Who knew! A good friend of mine mentioned that she tried some fat free ice cream. I didn’t even know it was possible. Isn’t the primary ingredient of ice cream, cream? Isn’t that like almost pure fat? Whatever. But Breyers make a fat free ice cream. Last night I was in the mood for the ice cream, so I decided to pick up a quart of the stuff. I only saw Vanilla, but I was in a hurry. SO they may or may not have other flavors. The carton said it was double churned so it would be creamy. And it was very creamy. It tasted pretty good too. WOuld I pick this over regular ice cream in a blind taste test? I doubt it. But nonetheless it was good. I have to check the box, but I am guessing there is still a ton of sugar in it. But at least it has no fat. So small amounts of it as dessert wont kill me. Both my wife and I had a single scoop each. That was our dessert for our meal which consisted of fat free hot dogs! Yummy! Sounds real healthy huh? Well, I taugh a class and didn’t get home until about 9, and my wife worked, and didn’t get home until close to 10. So I wasn’t about to be cooking a full blown meal!
I had a health screening at my work today. It was free. They have them once or twice a year.
First, I couldn’t eat or drink anything except water for the prior 8-12 hours. So I haven’t had enything to eat since last night. And no Diet Pepsi when I got up this morning.
They weighed me at 172 pounds (with clothes, but no shoes). The woman measured my wasit at 29 inches! Wow!!! I shrunk!
Then she took my blood pressure at 106/64. That seems really low. I take medicine for my high blood pressure. Even so, it often is still on the high side of normal. SO I am not sure about those numbers. Maybe it is because I hadn’t had any caffeine this morning?
Anyway, she took some blood which will be sent off to a lab somewhere, and they will mail me the results, along with a copy to my doctor. I am interest in what my cholesterol will be. It has always been pretty low.
But I have definately gotten thinner! It’s eating all the low fat foods!
I always do my main weigh-in in the morning. That seems to be when I weigh the least through the day. I do weigh myself at other times of the day, but the morning weigh in is the one I really go by. I ate pretty healthy yesterday. I ate 3 or 4 Healthy Choice/Lean Cuisine meals, and then had chili dogs (with fat-free hot dogs and low fat chili) last night for dinner, and a fat free pudding. I also ran 8 miles last night. I weighed in at 168.4 before going to bed. I knew I would lose weight overnight. After going to the bathroom (losing just a little more weight), I weighed in at 167.2. I think this is about the lightest I have weighed in years. I brought several Lean Cuisine/Healthy Choice meals to work. There is a birthday today, and a girl has food at her desk. I have already eaten one hot dog with cheese wrapped in a crescent. An they are undoubtedly NOT low fat! And there is more over there. I may gain a little weight today. That’s okay. I would prefer to weigh in the 170s anyway, just a lean 170s.
My wife any love to go camping. Not the kind of camping where you load up backpacks and hike miles into the wilderness. But the kind of camping where you back your car into a spots, and set up a tent. Kind of a lazy man’s roughing it.
This Spring, we are planning on doing a week long driving trip. When we have done this in the past, we have stayed exclusively at campgrounds, and set up our tent. This time, we will probably do a combination of the staying in a tent, and maybe a motel room. We will see.
But I was thinking about low-fat healthy camping type food. Let start with breakfast. Scrambled eggs are common, and easy to make while cmaping. But for low-fat versions use a liquid egg substitute like Egg Beaters. And don’t melt butter in the pan, use a cooking spray (butter flavored if you like). Then how about some 97% fat-free ham? If you have the little racks to hold the bread over the fire (or over a propane stove), you can make toast. Don’t use butter though. Use maybe a little jelly, or how about a few spritzes of buttery spray?
For lunch and dinner, how about fat free hot dogs? Ball Park makes three different kinds. You can cook these on sticks over a fire, or boil them over a stove. Be sure to bring ketchup, mustard, or reslish or whatever your favorite condiment is. And buns! Don’t forget the buns. You could always cook some more of the 97% fat-free ham. And you could maybe boil up some small salt potatoes. They are easy enough. Then cut them open, or mash them, and use some buttery spray, or some Molly McButter or Butter Buds. Also things like canned vegetables like corn or peas. Just don’t forget the can opener, or you might find yourself out in the woods bashing cans with rocks in a desperate attempt to open them.
Sorry to say that there is not much you can do to make Smores low fat and healthy. But go ahead and have one. Just one!!!! Remember moderation!! You don’t have to torture yourself by not allowing yourself a small luxury once in a while. If you cut yourself off completely, you are more likely to snap, and binge on bad stuff.
We are back from our trip. With all the good food at the various restaurants we went to, we didn’t eat particularly low fat. We didn’t go completely overboard. We never ordered dessert. And we did buy some fruit (bananas and grapes) to keep in our hotel room for snakcs. I did gain a couple pounds over our trip.
But now we are home. Last night I made Linguine With Clam Sauce. That is very low fat. I work today. So I will be taking several Healthy Choice or Lean Cuisine meals to work with me.
I continued to workout on our trip, running most of my scheduled miles, and doing some swimming too.
I had a meal at one restaurant that they called Linguine Chicken Tettrazini. I was going to try to make a low fat version of it, but the recipes I have found sound different than what I had in the restaurant. I think what I had in the restaurant was closer to a pasta alfredo. But the alfredo sauce was a little more liquid. I don’t know. I will dig through my cook books for something interesting to make.