The good news:
There is no longer any chocolate in my office junk drawer.
The bad news:
There is no longer any chocolate in my office junk drawer.
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When I decided that I would Get Fit(ter) Again, No Really, I purchased the South Beach Diet book. Just the one book, not the cookbooks or the New! version, or the Low-Carb Chicken Soup For The Soul Version, or the Page A Day Tear Away Calendar. But I got the book, and I even read the book, but about the only things that I’ve seemed to retain are:
- Stay away from Wonder Bread
- Fruit contains sugar, and
- String cheese makes a GREAT SNACK
I’ve especially taken that last one to heart. To the point that I don’t go anywhere without a couple of sticks of string cheese on my person.
Breakfast this morning? String cheese and a shot of yogurt drink that promises to do something magical to my colon.
Mid-morning snack? Stick of string cheese.
Lunch? Salad (romaine, chicken, baby greens, peanuts, baby corn, carrots, artichoke hearts, some sort of noodle) and a hunk of string cheese.
Afternoon snack? Ok, this is when I found the chocolate, but if I still had string cheese on me, I probably would have paired them. That sounds really good, actually.
Given this amount of cheese (and my other favorite snack, pumpkin seeds*), I’m thinking the yogurt shot hasn’t got a chance.
* It suddenly occurred to me that pumpkin seeds might not even be food. Maybe next week I’ll investigate carrot sticks.
I’m not a big string cheese fan (it has no taste) but I have some of those small individually wrapped cheese sticks around for emergencies. Maybe I should just make a pair of earrings out of them and I know I’ll have some around. :-)
Left by Lori W. on January 16th, 2008