Missing those carbs, bored. Food Diary 8/14

Still hard to get used to eating all this fat and I'm having the same challenge I usually have with a change to a healthy diet--vegetables bore me out of my mind. As a large portion of what I'm eating, I dread them as the days go by.  I hate cooking in general and when we have to add in chopping, it's even worse! The strange thing is, I really do like veggies but not for breakfast and not for snacks. 

So far the bennies are not making up for the lack of favorite carb foods. Yes, I've tried mashed cauliflower and spaghetti squash and zucchini spaghetti and they taste fine, just not like mashed potatoes and pasta, which I like and miss. They taste like what they are--boring! I think it's because you have to eat so much more of them to feel full and I feel like all I do now is eat and plan menus. I'm hoping that it will become more natural over time and I won't feel like all I do is work around what I need to eat every day.

I like THIS site for easy lists of what to eat and not eat and what the carb numbers are on a lot of common foods.Seeing the numbers is motivating.


Diary
Breakfast
cucumber slices with cream cheese and lox

Snack
Butter coffee (see yesterday's post on this)

Lunch
Ate out at California Shabu Shabu:
Plate of assorted veg and a couple of tofu cubes
Steak and salmon

I passed on the Udon noodles and rice.

Dinner
leftover chicken thigh and gravy
some cherry tomatoes and cucumber slices
slice of Jarlesburg cheese
handful of pecans
Not hungry anymore but not satisfied:  craving salt--added a handful of the wasabi almonds then felt done.

One thing the website I linked to above helped me with was the advice that I should eat until I felt satisfied if I was staying in the low carb range of foods. Since I didn't feel done for dinner, I checked in to see what I was craving and once I hit on it, I wasn't hungry anymore.

Food Diary 8/11

Forgot to do this.  See if I can go back in time...

Breakfast
Yogurt with blueberries
handful of pecans about an hour later

Lunch
Ate out at a lunch meeting
Salad with pears and gorgonzola with grilled chicken
cranberry juice with lime

Snack
two handfuls of wasabi almonds
I think I had a few baby carrots too?

Dinner
grilled chicken wings
assorted raw veggies
hummus

Felt hungry but not bad and at appropriate times to eat something.  Getting used to not feeling over-full after meals but just sated. That feeling doesn't always kick in right away, sometimes I have to leave the table feeling a little unsatisfied but then in a few minutes I realize I'm fine.