Lite n easy: almost a month in. The ‘I even ate the fucking green beans’ edition.

And I fucking HATE green beans.

So I promised and update and I kinda got lazy and stopped taking pictures of my food around day 4.

The things that stick most in my mind right now are:

Fucking beans.  SO MANY FUCKING GREEN BEANS.  But I am eating them anyway.  Todays lunch was a beef satay and it was delicious. Completely disguised the taste of those stupid arsed vegetables that constituted half of the damn veggie content. A shit tonne of pepper deals with the little bastards in other meals.

Still madly in love with the tortilla stack for dinner.  Having one tonight.  ALL THE NOMS.  I loved the chicken enchilada too, even more when I took off the olives and replaced it with grated cheese. Heh. The indian options are delicious, and surprisingly for me I ADORED the savoury beef rissoles with mash.

Anything with turkey tastes like arse. Well not ARSE specifically, but I am avoiding anything with turkey.  Which includes the turkey ciabatta roll (blerg, I took 2 bites and threw it in the bin under my desk, where it sat mocking me until it was time to go home) and the roast turkey dinner.  Just. Say. No.

meh.

Boo is LOVING the chicken schnitzel and parma.  MPS is loving everything cause he doesn’t have to drive thru for it.

Boo loves himself a good ol’ schnitty sanga.  With cheese and Peri Peri sauce of course.

Not enjoying the fruit options, so leaving it out most of the time or replacing it with my own fruit selections.  I will admit that I am a fucking picky bitch when it comes to fruit and I don’t like red apples.  I have bought some extra fruit cups and the apples, oranges and kiwi are going into the fruit bowl for MPS and Boo.

I wish there was an option to buy the snacks separately.  I am SO not into dried fruit and that seems to be the option on so many days and would like to have the opportunity to swap it with the banana bread/cookies/corn chips and salsa/muesli bars or something instead.

I am eating things I never would normally eat.  Like plum jam and fucking beans and apple cake and almonds with cut up (pink lady) apples.  I don’t even know who I am anymore.  Eating cake like normal biatches…

I AM SHITTING LIKE A DEMON.  What is this fresh hell? I am a (TMI ALERT) every other day kinda girl and now with all this added fucking fibre and nutrition and shit I am, well shitting.  A LOT. Or probably normally for someone whose diet doesn’t consist of skinny lattes and hot salty fries. Whatever.

Can’t eat all of the food.  I have to plan my day around eating which kinda defeats the purpose of doing this.  Every day there is a cereal and toast.  Usually followed by fruit or yogurt.  MPS has been making the toast while I slap my face on and I have the fruit/fruit cup or yogurt usually around tea time at work.  The cereal is too much effort and so gets left.  We are on the 1500 plan because of my aforementioned pickiness and then MPS gets to eat the shit I leave behind so I reckon technically I am on 1000/1200 and he is on 1800.

Adding my own salad. As my delivery is on a Wednesday and we have weekends off, by Monday the fresh items are pretty limited.  So I have been chucking in some salad leaves or baby spinach with the lunches.

I am totally missing the three C’s.  Cheese, chocolate and chips.  OMG.  See this?

There are like 5 choc chips in there.  And I sucked those bastards sloooooooowly.

Some random food pics I found on my phone:

OMG yum.  Just like a bought one.

I don’t know how they did it, must be something to do with that weird paper thing underneath, but this pizza was MICROWAVED and came out crispy on the bottom and fucking delicious.  My mouth is watering just remembering it.

One of the mini meals.  We bought a selection for those nights where we didn’t feel like much or had been out for lunch and wanted something light on our ‘days off’.  They will be handy for the Christmas period.  You can just make out the fork underneath for scale.

I found this very filling.  MPS went looking for more food.

I am still kicking myself over this one.  I was REALLY busy this day and didn’t get a chance to have lunch until after school pickup.  Boo wandered in as I was making this and I, stupidly, offered him half thinking it wouldn’t be that good.

It was freaking delicious and Boo was circling me like a damn vulture after he ate his in one bite.  It could have had something to do with the cheese that I added instead of the beetroot that had leaked all over my bag.

Mmmmmm, cheeeeeeeeese.

…..

We are still having to go shopping for Boo, and obviously for food on our days ‘off’, and some days I think I don’t feel like whatever is planned until I actually eat it and then I am all good.

A couple of nights we have been hungry after dinner and had some icecream or a fruit salad or twisties, but we are not doing this for weight loss (although we both could do with losing a couple of people kilos) but to get us into the habit of eating and to stop the fights over who is going to organise/cook/pick up dinner.

An added benefit is Boo is loving ‘cooking dinner’ for us and he brings me my meal, on a Christmas plate, huge smile on his face to where I am wearing a perfect replica of my arse into the couch.

I wonder if I can claim all this as an educational expense?  Apparently there is an entire TAFE course for self help/independent living devoted to this shit. I could teach him how to use the washing machine and declare it homeschooling.

Right now I am thinking we will keep going until Christmas and then re-evaluate.  I can’t see us wanting hot microwaved meals on sweltering summer nights, so I was even thinking perhaps dropping it back to breakfast and lunch but upping to the 1800 calorie plan.  That way we can eat the lunchy things for dinner and spread the other stuff throughout the day and supplement with fruit and icypoles and watermelon margaritas.

Any questions?

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