!Fruit & Veggie Substitution One-Day Challenge!
RebelRenny
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:flowerforyou: Does your weight loss need a kick in the you-know-what? Mine does!! :ohwell: Would you like to learn to like fresh fruits and veggies? I do!! Can you use some support and good ideas? Me too!! I was never that fond of fruits and veggies.
:noway: We all know that "fresh fruits and vegetables" are good for us. But what are we doing about it?
I have recently done some fruit and veggie days and found tremendous benefit. Felt great, my mind was clear, and I lost 1.5 lbs in one weekend (as well as the pound or so I had gained during the week) :bigsmile: :bigsmile: And ....I am actually falling in love with fruits and veggies!! Go figure!:bigsmile: :bigsmile:
Here is how the challenge works:
-EAT vegetables and fruit at every meal and snack time for the day.
-SUBSTITUTE the starch (or meat or dairy) food portion in a meal with FRESH VEGETABLES
-Have only a fresh fruit or vegetables for snacks
-DRINK at least 8oz of water and no alcohol :drinker:
-Use common sense - Retrain your senses !!
(If you can't do a whole day, do one meal)
YOU decide to be in! YOU BENEFIT! Tell me what you are going to do and report back how you did.
I'm INNNNN and readyyyyy!!!
Rebel
:noway: We all know that "fresh fruits and vegetables" are good for us. But what are we doing about it?
I have recently done some fruit and veggie days and found tremendous benefit. Felt great, my mind was clear, and I lost 1.5 lbs in one weekend (as well as the pound or so I had gained during the week) :bigsmile: :bigsmile: And ....I am actually falling in love with fruits and veggies!! Go figure!:bigsmile: :bigsmile: Here is how the challenge works:-EAT vegetables and fruit at every meal and snack time for the day.
-SUBSTITUTE the starch (or meat or dairy) food portion in a meal with FRESH VEGETABLES
-Have only a fresh fruit or vegetables for snacks
-DRINK at least 8oz of water and no alcohol :drinker:
-Use common sense - Retrain your senses !!
(If you can't do a whole day, do one meal)
YOU decide to be in! YOU BENEFIT! Tell me what you are going to do and report back how you did.
I'm INNNNN and readyyyyy!!!
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Sound like a good idea i will try it.0
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I will for sure try this, I know I am bad for fruit and veggies, haa I mean what are they?? I'll find out this week0
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I do enjoy some fruits and veggies and try to eat some every day. I am going to try harder now0
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:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: 'jmosecasey', Kim and Ruth - Welcome to the challenge! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
To try is great! To try this together will be so much better!!! :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: And thanks for giving me a boost. :smooched: :smooched: I'm going to try harder myself.
Good luck to all of us!! Rebel 0 -
I will give it a try! Count me in!:flowerforyou:0
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I will give it a try! Count me in!:flowerforyou:
Fab! I love it when someone "gives it a try". Isn't that how we start things off? I am doing the substitution today in addition to your "Skinny Saturday" challenge, but you can do it any other day.
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Hey Renny, GREAT idea!!! I dont know if I'll follow your challenge to the T, but I plan on making a conscious effort to clean up my diet this coming week. Eat less processed cabs, watch my sodium and incorporate fruits and/ or vegs in EVERY meal, but I dont know about snacks? Its a work in progress you know!! :laugh:0
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Hey Renny, GREAT idea!!! I dont know if I'll follow your challenge to the T, but I plan on making a conscious effort to clean up my diet this coming week. Eat less processed cabs, watch my sodium and incorporate fruits and/ or vegs in EVERY meal, but I dont know about snacks? Its a work in progress you know!! :laugh:
Hey Callie !! It is totally a work in progress. Taking it one day at the time or one meal at the time is key! I can't believe how much I have changed my own eating habits just by trying. It feels soooo good. ☼
:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Good to have you on board. Your goal is super. :drinker: :drinker: Rebel 0 -
Thanks Renny!!:flowerforyou:
Its going to be much harder to delete the crappy-(SO crappy) carbs, than add the fruits and vegs, but I am determined!!
I know I will feel so much more alert!!
To start I went back to my Wheaties w/ rasins breakfast yesterday unstead, Kix and Cherrios that I love. The Wheaties are more filling.
I'll let you know how it goes . 0 -
Yes I had already decided to try this on the non work out days so count me in. I already eat loads of veggies but no harm having even more.0
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:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Goooood Moooorning, Fellow Substitutors!
I hope this topic gets you excited about eating fruits and veggies. I am reporting in that I lost ONE pound. Yay for me!
