Saturday, the food

Okay, so I am going to do the "Duh we all know what to eat" Diet.
Consists of: All the good stuff:
-More vegetables and fruits (3-4 servings of each every day!)-a fruit is not a Popsicle and a vegetable is not a potato chip!
-Less refined sugar (anything white, bread, pasta, and of course regular items containing white sugar).
-Wheat or whole grain products
-Frequent smaller meals
-Whole foods-meaning foods that I know exactly what they are or have in them.
Somethings that are not whole foods: most crackers, most snack foods, sauces, condiments...

Assignment:
1. Make a menu of your weekly diet for this week. Of HEALTHY dishes and snacks. (Be specific:
Monday: Brkfst-Yogurt with granola and an apple
Lunch- Tuna on wheat crackers, grapes, carrots
Snack- Homemade trail mix with nuts and dried fruit
Dinner-Chicken with wheat pasta- with sun dried tomatoes and goat cheese and a salad
Then of course write down all the ingredients you will need for all your meals and go shopping!!

I am crazy. I am going to save my menus on the computer and the ingredients. Then I can just print them out and save them up and use them over again if I liked them. I will put an example up here later!

2. Aim to make your portions smaller.

3. Eat no less then 5 times a day. Spread them out however you wish. 3 Meals and 2 snacks. (I will use my snacks in the afternoon and the evening, or maybe 2 in the afternoon).

4. If you don't like to drink water, then get something you like to drink!! My trick is diet snapple. I love it!! Of course it has artificial sweeteners, so I am going to skip it while I am feeding my new baby. But try it! I am going to just make some of my own iced tea with good flavors and no sugar. I of course would not make my 6-8 servings of water all diet soda. They say every time you drink a sugary drink it just makes you more hungry. So try other things too, that are not sweet. Iced teas, water with lemon and ice (lemon is makes you release fluids, or in other words pee more, great for a diet).

Some helpful tools:
1. I love this website. It creates menus, shopping lists, and you can keep track of the calories in what you are eating. It also has recipes! Free!

www.sparkpeople.com

2. This one is similar, but not as complete:also Free!

www.fitday.com