How many 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 did I eat?🙀
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Yum, pizza and cake fun. Was glad to hear her reception in travels was fun and warm.
Ok, lunch today crunchy cukes. Greens, green beans & asparagus, pepperoncinis, tangerine, craisins, mustard - calling it 4 bunnies :)
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That one keeps coming up :) - maybe we should make these personal decisions ? For me I don't count them because of the high calorie count and I'm trying to up my intake of other vegetables. But I think they are a great part of a healthy diet and if them being bunnies brings more into our lives they should be bunnies!
Okay. For the next big question :) Today I had a dill donut with two deep fried panko crusted dill pickle spears on it. (last day of birthday celebrations with a wonderful friend who is lean as a string bean and lives on donuts) Bunny????? 😉3 -
1 for the pickles
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From the op: 1 bunny = 85g of vegetables or fruits or 40g of dried.
So fruit counts
My food swap plan puts peas, corn and carrots with rice, grains, potatoes/squash and legume/beans and fruits.
We traditionally think of corn as a veggie...
But i would wonder why would a legume (plant) be excluded when corn is not?
We traditionally think of rice and oats as grains - not as a vegetable, but why exclude and then accept fruit?
All are plants sourced in natural states.
Potato chips from a bag? Probably not. Sugared cereals, um no. But Oats/oatmeal is more equivalent to rice, potatoes, corn and fruit.
Just some thoughts...
My craisins in my salad count, but not my garbanzos?
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I'm not sure why dried fruit counts to be honest. They are really up there on the calorie front? I don't count them - but I eat lots of fruit and veggies and am using this to bulk up my diet with low calorie foods rather than to achieve higher nutrient levels. I guess it depends on what your goal is????
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The only dried fruit I currently eat is 2 dates with PB in the morning. I would likely count them as they are an improvement to my diet.
Today will be a high bunny day with a salad for lunch and burrito bowls for dinner. Will likely have fruit as a snack too this afternoon (I have raspberries, watermelon, honeydew, or apples to choose from).
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You are on your way to having a great time at the happiest place on earth! No ride will be prohibitive. God up the good work Athijade!
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Yesterday's 🐇 where off in a greener field somewhere :)
🐇🐇🐇2 small apples & 1/2 English cucumber.
Today is starting much better though. Cupboards and fridge are in need of a refill…AND I was hungry. So opted for some large flake oatmeal - and to keep that a bit more under control on the calorie front added 1 very large (my standards, not PAV's) 🐇🐇 diced apple to the pot before the oatmeal and some spices. Made up half the oatmeal that I usually have :) and feel very satisfied. Bunnies at their full power :)2 -
Lunch chicken veg soup 2
Dinner chicken, veg 1.5
Today 3.5 bunnies
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So the bunnies started from the 5 - a day (veggies and fruits) from the UK and Australian food guides (and of course in other ones too… but at the time the UK and Oz were sort of talking about 5-a-day a bit more than the rest). Also there were some studies that showed better "outcomes" for people that were eating even more vegetables and fruits than 5 portions a day. In fact there were "better" outcomes shown when increasing from 5 to 8+ "80g" in some and "85g" in other portions of veggies and fruits a day.
Now. There was some level of concern with very high fruit counts but not with very high veg counts hence I mostly talk about veggies and fruits as opposed to fruits and veggies. The 40g of dried Laurie was part of the guidelines (the consideration of non starchy veggies was another). This was not strictly speaking a "calories" thing. it was more along the "variety of veggies and fruits thing while not unduly adding gratuitous calories".
Of course absolutely nothing stops us from refining this. But yes, the explanation of why grains and starchy veggies were not SUPPOSED to be included is as above. However at the same time I DID decide to include starchy veggies in MY count…because really, I could calories anyway and for health purposes there is nothing wrong with starchy veggies.
The absurdity of using the 5 a day or 8 a day or 99 a day thing and considering peas, carrots and corn to be the same is easily seen by checking out the numbers…. Peas and corn have WAY more calories than carrots or brussel sprouts. So yeah. Healthy combinations do not always mean low calorie and vice versa. Though I am fairly sure that ANY combination of peas, corn, and potatoes has less calories than cheesecake ;-)
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Yesterday's 🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇
3 clementines, 1 beet/blueberry/spinach/lemon smoothie, sauteed veggies for pasta
Strange eating day - but under calories (per "them") :)
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Who is them ???? 🤣
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Hey Laurie just remember that trying to calibrate these things especially if you have never done so before does take some time and there are several sources of inaccuracies around.
