Recommitting in January!
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oh and yes, the meat area doesn't smell good...especially at my grocery store where they have fish that stink up half the store. The other half smells super sweet from the bakery. The longer I go without sugar the more that bakery smells sweet.0
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"It is funny that so many people worry about our health because of protein deficiency yet they don't worry about our health if we eat a ton of saturated fat and little to no vegetables."
This! Exactly! I just changed my food diary to monitor saturated fats and sodium instead of all fats and carbs. Maybe people won't be so focused on carbs when they look at my diet. My cholesterol, LDL, triglycerides were all up last year due to sweets, meats, alcohol (Prosecco) and cheese AND LOTS OF GELATO in Italy. I don't know how Italians stay so thin. My numbers were down to high normal after 6-8 weeks on ETL. Nobody was warning me about the dangers of being overweight or having high cholesterol. Now people ask me how I am losing weight and immediately go to low protein banter.
I turn 60 this year and my father died at age 63 of a heart attack. It is important to me to not only lose weight but be as healthy and strong as I can be.0 -
Glad the headaches aren't so bad Carla. Bet you are looking forward to your oatmeal tomorrow morning!
I agree with both of you on the concerns about being vegan. I told a friend once that I was tired of being pestered about how unhealthy I have to be not eating meat or dairy. Nobody said a word to me when I still ate meat, and it wasn't so bad even when I was still vegetarian eating lots and lots of cheese and junky stuff, drinking too much, smoking, weighed 220 pounds... all good. When I gave up dairy, went truly plant based, started exercising, lost weight... it was ZOMG!!! That's not healthy!!!
I will say people didn't seem to think that quitting smoking was so bad lol.
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From Michael Pollan's website, not exactly what I was thinking of from the book but the general gist of it...
In the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become.
But if real food — the sort of food our great grandmothers would recognize as food — stands in need of defense, from whom does it need defending? From the food industry on one side and nutritional science on the other. Both stand to gain much from widespread confusion about what to eat, a question that for most of human history people have been able to answer without expert help. Yet the professionalization of eating has failed to make Americans healthier. Thirty years of official nutritional advice has only made us sicker and fatter while ruining countless numbers of meals.
Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.0 -
Almost forgot... I wanted to share this new post from OSG. I am going to make the Heartbeet Cabbage Soup this weekend. http://ohsheglows.com/2018/01/09/light-and-energizing-recipes-to-kick-off-2018/
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"Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants
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Simple but powerful quote.
The american diet is unhealthy. I can't watch T.V. anymore due to the horrible commercials for sickening food. It creates an unhealthy desire.
One of the things in Italy I did not take advantage of enough was the farmer's market with fresh local produce. I am so looking forward to that when I go back.
Sigh, Brooks was just asked to go to Wright Patterson AFH for 3 months. In Ohio. Not too sure about that. One of his best friends is moving there next month...that might be fun.
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I'm thankful that I read Dr. Fuhrman's books and realized how unhealthy the standard American diet is. I'm glad to have all of you on the same page with me!
The fast is over. I'm glad I pushed through to complete it. The hardest part was definitely the evenings. That makes sense, because it is always at night when I want to overeat and snack. I'll be reintroducing food slowly. Right now I'm trying to be patient while waiting for a hunger signal from my body so I can eat my pear!
I've been busy with work and juicing so my house is a mess! Our Christmas tree is still up...ugh! I might have to wait until the weekend to pack all the decorations up. I'll be glad to be rid of the clutter.
Thanks for the recipe link, Mihani. I think I'll try one of those out this week. I'm off of the meal plan because of the fasting.
Donna, if Brooks goes to OH for the 3 months, would you join him? You must get very good at acclimating to new areas quickly with all of that moving! What has been your favorite location?0 -
Donna, Ohio isn't so bad... the winters are cold and depressing and the summers are too hot and humid, but spring and fall are nice lol. I am only about an hour from Dayton so if you end up there we can get together!
Glad to have you along for this ride too Carla! I feel like I've learned so much from interacting with all of you, now if I could just get better about using that knowledge more consistently in practice.
Glad you made it through the juicing. How was your pear?
I couldn't make it to the store tonight, got out of the office too late, and we're in for some nasty weather if predictions are correct, so I hope I can get time to run to the store tomorrow at work and get what I need for my soup. I doubt I'll be going anywhere Saturday if we get all this snow and I was hoping to cook while I was stuck home. Going to bring work home with me tomorrow to be on the safe side. Glad it's at least going to hit on the weekend so I don't have to drive if I don't want to. The older I get the more I dread driving in bad weather.
Almost forgot, I get to go see Rip at Whole Foods in February! Looking forward to that.
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Hi Mihani - that would be great to get together if we end up there for 3 months. They did not have a lot of info other than they were extremely short staffed.
Carla my favorite place to live was northern Italy. We were able to travel all around Europe very cheaply. I loved Slovenia...did not know anything about it but people were nice, food good and beautiful mountains and a little coast. I wish we had traveled through Croatia..there is an amazing park, Plitvice that I wish we had seen. Plitvice Lakes National Park was added to the UNESCO World Heritage. There are beautiful lakes and waterfalls.0 -
Mihani, the pear was amazing! It was so juicy and sweet. I am looking forward to hearing about your Rip experience. I hope the weather doesn't get nasty on you!
