Posts Tagged milk

Shopping

I had to go shopping today. Even my skinniest pants are falling off my hips and going all bundled up with a belt to a client does not feel very flattering. I still had an Abercrombie and Fitch gift certificate of over $200 – my last years birthday gift from my dad! – which I had kept for exactly the time such as now.

Almost 3 hours did I peruse the shops and came home with a whole bundle of stuff: pair of good slacks for business meetings, a dress which can be worn at the wedding in October, a Turtle neck for under the dress, bras, underwear and several pair of jeans. I am all set for a while. And exhausted was I after all of that!

It’s official – I am now a size 6. I was a 10 when people said I don’t need to lose weight. A size 6 with a waste of 28 inches. This is when finding a length of 32 inches becomes difficult, but 31 inches is okay mostly. I finally got again fitting jeans!

Finding the right new bra was more challenging. I am actually not sure if I could not have done better and should had gone some other place too, but by then I was tired and after trying on 25 different bras – not to speak of all the pants and dresses before that! – I was happy to get anything that felt somewhat decent. Not the way to spend $50 a bra, but heck, even if they are not perfect, I’ll still make use of them – and I was ready, ready, ready to be done. Numbers? What used to be before either 36B or 38B (depending the cut) was now all a 34B. With other words, I lost fat around my upper body without losing in cup size (even though I THINK they do look smaller, getting rid of fat can do that!). That’s what they always say on the list, you will lose fat, not boobs and I guess they are right :-)

So, overall I am a happy camper. Makes this milk day a bit less cumbersome.

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Day THIRTY-SEVEN

Today I started up lap swimming again. Had not even realized how much I had missed it in the past few years. It’s a bit of a drive, but I’ll combine it with a trip to the Whole Food grocery store on the way home.

This day is not easy. Not only that it’s 4 weeks to the day that Tricky past away. But food wise. My second last milk day on the program. I’m not cheating, but boy, am I ready to. On the other hand it’s a feast as I know it is only one day more after this and then I am truly on the way back. I have already begun digging my head into what I could cook in the veggy departement, I want something different than the past few weeks to celebrate my first fish… and not having rice or such with it does seem kind of… lacking. So I’m looking around what really will make a perfect feast. Have a whole day left to find it!

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Raspberry Shake

You can make nice milk shakes with ice shaved into it, but a really nice treat is a yogurt-milk shake:

Raspberry Yogurt-Milk Shake

Take 5 oz of yogurt, drain it over night or at least for a few hours. Add 5 oz of milk plus 1 – 3 teaspoons of Torani Raspberry sirup (depending on how artificially sweet you like it, or not).

Put this all into a glass and mix it with a whipping motion with a spoon (or use a blender if you want to clean more dishes) until well blended and airy.

This gives a really nice shake with good consistency with the very mild tartness of the yogurt underlying. Really good if you are tired of milk-ice shakes.

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Starbucks

This posting is for all Starbucks fans. As I’m not a huge fan of American coffee – see my other posting which coffee I prefer – it’s not so much about me but rather about all of the people on the program craving their special treat:

How to survive as a Starbucksaholic

 

Their Cup sizes:
Short: 8 oz
Tall: 12 oz
Grande: 16 oz
Venti: 20 oz

  • 1 pump of sugar free syrup is 1/3 of an ounce. If you buy a gift card and pay for your coffee with that, the syrup shot is free! (Saves 30 to 50 cents!)
  • Espresso is usually 1 ounce.
  • A Short latte is the way to go with approximately 5.5 ounces of milk
  • A Tall latte generally has 9 ounces of milk the other 3 ounces are foam, espresso and such
  • A Grande latte generally has 11 ounces of milk the other 5 ounces are foam, espresso and syrup if you chose a flavor.
  • A Venti is 14.5 ounces of milk
  • A Grande Cappuccino is made of approximately 7oz of milk
  • A steamer which is just whole milk steamed with sugar free vanilla syrup
  • A latte with whole milk, cold or hot, with sugar free vanilla, caramel, cinnamon dulce or plain. Make sure you tell them sugar free!
  • A  Misto –  It depends what size you order. A misto is half coffee and half steamed milk so a medium is only 8 ozs of milk, add the SF syrup and voila!…. yummy!
  • Starbucks Vanilla Cream: You ask them for their milk-only drink with whole milk, sugar free vanilla and NO whipped cream.  Simply ask them to froth the milk the way they do with lattes.
  • Get a latte…whole milk….sugar free caramel and sugar free mocha…..no whip cream….no foam….and get it hot or cold.   It’s AWESOME!!!
  • An iced VENTI LATTE has 12 oz milk and I add WF Choc Syrup to it and it is wonderful!

Remember to tell them to use whole milk (they switched to 2% a little while ago unless you ask) and sugar free syrup!

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Milk it is

As it was already after 4 PM and I felt rushed to somehow prepare AND eat 2 pounds of veggies and fruit before 6 PM, I decided to begin with the MILK routine first. While pouring the 10 oz whole milk I suddenly felt that this would in no way shape or form ever, ever, EVER, be enough “food” – this sentiment even though I was not hungry! Lucky enough I love plain yogurt. On a whim I decided to do a shake with it all and a couple of ice cubes and to go ahead and try the TORIANI Sugar Free Rasperry Syrup [Splenda, ugh]. I used only 1/2 serving of the syrup for all of it, which barely flavored it but was actually quite good, not overly artificial. It was a good moment to add a lot of vitamins, so that’s done too.

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