303: Chanukah Night Three

One piece of advice for those who love a dieter: Don't eat their food—for any reason. As a dieter, you have to work hard to make sure you are not eating what you should not. This means you know what foods you CAN eat and how MUCH of that you can eat. If you have counted out 30 nuts, or five cups of microwave popcorn, that's your portion. Regular people (aka those not on a diet) may not have any idea how sacrosanct those foodstuffs are. But I noted it outside of my own life that the protection of your diet-portion is crucial. It's been said that dieting can make you cranky, and when you live it, you see it, in little pieces, every day, why that is so, so true.

Breakfast
Two Slices of Balthazar Multigrain Bread
Peanut Butter
Tea

Snack
Cheese from 1/2 slice of Pizza
Almonds/Cashews
Coffee
Yogurt

Lunch
Hot Dog with Mustard
Cole Slaw
Bok Choy

Dinner: Chinese
Shrimp with String Beans
Chicken with Broccoli
Spare Ribs

Throughout all this we must be adding on various bites of Team Cheerios (Magnolia forces me to eat them) every day, and also baby yogurt, apple sauce and oatmeal. All the time when I am trying to feed her, she is also trying to feed me. I do not want to squash this ambition by refusing her, though I try to fake it as much as I can. But you can only do so much faking—they get to a point where they don't want FAKING they REALLY WANT YOU TO EAT THIS CHEERIO, NOW. So you must oblige, and hope that there's an elliptical in your future, somewhere.