food network torture? January 27, 2009
Does anyone else torture themselves while watching the food channel? I never use to watch the food channel at all. Now I am always, always watching it in my spare time. It has given me lots of tips on cooking healthy, but for the most part the food network has very high calorie meals and shows that are not geared toward a healthy low calorie diet. I wish there were more episodes on low calorie dinners. Even Rachel Ray seems to have high calorie food on her shows. Anyway, sometimes I think I might watch it because I figure if I can’t enjoy the yummy “bad for me” food, then at least I can watch it on TV. LOL I know that sounds crazy. But then sometimes while Im watching it, it seems like I am just torturing myself and then I find myself craving cheesy, starchy, sugary food. Maybe I should just stop watching it. I tend to go through stages on things that I watch or interest me in my life. Last year I was very much into true crime. Like notorious, snapped, cold case files, and true crime novels. This year its all about nutritional books, shows on losing weight, and now the food channel. Its funny how our interests change. I just dont know if the food channel is helping me, or torturing me. I think maybe a little bit of both ;)
I just recently found an awesome snack that I have been eating almost every day. It is so good. I thought I would share. Im sure most of you have heard of the laughing cow cheese. I finally tried some and OH MY GOD!! It is so good. I get the light french onion laughing cow cheese, spread it on top of reduced fat townhouse crackers and top it with a little bit of boars head cracked pepper mill turkey. It is my favorite snack at this time. 6 crackers, one wedge of cheese and a few slices of turkey is approx 120 calories.
I think last night was one of the hardest spin classes I have done yet. I walked out of there dripping wet with sweat and could barely walk, LOL. It felt good! I wasn’t sore this morning, so i guess I am just getting used to pushing myself. tonight I am doing a class called “spin circuit”. It is a combination of strength training and spining. I did it last week and loved it. I could feel all my muscles getting a good work out. I still can’t keep up with the hard core people in the class, but I am improving all the time. I weighed myself this week :216.4 dont ask me why my scale is stuck at the .4, but i find it comical. so, I lost a lb last week. 11 more lbs until I reach 100 lbs lost!!! Hopefully by the end of Feb!
btw, I think I will post a before and “now” picture once I hit 205. I was going to post another picture at 215, but I might as well wait until I hit the 100lbs lost. so, hopefully in a month or so, i will post another picture.
Update: the spin circuit kicked my ass!!! The spin part wasn’t so bad, but the circuit part…..WOW!! makes me realize how far I still have to go to be in the shape I want to be in. We did a lot of squats and crazy, indescribable things with the big ball. This thing called the skyscraper killed my right knee. It makes me so pissed at myself and my knee. I want so bad to be able to do everything in the class and do it right, but I am still not up to par. My knee is causing me pain right now, and it makes me angry that the pain might slow me down. Im sure my poor knee joint is just worn out from all those years of inactivity and hauling around all that extra weight…. but it still makes me mad, and worried. I know that it will take a lot of time for me to get to where I want to be, but then I have to remind myself of how far I’ve come. patience Heidi….. patience.
B- fruit smoothie with non fat yogurt
S- lowfat crackers with cheese and turkey
L- tuna with light mayo, relish, onion, on crackers
S-WW ice cream cup
S- a lot of watermelon
D- half a stuffed pepper made with ground turkey, tomato sauce, onion, brown rice, and some roasted potato’s.
S- skinny dipper bar, then some blueberries in a small amt of light soy milk
total= 1511 calories
Oh gawd no, I can’t watch that shit. I used to love it. I also used to love my cooking magazines, but the sheer quantities of cheese and butter are like torture. I drool. My husband keeps renewing the mags, I keep forgetting to say I need light subscriptions.
I cannot look at people’s lists of pig out foods on the forum either - it will set me to craving something incessantly. MMMMM.
Spin circuit sounds great! Let me know about it! You know I love me some biking and I LURVE me some weights. Woo! Now that’s a workout.
You’re doing great with the spin classes. I hope the knee will be okay. Knee pain sucks, and sometimes takes a long time to go away. Be careful and listen to your body. I’m excited for you in reaching 100 real soon, and look forward to the picture at 205. 205… wow, that’s practically a 1 in the first digit. How totally awesome.
I used to watch the food network. I won’t watch while working out at the gym. The machine have their own personal tvs and of course I won’t be the fat lady watching the food channel while she tries to burn calories! I used to get a kick out of Good Eats. Alton Bornw has a good sense of humor but I tried a couple recipes and darn if they sound so easy to do and end up NOT working for me. My husband thinks I’m shooting myself int he foot by watching that channel. So far I havent had much troubles, BUT I do tend to find myself something to eat while watching Top Chef, Hell’s Kitchen or The Biggest Loser! So I guess I do relate.
This book I am (slow as a snail) reading, French Kids dont get Fat… the woman talks about how FOOD is everything for the French. They talk about it ALL the time, yet they only eat it three times a day. And they eat well. It seems their love affiar with food is a healthy one unlike we Americans who stress, binge, and eat crap in an effort to keep calories low. It’s interesting. So, so far the one thing I take from it is to go ahead and enjoy food, food pics, talking about it, and all its’ glory. It’s to be enjoyed. It’s not the food that is messed up, just us. And no I don’t have an answer/solution to that part yet.
I actually don’t have trouble watching the food network, nor do I have problems making food (I bake) and then not eating it. I think I just need to be around quantities of food sometimes, but I don’t need to eat it. Try drinking water or a low-calorie soda as you watch so you feel nice and full. I love, love, love Alton Brown’s show (and his recipes work for me), and I like perusing their website for fun recipes too. *shrug* I don’t like having food right next to me, though, or lots of things out on the counter. Then it’s way to easy to give into temptation.
I hope your knee gets better too! Is it arthritic pain, or bad cartilage or what? And congrats on nearly reaching 100lbs! Amazant! I wish I could hug you in joy!