Hi Nomad,
Okay - the Greek Yogurt - WAY too much sugar per one cup of yogurt.
The power bars? Usually the same - way too many grams of sugar per serving for me. No, I don't do them.
I do eat bread. I do the Lite Wheat - 45 cal. slice - I don't eat bagels, muffins, buns - but I am in LOVE with the new flat breads for just about everything that are 45 calories and come in wheat varieties. Yum.
The glycemic shakes? Again - I would have to check the sugar.
Activia? I'm not sure that's the name of the one I buy. There is one 4 pack - the peach or strawberry - they are smaller than everything else of course - but the sugar grams are the lowest. Check the packages - I think the one I eat has 4 g. I know it's not much more than that.
NO NOT EVER SHAKE - This is why women NEVER EVER loose weight on Slim fast - 21 grams of sugar PER SHAKE. WOW. I did slim fast and got fat fast.
Yes I started metformin in September. I take 1 tablet in the morning. Perhaps by September I won't need it any more. It does curb appetite. So does Sylvetri - (herb) makes everything sugary taste nasty. Cinnamon helps with digestion too. I love cinnamon. I don't take it anymore - I belch it all day long.
Meal replacement? No. Unless you count 1 frozen Weight Watchers lunch a day - that's it. And the desserts? BAD FOR YOU. Too much sugar. Thats the hook of the count points - you're so busy counting points - you forget to count the sugar in that brownie or icecream. If you are borderline diabetic THAT point system WILL NOT WORK.
I mean you can't go crazy - but you have got to start thinking - to yourself ------I can't have sugar. Sugar is not my friend. Sugar wants to make my butt fat. Sugar doesn't care if my husband every wolf whistles at me again. Sugar doesn't care if my brain is foggy and I act like I'm 109 when I'm 49. Sugar doesn't care that I have giggly jello arms and hunny bun thighs. Sugar is NOT MY FRIEND. Sugar doesn't care if my hair is thin, doesn't care if my boobs sit on my lap, if I have a muffin top, wear stretch pants for the rest of my life, buy 3x shirts with sailor motif on them, or have to buy my clothes from Catherines or Lane Bryants and NEVER EVER wear stilhetto heels again (if I want to), sugar doesn't care that God gave me a body to be a temple...and I turned it into a trash can at a carnival. I AM BEAUTIFUL....I KNOW WHAT THE ENEMY IS....IT'S SUGAR......AND I CAN BEAT THIS....THERE ARE AND HAVE BEEN GOOD FOODS IN THE WORLD BEFORE McDONALDS.....AND IF I CAN RESIST THE WILES OF A difficult child - I CAN MAKE MYSELF RESIST A MILK SHAKE....AND OREOS. BECAUSE EVERY TIME I GO TO EAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT????? IN MY MIND I MENTALLY PICTURE MYSELF GLUEING IT TO MY KIESTER.....JUST LUMP AFTER SUGARY LUMP....NOW I LOOK LIKE BERTHA BUTT ......PRETTY IMAGE....and it's not so hard to walk away from that slice of OFFICE PARTY CAKE.....or that glass of wine when everyone else's tiny hiney fits in the booth and I have to pull up a chair.
So a perfect day???? Oh and by the way ??? I have not exercised at all. Not one sit up.....not one anything - BUT I will say this. I feel so much better? I just NATURALLY feel like doing, and walking more.......tonight I walked 3 miles and nearly killed Pootie. She's the hyper go-go dog. I've taken to picking up aluminum cans on my walk - and I just go like Forest Gump.....The dogs USED to beg to go with me - now when I grab a leash ------they all shoot out the back door into the yard. So I would say - just walking at a decent clip, talking to God, the dog, and trying to work out being unemployed in my head.
What I eat? Pretty much the same stuff - then i get bored and switch -
Breakfast:
Cheerios or Aunt Gemima, pancakes, French toast with 1/2 and 1/2 sugar free and regular mixed syrup.
Hungry jack pancakes light and fluffy.
Multi grain cheerios
Bran Flakes with strawberries
Rice Flakes
Oatmeal is EXCELLENT
1% milk
a banana
a HUGE cup of coffee with 1/2 & 1/2, Splenda blend - my morning medications.
10:00 - an apple (use that cutter I told you about - and Gala apples are the best) Peanut butter sandwhich with sugar reduced jelly, or almost anything I listed at the 3:00 snacks. Sgar free hot chocolate.
12:00 Lunch - ANY weightwatchers frozen lunch, or a packed lunch with 2 slices of low cal lite wheat bread, thin slices of hilshire farm turkey, ham or whatever meat. Dukes mayo and maybe 1 slice of swiss cheese. 15 baked lays chips. a bunch of white or red grapes the size of the palm of my hand. Bottle of water - either with or without crystal like 0r some walmart crystal lite knockoff.
3:00 (I know I said 2:00) that was wrong) it's 3 - a hand full of animal crackers by Stauffer - you get them at the dollar tree. A package of 100 calorie crackers, Wheat thins, Ritz crackers 100 calorie, lance 100 cal pack crackers, apple, orange, pear, any fruit, celery and a small bit of cream cheese, 15 potato chips, 30 hot fries like potato chips, any 100 calorie - 130 calorie snack with less than 8 grams of sugar...it's fun to find these things.
5:30 - 6:00 -
a steak, fish, pork chop, either broiled, forman grilled, bbq on the grill.....any kind of soup.....hamburger fried with a slice of cheese, meat loaf, mashed potatos......all the time steamed veggies - or frozen microwaved veggies - NO NEVER NADA ZIP canned - except for beets....rice.....noodles......or tuna casserole......occasionally captain D's fish dinner. basically ANYTHING I want for dinner ---I use a smaller plate than everyone else - fill it......and my portions are the size of the palm of my hand. I can have baked potato, maccaroni and cheese - anything....chicken....you name it.
For dessert? Snack pack Hunts - pudding or jello - sugar free with Ritz cream on it....in the can.....sugar free or not - it's still only got 15 calories and 2 g sugar at most.
Orville redenbacker if it's before 7 for a movie.......
WATER - OMgoodness I love water -
Diet green lipton tea too......nummy ........
1% milk - 2% is too sugary for us now.
My big splurge is the 1/2 and 1/2 in the morning with my coffee.
As far as a treat? Walmart makes sugar free candy of ALL kinds.......reeses, and there are just stuff you can't believe - even the dollar tree carries chocolate covered pnuts.....and Target? (sinful) carries sugar free turtles. O.M.G........and russel stover carries sugar free easter bunnies.....chocolate....yup.......at 50% off and frozen they are now in our freezer at .50 each. down from $4.97. yeah - score.
I even found cookbooks at the library for sugar free cakes, cookies.......unreal - some of the stuff is
sick
most of it is really delicious and I'd challange anyone to tell the difference.