And they call it "Dinner Selects"?!

[lola_granola]

My mom is a fantastic cook. Consequently, I have gained weight. To counter this, I have decided to stop eating my mom's cooking for awhile, as painful as this is. Instead, I thought I'd get a few of those Lean Cuisine, Healthy Choice, etc., meals. I'll go back to being stricter about just fresh fruits and vegetables for breakfast and lunch, and

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[ormondsacker]

Man, speaking as a moderately-cooking-averse single, I couldn't imagine going too many days in a row with TV dinners as your primary meal. I have a box of Ethnic Gourmet Chicken Tikka Marsala (260 calories) in the freezer right now that will at some point get carrot sticks and maybe a handful of peanuts added and make a light supper. It's probably my favorite frozen-dinner brand, but I still wouldn't want a daily double-serving of that glop. Any chance you could, I don't know, alternate with your mom's cooking? Have a sandwich for lunch?

[lola_granola]

Well, if you're suggesting that a sandwich would be a light lunch, that's a lot more than I'd normally eat. The frozen dinners aren't that bad tasting. Some of them have proven to be pretty good. (Well, three out of the four that I've had have been palatable or better.)
I simply can't control myself in the face of Mom's awesome cooking, so that's really not an option for awhile. We did go out to eat tonight, and while I certainly ate more than I needed to, I managed to at least order something vaguely healthy. (And then steal several bites of Dad's babyback ribs.)

[ormondsacker]

Just light lunch / one TV-dinner supper as opposed to single-piece-of-fruit lunch / two-TV-dinners supper of possible grodiness, was what I was going for. Don't mind me too much, though - I am basically a fretful Jewish mother in Y-chromosome form. I worry when people don't eat.

(You're not listening to that 'fat-n-ugly bride's book' from a few entries ago, are you? That book does not have your best interests at heart.)

[lola_granola]

Regarding fat-n-ugly: No. I just actually am bigger than I used to be, and this displeases me, book or no.