Healthy Weight Loss

[Sachita]

I love fitting into jeans I haven't worn in a while. I mostly wear sweat pants this time of year and my clothes loose. But I was going through old clothes trying to find stuff to wear and BAM! They went right on!

I'm having a hard time juicing when its chilly out. I'm still doing it but not as much. I'm looking for comfort recipes that use a lot of veggies, spices, no grains. I took cubed lamb, cooked it in ghee, added lots of curry type spices, coconut cream, keffir lime, mushrooms and then emptied a few packs of organic mixed veggies. It was really good and the sauce full of flavor. If anyone has any recipes for filling foods using small amounts of meat but huge amounts of veggies will you send them to me?

Someone told me yesterday that coffee increases cortiosol levels and if you stopped drinking coffee you'd drop weight. I majorly cut back and noticed all kinds of differences but damn do I miss coffee.

[macele]

since i don't smoke anymore, i don't drink as much coffee. morning and occasionally during the day. decaf. i'm going to try the veg soup and lettuce for a while. til christmas lol.

[Gemme]

Coffee's also a diuretic, so your body will appreciate not having that zap of fluid, especially with dry winter air.

I've gained 2 lbs over what my 'norm' has become. Damn Christmas candy and home cooking. I wish comfort food wasn't so calorie laden. Or that I didn't crave it so badly.

We've planned our Christmas dinner and Luvs is not. helping. at. all.

So, I'm going to have to work to make sure we have salad with good fibrous greens and lots of nice steamed veggies to counterbalance all those carbs....potatoes, stuffing, rolls...!

[Sachita]

I just can't do salads so much in winter. I love them and eat them all the time when its warmer. I grew a bunch of sweet potatoes over the summer and I've been eating these. I'm pretty much sticking to protein and veggies but love sauces and such. I love roasting veggies too.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Sachita

I just can't do salads so much in winter. I love them and eat them all the time when its warmer. I grew a bunch of sweet potatoes over the summer and I've been eating these. I'm pretty much sticking to protein and veggies but love sauces and such. I love roasting veggies too.

What about winter salads?

Ooooooooh, pretty!

Or nice hot salads?

[macele]

i love sweet potatoes! roasting veggies!

[Sachita]

Originally Posted by Gemme

What about winter salads?

Ooooooooh, pretty!

Or nice hot salads?

oooooo thank you

[Rockinonahigh]

I'm not really loseing much at the moment,I had gotten back down to 255 when I got the last back injection in november so I picked up a a couple of pounds.What i've noticed is my body is compacting in lots of places back,legs,butt and chest plus lots of arm muscels and upper back from diffrent exersises with weights.AS many crunchies,sit ups,power leg lifts i'm not loseing as much as I would like in the old gut...bugs the crap out of me for shure..I am doing cardio nearly every day of some kind.My pcp wanted mt to go on this diet of 750 calories or less wich I told her I would have more problems if I did that is why I dont cut my intake down so low.I tryed it once and had lots of blood sugar problems along with near total wipe outs that left me sicker than a dog.I'm on high protine,veggies as much as I want of the right kind,some fruit spareingly,water till i'm sick of water so I put some lemon juice in it to give it some taste or use cristal light.I do have a couple of diet sodas a day and often dont drink all of them.What I do have is way mopre energy and stamana to do what I need to do so I know something is working.

[JustJo]

I've decided to be realistic, and make my goal to stay under that 200 lb. threshhold over the holidays.

Also, to make sure that I eat healthy, and limit sweets. I am not completely restricting myself though....because I need to live like this for the rest of my life, and don't care to make my holidays miserable.

So far, so good.....196 and holding.

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by Sachita

I love fitting into jeans I haven't worn in a while. I mostly wear sweat pants this time of year and my clothes loose. But I was going through old clothes trying to find stuff to wear and BAM! They went right on!

I'm having a hard time juicing when its chilly out. I'm still doing it but not as much. I'm looking for comfort recipes that use a lot of veggies, spices, no grains. I took cubed lamb, cooked it in ghee, added lots of curry type spices, coconut cream, keffir lime, mushrooms and then emptied a few packs of organic mixed veggies. It was really good and the sauce full of flavor. If anyone has any recipes for filling foods using small amounts of meat but huge amounts of veggies will you send them to me?

Someone told me yesterday that coffee increases cortiosol levels and if you stopped drinking coffee you'd drop weight. I majorly cut back and noticed all kinds of differences but damn do I miss coffee.

what about decaf coffee?

[Sachita]

Originally Posted by girl_dee

what about decaf coffee?

I'm not sure. I'll look. I was mixing half decaf but still had trouble with coffee. I think the process of removing caffeine is really unhealthy. I have been drinking Numi age earl grey and its really yummy. In fact I;m getting use to tea. It has caffeine but doesn't bother me like coffee does.

[nycfem]

As a no-caf person for 6 years now, I try to stay away from decaf too. It is supposed to be much more unhealthy than regular coffee (google/processing). Also, decaf has caffeine in it, sometimes a lot of it. I splurge on something decaf (meaning about 1/4 of a cup at most) when I'm dying for it but that's a rarity. The hardest part of no-caf for me is not having chocolate but the mind and body adjust with time.

Originally Posted by girl_dee

what about decaf coffee?

[Dance-with-me]

My life is about to have some structure and consistency back, so I'm hoping to really start focusing on my health including healthy eating and adequate exercise. I'll be back in my own house in a few days, and I have a treadmill, elliptical and bike there, plus I just had a cortisone shot that is addressing some of my pain issues.

One of the things that I plan to do starting on the 2nd is a one-week holistic whole foods cleanse. It's NOT one of those purge (aka poop your brains out) cleanses - it's a careful balance of whole foods that work together to reset your system, and is one that several friends have followed and loved. I'm hoping that it will help me pull away from sugars and other craving foods, get me back into eating the smaller portions that my body's good with when I give it the chance to not be stuffed full every day, and more. There's a small fee for getting the information but it includes support from the holistic health counselor who developed the program.

[Sachita]

I really mess up the moment I start on anything sweet. The holidays are hard for me. I'm not eating any diet food. I'm just not eating a lot of bread, rice, pasta etc which is my weakness. But I am allowing pasta once a
week. Like I said I can't get into salads but the other night I wilted some baby greens and tossed some beans and even a boiled egg in it. It was yummy.

I eat at least two eggs a day right from my coop. I'll eat them for breakfast or dinner. Spinach omelets, anything I an add veggies to. I eat a lot of mushrooms when I'm watching my weight. The big one for me is totally staying away from anything processed. Thats why stews and chunky soups work so well for me. I am busy. I can throw stuff in the crock pot and munch on it throughout the day. I always have leftovers.