Donna, it sounds like you've had such wonderful experiences! I love natural settings best of all, so national parks, lakes and waterfalls appeal to me much more than man-made spots like Disney, Vegas, or huge cities. Quirky smaller towns appeal a lot, too.
Yesterday, I ate really light. I was supposed to listen to my body for hunger signals, but I'm not 100% sure I had them. If I did, they were very subtle. I didn't feel hungry when I had my pear, but I was thinking about it so much that I finally decided at 9:30 that it was time. I made miso soup with veggies for lunch, and again kept thinking about it but wasn't noticeably hungry for it. I waited until 1:30 pm and then had a small bowl anyway. Then dinner was at 5 pm and I had more miso soup. I was disappointed to have a headache start in again in the evening at around 7:30 or so. I had a slice of sprouted bread with about a tsp of peanut butter even though I wasn't hungry. It stopped the headache from getting worse.
Today I'm going to have a green smoothie for breakfast, a salad for lunch, and a bowl with tofu and sauteed veggies over quinoa.
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Home early. It has been raining for two days but not too cold. Now temperature is dropping fast and down to freezing so all this rain is going to start turning to ice, then supposedly 3 to 6" of snow by tomorrow morning. Oh boy! I did bring work home so I plan to stay snug at home tomorrow. Just hope I don't lose power. I have my phone charged up. I tried to run to the grocery and they were jam-packed cars circling the lot so abandoned that idea. I have plenty of food here, just can't make the soup I wanted to make.
Donna, all that travel is so interesting! I had no idea you were close to 60. I would have guessed you younger from your profile pic.
Sounds like you've got your hunger cues at least somewhat tuned up Carla. The tofu quinoa bowl sounds good.
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Thank you Mihani. I hope you are keeping warm. We went for a long walk this morning and I played tennis this afternoon. 58* today. Our cold front hits next week. Going to take it easy tomorrow. Brooks has in house trauma call tonight and tomorrow so I am going to cook a bit. Making stuffed sweet red peppers with wild rice and mushrooms!
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Hope you got your cooking done, Donna. I worked part of the day here at home, then started a jigsaw puzzle and I'm up way too late because I lost track of time and then it was so close to finished I had to keep going. Planning to work from home again tomorrow.
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Got a little more work done today at home, not as much as I should have. I tend to get distracted when I try to work from home. So many more fun things to do here and the temptation to nap is overwhelming! I don't feel too bad about it. I needed to recharge my batteries after last week. I am really going to try to take at least one weekend day completely off work (whether home or at the office) from here on out.
I went to the grocery this evening. Was going to put it off until later in the week, but things have been so busy figured I better get it done. Have lots of good stuff for smoothies, salads, and cooked veggie/bean concoctions. Still going to stick with a piece of fruit and one of the Dr. McD soups for lunches most workdays. They are so easy and I like them. I also got baby carrots and grape tomatoes for snacking on at the office rather than digging into the crackers from the snack cabinet.
Ready for another week, and feel like my head is back in the game to get back to eating consistently ETL.
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Awesome Mihani. I did not make the wild rice stuffed sweet peppers because I started coming down with a cold.
I had my last salad tonight until Wednesday. I am having the "scope" on Wednesday so have to do the no high fiber diet tomorrow and clear liquids on Tuesday and start drinking "GO LIGHTLY" in the evening. I dread this but if you don't do it right then you have to start all over again. Talk about a cleanse. People usually lose 4 lbs during this but it is like the flu, once you start eating again then you gain the weight back...not really fat loss.
Hope this is not TMI. Just what you young ladies have to look forward to!0 -
Just found out my tennis instructor use to be 100 lbs overweight and type ll diabetes until he and his wife went vegetarian. He looks great now.0
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Hope all is going well with your preparations for the scope Donna. Ugh, I haven't done that yet and my doctor is after me about it. That's really cool about your tennis instructor. I like having real life examples like that!
We are getting more snow, yuck. It's getting pretty messy out there. Hope they manage to plow my subdivision tonight, but I'm not holding my breath. Having a romaine salad with capers, yellow pepper and balsamic glaze for dinner. Tasty, but I'm still feeling leery about the romaine even though I looked it up and supposed to be fine now.
I tried something new in my smoothie this morning. I soaked 1/2 cup of oats with chia seeds in water overnight, and added them to the blender with a whole bunch of power greens, a couple splashes of oat milk, 1/3 of a frozen banana and some frozen blueberries. It was really good! Very satisfying with the oats and chia seeds added in, kept me full until lunch.
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Hi Mihani, Keep warm. I hope you get to stay home.
I messed up big time. My scope is Thursday not Wednesday. Full liquids tomorrow and then clear liquids on Wednesday. Sigh. Yes, they are important to have done. I have two friends in California who waited until there were problems. One has stage 4 Colo-rectal cancer and the other has stage two. Both had major surgery, chemo and radiation. After this I am almost done with my yearly tests and 10 year exam. When I meet with internal med dr. I am going to ask for a recheck on my cholesterol panel, blood sugar and A1c level.
