Ive been following a low fat diet now for a few months, about 4 I think and its been a pretty smooth transition partially because Im pretty open to fruits and veggies. My kids are also really good about fruits and veggies. The first step I took when I switched to consious low fat eating was to start almost each day with a banana, cereal and milk. I find if I start the day with a piece of fruit it makes me want more through out the day. I also love to snack on dried pineapple, which can be really expensive. I buy it in 5 pound bags at a wholesale type store at about half the price as at the market. Buying frozen is an great way to incorporate more fruits and veggies into your diet. Ive recently rekindled my love for brussel sprouts. Yes…thats right. Brussel Sprouts. Steamed with a bit of salt and butter buds…YUM! They are pretty pricey fresh, in my local grocerie store they are about $3 a pound. So I buy them frozen for about half that. Dont be afriad to try something that you havent had in a while- or ever. Just dive in, google their cooking method and you are off and running. I try to spend the most time in the produce section when I am shopping, it helps me grab extra ’stuff’ that maybe I would have overlooked with a quick rush through there.
My kids ate ALL DAY LONG. And it drove me crazy. I cannot even begin to list all the food they consumed today. It was obscene. Every time I turned around they were asking to eat. I couldnt keep them full for more than a few minutes it seems! Its hard not to graze all day when Im making food for them constantly but I think I did pretty good 
Breakfast around 7am-
Coffee (Im back to my addiction *sigh* ) cheerios, milk and banana
8am- still hungry
breakfast bar (120 cals 3g of fat)
10- 1/2c ff cottage cheese and a spoonful of saskatoon berry preserves
1pm-a low fat waffle, plain (the kids requested waffles…I didnt complain 
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3:30- 1/2 cup fat free chocolate ice cream (90cals 0g of fat)
6:00- 1/4 grilled chicken breast, 1/2c brussel sprouts, 1/2c corn,1/2c low fat potato salad.
Total for the day:
calories: 1282 grams of fat:11 ~8% of my calories came from fat today.
This coming month Im going to make a commitment to keep very close track of my calories, generally I just watch my fat intake and try to keep to running 3 days a week and at least one of cross training in some way. But since I havent lost any substantial wieght in over a month I need to really re-evaluate what Im doing. I am thinner, people have noticed but my wieght hasnt budged in so long I have to do something. So I am going to watch my calories closely for a few days to see what Im taking in, generally without and restrictions I take in 1600 calories, give or take a handful, thats just where I usually fall. I need to find out if Im still in that range and Im going to need to figure out how many I need to eat to start losing again. Another suggestion I was given was ramp up my work outs. Which I am doing already. I am running four days a week now, training for a local 5k race. Im changing up my running routine from two 45 minute runs a week and one long slow run (5-10 miles) to include 3 mile interval training and 3mile hill training and one longer run (4-6miles)which will mix things up for me a lot! Im hoping this combonation will assist me in dropping some pounds!
Also water water water! I have been SO bad with drinking water lately. Its getting hot so I really need to pay attention to my water consumption as well.
My kids and husband wanted hot dogs tonight for dinner, which nearly killed me since I LOVE them but they are crazy high in fat and I havent been able to find the fat free version yet. So I went to the freezer and looked through my stash of healthy choice and lean cuisine frozen meals and I settled on Lean Cuisine’s Pork with Cherry Sauce. I thought YUM!! The description was pork in a red wine and dried cherry sauce with a side of rice, green beans and yellow carrots. It was pretty nasty. The taste was just….wierd. Some of the pork was a bit tough and the sauce just didnt go well with it. The rice had a nice texture but the green beans squeeked against my teeth and that just made it even nastier! I definatly will not be buying that one again!
Besides this Lean Cuisine meal that I ate for dinner today I ate a multigrain bagel, some dried pineapple and part of an apple for lunch. For breakfast I had cheerios and bananas with skim milk. For a total of about 1650 calories and 11g of fat. So 6% of my total calories today came from fat. I dont know why my scale isnt budging! Im eating well within my 20% guideline. Ill just keep at it!
The past few days I have been experiencing some mild dizziness between meals and after working out. I feel like Ive been eating plenty, actually I feel like Ive even been over eating, and I certainly have not been losing pounds.
I went to fitday.com to track what I ate today because I was really curious as to how many calories and grams of fat I ate since I havent been tracking at all.
Breakfast- (pancakes and low calories syrup)
330 calories 2g of fat
Snack-(banana)
100 calories 1g of fat
Lunch -lunch was sort of a ‘miss’ I warmed up some spagetti from the other night but it didnt taste right but I did eat a few bites. I also had a super yummy bun with butter buds and garlic powder. Afterwards I ate an apple
290 calories 3g of fat
Snack-pre-work out
banana (yah I was on a banana kick today!)
100 calories 1g of fat
snack-post work out- Chocolate skim milk granola bar (this was 27% calories from fat…ack! I was starvin and just shoved it in my mouth without doing the math)
316 5g of fat
dinner-I made fish and chips- I didnt eat the fish since it was very high in fat but the chips were my very low fat steak fries
385 calories 0 g of fat
snack with my boys before bed-skim milk and dried pineapple
135 calories 1g of fat
So for the day my totals were:
1656 calories and 13g of fat
thats only 7% of calories from fat! Nice!