amberellen12 Member

Forks over Knives The China Study - book The Blue Zone Michael Pollan - 3 rules advice

I won’t take dietary advice from a doctor. They only get around 4 hours nutrition training. Dietitian is where I would go. Also have you watched Forks over Knives?

Good input! I think I’ll give up complaining about people and stuff and only 3 beers 3X’s a week.

OSW - 199.9 FGW - 140.0 Need to lose - 59.9 Jan: -2.4 February SW - 185.0 GW - 179.9 Jan 28 - 185.0 Feb 4 - 184.6 Feb 11 -184.0 Feb 18 - Feb 25 - Feb lost so far: - 1.0

I love this! So true!

I think your age also depends. I’m in my early 60’s and aiming for 140. I worry about how much sagging skin I’ll have on my face if I go lower. I don’t want to look old and haggered.

OSW - 199.9 FGW - 140.0 Need to lose - 59.9 Total Lost so far -14.9 Jan -2.4 February SW - 185.0 GW - 179.9 Jan 28 - 185.0 Feb 4 - 184.6 Feb 11 - Feb 18 - Feb 25 - Feb lost - .4

I really agree with you about what excess weight does to our health and how carrying it around wears down our joints. Look at how many knee and hip replacements are being preform. That’s why CICO is so important and to make sure we eat the most nutritious foods for fueling our bodies.

Thank you ladies for your replies.👍 Right now I don’t have any major health conditions, except this excess weight 40 lbs, but at my age 61 I would like to keep it that way and not do anything that can cause a condition in the future. That’s why I’m so interested in what Dash allows for the daily sugar intake with diabetes…

That doesn’t make sense to me. With the intake of added sugars in everything so high why would they promote drinking juice that can spike your blood sugar. If that’s so then this isn’t a diet for me. I want to keep my blood sugar down.

I went and enter them in MFP and got: Orange juice 1 cup 20.8g Raisin bran cereal 1 cup 18g What does the dash diet recommend for your daily sugar intake?

Question... wouldn’t that be a lot of sugar? I was told by the hospital dietitian and all the reading I’ve done that we should keep our sugar down to 25g per day. That we would get from whole fruit. Wouldn’t the juice and raisin have a lot of sugar in them. I was told to eat the whole orange for fibre and not to drink…

I’m trying the dieting and stop drinking too. I’m rearranging my day so I’m busy at beer o’clock straight through to dinner. For some reason I don’t drink after I eat. 🤷🏻‍♀️

SW - 187.2 GW - 182.2 Jan 1 - 187.2 Jan 7 - 186.8 Jan 14 - 185.8 Jan 21 - 184.8 Jan 28 - 185.0 Down 2.2. I’ll take it! 👍

February SW - 185.0 GW - 179.9 Jan 28 - 185.0 Feb 4 - Feb 11 - Feb 18 - Feb 25 - Mar 4 - Thanks for sharing! 👍👍👍 Super easy even for someone as tech illiterate as I am!

Yes I have high BP and lab results weren’t good so it’s for health.

Me either.🤷🏻‍♀️ Starch is like a grain sugar is why I’m asking. I’m following the 1600 calorie plan though I’m at 1330 calories. I don’t have dairy... lactose intolerant so it brings the count down.

Oh I really like this eating plan! 👍Nice and easy to follow. My question is starch veg. Would you count them as a grain or veg?

Where are your vegetables?

I like beer and enter in my beers for the day - 3 in the morning. Then I eat what is left of my daily calorie allowance. But I’d rather not drink at all because it usually leads me to eat other unhealthy foods. 😧

SW - 187.2 GW - 182.2 Jan 1 - 187.2 Jan 7 - 186.8 Jan 14 - 185.8 Jan 21 - 184.8 Jan 28 - 185.0 Jan 31 - Still have 3 days... let’s see if I can drop .5 lb. 😂

I retired last March and I love owning all my time! Still in the middle of winter so not sure how this first year will end. But I’m so happy when I wake up in the morning after it has snow over night and I don’t have to go out and clean off my car and go out on the roads to work. I just snuggle under my blankets and have a…

SW - 187.2 GW - 182.2 Jan 1 - 187.2 Jan 7 - 186.8 Jan 14 - 185.8 Jan 21 - 184.8 Jan 28 - Jan 31 - So far so good. 👍😂

I just down loaded “My Weight” app. That I like very much.

I weigh daily so if it starts to move up I can nip it right away.

I’m like the other posters. One main goal but little goals along the way -1 lb per week goal.