Snacks that aren't actually food.

It's especially hard to starve hardcore when you really love food. And I do love food. I can't get enough fine dining. Even when my willpower is at its peak, if my mother asks me to join her at Esty Street, or Xaviar's, there's no way to resist. And I myself am a pretty good cook. Often, when I set aside a day to binge, it's so I can eat my own culinary masterpieces.

So how to snack on something delicious without actually eating? TEA. And Celestial Seasonings makes some truly fantastic no-calorie snacks. You can't buy the tea off the website,. but you can check for local shops that carry them, or do what I do and get them off Amazon. They taste amazing. There's fruity ones of all kinds, for those who prefer fruity snacks. And for people like me, there's cookies flavored ones. That's right, ladies: COOKIE-FLAVORED tea.

I happened upon these teas kind of by accident. Digging through the cupboards the other day and cursing my own laziness at not stopping at A&P to get more green tea, I found a box of C. S. Gingerbread Cookie tea, and decided to have some. With half a packet of splenda, it was DELICIOUS. And it actually tastes like a cookie.

Of course I keep forgetting to fill my ziploc teabag bag up for work, so I'm stuck with whatever they have down in the caf.

Today, I ate: 1 bowl cereal (140), coffee (10), Jell-O Mousse (60), Lean Cuisine (290), for a total of 500. I burned about 750 exercising, so that's a Grand Total of -250 for the day.