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[ragdoll13]

First, the diet.

I've recently endured what I dearly hope is good natured ribbing from my friends about having a salad with nuts and cheese on top while on a diet.

The reason I do this is because I DRASTICALLY cut calories in other places, and every bit of nut, every crumb of cheese that goes on my plate is weighed. In fact, everything apart from my water and my vegetables is carefully measured and weighed before it goes into my mouth. Let's take a look:

Breakfast: weigh out 56 g of cereal into a bowl; zero it. Weigh out a half-ounce dried blueberries into the bowl; zero it. Weigh out 4oz of milk into the bowl. Result: 300 calories.

Lunch: weigh out tortilla, zero scale. Weigh out an ounce of cheese; zero it. Weigh out 3oz of refried beans. zero it. 270 cal.

I weigh my meat before portioning, wrapping and freezing. I weigh fucking everything. I weigh my fruit. I weigh a snack of nuts or of cheese and crackers. I weigh my edamame. The only times I don't weigh my food are the occasions on which I go out to eat with friends, and there are many of those opportunities when I don't go because I'm on a diet. When I do go it is probably far more detrimental to my diet than an ounce of nuts on my salad, and yet no teasing. These nuts and cheese adorn plates containing 4-6 oz of lettuce. Have you seen 4-6 oz of lettuce? It's quite a bit.

If I have turkey kielbasa for dinner, with a slice of brown bread and mustard and a salad sans nuts and cheese, the total calories come to around 300 calories. Not enough for dinner, particularly when one works out in the evening. So fuck off.

I know it's probably friendly teasing, but it's very frustrating to have something I work so hard at be made fun of.

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[harriet-m-welsh.livejournal.com]

In that case, I had better quit raising an athiest child and flaunting my adultery!