Posts by mspriff

Whenever there is a sale on these things, I buy as many as I can..

Bush's baked beans

Chicken breasts or whole chicken

Ground turkey breast

Ground sirloin

Frozen peas, corn, broccoli, cauliflower and combos like stir fry and soup veggies

Tuna

Turkey sausages

Canned tomatoes, corn & peas

Bread

Cereal

You can cut and paste your analysis into your journal - as long as you permit friends to see your posts, she can see yours - and do the same for you to see.

How nice that you and your wife are using cc as a way to encourage each other.  I do believe you know how to be your wife's friend :)

When I began CC several years ago, counting kept me honest and I lost 20 pounds.  When I stopped counting, I gradually increased portions and made poor choices and voila - I've regained what I lost.

Now, I count, not so much for the calorie content issue, but for the analysis.  I'm paring down my sat fat, total fat and calories - I love having all that information at hand to help me learn daily combos of food that work within a low fat eating style.

I believe I will continue to count what I eat, because I've proven to myself that it works for me and without it - I don't do as well.

When I cooked for a family of five - I watched the grocery sales and planned menus that used ingredients on sale... especially meat.  If chicken was on sale, I'd buy three or four chickens (whole chicken is cheapest) and I'd cut off the breast meat and freeze it for later, then throw the rest in a dutch over with water, celery tops, onion bottoms and carrot tips and bottoms (the pieces you usually discard when chopping)  It makes a great broth, and you can strain and toss the veggies, pick the meat from the carcass, skim off the fat after refrigerating the broth, freeze 1 cup portions of meat and broth and you are instantly ready to make soups or cassaroles.

I also made the cassaroles, planning on chicken ones.  I would keep one in the refrig for a meal that week and freeze the rest for another time.

I did the same with beef and pork.... so that my refrig was full of cassaroles ready to cook of all types.  Worked well and saved lots. 

I would do all of this on Saturday afternoon.  Everything I bought fresh I processed by peeling, chopping, slicing, etc.  If I did serve a side dish of cooked veggies and have a few spoonfuls left, I scraped them into a freezer container marked "soup" same with veggies that needed to be eaten or tossed... chop and drop in the container.  When the container was full, I made soup.

Not wasting food helps a lot in saving on the food bill!  Sadly, my kids never knew how to cut a piece of meat with a knife and fork because all they ever had was meat as flavoring, already cut up in soups, stews and cassaroles. 

In a perfect world, our families would stand beside us and do everything possible to encourage us in our efforts to lose weight.  Perhaps we would not even be the size we are if we lived in a perfect family.

Life happens.  My hubby feels like he encourages me when what he is doing is not encouraging.  He can't help it.  He doesn't know unless I tell him.

Bless his heart, hubby has will power to put a bag of malted milk balls in the freezer and take out two or three to eat after a meal.  When I'm sneaking them out two or three at a time every few hours, he exclaims "You have to learn to just have a few!" NOT ENCOURAGING.   Makes me mad.  Why does he have to bring in sweets when he knows I have no will power?  Why does he scold me like a child?  Why am I sneaking them when he can't see... acting like a child?  Well, it's all because of me, not him.

Put your frustration and anger from not being supported into the hard work of staying on track!  Think of ways to be smarter about eating despite their temptation.

The blessing of CC is that you are not alone!  We are here and you can vent at us day or night, and someone will be here to encourage you.  So stay strong!!