(I hope that’s how you spell it…..it looks right)
At any rate, I have an appointment to talk with a dietitian. I seriously need to loose weight, and I want help creating a structure of meals to follow in planning what I eat during the day.
I’ve worked at home for twenty years and fell into the trap of snacking through out the day. Food is comfort and love to me, so I frequently think of what food I can serve for family and friends who visit. Rather than looking at food as entertainment, I need to switch my philosophy from “living to eat,” to “eating to live.”
I need help breaking my eating habits into three smaller meals and two or three snacks a day. My purpose is to keep hunger at bay, while I make sure I hit the food groups I need.
I want to find ways to get more protein into my morning meal, and I want help to determine what volume I should be eating. When you eat all the time, you tend to loose track of how much you should eat.
I know the strategies. I have them in my head. Now, I need to put them to work and see some success. Thank you, to all of you, who have shared your strategies with me. I hope that I’ll be able to remember all the great suggestions I’ve heard.
Exercise early in the day (Kim K.)
Drink WATER (Lynda and Nan)
12 raw almonds make a great snack (Nan) (walnuts, too)
Fat free yogurt as a snack (Dr. E)
Drink water before meals
Put your fork down between bites (Dr. S.)
Make my goal 5 pounds, a manageable amount (Shelly)
Those are just some of the good ideas that have come my way. Perhaps I’ll have more to share once I get going on this. If you need to loose weight, don’t wait! It gets harder the longer you put it off!
Daily Archives: May 17, 2011
Dirt Therapy
My youngest sister, Frankie, of Just My Opinion, (who, btw, needs to start posting again) calls working in the garden “dirt therapy.” She’s absolutely right. Even if I work too long and come in aching, I still feel better for all that I have accomplished. I believe that’s one of the major reasons people garden, other than the obvious reason of growing food.
Yesterday was quite cool, but I was outside, weeding along the sidewalk in jeans and a turtleneck, happy as a clam to be grubbing in the dirt. I pulled thistles and dandelions, and was able to assess what I need to get on my next trip to The Growing Place.
I started to pull out the dead stalks of purple Homestead verbena from last year, and discovered that it had wintered over. I bought three more plants last week, so we are going to have a LOT of verbena. That’s okay with me. I hope it grows past the edge of the garden, onto the sidewalk, as it did a few years ago. It was beautiful in late summer and the fall.
I need to get at least one, perhaps two roses, and a dahlia. Where some of my English garden plants have died off, I’m going to sow cosmos and cleome. That area is toward the back of the garden and the taller plants will look good there.
I’m aware that the gardens across the front of the house lack balance, and I’m not sure what I want to do about that. I know it will have better “curb appeal” if I repeat things, but it means taking out or moving plants that I like. Do I satisfy myself, or think about pleasing a potential buyer?
We’re in a short down-time on blooms. The tulips are done but the iris have not yet opened. I have a tiny group of alliums in bloom, and pansies and million bells in pots, but other than the lilacs down the yard nothing much is happening. I think in about ten days it might all go crazy! lol
I hope to plant more seeds in the raised veggie bed this afternoon, and pull some of the weeds in the herb garden walkways. I eased a support over the East Friesland salvia in the corner of one bed, so that this year it won’t flop over. Had I waited even one more day that chore would have been really difficult.
Dirt therapy. Perhaps I can solve the woes of the world while I spruce up my gardens. Sounds like a plan!!