Diet Mode

So yesterday, my skinny jeans told me I'm not skinny anymore. It finally got back to me, because about a year ago, I took it to a seamstress and had some inches cut off (a little less than 2 or thereabouts). Last year, I was eating really well, and was pretty active with lots of exercise and sports activities. There was nothing to worry about... no dieting, no extra weight appearing from nowhere...

But yesterday... what I took for granted eventually sprang back and showed its ugly head. If i don't pay attention to eating, if I don't get enough exercise, I'm gaining weight. And then it's a downhill roll.  So I need to get back into it.

Everyone squirms when the word diet comes up. Either they feel sorry for the person in question or think they eat dry wheat for breakfast lunch and dinner and think that life's not meant to be enjoyed that way. Contrarily, I was excited and went shopping for what is going to be my diet food for the next week.

These were the items that went into the bag:

a pack of celery (from the USA)
a quarter slice of squash (from australia)
frozen berries (strawberries from finland, and currants from siberia, i think)
a pack of bananas  (from the philippines)
non-fat yoghurt
and a pack of carrots
oh, and boneless chicken breasts as well as a small rounded lettuce to go with it.

what I do or how i eat them, I had no idea. I thought that those foods were low fat, healthy and full of natural sugars - fructose, as opposed to glucose that's good for energy.

I settled and started with snapping some celeries into short sticks and peeling carrots. Yep, carrot and celery sticks for dinner. But the deal breaker here is the yoghurt - mixed in with some left over blue cheese i had in the fridge... and boy, was I munching away.

Celery did take a bit of getting used to, especially if compared with the sweetness of the carrots. But its antiseptic and grassy taste was just what i needed to bring out the smooth flavors of the blue cheese and yoghurt dip.

Well, this morning I woke up and had a banana. I still have a small bowl of grapes waiting to be consumed. But after heading to the gym, now it's time for lunch. Wonder what that squash could be good for? I remember an great aunt making some sort of sweet dessert out of it... and I still have some muscovado in the pantry...

see you later! time to eat!