mac and cheese

scale says: 147.6

i want to work out for like five hours tomorrow to boost up my weight loss rate.

breakfast:
oatmeal (140)
tsp of honey (20)
tsp cinnamon (5)
(165)

lunch:
black coffee (10)

dinner:
1 medium potato (fried, no skin) (150)
2 tablespoons ketchup (30)
(180)

skinny girl total: 205 (limit 500)
actual total: 355 calories

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i read a tip (don't remember where, sorry!) about using water to fry things instead of oil so i tried it out with my potatoes tonight! it ended up working pretty well. my potatoes weren't as crispy as i would have liked, they were more on the soft side, but they turned out very tasty, and with no extra calories from oil! i did spray the pan with some calorie free cooking spray before adding the potatoes, then i added about 1/3 cup of water, put the lid on, and just let them cook. with a dash of pepper, a dash of garlic powder and dipped in ketchup they were sooo good!

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thank you for all your lovely comments on yesterday's post! you girls are so sweet to say that you enjoy reading my blog, though it does put some pressure on me to be entertaining! eek. :)

i was actually planning on getting some packets of splenda, sweet-n-low, equal, etc. and doing a sort of taste test with my coffee to see if i like any of them, so hopefully i can do that in the next couple days, then of course share my findings. i've heard that all these artificial sweetners are really bad for you, so i guess it comes down to eating calories or eating chemicals. i really don't like black coffee (too bitter), but i really need coffee or some sort of caffeine fix each day, so i'll have to figure something out.

and mainehopie, i haven't tried squash with tomato sauce and parm, but it sounds great! and at only 85 calories, it sounds super great! with the vegan sauce and parm, i don't think you'd have to worry about too much fat or anything, though maybe sodium? it would depend on the brands of course.

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so last night, right after i had already eaten my little bowl of cooked cabbage, boyfriend made some mac and cheese. now, in case you don't know, mac and cheese is one of my binge foods. i can put away a whole box no prob (1200+ calories) and sometimes i would cook and eat two whole boxes (a gazillion calories).

so boyfriend makes mac and cheese, and it smells sooo freeaaakkingg goooood. i want to rip it out of his hands and shovel it all into my mouth then lick the bowl clean. but i don't. my stomach is twisting and rumbling and aching for some of that warm cheesy pasta-y goodness, but i resist. even when he offers to give me half, waving the bowl in front of my face.

god it was so hard.

i went into the room with my computer and started looking at hungry-girl.com low-cal recipes, which helped but also didn't, because all the recipes have pictures and i could still smell the mac and cheese, and here i was looking at all these delicious foods. it was driving me absolutely crazy!

but i'm really proud of myself for not caving, because it would have been too easy. plus, i got some cool new recipes to try out (like faux-fried chicken, which is just chicken strips dipped in egg beaters then rolled in crushed up fiber 1 bran cereal to give it that fried texture).

weekend is coming up, and i managed to convince boyfriend that we don't need to do french dip sandwiches again, so this weekend i'll be making low-cal foods like the faux-fried chicken, quesadillas with laughing cow cheese, or boca burgers. not having to stress about the calories in those french dip sandwiches is going to save me from a anxiety attack, i swear.

stay beautiful girlies!

xoxo