Ugh

I haven't been eating very well since my back started hurting.  It's not terrible, but it's not going to create weight loss, I tell you that much.  It's funny, I can feel the graze coming on - but I can't so much stop it from snowballing sometimes.  Yesterday is a prime example:  I woke up with the no real plan for the day, and began with a protein bar, which would normally be fine, but I ended up eating two other protein bars in the middle of the day, which also would have been fine, if I hadn't been picking at cheese while making lasagna, and whatever else I picked at.  It's the times when I eat "real food" that do me in.  If I could just stick with the protein, things would be easier.  Or, if I could stick with just a low-cal regular food diet, but that's very difficult with my digestion/lack of.  I can't eat a salad, veggies, fruit, many carbohydrates, etc., all of which are staples of a low calorie plan. My problem really is the picking/grazing of any other food outside of my "meals" of protein. 

Even if I'm only eating 2-3 protein bars, 2-3 cottage cheese cups a day, I may graze and "forget" those three bites of Whole Fat Ricotta Cheese - Two Bites of Mozzarella - Bite of Cooked Ground Beef - Noodle (just to check, you see?) - insignificant by themselves, but they add up to an entire meal, while I'm just cooking.  Then, of course, if I May Have Eaten a Cookie or Three that shouldn't have been in my presence, that certainly adds in, too, not to mention the tortilla chips (but, Beth, they're baked?) in the car.  Okay, I'm stopping, you get the point.  Time to move on.  Obviously today has started with better intentions, and I actually have zippo appetite since our sleepover guest just vomited all over my sons' mattress.