Salt
I have a love/hate relationship with salt. I love it, and it hates me…. I never add salt when I cook, but it seems like all the foods I like are high in sodium. Even foods I had no idea were high in sodium and sky high.
Take for example. I love siamin. It is a Hawaiian kine noodle soup and it is wonderful. But not only is it about 500 calories a bowl, it has probably 2 days worth of sodium. And MSG to boot.
So I try to stay away from my siamin. And fat..the fat in some meals in horrid and one would never think it.
How have I become a wiz with knowing my salt and fat intake. I am on myfooddiary.com and I have to record every morsel that I put in my body. And so far i keep getting red frowny faces for too much fat or salt. And that is with keeping my calories to around 1200 a day.
Here is what I cannot eat anymore: ceasar salad-fat; siamin-salt & fat; McDonald’s vanilla flavored iced coffee-fat; bologna-fat & salt; Oh Yeah protein bars-fat…..and the list goes on. So I have tried to eliminate whites from my diet: white bread, potatoes, white rice etc, and now I have to get rid of the FAT & SALT.
I hate bland food, I love iced coffee. So now I am making my own iced coffee with sugar free flavor and skim milk..not as good but low fat. I am trying really hard to stay away from pasta and siamin. I love a good bologna sandwich, but guess what???? Bologna has 60 calories in one slice and that is if you use chicken bologna and if you use one slice…now a one slice bologna sandwich is unheard of. I need at least 5 slices, so now my sandwich has turned into a 300+ calorie meal and that is not including the bread..WTF
Sigh…
I dunno, maybe it is better to be fat….NO. I will continue on and will avoid the BAD foods. Meanwhile I watch all the skinnys eating whatever the fuck they want, to hell with the fat and salt content. Not fair…sigh
As I sit here with my muffin top and lard ass…my thighs bigger than most celebrities asses, my boobs looking like tube socks…sigh
I hate being fat. I hate having to diet. I hate feeling like I am missing something…sigh
Shit…sigh
Posted on November 13th, 2008 by islandgrl
Filed under: General
Yeah………I second all that, LOUDLY!!!! I hate it too; never gave my weight a second thought or ever thought I’d be fighting with my body over it. And—I just get worn down with the “constant and forever” aspect.
On the bland food….I’m using more and new spices these days—-some days I swear I must smell like a walking garlic clove.
Sounds like you are feeling pretty negative about your diet. I have found that focusing on one thing at a time helps - so maybe concentrate for a few weeks on EITHER salt OR fat, and only after you see the choices you can make without too much sacrifice work on the second topic.
On the salt front, not everyone is sensitive to sodium. Some people have strong and rapid reactions, some people can eat all they want with little effect. I’d make sure salt is something you personally need to control before making big efforts on it (for me personally it doesnt effect my blood pressure).
On the bland/boring issue, spices or new cooking techniques can help. There is a very good book by Sally Schneider, “A New Way to Cook” which is about full-flavor cooking with new techniques for less fat and salt in dishes. It’s not a simple, 30 minute meals in minutes approach, but I learned some good things.
I wish I had some wisdom on the “constant and forever” aspect, but the only intelligent thing I can say is that ignoring the issue doesn’t make it better - in my case it’s added about 30 pounds…
I hate feeling like I’m missing out on things. I hate the fact that I have to live the rest of my life like this- counting calories and making absolutely sure that I squeak in exercise every single day, while I’m surrounded by women that can have the cookie, and the icecream, and then sit at home and watch tv and still wake up a perfect size six. I hate that!
But, I’m finding that there are things I like. I finally feel like I’m in charge of my body, and though it doesn’t always listen the way that I want it to… I’m not left helpless anymore. I’m learnign to try new things, and I like a lot of things I never would have tried before. I’m finding that now when I eat too much suagr or fat, I don’t feel good. I crave vegetables, and I feel like a master in the kitchen when I can come up with somethign healthy that still makes people say yum. Sure, dieting sucks. But only if you allow yourself to feel that you can’t have something. I CAN have anything, I just choose not to have some things because I would rather have something else- I would rather have a healthy body than an extra cookie, I would rather feel strong than sit on the couch all night, and I would rather feel accomplished than cave to all the “good” foods that really aren’t all that good. Find what you WANT and focus on that. There’s nothing that you can’t have but a lot of things you would choose instead.
Keep going, you can do this!
Alright lady, get your butt back here! It’s been a week! We miss you!
Catching up here! So good to hear about how you and dh are connecting again. So it is possible. I’ve been wondering about that. But you are so hard on yourself! You are a beautiful woman, strong minded, strong physically, but with a good heart. It doesn’t really get better than you already are. I hope you start seeing some positive results really soon from staying away from the soup and watching the sugar….back in the saddle, aye?
xoxoxoxoxox RubyJean