Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Day 2… the 100

The house smelled great when I got up, I am not the biggest fan of coffee, but I always LOVE the way it smells… I actually kind of have an addiction to creamer.  My coffee is usually a beautiful tan color and is more like a flavored latte than coffee.  On this plan, I get to add half-n-half for free, but I still miss my creamer. 

I was anxious to see how the scale weighed in today and I wasn't disappointed to see it moving in the right direction! That is a good felling and helps to motivate me for the day! 

Todays breakfast was MUCH better than yesterdays… thank goodness.  I was worried it would be hard to convince Nate to keep trying this when our breakfast tasted like dry cardboard. 

Bacon?!  Yes please! 
(yes, I often eat off children's plates) 

Breakfast:
Two eggs, scrambled with 1/4 red pepper, 1/2 cup spinach, 1/4 grated cheddar cheese served with a side of 2 strips of bacon and coffee & half-n-half. 
O sugar calories

Snack:
Walnuts 
(I don't like walnuts at all, so I had a string cheese again)
0 sugar calories for either one

Lunch:
1/2 head of lettuce with 2 strips chopped bacon, 1 hard boiled egg, 2 Tbsp chopped toms, 2 Tbsp chopped cucumbers, 2 Tbsp blue cheese crumbles and 2 Tbsp of blue cheese dressing. 
6 sugar calories

Snack:
1 hard boiled egg
0 sugar calories

Dinner:
1 chicken breast rubbed with 1 Tbsp Dijon mustard and 1 tsp black pepper, panfried in 1 Tbsp olive oil, served with a side of 1 cup spinach, 2 Tbsp chopped red pepper, 2 Tbsp chopped green onion and 1/4 cup chopped zucchini, drizzled with Blue Cheese. 
6 sugar calories

** I should mention that we are allowed to have two glasses of red wine each night.  I just don't like to drink alcohol during the week…  So I kind of cheated and drank a little bit of milk.  

How interesting….

Exhibit 1

While I was eating supper last night, I was looking at the dressings I had placed on the table.  I have always purchased light or low fat dressings. The lower the calories, the better. Right?! While I was looking at the back of the bottles I was surprised to see the difference in the two…

Take exhibit 1, the bottle on the left is the Light Ranch.  
It has 70 calories.  Not bad for 2 Tbsp.  
It only has 4.5 grams of fat
It has 10 mg of cholesterol
370 mg of sodium!
7 carbs
It has 28 sugar calories
(total carbs X 4)

bottle on the right is Regular fat, Blue Cheese
It has 120 calories… 
the old me would be freaking out because calories are ALL THAT MATTER? RIGHT?! Isn't that what we've been lead to believe? 
It has 12 grams of fat.  
It has 0 cholesterol 
250 mg of sodium
1 carb
It has 4 sugar calories

Now… again, if all you are looking at it calories, clearly you would choose the dressing on the left.  However, you might be sacrificing your health… I guess I'm not going to try to pretend that I actually know anything about Cholesterol and Sodium, but there is a lot more of that crap in the light (supposedly more healthy) dressing.  Than we all know carbs and sugar are the culprit to weight gain, so in comparing the two… there is a clear winner here.  I think my days of "low-fat" and "light" might be over!

The other day I found a great article about the truth behind the dreaded "fat" in our food!  It's totally worth a read!