{"id":9,"date":"2010-02-12T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/12\/food"},"modified":"2010-02-12T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T05:20:00","slug":"food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m not much of a chef. For two years, I struggled with trying to figure out how to eat. I had to relearn what was “healthy.”<\/p>\n

I was pretty restrictive with my calories. I wanted to eat 1500 a day (but it was usually closer to 1800 calories a day). On a side note, I was even evaluated by a “nutritionist” (I use that name lightly because honestly she was just hawking shakes) who said I should be eating 1200 calories a day to lose weight. Excuse me?? To me, that sounds like a starvation diet and NOT healthy.<\/p>\n

My typical meals for two years were as follows:
BREAKFAST:
Low-calories cereal with nonfat milk or Egg Beaters scramble with an English muffin and fake cheese (nasty!)<\/p>\n

LUNCH:
Every day for 2 years I had a turkey sandwich and the exact serving size of Wheat Thins.<\/p>\n

DINNER:
Usually a Lean Cuisine frozen dinner with a salad.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t perfect with my diet, but I was okay. I rarely snacked in between meals, and tried to eat fruit and veggies when I did.<\/p>\n

Boy, am I sick of sandwiches now!!<\/p>\n

This diet probably sounds awful to a lot of people. But for me it was great. I knew what I had to eat each day, I knew I would reach the calories I needed for the day, and I learned what PORTION SIZES were!! This is probably the most important lesson I learned in this whole process. I had NO idea what a portion size was.<\/p>\n

Once I got comfortable with this diet, I started to change things up. I sometimes made a chicken breast on my George Forman grill for dinner. I love fish, so I baked salmon a lot. Again–not a chef. It wasn’t exciting food. But I learned portion sizes and what I should be eating, instead of what I wanted<\/span> to eat.<\/p>\n

Now before anyone gets too overwhelmed thinking they can’t do what I did…I slipped up many, many times! I was in no way perfect with my food for those two years. My weight fluctuated up and down and I battled the holiday bulge.<\/p>\n

My suggestion to anyone trying to lose weight: LEARN PORTION SIZES. Trust me, it’s NEVER enough food. However, if you retrain your body to eat portion sizes, you will not be hungry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not much of a chef. For two years, I struggled with trying to figure out how to eat. I had to relearn what was “healthy.” I was pretty restrictive with my calories. I wanted to eat 1500 a day (but it was usually closer to 1800 calories a day). On a side note, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,84,104,151,193,230],"tags":[8599,8660,8688],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}