Bleh.

[tigira]

I stepped on the scale this weekend. Bleh.
I am not the HEAVIEST I have ever been, but getting too close.
Bleh.

So, here I go, trying to lose weight to get to where I am comfortable in my skin again. I know, it sounds odd, but I can't eat most of the foods that most folks eat when they are trying to lose weight...

1. Most salads have cabbage in them. I can eat it, but then I'll be sick to my stomach for a few days.

2. If there is no cabbage, all I can add to the "base" is mushrooms. No peppers, no tomatoes...raw onions are a bad idea for work, and carrots are something I can only take in small doses.

3. No salad dressings. Nope. I can't eat any of them. And oil and vinegar makes me cringe.

4. Can't have any fruit yogurts - they all have added citric acid.

5. No diet sodas, so it's just water for me. I can't have juices, either. Again, citric acid.

6. No light sauces - these are pretty much focussed on tomato or pepper bases.

7. So I CAN have plain pasta (since I want to avoid too much cheese), and plain rice, and my breakfast possibilities are even more bleak.

So I'm hungry. Extremely. Had an apple for breakfast. Though, I'm concerned that if I start eating too much pulpy non-berry fruit, I'll find myself unable to eat that anymore, either.

What's for lunch? Who knows. Bleh.

Comments

[tigira.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, the salad bar I am at most often is at work, which often has premixed stuff. The marinades often have acids in them that I cannot have. And most canned items are canned with citric acid. I can'te even have artichoke hearts in anything anymore, because they are canned in citric acid.

I recently found frozen artichoke hearts at Trader Joe, and they have added ascorbic acid. Yay!!!!

I tend to stay away from vinegars. It's gotten to the point where anything that makes me pucker scares me..

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Aw. That's too bad. Seafood is usually a good thing, too. Maybe you could pop some frozen shrimp in with your pasta, and add a little bit of olive oil and garlic.