tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520412246310459623.post3561713233518944274..comments2023-09-06T07:14:09.986-04:00Comments on No more running: Make a new plan, StanDebbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17727115174070254910noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520412246310459623.post-76531415382619386142009-10-21T13:10:25.334-04:002009-10-21T13:10:25.334-04:00Part 2
What I am doing:
Recording everything I eat...Part 2<br />What I am doing:<br />Recording everything I eat. I was using a small notebook for a long time and then started using my new BlackBerry with the FatSecret app to record all food plus weigh-in and exercise. I love the way it stores foods that I input and then I can click on the regular quantity I eat in one step or alter the quantity.<br /><br />Calorie target: I am aiming for 1,200-1,450 calories a day. I just can NOT seem to get my calorie intake even. I range from about 750cal to 1,500cal and have been working to try to bring it closer to an even 1,200 a day, but it is sure hard for me to maintain consistency. Even my weekly averages are different from week to week.<br /><br />Other Goals: I am trying to avoid manufactured foods which is tough when you pair that with my general avoidance of cooking. However, I mostly have been able to do it. I am also not eating sugar or white flour. However, I am not perfect. About 3 weeks ago I had lunch out with a girlfriend and she ordered a basket of sour dough (white) bread for the table. She ate NONE of it, and I ended up eating 3 pieces. I volunteer at the Exploratorium science museum and they keep buying pizza for volunteers who work a long shift. Somehow that is too tempting to pass up most times even if I bring a lunch. Also at the Exploratorium I ended up eating a scone after they sat in front of me at a meeting for 2 hours. Anyway. I am not perfect but largely trying to get it right. Also I am trying to exercise a lot. I'm doing as much as my joints will allow both with daily walks and on the elliptical.<br /><br />What I am eating:<br />I am trying for more variety, and to expand my food list. Here's what's on the list now:<br /><br />B: most days 2/3 dry measure old-fashioned oats cooked with 2 peaches or 2 apples. (fruit is cooked too)<br />alternates: 2 packets of instant oats or a cup of Fiber One dry cereal.<br /><br />L: Either dinner leftover or salad. Salads are homemade or purchased from Trader Joes (especially the reduced fat shrimp Louis). Plus 1 or 2 fresh fruit.<br /><br />D: whatever I manage to cook. My easy cooking meals are either boneless-skinless chicken breast broiled on a cookie sheet with vegetables; or salmon, or prawns or pork loin. I love the vegetable brochettes pre-made by Whole Foods which are just a skewer with very large mushrooms, pieces of sweet purple onion, red paper chunks, zucchini chunks. I have one of those Misto pumps and spray on a fine mist of olive oil on the veggies. I will often toss some mini-potatoes cut in half on the cookie sheet at the same time. Favorite veggies are mushrooms, summer squash and zucchini. When I cook on the stovetop I make string beans, corn on the cob, artichokes.<br /><br />When I have spent more time, I prepare a baked eggplant dish layered with low fat ricotta and spaghetti sauce.<br />I make a wonderful dish of shrimps and scallops plus chopped sun-dried tomatoes cooked in white wine.<br />I love my curried lentil-garnet yam soup which I prepare in a huge vat for days of eating.<br />I like a curried combo of a head of cauliflower,1 eggplant, potatoes, onion, a can of chick peas, white kernel corn (a bag). Everything is cooked with curry powder and water then the rinsed chickpeas and corn are added at the end and heated through. I do this in my crockpot. The lentil soup and cauliflower combo are favorites from vegetarian days.<br /><br />GretaSunny CAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11451116932556227816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520412246310459623.post-73221912972850465182009-10-21T13:09:54.636-04:002009-10-21T13:09:54.636-04:00Hi, Debbi!
Your new plan sounds great! I could us...Hi, Debbi!<br />Your new plan sounds great! I could use a bit more regularity in my meal planning, myself, but I am not quite ready to do that. Sounds admirable and useful, though. The weekly rotation gives you variety plus an overall predictability. I will mull this over to see if I can somehow do something similar.<br /><br />I like local whole food and manage that a lot of the time. It is getting easier since we have a great farmer's market and my grocery stores are now labeling the local produce, too.<br /><br />Since I am cooking for 1 and am time-challenged most days, I am very unmotivated to cook. As a result I've have approached the problem from the opposite direction. What can I make in 30 seconds? I too am being more flexible in what I eat this time around, but it made me laugh to read Denise's comment, since my previous plan was vegetarian for over 15 years and only in the last year or two have I finally decided to allow any sort of animal to make up part of my meal. As a result I am at the stage where roasted chicken breast and vegetables is a divine taste sensation. Ha ha ha! When you compare chicken and veggies to veggies and beans, the chicken wins out big time in taste. I am open to ideas on what to eat and trying to expand my repertoire.<br /><br />I just broke my post into two parts since it won't let me post it as written.<br />GretaSunny CAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11451116932556227816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520412246310459623.post-84608189232695354362009-10-20T06:34:20.260-04:002009-10-20T06:34:20.260-04:00It's so important to know what works for you n...It's so important to know what works for you now, since often things we were willing to do in the past no longer fit. Eating local, whole food instead of processed makes a huge difference in a good way. I admire your ability to craft a plan that is full of "do" and not "don't" - it's more positive from the get go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520412246310459623.post-5513648729062384222009-10-19T20:58:36.429-04:002009-10-19T20:58:36.429-04:00Isn't it funny how we can remember that "...Isn't it funny how we can remember that "moment" with a formerly forbidden food that seems to lead down the path of no return. For you, a piece of pie. For me, malted milk eggs at Easter of 2005. And it wasn't anyone's fault (not your husband's, not even the mere existence of malted milk eggs). More like my own fault for being so crazy restrictive. It backfires. It always does. Rational thinking about food should prevail, but somehow we lose rationality when it comes to food and weight.Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17085113297341136554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520412246310459623.post-33340123175562870432009-10-19T17:40:16.106-04:002009-10-19T17:40:16.106-04:00Sounds like you're going at this very logicall...Sounds like you're going at this very logically. I too am of the mind that I have to find something I can live with and like or it's simply not worth it.<br /><br />People say if you lose weight you live longer. I say if I have to do it by eating broccoli and baked chicken every day, why would I WANT to live longer! ;-)<br /><br />Somewhere in the middle there's got to be an answer!denisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14873046572246069891noreply@blogger.com