get resentful and don’t stay on the diet. But I can maintain a balance, for most of the time.
What makes it all possible is making weight control one of my top priorities. What would you give up in order to lose 100 pounds? I gave up being the person who gained 100 extra pounds. It was harder than it sounds. I had to question my own priorities, my old existence, and turn away, and find a new set of values to live by, to see by, to aim by. The person I was, is mostly submerged now. That person will gain 100 pounds, if he is in control of my life. I decided I didn’t want that anymore.
What would you give up?
-The Doctor