| First of all, I know you've probably heard this but DON'T
skip those earlier meals. You burn off calories more
efficiently when you're awake and moving around than when
you're vegging around or asleep. Plus your body needs the
energy to keep you doing whatever exercise you have chosen
to do, so that your weightloss will be fat and not muscle
mass. You lose that muscle mass and you're up a creek
without a paddle - it's very tough to gain back. You lose
the actual fibers and you WON'T gain them back.
Enough.
Now, cool recipes - well, sandwiches made with LESS(tm) bread
are great for lunch. At 40 cal/slice you can eat two and it
only counts as one bread/grain. To put on it, you can make
low-cal tuna-salad. No real recipe, just use LOTS of veggies
diced up small and use, per can of tuna, about 3 Tbsp of non-fat
yogurt and, if you want, one or two teaspoons of mayo or miracle
whip for taste. Use herbs and garlic (if you like garlic) to
spice it up. You can make about 3 sandwiches worth out of one
can of tuna. Tip: buy the good (white) tuna. Since you're
not masking the flavor as much with mayo, the quality of the tuna
is more apparant.
If you have a microwave, fish cooks quickly and very nicely in
a microwave. I dice up a little onion, put the fish in a microwave
dish, put the onion on top, pour on a little milk or V8 to keep
the fish moist, and zap it until done. I check fish after 4 min
and then every min. Look in your microwave book for specifics
on time for your microwave.
Make a huge salad one or two times a week and keep it in your
fridge in a big bowl. Then you can grab some for lunch, along
with a slice of cheese (mozzerella is 80 cal/oz) or some cooked
turkey or chicken. You can cook the poultry some cool night,
slice it down, and store it in your freezer in ziplocked individual
portions. This makes a good brown-bag lunch too - just grab a
handful of salad, stuff it into a plastic container, grab a ziplock,
and perhaps a diet soda, put it all in a bag and you're done.
Louise
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| I don't put mushrooms in either. They tend to go bad faster if
there's other stuff in with them.
If you want, you can put all the "dry" stuff in one bowl - lettuce,
other greens, peppers, carrots, radishes, sprouts etc - and all
the "wet" stuff in another - cukes and tomatoes especially. Then
put your mushrooms in a third and perhaps the onion/scallions in
a fourth (though I've not had problems with them). If you have
tupperware or other plastic sealed containers, they're good for
the smaller amounts of stuff, and you can put the dry stuff in
a big bowl. And, of course, don't dress the salad until you're
ready to eat it, or you'll have wilted greens!
--Louise
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