How Fit is Your Fridge?

First, the Giveaway Winner! Thanks for all the comments and positive comments on yesterday’s post. I appreciate the concern and support.

The winner of the running skirt is…….

NIKKI!!

Email me at 110pounds at gmail.com asap with your mailing address!

I missed the #fitblog chat on Tuesday because it was too sunny to stay inside! I was bummed because I really wanted to participate after reading the questions. They bring up some good discussion points, so let’s do them here!

And because of the challenge to take photos of the fridge, it gave me an excuse to clean the fridge! I threw away tons of expired, old, nasty bottles of stuff that was growing things I don’t even want to know about. Usually I’m not that lax but it’s been a crazy few months.

Q1: What do you consider healthy eating?

For me, healthy eating means eating lots of fruits, veggies, proteins and grains. I try to stay within my calories range (1570-2,000 a day) and  I honor the “90/10 Rule.”

Healthy eating means eating a lot of protein, less processed foods, fruits and veggies for snacks, Greek yogurt instead of sugary yogurts, low-calorie ice cream in small packages (single serving), and wine!

Q2: Do you consider your diet healthy?

Compared to how I ate when I weighed 250+ pounds YES! My diet is very healthy. When I started to lose the weight I was very restrictive and my habits changed. I ate a lot of processed food because I could count the calories. I learned what serving sizes were (which was very helpful) too. In that way the processed food like Lean Cuisine Meals helped me lose the weight.

In the last year it’s become more and more important to me to not eat as much processed food. It’s a slow process but I’m trying to eliminate things from my diet that come out of a box.

Q3: What’s your favorite healthy food?

Fruits and veggies are my favorite. They are things that I can always sneak into my daily intake. I don’t feel like it’s a chore to eat veggies–I like them!

Our veggie drawer is currently pretty bare. It’s time to go shopping. Right now we have broccoli, cauliflower, onions and carrots. Usually we have Costco spinach, lettuce, and celery.

Q4: What’s one thing you could do to improve your diet?

Part of me wants to reduce the amount of sugar in my diet but I struggle with that. I also want to be able to eat sweets in moderation. Completely restricting something from my diet is not how I want to live, and it’s not going to work either. I’ve learned the hard way over the years that Strict Restriction = Binge Eating for me.

The Fridge

We currently have tons of bread. We were eating less bread for months and then had a house guest that bought a lot and we had some leftover ham we needed bread for sandwiches. We normally don’t have this much bread in the house.

We have sandwich thins, bagel thins, regular loaf of Dave’s Killer Bread and half a loaf of Dave’s Killer Light Bread (75 calories a slice) for me. We also have a package of tortillas. Starting May 1st the bread better be gone!

String cheese from Coscto (Michael’s), one pudding pack, Chicken Broth, and Cougar Cheese that was a gift.

Regular Pepsi cans! Not mine, Michael’s.

The meat and cheese drawer! We have an insane amount of cheese. White Cheddar, Colby Jack, Shredded Italian Mix from Costco, Gruyere, Goat cheese and Parmesan.

1% Milk, Bottle of Chardonnay, two pitchers of unsweetened iced tea, leftover mac n’ cheese and leftover soup.

Now for the door of the fridge…I am a Condiment Queen!

Several different salad dressings: Light Raspberry Vinaigrette, Goddess Dressing, Light Kraft Ranch, vitamins, Light Chocolate Sauce.

Anchovy paste, Sriracha sauce, BBQ sauce.

And the Mustard Drawer! We usually have more varieties of mustard, but here are just a few. 😉

Pickled peppers, pickled cheese, pickled garlic, pickled olives, ketchup. Hmm…Noticing a theme…

And the pickling theme continues with actual pickles and pickled jalapenos. Plus more chocolate sauce and homemade pimento cheese.

Since we are at the end of the week and need to go grocery shopping you do not see the proteins we usually have: chicken, pork chops, steak, eggs. We also have tons of apples, squash and sweet potatoes in a bowl on the counter. In the freezer we have: homemade turkey burgers, ground turkey, frozen veggies (peas and spinach) and tons of fish.

I’d give our fridge a solid 7 out of 10. It could be better, but it’s pretty good.

QUESTION: How would you rate your fridge? And how would you answer those questions?