I once read an article stating that women should allow themselves to be pampered once in a while. I guess this article was meant for stressed women with big jobs and crying babies, but nonetheless I thought this was a wise suggestion and have been living it ever since. I now hold an impressive shoe collection and am not shy to treat myself to a blueberry muffin.
But as I’m trying to loose some weight, I have collided with this little saying quite a lot. The main thing in loosing 5 pounds must be changing food habits and watching what you eat. So I have started to look around for healthy snacks and swapping out bad habits with healthy habits, I started with exchanging the easy pasta dish with couscous. So far so good – Now, if you are a bit brighter than me, you would know couscous is in fact the exact same thing as pasta, I simply didn’t bother to check this as I really like couscous and deep down knew it was too good to be true.
A women’s logic #2 – If you enjoy a new type of food, it’s doomed to be unhealthy.
As I already bought quite a stock of it, I will have to finish it before I can completely devote myself to brown rice and barley. But to avoid binging the whole thing at once, every Thursday is now pasta/couscous day. Hopefully I can clear out the last box before I have to go back to Denmark.
I am not completely hopeless in knowing healthy from unhealthy foods though. My mom taught me well and I know shredded wheat, gravy, sugar and fatty meats are a no-go if you want to shed a few pounds. So to eat and be comfortable full afterwards, I decide one evening at a cramped train station, that a whole wheat chicken sandwich with plenty of salad and tomatoes must be the best choice in these pasta-box-mania days. As I investigate the display case I see nothing but chicken sandwiches, but all full of what seems to be mayonnaise. In my broken French I ask the nice girl behind the counter if they have a chicken sandwich without mayonnaise. She simply stares at me. Knowing that my French is almost non-understandable I ask again, with same result. She explains to me that no one has EVER asked for chicken without mayonnaise, she slowly explains it would make the chicken to dry without and I will not find such a sandwich in the entire France. I doubt she has been in every sandwich shop in France, but I get the point. Mission is failed as my grumbling tummy is attracting insulted looks from the travellers in the queue behind me. I give up as she ensures me it is fat free and buys a sandwich.
But as I’m trying to loose some weight, I have collided with this little saying quite a lot. The main thing in loosing 5 pounds must be changing food habits and watching what you eat. So I have started to look around for healthy snacks and swapping out bad habits with healthy habits, I started with exchanging the easy pasta dish with couscous. So far so good – Now, if you are a bit brighter than me, you would know couscous is in fact the exact same thing as pasta, I simply didn’t bother to check this as I really like couscous and deep down knew it was too good to be true.
A women’s logic #2 – If you enjoy a new type of food, it’s doomed to be unhealthy.
As I already bought quite a stock of it, I will have to finish it before I can completely devote myself to brown rice and barley. But to avoid binging the whole thing at once, every Thursday is now pasta/couscous day. Hopefully I can clear out the last box before I have to go back to Denmark.
I am not completely hopeless in knowing healthy from unhealthy foods though. My mom taught me well and I know shredded wheat, gravy, sugar and fatty meats are a no-go if you want to shed a few pounds. So to eat and be comfortable full afterwards, I decide one evening at a cramped train station, that a whole wheat chicken sandwich with plenty of salad and tomatoes must be the best choice in these pasta-box-mania days. As I investigate the display case I see nothing but chicken sandwiches, but all full of what seems to be mayonnaise. In my broken French I ask the nice girl behind the counter if they have a chicken sandwich without mayonnaise. She simply stares at me. Knowing that my French is almost non-understandable I ask again, with same result. She explains to me that no one has EVER asked for chicken without mayonnaise, she slowly explains it would make the chicken to dry without and I will not find such a sandwich in the entire France. I doubt she has been in every sandwich shop in France, but I get the point. Mission is failed as my grumbling tummy is attracting insulted looks from the travellers in the queue behind me. I give up as she ensures me it is fat free and buys a sandwich.
For once this was not hard for me to have choosen the healthier option, I really hate mayonnaise and the fat free version is one of the biggest scams on this earth. Fat free mayonnaise is like anti-wringle cream. It does not exist.
But what can you eat in this country that makes you full and is still healthy? Looking around for inspiration, the skinny-French-girl catches my attention, how does she do it? It can’t all be good genes, so I will secretly spy on a couple of good examples of the species that happens to work in my office. Report will follow.
But what can you eat in this country that makes you full and is still healthy? Looking around for inspiration, the skinny-French-girl catches my attention, how does she do it? It can’t all be good genes, so I will secretly spy on a couple of good examples of the species that happens to work in my office. Report will follow.
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