:flowerforyou: Welcome batty5!! You can't go wrong with your kind of attitude girlfriend. Have a great day and let us know what you are doing differently and how you're doing! Rebel 0 -
Had an apple for breakfast then went out to lunch..............Had a Houlihan's grilled chicken sandwhich(1/2) and medit. orzo.....one meal at a time is right! Will try this during the weekdays. Apparently weekend is bad for me to be vege! Thanks for the encouragement Ren!:flowerforyou: I need a new focus! And I need to see the scale move!!! 0
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so after a bad start yesterday I had a vegie quesadilla for lunch and a huge spinach salad with raspberries and stuff for dinner (with salmon but still a big salad:happy: )
Today not so good but I will try to get in some fruit and vegies. does a low cal Mike's hard lemononade count? :laugh:0 -
I love my fruits and veggies but I wouldn't go so far as to cut out dairy, at least as a woman with a family history of osteoperosis. My favorite snacks are an apple with a tbsp peanut butter and an 8oz glass of milk....mmmmmmmmmmm
and I love salads with freshly toasted nuts and feta cheese. Just saying a little protein with those veggies and fruit in non meat manner is always a good addition.
I'm off to have some now..0 -
Good Morning
My 1st day of cleaning up my diet was much harder than I thought but I think it was successful.
For dinner we had hamburger & FF... I substituted the FF with fresh cucumber slices.
My run down Banana, raisins, broccoli soup, orange, baby carrots, cucumber slices & hamburger fix-ns!!0 -
BTW PJilly has a challenge up...
"A New Me" Group's August Food Challenge"
That coincides with this one!0 -
Had an apple for breakfast then went out to lunch..............Had a Houlihan's grilled chicken sandwhich(1/2) and medit. orzo.....one meal at a time is right! Will try this during the weekdays. Apparently weekend is bad for me to be vege! Thanks for the encouragement Ren!:flowerforyou: I need a new focus! And I need to see the scale move!!!
:flowerforyou: Fab!!! Well done. Everything helps and ONE meal at a time is great. I think once you see the pay-off your mind will start re-focusing on them more and more. I make sure I have plenty of fresh fruits and veggies in the house and simply no longer buy unhealthy snacks. (I say "simply", but it's not always so simple depending on who else is in your household)
I'd love to know how the substitution theory works for you during one of your weekdays . Rebel 0 -
so after a bad start yesterday I had a vegie quesadilla for lunch and a huge spinach salad with raspberries and stuff for dinner (with salmon but still a big salad:happy: )
Today not so good but I will try to get in some fruit and vegies. does a low cal Mike's hard lemononade count? :laugh:
:drinker: Robin! Spinach salad and salmon sounds delicious!!! You don't want to cut out other GOOD stuff, and salmon is a great food. :flowerforyou: Well done!
:noway: hard lemonade? hmmm......let me think......thinking, thinking, thinking.......uhm, is that about equal to the Smirnoff ice I had yesterday? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :drinker: :drinker:
:flowerforyou: You totally inspire me with your exercise regime though!!:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Rebel 0 -
I love my fruits and veggies but I wouldn't go so far as to cut out dairy, at least as a woman with a family history of osteoperosis. My favorite snacks are an apple with a tbsp peanut butter and an 8oz glass of milk....mmmmmmmmmmm
and I love salads with freshly toasted nuts and feta cheese. Just saying a little protein with those veggies and fruit in non meat manner is always a good addition.
I'm off to have some now..
Hi Nichole!!!! Welcome. Wonderful to hear you love your fruit and veggies!!! You will be such an example for so many who find it difficult to incorporate those successfully into their diets! I very much agree with you that your eating plan must be in alignment with your health needs. I note that you said "a little protein". :bigsmile: :bigsmile: Our North-American diet is so focused on large portions of meat. A little goes a long way.
:flowerforyou: Thanks for writing. Keep up the good work. :drinker: Rebel 0 -
Ok I think I can do this for a day or at least try I will try it one day this week and check in. I already had cereal for breakfast and pretzels for snack today so I can't do today. Tomorrow is my big workout day so I think I will try for Wed. 0
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Ok I think I can do this for a day or at least try I will try it one day this week and check in. I already had cereal for breakfast and pretzels for snack today so I can't do today. Tomorrow is my big workout day so I think I will try for Wed. 0
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Good Morning
My 1st day of cleaning up my diet was much harder than I thought but I think it was successful.
For dinner we had hamburger & FF... I substituted the FF with fresh cucumber slices.
