Milestones (Amy's diary)
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Sounds good, LaMaria!
But, alas... the disagreeing scales turned out to be disagreeable, in giving me false hopes, which led me astray to the tune of some very nice camembert and a very tasty blue, and then on top of that, a most luscious cheesecake came my way...
But then it was back to the home scales, and about a pound up
and cheese of any sort is now forfeit, for the foreseeable future.
Congratulations!
No, I never have - amazing vistas of decadence are opening before my eyes!
Maybe one day... (sigh!)Thanks!
I'm just a fraction away now from my first big-step goal - which was to get down below my lowest weight this century - and starting to eye the next one, which is to get down to below the BMI marking the difference between "obese" and merely "overweight". Those are major markers for me - there's going to have to be smaller milestones on the way. And also small rewards...
jackbenimble
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So close. Looking forward to the good news!
Thanks, Jack and LaMaria! No good news yet, but no further back, anyway.
I'm starting to wonder about protein. The internet says an average sedentary woman (me!) needs 46 grams a day, and it looks like one egg and the occasional tofu meal isn't going to cut it. I'm a vegetarian, but oh, fish-eating would make life so much easier!
Oh well, looks like I'm going to have to start computing how much protein there might be in the rest of the things I eat - broccoli, for instance.
I'm starting to wonder about protein. The internet says an average sedentary woman (me!) needs 46 grams a day, and it looks like one egg and the occasional tofu meal isn't going to cut it. I'm a vegetarian, but oh, fish-eating would make life so much easier!
Oh well, looks like I'm going to have to start computing how much protein there might be in the rest of the things I eat - broccoli, for instance.
alligatorob
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It is surprising that when you are eating right things like veggies and fruit taste so good, at least that is true for me. When I was binging daily (most of my life) they don't taste so good.
Thanks for posting on my diary, knowing others are watching and thinking about me helps!
Beans, grains, and seeds are your friends. Mushrooms aren't too bad either. My porridge has over 20 g of protein because of all the stuff I add (today it's sunflower and hemp seeds) and my bean chili usually has around 30 g. Now my portions are pretty big (and those numbers are from all the ingredients combined) but then I aim for 75 g of protein a day.
They do! It's really great to know that tastes can be re-calibrated, if we want to, and can take some time to do it. And thanks for being on this diary, too!
Thank you! I wouldn't have guessed that mushrooms would have protein, or that porridge could get up that high. I like porridge, so I'll look into that. Oh, and bean chilli! great idea! (though fattening?)
Thank you! I should eat yoghurt more; it's pretty nearly always in the fridge, but I sometimes leave it too long. Okay... chilli beans, as per LaMaria, with a dollop of yoghurt as per cate! This. Very. Weekend.Beans, grains, seeds, yoghurt, some almond meal, natural yoghurt........ will all help bump up your protein. We all really need that protein
Mine doesn't contain fat, just beans, veggies, and spices, so you can eat a lot for few calories. Except of course I add either nuts&seeds or olives because fat is important even if I generally prefer to have it in a more natural form than oil. The Happy Pear (Youtube or their own website) has quite a few one pot dishes featuring beans and lentils, many of them low-fat.
Thanks! I'd already got the pre-soaked beans out of the freezer, and have just finished peeling the garlic. I was going to start by cooking onions and garlic in oil, but it sounds like you don't do that? Plus tomatoes, chilli, tomato paste, whatever herbs I find in the cupboard, probably a cut-up carrot...
In terms of fattening, I wasn't thinking about the oil so much as the beans themselves being very carbohydrate-y, and hence fattening, but I've just looked it up, and apparently a cup of the beans themselves is 225 calories, which is manageable, I guess.
Thanks for the tip about Happy Pear, which I haven't seen!
In terms of fattening, I wasn't thinking about the oil so much as the beans themselves being very carbohydrate-y, and hence fattening, but I've just looked it up, and apparently a cup of the beans themselves is 225 calories, which is manageable, I guess.
Thanks for the tip about Happy Pear, which I haven't seen!
I'm not a low-carb kind of person, although I do usually go for the slow-release kind. Beans are great for that. No need to be afraid of fat either, really, I just don't think there's a big difference in taste so I don't see it as being worth the calories unless you're trying to get Maillard a reaction going.