So often we hear people say “I had no control over the circumstances” and in certain cases that is absolutely true. But how true is it when it comes to food? How much control do we have over what the fork delivers to our mouth?
I’ve spent the last three weeks taking control of my eating by planning my breakfast and dinner for each day. Some believe you should plan breakfast lunch and dinner but I haven’t been doing that. I’ve been looking at what I had for breakfast and what I’ve planned for dinner, then looking at my allotted portions for the day and using those allotted portions to create something for lunch. I think this gives me flexibility to address cravings at lunch and it also gives me an opportunity to think on the go.
I have a list of fast food restaurants and what I can have at each place, yes its typically a salad but by deciding that ahead of time that you only have XYZ of portions left for the day it takes the guess work out of things and helps remove temptation….if you don’t have any starch allotments for lunch and you decided to use them anyhow, you must remove them from the dinner menu.
Today I was hungry and I wanted something for lunch. Hubby was making a tuna sandwich on toast and let me tell you, that toast smelled heavenly. I know I know, it’s only toast but the smell.... I had cereal for breakfast and I’m planning a turkey burger on a whole grain roll and oven fries for dinner, I don’t want to give that up so instead of eating the toast I looked at my allotted portions. 1 portion of meat, 2 portions of fat and of course veggies. I took ¼ of hubby’s can of tuna and mixed it with a small stock of chopped celery, 2 tablespoons of chopped Vidalia onion and 1 medium chopped tomato and put 1 tablespoon of light done right ranch dressing over it and mixed it together with a bit of fresh ground black pepper. It was delicious! I wouldn’t call it tuna salad because tuna wasn’t the main ingredient, tuna was an accent instead and that is just fine.
With a little creativity we can find ways to adapt and adjust to move with circumstances instead of letting circumstances take control.
Choose control instead of being controlled by circumstances
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