Made it through day 2

Whew, I made it through another day. I didn't eat junk food. I had good meals. I'm not looking to DIET per se. I don't really believe in them. I want to eat reasonably for me and see where that takes me. I stumbled onto this page the other day ...

http://www.dietbites.com/Pyramid-Diet/example-1800-calorie-diet.html

It gives a general guideline for what to eat in a day to be consuming approximately 1800 calories a day. 1.5 cups of fruits, 2.5 cups of vegetables, 6 ounces of grains, 5 ounces of meats/beans, 3 cups of milk, 5 teaspoons of oils and allow 195 discretionary calories in a day.

This kind of guideline stands a chance of working for me. I have tried keeping food logs and counting calories and fat grams, etc. It just became such a burden that I stopped doing it. And I am not going to count calories for the rest of my life. I just want to live my life. And those guidelines are do-able for me. And it helps remind me of portions.

The other thing that I decided to experiment with is making frozen yogurt and/or ice cream. Sugar free, low fat frozen yogurt and ice cream. We like to have dessert so I wanted to find something that wouldn't be tooooo bad. I got a yogurt/ice cream maker for Christmas so tonight was the test run. The trick is to find something that provides the structure of the sugar since I want to use stevia or splenda as the sweetener. I used gelatin. It almost worked. It came out the consistency of a Wendy's Frosty. :-) Maybe some time in the freezer will help that. But the taste was good and it does satisfy the desire for a dessert.

So far, nothing has been a burden. I am thinking of snacking as I sit here. I guess it's time for some Wii tennis or bowling to take my mind off of it.