So you try for consistency and observe the results.... and then you keep going!
In any case, consistency is probably something good to strive for cause TBH it does SOUND as if most of the time you do just fine.... till you flip the switch and go "bananas" (but not with actual bananas, which would almost! be good in the situation!!!!)
Out of curiosity (and I don't know if you're going in that much detail or not -- or even if you want to) what are your current MFP settings and the approximate deficits you're hitting either daily or weekly? What is the Fitbit telling you?
Yoolly (and also myself when I get into more drugs🤯) may have increasing discrepancies from the population averages that Fitbit (and MFP) are based on
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“Yoolly (and also myself when I get into more drugs🤯) may have increasing discrepancies from the population averages that Fitbit (and MFP) are based on”
Meds come with side effects- not usually helpful in weight control. But what’s the alternative? A shorter life span or fight the fat. I’ve been on various short or long term maintenance drugs for years. It’s a trade off and something to work through.
Additionally simple aging is also a factor in weight control…. So you’re always juggling the numbers I guess.1 -
Hi PAV :)
"them" is the Fitbit/MFP alliance :)
I have MFP set to sedentary - lose 1 pound per week. My Fitbit is adding extra calories based on my activity that day. Nothing is really established yet this time around. I'm only on day 3. But this seemed to be close before - 2 plus years ago. I will have to let this run for a few weeks before I have an inkling of how accurate it is.I've only had two complete days. Monday I was 750 calories under the recommended calories. Tuesday 200 calories under.
Tuesday morning I was 3 pounds lighter :) I forgot to weigh myself this morning.
Knowing my body I expect to see significant loss for this first week and then it will settle down and I'll have a better idea of how accurately Fitbit/MFP are estimating my required calories?It is interesting learning how to eat sufficient calories if my day doesn't include high calorie snacks. It just feels like so much food. It is 7 pm here, I've just finished my second meal of the day (not counting breakfast clementines) and I still have a whole pile of calories to consume to get close to today's calories. And, I had very little sleep last night so I'm not sure how much more I'm going to want to eat before I go to be early.
Come May I'll probably have a better understanding of whether or not "they" are close :)
The drug thing really sucks :( I'm just finished 5 weeks of steroid eye drops - and they effect the body too! Increased blood pressure - sluggish overall feel. I wasn't tracking calories so I have no idea if there was any metabolism change - but it felt like there was.
I hope you can avoid this somehow. Wish Yooly could.2 -
We shall see. I can hope. Currently looks iffy 🤪
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Attitude perfect. Info gathering needed. Throw trendweight.com in the mix. And remember to breathe and adjust 🤪
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That’s me 😂 the one with the perfect attitude.
I do have trend weight set up it’s really funny right now because I haven’t weighed myself in a while so it’s giving me weird numbers. Soon it will all be in order.2 -
You go girl! / lady! :) (covering all the bases here!)
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Girl :)
I'm too old not to love Girl!
Yesterday = 🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇3 clementines, green soup, 1 banana
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Six broccoli and cauliflower onion bunnies in 600g of 50% butternut soup / 50% mushroom Knorr cube broth.... which, no matter what you guys think, actually tastes awesome! (especially with 34g of white bread buttered with 4.8g of whipped butter thrown in the bowl in little pieces!!!!)🤯😎
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Doesn't the bread just become little soggy balls??? or does the butter seal it?
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The idea is to eat delightfully delicious soggy balls! 🤪🤪🤪
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like little poorboy dumplings!!!
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/hGkYhFCza2T22q346
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Five apple bunnies! 358g (large ambrosia apple, diced up) plus 107g net weight of.unsweetened blueberry apple sauce.
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That looks good, PAV. What do you do for protein alongside this lovely bowl of deliciousness?
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Quite low right now at just 38g — which means that 0% magic greek yogurt will be called into service later tonight
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I'm working on boosting my soups. If I find any easy palatable ideas I'll share them :)
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