My run down Banana, raisins, broccoli soup, orange, baby carrots, cucumber slices & hamburger fix-ns!!
:drinker: Hi Callie!!! You got it girlfriend!! Substitution is the idea. Your substitution of FF with cucumber slices is a great example. :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
I found it was much harder than at first thought as well. I also had a tough time convincing DH of my decision to do this for one day. However, once he saw the results he is now totally on board!! Now that one day a week is a bit of a cleanse day for me.
Keep up the good work! And thanks for the pointer to the other challenge. Rebel 0 -
Ok I think I can do this for a day or at least try I will try it one day this week and check in. I already had cereal for breakfast and pretzels for snack today so I can't do today. Tomorrow is my big workout day so I think I will try for Wed.
:flowerforyou: Hi Mari1969!!! Great stuff. One day, because it is a One-Day challenge (or even start with a One-Meal). The idea is to eat FRESH fruits and veggies INSTEAD of some other higher-calorie food. You'll notice that you can eat a lot more of the fruits and veggies for example instead of only a small amount of high-calorie food.
!!!Example:
One snack-sized bag of corn chips (1 oz) = 147 calories of which 72 calories from fat (!!!!). 1 apple = 74 calories with 0 (zero) calories from fat. 1 cup of strawberries = 49 calories with 4 calories from fat. 1 cup of carrots = 52 calories with 3 calories from fat.
:noway: You see how much you can eat, and your calorie intake might be similar eating all of those instead of the 1-oz corn chips, BUT your calorie intake from fat would be only 7 instead of 72!!!??? :noway: :noway: Hard to grasp. Even more important, how much BETTER NUTRITION will you get from the fruits and veggies.
Let us know how it goes and good luck!! Rebel 0 -
Did it & weigh 0.6 lbs less today so now my second 1 day challenge as too busy looking after aged parents to exercise today, back to normal the rest of the week though with my daily swimming.0
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Good Morning Girls :flowerforyou:
Its working:happy: I am down a lb and I am starting to feel like my old self again!
Renny Those FF are trigger foods for me you dont know how many times I caught myself going to grab a few ...
<<<mindlessly>>> :noway:
ONTO better choices!!0 -
Did it & weigh 0.6 lbs less today so now my second 1 day challenge as too busy looking after aged parents to exercise today, back to normal the rest of the week though with my daily swimming.
:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Awesome, fantabulous and wonderful! when I first did it I did one day/week. Now I am actually changing my habits and WANT to have fruits and vegetables every day, especially raw ones! Rebel 0 -
Good Morning Girls :flowerforyou:
Its working:happy: I am down a lb and I am starting to feel like my old self again!
Renny Those FF are trigger foods for me you dont know how many times I caught myself going to grab a few ...
<<<mindlessly>>> :noway:
ONTO better choices!!
:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Callie!!!! Congrats on the lb!! I hear you about the "mindlessly" eating. Talk to me girl. How many of us are queens of mindless eating
:grumble:
Yay for you, Callie. Onto better choices (I have that on my fridge) :bigsmile: Rebel 0 -
Good Morning Girls :flowerforyou:
Its working:happy: I am down a lb and I am starting to feel like my old self again!
Renny Those FF are trigger foods for me you dont know how many times I caught myself going to grab a few ...
<<<mindlessly>>> :noway:
ONTO better choices!!
:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Callie!!!! Congrats on the lb!! I hear you about the "mindlessly" eating. Talk to me girl. How many of us are queens of mindless eating:grumble:
Yay for you, Callie. Onto better choices (I have that on my fridge) :bigsmile: Rebel
You got there....:drinker:0 -
Good Morning Girls :flowerforyou:
Its working:happy: I am down a lb and I am starting to feel like my old self again!
Renny Those FF are trigger foods for me you dont know how many times I caught myself going to grab a few ...
<<<mindlessly>>> :noway:
ONTO better choices!!
:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Callie!!!! Congrats on the lb!! I hear you about the "mindlessly" eating. Talk to me girl. How many of us are queens of mindless eating:grumble:
Yay for you, Callie. Onto better choices (I have that on my fridge) :bigsmile: Rebel
You got there....:drinker:
Wow that made so much sense!
:laugh: What I ment to say was
You got it there with "How many of us are queens of mindless eating"
:drinker: to your "better choices" fridge motivation0 -
My 2nd day & lost another 0.8 lb so total in 2 days of 1.4 lbs !!!!!! Yayy am thrilled just sorry I have so many mouth ulcers at the moment that any eating is difficult.0
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