So my big enemy is sugar. It's the thing that tends to make me pack fat on. I'm trying to slim down for my return to the States and to dancing... I've developed a short version workout routine I can do in my apartment, which seems to be doing well so far... but I keep devouring ice cream and milk chocolate and other things I know are no good. Argh.
I know it's probably because I have a hard time finding enough nutrition here. I don't eat meat, and China eats lots of it. Cheese is one of my staples back home, and it's expensive here. There's no cottage cheese either. I can get yogurt, but not unsweetened yogurt, though it's not sugary crap either. I can get pasta in the next town. I can also get dried beans but not canned beans, I can get eggs, most fresh vegetables, tomato sauce, various forms of tofu, white bread and processed cheese, oatmeal, butter, milk. No coconut milk.
Part of the problem is that I'm pretty tired of tofu; another part of the problem is that the cheap eateries near here just packed up and left, so I have to fend for myself. The last millstone I have around my neck is that to cook food, I only have an induction cooker (which can boil things, steam them or burn them -- stirfrying is just a bad idea), a rice cooker (which can steam things, but I can do that in the induction cooker just as easily) and a pop-up toaster.
I'm sure a local could do it, but for me, cooking Chinese food with these things seems nigh impossible. On the other hand, if I got a proper wok to go on the induction cooker, I think things would burn less. Right now I have the cheap pan it came with.
Mainly, I'm trying to eat more protein and fat, less carbohydrates, so I can stop being carb-addicted and going "just one ice cream...". Any suggestions? Like, does anyone know of something to do with processed cheese other than eat it between slices of bread?




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