Photocrazed - Journey to a Healthy lifestyle

too weird...I just got an e-mail saying you're posting in my diary at the same time I'm posting in yours:)

anyway, this may be one of those useless urban nutrition myths BUT I've always heard that if you cook your dark leafy greens in a cast iron skillet, it increases the iron content of the veggies...may not be true but darn they sure taste good that way at least:)
 
Wow, PC, I just saw your pics...you are soo cute!! I'm gonna get a pic of me put up tonight!

Hey, I think the thread on pics is a good idea!

Anyways, just dropping by real quick, got alot of diaries to get to

Your doing a GREAT job PC! Keep it up!
 
Yeah, a meal I LOVE that I cook often is this:

Boil a med yam
Rub 4 oz salmon with a "RUB"
Start chopping collard greens and broccoli
drizzle olive oil in a coverable, deep skillet
drizzle olive oil in cast iron skillet next to it
start saute-ing garlic in large rounded skillet
start grilling the salmon in the cast iron
stick the greens and broccoli in the big pan, add a dash of white wine and cover, stirring occasionally, until braised
blacken the salmon until cooked through.

It's delicious--yam, salmon, and greens--perfect meal packed with iron, vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, complex carbohydrates, and omega 3 fatty acids--and it tastes great to me too! At only about 375 calories or so, depending on thge size of the yam and the amount of olive oil. I usually make 2 servings and put one away for the next day.

I made it up--but if you hate any of those items you could substitute something nutritionally similar.
 
cym said:
anyway, this may be one of those useless urban nutrition myths BUT I've always heard that if you cook your dark leafy greens in a cast iron skillet, it increases the iron content of the veggies...may not be true but darn they sure taste good that way at least:)
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It's true about the cast iron pan. We tell our patients that when they're diagnosed with anemia.

What a pretty girl. :) Your pics are beautiful. I'm glad you're feeling skinny. lol It's nice to see progress, eh?
 
Well, I wasn't the best at dinner, Hubby came home late and I just didn't want to cook... surprise surprise surprise. Anyway, I ordered a Flatbread pizza from Uno pizzeria and the website said the entire thing had like 1100 cals. I ate 1/2 of it so about 550 cals or so. My totals are still around 12xx (see prior page for exact #) today, but I'm not happy with the quality of food. We did order an Apple Crisp dessert, and I gave it all to him and told him to eat what he wanted first and then I'd eat what was left over.. Good Idea.. it was all gone :) well, good and bad. I get no more bad calories. I think I may have just come in under on my sodium today, so I'm happy about that. Protein wasn't nearly high enough, but fat wasn't really either.

My sister may find out what the sex of the baby is on Friday, so that's exciting.

Ok, photocrazed, signing out.. Oooh. I'll go look for some good photos.
 
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Wow you are doing awesome.
I have the same problem with calcium and iron, i just take a multi in the morning every day. Less hassle to worry about :)
 
March 22, 2007

Thanks wishes! I think I might have to start taking a vitamin too. Tomorrow is weigh date and I'm hoping the scales are good to me. I know I have set myself back a few weeks and it is upsetting. Staying on track now.

Breakfast
Kashi Go Lean
Skim Milk

Snack
Banana

Lunch
Smuckers Natural Peanut Butter with Honey Creamy, 1 serving
Smuckers Strawberry Preserves, 1 serving
Nature's Own Light White bread, 1 serving

Dinner
Bush's Black Beans, 2 serving
Mrs Pauls Crispy Battered Fish Fillets, 1 serving
Egg white, 3 serving
Diet Coke, 12 oz
Tropicana Orange Juice w/Fiber, 1 serving

CALORIES CARBS FAT PROTEIN
1,292 210 31 64
Your Daily Goal:
1200 - 1550 135 - 252 27 - 60 30 - 136

Water 71.8

Exercise
Well, I'm stoked!! Did my HIIT today, and pushed myself harder than ever.

walk warm-up
12mph sprint 30 secs
walk
12mph sprint 25 secs
walk
12mph sprint 20 secs
walk
10mph sprint 25-30 secs
walk
12mph sprint 20 secs
cool down
 
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Forgot to update my diary last night, but I did 2 of the 3 weight training exercises I needed to do.

Dumbbell rows 35 lbs 2 sets of 6
Chest press 100 lbs 2 sets of 6
Didn't do squats. Will do them today.
 
Great effort! You're doing wonderfully--you'll be pleased with your weight for sure! Yeah take that multi vitamin--I do, everyday--plus a choline supplement.
 
Well, I'm stoked!! Did my HIIT today, and pushed myself harder than ever.

walk warm-up
12mph sprint 30 secs
walk
12mph sprint 25 secs
walk
12mph sprint 20 secs
walk
10mph sprint 25-30 secs
walk
12mph sprint 20 secs
cool down
 
Nah, you're not. I removed them. I'll put them back up, just tell me when you have seen them, and I'll remove them. These are both from 3-21. I'm going to look for some from January.. if I have any.
 
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Just wanted to drop in and say hi - good job on the exercising nad weights - I need to start using my weights especially since i havent been going to Curves - lol...have a good day !!!
 
Friday March 23, 2007

Well, official weigh in date. I'm 155.6 which is up a full lb from my last weigh date of 2/28/06. Not too happy about it since that was almost a month ago, but at least it's not more.

One of my classmates asked yesterday if I had lost weight. I guess she could tell or something. Made me feel pretty good, but I can't wait to break into the 140's.

Breakfast
1 Cup Kashi Go Lean
1/2 Cup skim Milk

lunch:
Subway 6" Turkey Breast & Ham Sub, 1 serving
dinner:
Chicken Breast, no skin, 2 breast, bone and skin removed
Bush's Pinto Beans, 0.5 cup
snack:
Edy's Slow Churned Light Ice Cream, 2 cup

Totals
CALORIES CARBS FAT PROTEIN
1,678 185 30 164
Your Daily Goal:
1200 - 1550 135 - 252 27 - 60 30 - 136

Exercise
2.75 miles treadmill
deadlifts 120 lbs
military press 80 lbs
Lat pull downs 120 lbs
 
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cym,

Ah, thanks, that's very nice of you!

cinderelly,

Thanks for stopping by. It is hard getting to the weights and treadmill at times, but I feel so much better afterward!

I need to go get some things and then get my behind into work. I'll try to check back in from there in a few hours!
 
Why do you think you are up a pound?

Are you taking measurements?

Oh, and good morning. :)
 
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