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Oh no... hope you got a good dinner last night, Donna!
Going to hit the road early this morning to avoid traffic. Schools are closed though, and I hope a lot of people will stay home off the roads.0 -
Hi guys! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. We took Ruby to the vet because her limping wasn't getting better. She has a torn ligament in her knee. She is on anti inflammatory pills and has to rest and be as calm as possible, so she can't roam the back yard freely like she's used to. I've feel bad for her stuck in the garage so I've had her in the house with me but she tends to grab and chew things so she needs to be babysat. I can't get to my office PC while she's in the house.
I've been eating plant based, but I'm feeling down and some meals are just toast with no oil hummus. I made some of Dr. F's banana oat bars with double blueberries and they are good.
Donna, good luck with the scope! It will be nice to have that over with.
Careful on those roads, Mihani! And yes, you definitely deserve to have some time away from work!
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So sorry for Ruby. We had a golden retriever who tore a ligament in his knee. We opted to not do surgery ($3500) and rehabbed him by swimming. We lived in Annapolis, MD at the time and our neighborhood had a little dog beach. It really helped to dissipate his energy and keep him happy. Only problem there were crab pots set out with neon green floats. They looked similar to tennis balls and he would go after them and drag them back...Brooks would have to swim out and replace them. Anyways, once he healed he was fine. He was a big boy.
Hang in there Carla, the long dark days of winter are almost over.
Brooks and Tucker. I miss him so much. This was after they had a big run. Brooks is exhausted, Tucker not so much.
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OK, I'm just popping in to say hi and I haven't forgotten you.
Donna, I love the picture of the dog just chill after his big run. Not pooped, just relaxed.
Work was bananas at the new job, but I just got a HUGE project taken off my shoulders because frankly, it was too big for just me. It needs a team... So that's a relief.
We start moving into the new house tomorrow. We aren't exactly packed yet; maybe about half packed. But the renos are done and I just want to start living there already! We haven't sold the old house yet either, so at least we can move at a leisurely rate. I told my hubby that I want to have our beds, our clothes and the kitchen moved by Saturday night so we can start sleeping and eating there. Everything else can come after that. Wish us luck!!
I've gotta run. It's still going to be at least 2-3 weeks before I get into my regular morning routines again... See you then!!
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Carla, sorry that Ruby has to stay cooped up. She probably likes hanging out with you more though. I have been craving toast a lot too. Must be a winter thing.
What a beautiful dog, Donna, and he really is big! That's hilarious he would bring in the crab pots.
Good luck with your move Karrie!
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So after clear liquids all day, scope was cancelled for tomorrow. They want me to meet with GI Dr. and schedule with anesthesia. They called right before I was going to mix the prep and start drinking. Yikes!
Karrie, I hope the move goes smoothly. Post some pics of your new house!!!
We finally found an indoor pool to swim in this winter.0 -
Oh that sucks, Donna... wonder why they cancelled it? Is something wrong? Yay for a pool.
I have been putting in even longer days than usual this week. It has been super busy and a dozen things going on all at once all the time. Very tiring and makes it so hard to actually complete anything.
Going to have a hummus and lettuce wrap for dinner with a clementine. Easy and quick.
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Donna, too bad about the cancellation. At least they called in time so you didn't have to drink the 'brew'! Have you checked out the indoor pool you found?
Mihani, I didn't think you could fit more work into a day. I hope you manage to get it all done. Is the snow all cleared up? How has your back been lately?
Ruby's injury seems to be healing with the anti-inflammatories and rest. We just finished up the pills, so we're going to see how she does this weekend without them. She hasn't been limping. The vet said it would be a good sign if the pills helped, so that's good news.0 -
Enjoyed my day home today. Did some cleaning and other chores, made soup, did a few hours of work-work. I have a lot more to do, but probably going to wait until tomorrow. I need to get to bed early because I was up too late last night and now I'm all out of kilter. I will likely stay home again tomorrow since I have barely made a dent in the work I brought home from the office.
Carla, so glad to hear Ruby is doing better! Snow is slowly melting, it got in the 40's today and it felt like a heat wave. The last few weeks have been brutal. How's your weather been?
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I'm glad you had a day or two home, Mihani! The weather here has been mild, upper 40s to low 50s but lots of rain for the most part, today being the exception - it's sunny with blue skies, a nice change. Ruby is looking forlornly outside. Poor gal. She doesn't like being on the leash at all, but I'm going to take her for a walk anyway. She might be more agreeable since it is so nice out.
I've been eating too many Lara bars. I know better than to buy a box on Amazon, even though they are so much cheaper than buying individually.
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I like the lara bars too Carla. Hope Ruby enjoyed the walk. So sad to have to keep her confined, but it will be worth it if you can avoid surgery.
Worked late and still have a file to finish tonight so just a quick hi.
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Hi. Love the coconut Lara bars.
We have been in Austin last few days. Brooks has a conference. We brought all 3 dogs and I have been getting walks 7-8 miles a day. Great paved trail along river.
Way too much wine and alcohol though.
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