DebbsSeattle Member

5’4”…began at 231 October 27, ‘22. Now at 202.8 this morning, Jan 14, ‘23. We eat balanced, best described as Mediterranean diet & clean eating if it needs a label. We try to only eat whole food, organic when possible, we don’t eat out. Try to keep our sodium equal to our calories each day since his open heart surgery.…

Protein powder…we have been using since Mr. had open heart surgery Oct 21. We researched a lot…began buying Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides. Dissolves completely, almost without stirring in hot coffee or tea. Also dissolves in yogurt leaving no grit in the texture. Available at Walmart in the pharmacy area of nutrition…

For everyone losing weight wanting to avoid saggy skin, we will all respond differently but basic good practices for skin and body health are: Drink plenty of water, stay hydrated, eat water rich fruits and veg. Moisturize from the inside also with healthy fats…olive, avocado, grape seed, flax, coconut oil. Keep the…

Loose skin will result from weight loss. It can sometimes be minimized, mitigated, or managed. How long have you been overweight? How overweight were you? How old are you? What did you eat? What do you eat now? If you want to dive deeper in a knowledge quest start reading up on collagen production. Our bodies do it well in…

Wasa crackers with hummus, or hummus and sardines Or Wasa crackers and liverwurst

Club soda, lime juice, vodka, no ice in a chimney. Have one switch to no vodka. 97 calories with vodka, basically zero calories without. Both versions look the same. Other is gin and diet tonic (both zero calorie and 5 calorie tonic exist). Same thing…lime juice, no ice in a chimney. Switch to tonic only…looks the same.…

My mom always told us, “if you don’t like it, don’t eat it, cook your own”. We ate it. You are choosing to make healthful changes. Skinny people can be sick too from eating all that Cra.p food. My neighbor is super tiny and cute with her 100# frame…just diagnosed as pre-diabetic because she eats processed sugar carb based…

I began buying tinned sardines. Walmart has $0.99 Great Value sardines in water…ton of protein, super good for you, low cost, 100 calories per tin, a fish serving and so yummy on Wasa crackers with homemade lowfat hummus. Match that with easy to transport, three year shelf life, can live in a desk drawer at work, needs no…

I use my scale religiously. Last night Mr. decided to treat me and cook dinner. Chicken Marsala. I walked in the kitchen to see him drop 3 tablespoons of butter in the pan and follow up with the olive oil inverted and giving the butter a pool to swim in. I asked him if he was making healthy Marsala. He said yes…he cut the…

Meal ideas to give you a template to start on. Upon waking…8 ounces lemon water with any am medication. Breakfast meal idea…Egg, poached…1/2 cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt…Clementine orange…1/2 cucumber…small bread toast slice with hummus or avocado smear (or) 1/4 cup (dry) steel cut oats with flax seed and 1/2 teaspoon…

Day 67…down 24#…still just logging in my foods to worry about calories. Making healthy good choices naturally helps me meet my macros. Simply trying to fit 5 food groups into each of three meals at 500 or fewer calories each meal will guide you and a widely varied diet helps get all the vitamins and minerals in the mix.…

I noticed feeling better within 5 days of starting. Maybe try bite sized goals to motivate from within. Today, drink your water and log everything in your diet…see where you are really blowing it. Tomorrow, do a fruit and veg shop and take the trigger foods out of the pantry and stop them by the food bank. Keep making…

I love routine also. Today, just make one big change. Drink your water instead of “X”. And weigh and measure everything and log it. See where you are at really in habits. Tomorrow, go for a fruit and veg shop and set yourself up for success. (Walk a loop through the store first for extra steps). Next day, eat veggies at…

I am not and never have been a pills and powder girl. In fact I have never been a vitamin taker. However, when I am following a caloric reduction diet, I do take a multi vitamin and now with age and pains of 52 years, I added glucosamine sulfate and hyaluronic acid. I want to make certain my blood has balanced vitamins and…

