Celebrities of the Kitchen

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I gain weight eating healthy food.

I swear, I do.

It's not necessarily salt water taffies, king-sized bags of M&M's, or super sized orders of fries like it used to be. It's the Greek yogurt, couscous, my 100% whole wheat bread, and sweet potatoes.

Well, then what's the point? If I'm going to gain weight eating healthy food or crappy food, I might as well blissfully jump into a vat of chocolate cheesecake ice cream!! Right?

Wrong.

I've tried both ways, and I am here to report that I gain WAAAAY more weight eating the crappy foods.

I've been there, done that -- and I am not going back there.

My issue is with portion control. The fact is that even though I'm eating oatmeal for breakfast, it does make a difference how much oatmeal I eat. The only way I can be safe around my oatmeal -- because sometimes a girl can get a little crazy around oatmeal! -- is by measuring it out.>
Some may think that measuring food is obsessive, uptight, fanatical, or neurotic.  I've heard it all, but what I call it is HONEST.  It's just a fact that my 1/2 cup of low-fat cottage cheese is a whole lot bigger than a real 1/2 cup of low-fat cottage cheese.  Or  my tablespoon of all natural peanut is a heck of a lot bigger than a tablespoon of all natural peanut butter.

When left to my own devices, my food, healthy or not, inexplicably grows.  When this happens (which is about every day for me), I invite these superstars back into my kitchen to play a starring role:

Measuring Spoons

Yes, I have two sets of these, they get used so often.  From measuring salad dressing to tablespoons of slivered almonds, these gals get a serious, daily workout in my kitchen.  

Measuring Cups

Again, these come in a duo since inevitably one of the cups is missing (if anyone has seen my silver 1/4 cup, text me, OK?).  These, of course, are very busy when baking and cooking -- but also pitching in with portion control.  They let me know when to call it quits with the Kashi cereal, how much Greek yogurt is enough, and exactly how much a 1/2 cup of brown rice is.

Digital Kitchen Scale

This is my top favorite glamor gal of our kitchen.   This EatSmart Kitchen Scale was swag from FitBloggin' and I had no idea how much I needed this in my life.  It has helped soooooo much with my portion sizes with meat, weighing my bread (the Doc figured it was 70 calories per ounce -- but how was I supposed to know how many ounces it was?  NOW I KNOW!), and so many other things.

We are breaking it out all the time just for fun.
The kids measure their play dough, pretzels, Army men...
You know, all the important stuff.

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