Diet Tip: Trader Joe’s Fruit Floes

Trader Joe’s Fruit Floes are a great dessert for the weight conscious. They have no artificial flavors or preservatives, and water and fruit are always the first two listed ingredients. Best of all, they taste AMAZING. Most nights I’d rather have these than ice cream. They are excellent low-calorie, no guilt desserts year round.

The strawberry flavor is pictured below, which has 120 calories per popsicle. My favorite is Caribbean flavor, which has amazing chunks of mango and pineapple in it and only 80 calories per popsicle. Lime and Mango are also available.

In/Out for Tuesday, August 12

IN:

Breakfast: Coffee with a splash of half & half and sugar-free sweetener, a few ounces of low fat vanilla yogurt.

Lunch: Half a salami & cheese sandwich (about 6 slices of salami and one slice cheese folded into one slice of bread) and about a cup of  cucumber-tomato-green pepper salad dressed in lemon juice, olive oil and dill.

Snacks: A giant diet Coke with about 50 calories of regular Coke mixed in; a bag of chips (210 calories) as carb prep for three hours of musical rehearsal. Two popsicles totaling 140 calories.

Dinner: Three Indian vegetable samosas (about 260 calories). When I was putting these bad boys in the oven I thought they would have more calories since they are fried, but they only had about 85 calories each. So I kind of accidentally underate because dinner should probably be a tad more substantive than that.

But I did eat more veggies….

OUT:

No technical exercise, I’m exercising Wednesday. But I did have music rehearsal tonight, which is a lot of standing and a lot of singing. Basically two extra hours of being on my feet, during most of which I was actively singing, which is more physical than most people think. You need excellent ab and diaphragm control for breathing, good posture, etc. I’m sure there is a minor net caloric benefit to rehearsal, but I have no idea how to quantify it.