I have been a bad water drinker for…well forever. I have chosen coffee, tea and wine historically. I can honestly say that drinking 8-12 glasses a day now…I feel better. I have less pain in my body. My weight loss progresses more quickly with good water intake. I have better breath and less body odors. My skin is more…

My soups are fickle…they can take bone broth or veg broth or a 50/50 broth. I like to save all my bone scraps and veg scraps in a ziplock in the freezer. When I fill the gallon baggie, I pull out the crock-pot, dump the scraps and add 8-10 cups of water and cook it all night. Strain it, cool it, pull off the fat. I have my…

I cannot remember what I commented on and I do not know how to see my history that you are commenting on. But we eat all the fruits that look good and are a decent price. We do not eat too much avocado due to Mr. being on Warfarin and avocado es having high Vitamin K that interferes with that drug. Everything in moderation…

I wish I could buy more cookbooks. If Mr. sees one more cookbook come in I’m going to be divorced. I have about 400 plus all my small magazine/special issue types in magazine boxes. Of course, I’m a good cook from the 30 years of self educating from said books…but that is why I’m on this journey to reclaim my physique.…

We enjoy tofu once a week as we try to scatter all the different proteins throughout our menus. Tofu is rather like a flavor sponge…whatever you put to it or put it in…it picks up those flavors. I try to center meals around veggies. Enough veggies that we walk away full and have a few veggies left for use in breakfast or…

I wish I had known I would meet with success and taken before photos! I would tell newbies to track EVERY bite, measure every ingredient by the gram, and every meal before eating it. I cannot tell you how calories add up quickly and make you mad when you don’t log until after you ingest it. Shop the veg section first. This…

Don’t know if I have done this right or not. I’m a data freak. Love charts, graphs, analysis. I’m going to look into libra for sure!

Look at that success! Fantastic job. You are your own hero you know. Think back to a moment when you did not think it possible…now lock in to this new feeling of success and let it power you through to all the goals you set in front of you. Congrats!

Great job! I’m officially down that magic 10% as of this mornings weigh in. For me that is 23 pounds in 64 days. There is a mental struggle that takes place each and every day, moment to moment. You have fought the battle for 100 pounds! And you won. No easy thing to have done. I pray your momentum builds and continues…

I am also trying to maintain a 1200 calorie daily intake while eating a balanced diet of Whole Foods. I will allow my overages to go to 1500. My basal met rate is 2200. I have found that dairy needs to be fat free. My proteins need to be limited to lean sources including chicken breast, beans, 90/10 ground Turkey, tofu,…

How about trying to create the PERFECT daily menu on paper first. Make it balanced, nutritional, complete and as close to on the nose calorie wise. Then try eating it. For you a snack based eating plan might be better than full meals. Get your system on track with in taking and digesting food during all waking hours,…

My new favorite meal period…Wasa multigrain crackers (35 cal per)…sardines in water no salt (100 calories for my small can brand)…homemade no salt hummus from dried beans (75 calories for 50 grams) I add oil to it after I make it as my daily calorie allowance will allow, usually a teaspoon/5 ml per serving of varied oils.…

I think a great move for anyone is to “shake it up”. If you were a meal skipper then try 5 mini meals a day. If you ate constantly then try to minimize to scheduled meals only. If skipping breakfast leads to overeating at lunch then eat breakfast. And a great move for everyone is eating more veg…plain and raw,…

I too am hungry before the meal, eat, feel fine and then am “starving” after about an hour later. I believe it is because I’m eating right and my body is burning excess fat stores. I’m learning to enjoy that feeling as it usually indicates an “all new low” for my next morning weigh in. My body does feel content longer when…

Hello everyone. Deborah, Seattle, 52, married 16 yrs. My need to lose weight has not escaped my attention for the last 5 years. However, the dieting just did not sound like something I wanted to endure no matter how disappointed in my body I had become. We love cooking, we love dining (not just eating), we have aspired to…