Eating healthy, not losing weight

BalletNot wrote: »

Are you taking B vitamins to support your metabolism since you are vegan? You absolutely must take a B vitamin supplement, since your body does not create B vitamins, and they are only found in animal products. Also, consider the nuts etc; I'd have to look at your recipes in detail, but I'd be very surprised if they truely were under 1000 calories.

I take prenatal vitamins along with B12 and iron. Though my blood work has never come back in lacking of any vitamins. My almomd milk is 1:8 ratio, then I continue to add water to the pulp and milk it until I have barely any pulp left. It's not an exact science due to the process of remilking. My cashew dressing is 1/2 c cashews, 1/2 pk soft tofu (5 oz), 1 c water, garlic, lemon, and seasoning.

CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »

sodaceratops wrote: »

I don't mind staying with him while he sleeps, he finds comfort in it and I like being off my feet for a bit. I think he'll stop wanting me to lie with him when he no longer needs it. And if thats not the case, then so be it.

I'll do the note pad suggestion. That's easier than whipping my phone out and searching for the food. I find that this app had a lot of varying nutritional value for foods, I'm never sure what to go with... I often spend a lot of time checking different sources to find the most accurate facts. I've still not been able to find accurate nutrition facts for homemade almond milk or the pulp left over, it varies greatly.

for the milk you can weigh the almonds and all the ingredients separately,weigh it and separate anything thats left over(aka not used) weigh again and then write it down and plug it into the recipe builder. that way you have your own recipe with the calories and nutrition info.as for foods in the database,you can cross reference with food packaging or the USDA(if in the us). you can then choose the correct entry/edit the entry or make your own.

From what I've read online, there's no accurate statements on what goes into the almond milk, such as how much of the fat, carbs, and protein is left in the milk and how much is left in the pulp. I can only assume that most of the fat is retained in the milk and most of the carbs are left in the pulp. As for protein, I have no idea where most of it would end up. To go by your suggestion, weighing it all and weighing what's left, I'd have to take into account the soaking process (how much the almonds weigh when dry and how much they weigh after soaking) as well as the fact that the macros in the pulp would not be the same as dry regular almonds. I would have to dry the pulp to weigh just what's left minus any water retained in the pulp.

It's quite a bit of effort and time that I don't have amd knowledge that I'd don't have. I was never good at science.

BalletNot wrote: »

Hey, you can disagree if you want on how I calculated the calories - that is 100 percent up to you. However, keep in mind the less "pulp" left, the more ground up almonds are actually in your milk. I know when I was routinely drinking smoothies with homemade almond milk, mine were around 450, so you're still low for a smoothie. The thing is, if you were calculating correctly, and if you were eating 1000 a day, you would be losing weight.

Also, good on you laying down with your babe. my little guy is 3 months and his sister 3.5 years. She is "too grown up" for mum in bed, enjoy those baby snuggles while they last xo

Yeah, I'm definitely doing something wrong with my calculations. I'd like to have more accurate nutrition facts for the foods I consume, but alas. I'd like to just go by what's in the app but say my almond milk is 100 calories less or more per cup than what is stated on here, I'd be drinking 400 calories less more than wanted. Neither would be good. If only store bought almond milk didn't contain so many additions... it makes my mouth feel like slime.

Babies are great, aren't they!