Starting now. T25 kettle bells, chicken, cabbage, water

concordancia wrote: »

Do you hate yourself?

I have done enough inner work that food does not equate love in my book... Do you feel a lot of junk food denotes aiuthentic self love? mystified

Posting here lookng for:

-People doing similar exercise : T25, kettlebells, JustDance, :Yoga, etc
-people eating healthy as a general rule and already over the cravings / self control battles for the most part

(based on the *very brief* phrases I posted as an idea above)

To connect with.

All irrelevant posts and timewasters being ignored, with all due respect. My time is precious.

Thanks!

Hello, all

Thank you for taking the time, all of you, to comment and share your views.

I love this MFP community where I learn so much from so many threads with many diverse opinions and views, and I love the spirit of everyone sharing their 2 cents.

Much appreciate all the input on my thread, from everyone. A lot of useful perspectives and information.

I posted from the phone, and don't like typing on a phone so I was probably really brief.

I agree that what I posted does seem a bit gloomy and restrictive.

My diary is public and I log everything, btw and I do welcome feedback.

At that time I'd just hit upon cabbage soup; I make bone broth daily for the health benefits, and my own kombucha, sauerkraut, kimchi, kefir etc as well, and I love smoothies (assorted veggies and fruits, usually carrots beets and greens, with some kombucha for flavor and the prebiotic-probiotic combo and fresh vitamins).

So I thought, veggie soups are filling and I have the bone broth, so I"ll make cabbage soup daily.

What I do is make the bone broth, then add grated/chopped veggies, usually cabbage or other stuff. A cup of this is healthy filling and low calorie.

For variety I add different spices or condiments and different veggies each time, and sometimes eat it with kimchi, sometimes with sauerkraut.

For protein I might add cottage cheese, chicken, or chopped liver (Weston A Price recommends offal for various nutritional benefits), chickpeas, sprouted mung beans, or whatever is on hand.

For minerals I have seaweed (the kind you rehydrate, a variety of seaweed in one bag)

For breakfast it can be eggs or oats. Usually cooked a different way each time, boiled, poached etc. The oats I add chocolate or chopped nuts of fruits or, like I found recently on MFP, the pumpkin oats bowl, etc.

My kefir shakes usually do have some fruit / honey. Vanilla kefir, strawberry kefir, orange kefir, so many wonderful options!

I use full fat milk as I know especially women need to have healthy fats. I also take black seed oil daily in my morning lemon tea. I start the day with a date and hot lemon tea, pre breakfast, for detox and energy. I have peanut butter for so many different uses, too.

I;m continually varying and adding to the diet. For example, I generally buy several trays of chicken drumsticks, marinate and freeze, leaving a few in the fridge. These can be steamed or boiled in maybe 10 minutes, and my daughter and I eat these often. Can vary what we eat it with yogurt, ketchup, bread, veggies, etc.

I had marinated fish trays in the fridge for a couple of weeks. Right now it's chopped liver as well.


3plus litres of water keeps me happy so I am working on staying there (when I lifted weights 1hour + a day 6 days a week on the Jamie Eason plan, I was easily drinking 4.5 + litres of water daily)


When lifting at the gym I used to make Jamie Eason's awesome muffins (chicken muffins, almond/cocount flour muffins, with protein powder etc). So we'd bake lots of muffins on the weekend and one was sufficient for a meal, so it was just take and go (finished fast, though with two kids in the house!)

I have a scale but not very OCD or measuring much right now.


I suppose by keeping it simple I mean having such staples as I described above, prepping in batches, and varying the meals with condiments and sides and changing up what we take out of the freezer that's already marinated. Chickpea cans are so convenient (for the record my brother in law was super obese with a very important corporate job and before marrying my sister he lived on chickpeas hiked and basically worked with a dietitan to reach an awesome physique. It was mainly chickpeas to keep it simple and manageable, though I'm sure there was other stuff too.)

I"ve made hummus with these, which has yet more ways it can be used for variety.

So around these staples we do have a lot of variety, but having regulars makes it easy to plan and put together a meal, which saves time. Getting complicated makes it harder to stick to things.

I do love cabbage / veggie soup as it's healthy and delicious and quick to make.


Though I am not very much doing numbers right now, as I did before calculating every little thing, I am gradually finetuning all aspects and not over obsessing.

As for rest days, I have Sundays off; 6 days T25 and of those days I'll be introducing kettle bells three alternate days as I rebuild condition after being away from working out a while. Rest day is for yoga, which I love so much.

Down with fever for a few days, so implementing this stuff after a short break with T25.

No supplements or protein powder right now, except ALA, I used to take a whole lot and I will build that regimen up too, but organically, with time, as and when suits, as I work from home and want my focus on work.

So I guess the initial post may have seemed extreme, but I assure you aI am not living on cabbage soup only

Thanks for the feedback, all, and best of luck on your journeys!

Blessings