Check out these buns
There are a few rules that every single health magazine/TV show/newspaper article/blog/fitness expert will give you when you're trying to lose weight and become a healthier person:
- Eat lean meats, such as chicken (no skin, of course) instead of fattier cuts;
- Drink water (This is my least favourite. Why can't water taste like Diet Coke?);
- Don't eat at least three hours before going to bed;
- Use portion control and don't make dinner your heaviest meal;
- Always eat breakfast, because you'll eat less during the day;
- Limit sugary drinks such as pops and juices;
- And watch your carbs. Don't eat a load of them and when you do eat breads and pastas and wraps and rice, make them whole grain or at least whole wheat. (Make them brown, essentially.)
White bread and pasta are about as popular these days as new Vancouver Canucks' player Mats Sundin because there is basically no nutritional value in them. So all health experts say switching out the white for the brown is one small step that will keep you at a healthy weight.
I think in the last five years, I have eaten maybe five to 10 pieces of white bread - and that's when I had no choice, either when I've been visiting family or out at a restaurant.
It has always been my pet peeve that no fast food restaurants - with the exception of chain sub shops - served any of their products on whole wheat, or, even better, multigrain products. Sometimes, especially when you're travelling, or even if you're just a burnt out tired mama, fast food works and you can make it healthy if you try: A small burger with just lettuce and a little ketchup, a grilled chicken wrap with just lettuce, a salad hold the cheese, the bacon, the croutons, the chili, the nacho chips, the sour cream and the creamy dressing. (Yes, it's still a salad.)
Why am I so nuts about this stuff? I was born with a birth defect.
I was born without a metabolism.
I eat one cookie and I've got a pound of lard stuck to my behind.
Sneak in a few pieces of cheese? Oh, look, I not only have two lovehandles, I now have three. (The third one is like an office chair; it swivels around.)
Eat a pile of salty cashews? Just call me Cankle Crosbie.
Joking aside (oh, that's where the third lovehandle went - my left side) I really do have to be vigilant about what I eat and drink and my exercise. I fight hard to be a size 6 to 8 and it has only been in the last three years that I've learned to keep my weight in check. I once weighed 50 pounds more than I do now and I couldn't walk around the block I was so out of shape.
So, it was with much glee that I opened my mail today and I saw a flyer in my mailbox that said, "Nice Buns." (Why, thank you.) It was a Harvey's flyer announcing: "Harvey's NEW whole wheat bun."
The restaurant is also introducing a new warm grilled Chicken BLT Salad. (If you take the bacon off it, it looks quite nice.)
I've always liked Harvey's. It was a treat to go there when I was a kid and they're one of the only places with a veggie burger. Now I can have a veggie burger on a whole wheat bun or a grilled chicken sandwich on whole wheat. Is it perfect? No, a whole grain bun would be best because some whole wheat buns aren't that much better than white buns, but for me, it's the little things that matter. Now if someone could just come up with a water that tasted like pop, I'd be a happy girl.
Labels: butt, food, Harvey's, lovehandles, weight
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