Different Perspective

Holy wow! Some of the portions you good people take are small! I have read some of the nutrition parts of your bodyspace, and of the transformation folks and i cannot believe how small of portions you eat.  I believe that is my biggest struggle.  I am getting much better at eating healthy, but the portion aspect of it is a struggle.  Any suggestions on how some of you made that change?? Thanks.

Green Giant Steamers are great! I have been buying these pups for about a week now.  I get the ones that have the vegetables in them.  45 calories per serving with 3 servings in the pouch.  10 calories per serving of fat.  4g of sugar per serving, 8g of carbs. Again those numbers vary slighty in each bag, but that is the average.  They taste great and have very few calories.  Pop them in the microwave for 5 minutes and you have an excellent tasting snack or lunch.  Just thought i would share.  These are around 1.87 at walmart! No dirtied dishes to clean up afterwards.  Good stuff.

This morning, i was totally unprepared for breakfast.  We are in the process of moving, and so food is scarce around the house.  I decided to stop by the local gas station and opt for a health bar.  I found a couple different kinds, and the one i chose was a Powerbar. 

This thing had 20g of sugar!!! This is NOT a health bar, rather another candybar.  Might as well picked up a snickers and chowed down on that.  Point is, does anyone know of a good health bar with protein and/or fiber that has very very low sugar??? I would be very interested in knowing with kinds.  Also any feedback on the best and worst protein bars would be appreciated. 

I just can’t see these so called "Health" bars, being healthy at all!

Stress -  early morning, small workout results, long drive to work with a long day ahead, LOTS to do!  All of these types of stress welcome temptation! Each one attempts to bully me into eating wrong and unhealthy.  I manage a Baskin Robbins, and i am constantly staring at some sort of incredible tasting treat including full flavored ice creams coming at me in many flavors, peanut butter cups that are readily available, cookie dough pieces, reeses pieces, cookies, cake, need i say more?!?!  However, avoiding it is not as hard as you would think, but on this particular day,as a group,  they seem to be luring me in.  So I rush to indulge on the M&M’s.  This could be my cheat day right? Maybe? NO! I won’t have it! Or,…yes i will, i will. I poured myself a small cup of M & M’s and sat down to my morning paperwork.  I glance over at the colorfully filled cup and just stared. 

I thought to myself…"Do i really want to ruin a great week of eating right and exercising?"  It was now me vs. the M & M’s! i continued to stare as their color appeared to get brighter and more tempting by the second.  I could imagine the taste of chocolate, and my mind was going through all the reasons why it be ok to eat them ALL!  I even considered justifying the action by telling myself i had worked very hard this week and i deserve a break, and that i should reward myself.  I stretched out my hand to the cup, and if you could picture the huge battle scenes like in Gladiator or The patriot, or in the Lord of the Rings, or movies like that where two huge armies suddenlty collide in battle…, I swear that must have been what happened in my head so i paused…and slowly i started retracting my arm…I had won!

 I withdrew my hand from the cup, and took the M & M’s back to where the came from.  I strutted to the refridgerator where i had a cold can of fruit waiting for me.  I busted it open and i reaped my reward for a weeks worth of hard work and an unimaginable encounter with temptation that I overcame!  As I eat my fruit now, i feel more rewarded and accomplished than ever.  This is my prize, this is what it comes down to, and for today, I am a winner!

Did you know? It would take you walking the full length of a football field to burn off 1 m&m!!!