Hi all. I was wondering if you all would mind helping me out to make better food choices, especially snacks. I am a SAHM, and when I am home during the day, I tend to snack on bad foods that are around the house. I have fruit, veggies, yogurt and healthy snacks, but often choose the chips or trailmix, etc. I was wondering if it would be okay if when I am tempted to make a bad choice if I post here. I think this could help me to make a better choice. If you don't mind, I would like to try this.
Thanks, it is nice to have a group of people who are willing to help others in their journey to living healthy.
PS - If anyone has any good snack ideas, I would love for you to share them.
First of all, if you can get those tempting snacks out of the house, DO IT! I rarely have regular potato chips in the house because they are a GREAT weakness of mine. One bag every few weeks for a weekend snack/treat for the rest of the family is all that I will buy. I also have trouble resisting trail mix, so that doesn't enter my door (fortunately most of the others don't love it like I do). I try hard to buy snacks for the family that I don't care so much about...... for example, I love Oreos but don't care about Chips Ahoy cookies... so if I am going to buy cookies for a family treat (which again is rare anyhow), it will be Chips Ahoy.
When I do buy something tempting, I try REALLY hard to tell myself that it is NOT for me... that is for the kids only! If I can convince myself that it is not mine, I do better. And I find that I can't usually have "just one". I need to have NONE! BTW, feel free to come here anytime if you need support or help resisting something. Somedays I am around a lot... other days, when I am working I am more sporatic, but I am usually around at least once a day.
Well.... nothing too exciting, but I will share some of my regular snacks.
Obviously, fruit is a snack of choice. I enjoy the regulars (apples, oranges, grapes, bananas), as well as a few other more exotic choices like kiwi and fresh pineapple (expensive so a rare treat).
For salty snacks I like cheddar cheese mini rice cakes, microwave popcorn, baked Lay's, pretzels, 100 calorie pack Ritz Mix. I really like nuts, but they are very high in points (although they are healthy), so I don't eat them... I have trouble controlling my portions. Plus DS is allergic,, so we just don't have them around.
For sweet snacks, in addition to fruit I like sf/ff pudding. I don't eat it often because I try to avoid the aspartame, but I really love my own concoction I made up.... 1 Cup of prepared sf/ff banana pudding, 1/4 C crushed pineapple, few blobs (2 TB?) fat free CoolWhip. I kind of heap it all together, give it a light stir, and YUM! Kind of tropical tasting. If I could figure out how to get some cocoanut flavor in there it would be tasty. Sometimes, if I have more points to use, I will dice in 1/2 fresh banana also. You get 1-2 servings of fruit, plus a serving or more of dairy.... all for dessert! Plus it is HUGE and filling! You could eat half of this to save calories and still have a great dessert.
I also like Fiber One bars. Some people eat them for breakfast, but I save them for dessert. I mostly like the peanut butter one, but they also make a tasty chocolate one and a caramel one.
My sweet splurge of the day is usually something that has aspartame like Weight Watchers chocolate cake or some sort of 100 calorie cookie (although I don't think that they all have aspartame).
For more filling snacks (for when you are really hungry, not just craving sweets or salt)..... I like cheese sticks (Weight Watchers makes a 1 point string cheese stick, and 1 point cheddar cheese squares), 100 calorie english muffin with 1 Tb. of the peanut butter/tofu spread I gave the recipe for earlier (2 points), 5 melba toast rounds with 1 wedge of Laughing cow spread on them and then topped with just a dab of peach pineapple salsa (2 points), celery stuffed with 1 wedge of Laughing Cow cheese (1 point), fruit salad (somehow it seems more filling when you eat your fruit with a fork instead of from your hand!), lowfat yogurt, 3 slices of Hormel Natural Choices smoked deli turkey (I spread with a touch of brown mustard and then roll them up... 1 point)..............that is all I can think of for now.
I have another recipe to share, but I don't have it next to me now, so I will find it tomorrow and share it. It is a lemon dessert and great for someone (like me) who loves Lemon Meringue pie and things like that. I call it Lemon Fluff (it is a recipe I modified from one I found in a magazine years ago).
That is all for tonight! ................................P
I stayed the same weight this week also.
) Even with a regular underwire bra and a sports bra on top of that, things don't stay very still! I would love to find some sort of bra or top that is really snug without strangling me. .............P
i have goofed already! i'm sorry, had in my head I was on Friday. now I remember I choose Thursday for that extra incentive the day before weigh-in. I'll remember from now on!! It has been a really busy week at my house, went really fast!
In the 183 range (on a 5' 1" body) 
Joy and chrismiss 
It is so nice to have a group to diet with, especially when the hubby isn't! My DH is eating a bit healthier but that is it. And I am stress eater too, so we have that in common. 
