1. morning coffee x 2
2. honey crisp apples
3. a sharp knife (for cutting meat, fruit and veggies!)
4. logging food & exercise on MFP
5. exercise equipment in my cool basement
1. MFP - the tracking, message boards, and support groups
2. Walmart grocery pickup - compare foods online and avoid impulse shopping
3. Seated elliptical trainer - game changer for me as I dislike exercise but almost enjoy this equipment
4. Diabetes blood glucose monitoring kit - keeps me focused on my health
5. Hamburger fajita tacos - my go-to food of choice
It changes. Currently:
1) Pre-made salad bowls at the grocery store. (I buy a case for my weeks lunch)
2) frozen boneless/skinless chicken breast...roasted and sliced, then into baggies of 100g each.
3) Fuji apples
4) Voskos full fat, plain, individual size Greek Yogurt. 8 oz. It's like a meal in itself.
5) Torn & Glasser - Muesli Whole Grain (bulk section at Ralph's)
Bare protein bars, cacao nibs in Greek yoghurt, steel cut oats and stone fruits are my go tops. For something savoury I do carrot sticks and sauerkraut
1. MightyMeals
2. My recumbent bike and WaterRower
3. Dove chocolates
4. MFP
5. "Not one calorie after dinner" accepted as the official state religion in my house.
1) MFP. Tracking calories has helped so much! I have tried to lose weight before with out tracking calories and it just is not doable for me
2) protein shakes! I have a sweet tooth and for some reason these trick my body into thinking I'm drinking something super sweet even though I'm not.
3) frozen steam packs of veggies. They make it so easy to get the veggies I need. And really help when packing food for work.
4) my dog! No matter how hard i work out in the gym i still want to walk her for at least 2 miles every day. Every time i try to skip this she gives me the sad puppy dog eyes and I have to take her.
5) A fitness challenge im doing with my friends. We get points for doing some form of exercise and hitting our calorie goal every day. If we fail to do either of those we lose a point. At the end of the month we go to a nice dinner and who ever has the least points has to buy the person with the most points dinner..... my friends are expensive so the incentive to not have to buy them dinner is high!
I have also not used a food scale and have lost 35+ pounds so far.
Here are mine:
MFP
Zumba!
Training for a 5K
Chipotle for when I don't feel like cooking
Eating whatever I want in moderation
It changes. Currently:
1) Pre-made salad bowls at the grocery store. (I buy a case for my weeks lunch)
2) frozen boneless/skinless chicken breast...roasted and sliced, then into baggies of 100g each.
3) Fuji apples
4) Voskos full fat, plain, individual size Greek Yogurt. 8 oz. It's like a meal in itself.
5) Torn & Glasser - Muesli Whole Grain (bulk section at Ralph's)
1) Pre-made salad bowls at the grocery store. (I buy a case for my weeks lunch)
2) frozen boneless/skinless chicken breast...roasted and sliced, then into baggies of 75g each.
3) Fuji apples
4) Torn & Glasser - Muesli Whole Grain (bulk section at Ralph's)
5) Mozzarella string cheese
I dropped daily yogurt and replaced it with string cheese, and I lowered my chicken amount 25 grams.
Another biggie is at night I tend to have a whiskey straight with an ice cube, instead of a beer or two.
Without these things, I could not make fresh ground coffee every day or buy meat cheaply in bulk and I could not store/cook any of the meat or other food that I buy that is not boxed or canned.
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2. Mirror
3. Measuring tape
4. Digital food scale
5. MFP
6. Home cooked meals
2. honey crisp apples
3. a sharp knife (for cutting meat, fruit and veggies!)
4. logging food & exercise on MFP
5. exercise equipment in my cool basement
2. Walmart grocery pickup - compare foods online and avoid impulse shopping
3. Seated elliptical trainer - game changer for me as I dislike exercise but almost enjoy this equipment
4. Diabetes blood glucose monitoring kit - keeps me focused on my health
5. Hamburger fajita tacos - my go-to food of choice
Bathroom scale
Libra app
Kitchen scale
Concept 2 Rower
2. Avocado
3. Liquidizer (soup+++++)
4. Millacano Coffee
5. Pickled Beetroot (salad just became acceptable again)
6. Subways Salad bowls
1) Pre-made salad bowls at the grocery store. (I buy a case for my weeks lunch)
2) frozen boneless/skinless chicken breast...roasted and sliced, then into baggies of 100g each.
3) Fuji apples
4) Voskos full fat, plain, individual size Greek Yogurt. 8 oz. It's like a meal in itself.
5) Torn & Glasser - Muesli Whole Grain (bulk section at Ralph's)
2. Protein: shrimp, chicken, turkey, tuna, eggs
3. Sensible snacking: pickles, Greek yogurt, almonds and chocolate chips, graham cracker with almond butter
4. P90X
5. MFP
2. Tinned chopped tomatoes
3. Tabasco Sauce (multiple varieties)
4. Herbs & spices
5. Lemons & Limes
1) Tea
2) Apple and blackcurrant squash
3) No added sugar Alpen muesli
4) Raw Cashew Crush bars
5) Low fat Greek yoghurt
6) Bananas
7) Blueberries
8) Cherries
9) Sweet potato wraps
10) Cauliflower rice
2. My recumbent bike and WaterRower
3. Dove chocolates
4. MFP
5. "Not one calorie after dinner" accepted as the official state religion in my house.
2. Fitbit
3. Zevia soda
4. Quest bars
5. My friend who I meal plan with and share daily lunches with at work
Swimming pool
Coffee
Oat Yeah products
My workout crew
2) protein shakes! I have a sweet tooth and for some reason these trick my body into thinking I'm drinking something super sweet even though I'm not.
3) frozen steam packs of veggies. They make it so easy to get the veggies I need. And really help when packing food for work.
4) my dog! No matter how hard i work out in the gym i still want to walk her for at least 2 miles every day. Every time i try to skip this she gives me the sad puppy dog eyes and I have to take her.
5) A fitness challenge im doing with my friends. We get points for doing some form of exercise and hitting our calorie goal every day. If we fail to do either of those we lose a point. At the end of the month we go to a nice dinner and who ever has the least points has to buy the person with the most points dinner..... my friends are expensive so the incentive to not have to buy them dinner is high!
Here are mine:
MFP
Zumba!
Training for a 5K
Chipotle for when I don't feel like cooking
Eating whatever I want in moderation
1) Pre-made salad bowls at the grocery store. (I buy a case for my weeks lunch)
2) frozen boneless/skinless chicken breast...roasted and sliced, then into baggies of 75g each.
3) Fuji apples
4) Torn & Glasser - Muesli Whole Grain (bulk section at Ralph's)
5) Mozzarella string cheese
I dropped daily yogurt and replaced it with string cheese, and I lowered my chicken amount 25 grams.
Another biggie is at night I tend to have a whiskey straight with an ice cube, instead of a beer or two.
The top 5 "things" for me are a:
Coffee grinder
Food vacuum sealer
Frig/freezer
Stove/oven
Microwave
Without these things, I could not make fresh ground coffee every day or buy meat cheaply in bulk and I could not store/cook any of the meat or other food that I buy that is not boxed or canned.
So, IMO, these things are indispensable.