🌿 Get Your Greens Spring Challenge! 🌻

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  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 604 Member

    Pulled pork chili vegs with small dumpling

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  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 3,321 Member

    Ooo that looks so good!

  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 3,321 Member
    edited May 6

    Tuesday ci!

    • Citrus Mint juice (orange, cucumber, spinach, mint, yacon root, lime, lemon - Raw Generation)
    • 1/2 plantanos maduros
    • 1/2 Beans, Please! arepa (Arepa stuffed with cheese, black beans, corn, pico de gallo and topped with avocado, chicken, spicy green sauce (a pesto-ish type deal) and 'aho?' sauce? a garlicy mayo type deal)

    Monday ci!

    • Glow Green juice (Apple, Kale, Lemon, Ginger - Raw Fountain)
    • 1.5 bananas
    • pecans
    • walnuts
    • brazil nuts
    • diced dried fruit mix
    • tiny half size Raw Generation 'pink sipper'. Don't actually know what was in it, lol. Tasted strawberry-y, or maybe watermelon-y, tho :p
  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 604 Member
    edited May 7

    Yum @mkksemail - wondering what you mean Monday 'ci'?

    Shopping score of the weekend was mangos, so fresh to enjoy and will freeze up the extra after I get them ripened a bit. Pups were rock hard.

  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 3,321 Member

    oh, sorry, I was just shorthanding 'check in' :)

    ooooo, fresh mangos ! I tried to cut/eat a hard mango once. NOT fun. lol

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 604 Member
    edited May 7

    CI ok, good, not another food I need to try! Lol

  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 3,321 Member

    lulz !!! Xx

  • SafariGalNYC
    SafariGalNYC Posts: 2,097 Member

    morning!!! 🌞

    nose to the grindstone here with work and diet!

    Love those photos @yakkystuff @mkksemail - I needed to see that for energy & inspiration!

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    Grilled Salmon, greens tomato..

    Early morning at the office.

    kale salad and chicken w curry cauliflower on the menu for office lunch!

    🌻

  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 3,321 Member

    Oooooo, loooks spectabulous !! :)

    I love the way you fuel for high stress/nose to the grindstone, SG !!

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 604 Member
    edited May 7

    Looks fresh & delish!

    Used rest of pulled pork & vegs with quinoa in soup for lunch.

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    And a bit much pepper - kachoo!

  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 3,321 Member
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    Yes it does look fresh and delish, yakky!!

    Wednesday ci! I had a Hogwarts challenge that included making food from Great Britain, so I made Beans on Toast :p. (I love Beans! and srsly, guys, Trader Joe's has killer bread. So. Damn. Good.) I added (olive-oil) fried (charred, like I like 'em!) diced tomatoes, and eggs. UK says 1 serving of Beans counts for 1 of the Five a Day :D. The diced tomatoes def count!

    Will be having a green juice and nuts later, too.

    Oh, added an additional 'Sweet Greens' juice for a late night snack, last night, too.

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 604 Member

    Now I wants beans & grilled stuff!!! LoL

    Lunch - stirfry vegs, chicken & salmon

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  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 604 Member

    Lunch leftover stirfry on salad bed with chicken breast - mustard garlic ranch dressing

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  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 3,321 Member
    edited May 13

    Hi Greenie Team!

    I was out of town for funeral and celebration of life for a beautiful matriarch this past weekend. Back yesterday, but wiped out today! I did get some freg in while gone - but I was in NY so I also fit in some NY pizza and bagel in, too! (ofc ;-) )

    Celery juice on deck today, so far (Raw generation, Morning Celery Juice -celery,lemon). We'll see about dinner. Will make sure there's some freg in the mix. Xx

    Loving those pix, yakky!!!

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 604 Member
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    Condolences - glad you could go. Take extra good care this week (hugs)

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 604 Member
    edited May 14
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    Watched Julia Child episode - Idea - Imagine. Imagine this as a bowl of liver pate. Saute onions and garnish top of bowl along edge with a ring of saute onions.

    Could use that in so many ways - over anything dense - with hummus, refried beans, chili, stew. With other vegs included such as peppers, a mire poix or sofrito - pretty and tasty in my imagination. Drooling! lol

  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 3,321 Member
    edited May 14

    Sharing my Freggie Focus / Annual physical & 6-mo checkup & labs victory - thank you, Greenie Team!!

    I had my annual physical today. Doc is very pleased with improvements in labs, from focusing on freggies. A1C now normal, chol now normal, metabolic panel looks great, TSH normal, too. Triglycerides just above normal. I've never had a Triglycerides high reading until last Nov. Eight days post-covid infection, they were double the previous 125s. Somewhere in the 250s. This one was 166 (high threshold is 150). She didn't seem too worried. Next labs in a yr, instead of 6 mos 👍.

    Now I just have to marry my freggie focus to trying to stay inside calories again. I stopped worrying about calories while I was focusing on quality of food intake.

    Doc said you can be healthier while or heavy if your food quality is high, than you are if you're normal weight and your food quality is low - and my labs are telling the story of focusing on freggies all fall and winter, she said! Yay :)

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 604 Member

    Wow wow, wonderful!

  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 3,321 Member

    Thanks, yakky! I'm very proud of my accomplishment. She wanted to put me in statins last May! I had follow-up labs & checkup last Nov. A1C was down then, from 5.8, to 5.7. But not normal yet (5.6 is the threshold). I did stabilize chol by Nov. A1C joined it today. And she was very pleased with the he metabolic panel, too! :)

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 604 Member

    That's really great results - and - motivating! You are so close!

  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 3,321 Member
    edited May 15

    Sorry, my text wasn't clear - in Nov, the chol had normalized, the A1C came down a pt, but not yet normal. This week (May), the chol was down further (so, still normal), and the A1C came down 4 more pts, putting me 3 pts into the normal zone! :) So, I normalized both!

    Also, Thursday (so far!) ci ~ banana, and hazelnuts. Really need to bank some green today if I'm going to make my Hogwarts Unbreakable Vow of 4x/wk for green freggie servings!

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 604 Member

    Even better, tickled for you

    Another chopped salad for lunch with a handful baby green spinach torn and tossed in.

  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 3,321 Member
    edited May 15

    Turkey, apple, and cheese sammie, with mustard, on Trader Joe's bread.

    And 50/50 Spinach Spring mix greens, with dried mixed berries, walnuts, and coconut vinegar.

    I took a pic, but I'm on my android phone right now, can't upload direct from phone. Boo.

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 604 Member
    edited 3:46AM

    I didn't take a pic, but I am on a cauli-mxed veg stir fry kick. Tonight, afded cup torn baby spinach, with salmon and an orange.