It's amazing how completely our lives have come to revolve around our 2 cheats a week. There's a lot of thought that goes in to using them....Is it too early in the week to use up a cheat? Will I need a cheat later this week? Is salad dressing worth using up a cheat? Are pretzels cheat-worthy? This is a very big issue at our house.
One thing I will definitely say for the "cheat rule:" it keeps us from snacking without thinking. It's really easy to grab a couple crackers or maybe a few pretzels and not really think about it, but this year even one pretzel is a "cheat," so if they are going to happen, it's a full serving (we've set a limit on serving size as well, as sitting down to devour 3 bags of pretzels in one sitting would not really count as one "cheat") It's interesting to realize how much I think we all tend to "graze" during the day--a little bit here, a little bit there--never really noticing how much we're consuming. We haven't outlawed grazing per se, but most of our snacks are now limited to fruits, vegetables, dried fruits (though only the ones we have done ourselves--I think they deep fry those "banana chip" things they sell in stores), and certain nuts. We're only 2 months in to this, but I haven't yet gotten desperate enough to sit down and eat an entire bag of baby carrots. Yet.....
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Okay, are the rules NO processed foods or NO foods with ingredients that are not natural (things you know how to say)?
I am eating a bag of pretzels right now that have noe illegal or forbidden ingredienta. They contain unbleached what flouor, water, canola oil, salt, malt, yeast and soda.
These are Snyder's of Hanover and they are very good. So I will eat the whole bage and think of you :-)
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