Weird thing is...the more weight I lost, the more I loved ice cream.
Reason?
It takes time to eat. Duh!!
As a former obese woman, I know how to enjoy food. I loved eating..cause it tasted good, it made me feel good. But one of the things I realised after I changed my diet, is that all of a sudden...a lot of the joy of eating is gone.
Poof! gone!
Not cool!
Aaaand..I believe this is the number one reason people give up on losing weight. We miss the feelings involved in eating. When that one apple you are eating, is gone in a couple of minutes...not even tasting that great...you feel down. Depressed. You have lost your best friend..."the good food".
So what do you do? Well, I can think of a couple of solutions..
1. Give up the diet, and go back to how it was before. (that is a really, really bad solution, so don`t do that)
2. Get creative...and find replacements you can live with.
I vote number 2 !!
So I sat down and thought about what I like to eat. I like chocolate. But when I started to lose weight...if I was going to have some chocolate, it was 3 small pieces of a chocolate bar. That was my ration ! Are you kidding me?? That is like teasing my taste buds.. And I end up even more depressed after I ate them, because it was over in a blink of a second..I didn`t get to the part where I really enjoy it, even. Hmmm.
Ice cream, I thought...that takes time to eat. You take one little bite or lick at a time..let it melt a bit in your mouth, before you have another taste. I can work with that, yeah?
I started to look online. And there is not a lot of ice creams out there...that is low in calories. Not if it involves chocolate, at least! I found some yogurt ice cream..I bought a few of them, they are ok. But I really wanted to find something even better. I read an article suggesting using puddings in the popsicle moulds. That would give you a creamier texture, than with a simple fruit juice popsicle. So I sacrificed one of my beloved Jello Chocolate pudding-no fat-no sugar-boxes. Whipped it up with skimmed milk, and poured it into the moulds.
I used these moulds..brilliant..cause you can use wooded lolly sticks.
One box of this pudding mix including skimmed milk, gave me 6 lollies at little over 50 calories a piece!
Yay!
I had to taste one same evening. They are tasty and chocolate`y. Creamier than the regular frozen juice ones. One thing though..although they are a pretty good imitation of the real thing.. it can never be as velvety as ice cream made with real cream and sugar. This is a quick way of making chocolate pop`s, without a machine or lots of ingredients. I will make them again!
If you want to lose weight, something`s gotta give, right? Accept that if you can not limit yourself to eat just a little bit of the "real thing", you have to accept that the skinny version might not be 100 % the same as the original.
It has worked for me. This way I have the motivation to stay on track everyday..because I know I can treat myself with something nice with my afternoon tea or coffee
I actually took out all of them, and wrapped them individually in small plastic bags, so that I could clean the mould, ready for another batch..what flavour? No idea...yet :)
I have plenty more ideas to share...stay with me :)
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