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Whatever way you can find to reduce your calories, rock on!
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Good luck, low-sodium is an adjustment but it's doable. Heart stuff is super scary!
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One of the restaurants we stopped eating at completely was Olive Garden because HOLY CRAP even the breadsticks were salty!
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Some breakfast cereals are ludicrously high in sodium; there's also a surprising range in bottled salad dressings. We like Kroger's house brand, but the red pepper vinaigrette is super salty.
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I've been doing C25K for eight years (yes I know it's supposed to be an eight-WEEK program, life keeps getting weird) and I am almost at the point of running a whole 5K from being someone who Did Not Exercise Ever. There are other similar programs; I've heard good things about None to Run as being more gradual than C25K.
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The short answer: fewer prepackaged and fast foods, more cooking from scratch, finding alternative seasonings, and reading lots of nutrition labels. I've been low-sodium since '02 due to significant health issues; there's definitely an adjustment period and a learning curve.
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Now I'm thinking about homemade chocolate chip cookies... but also congrats, lookin' good!
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...and calories. Fewer calories in than out, regardless of fad diet or method.
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You are awesome, and so is your shirt!
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:D
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Where your weight "settles" isn't something you can change, and the less you have to lose, the slower it will come off. My whole family runs to pear-shaped--when we gain weight, it's mostly at or below the waist. Someone asked me yesterday how I'd lost weight in the last couple of years. When I told her "I ate less and…
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Losing weight happens when you take in fewer calories than you expend, so whichever way helps you accomplish that.
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What salt substitute do you use? I've tried the potassium-based ones and they taste terrible to me. I'm assuming the salt substitute technology has improved in the last fifteen years?
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No getting stuff pinched in the machines! :#
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We quite like Nature's Own for supermarket bread, and we also like to bake our own (giving ultimate control over the sodium!).
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I wear... wait for it... non-name brand clothes.
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"Processed" foods have nothing to do with cardiac health. In my case, I was put on a low-sodium diet (and I was 25 so bounced back pretty easily). The Cliffs notes: Read the labels carefully on packaged things like cereals (it's surprising how much salt they'll put in cereal), rice mixes, salad dressings, etc. Shrimp tends…
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10,000 calories is 10,000 calories. You might pee a lot more with the drink though.
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...or Inuits.
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That's what I think every time I hear/see one of those "eat X miracle food to lose belly fat!" BS claims. What about people who lived elsewhere in the world before we shipped things everywhere?
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We were there visiting family and one Sunday morning as we were driving the best thing on the radio was "Bigfoot Country Polka Party." Which included a polka version of "Ring of Fire." :#
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I heard Bigfoot lives in western Pennsylvania.
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People lose weight on a low-carb diet if it puts them below their maintenance calories.
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Off to check the peppers in the fridge for sea life, brb. ;)
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We let the dough setting of the bread maker do the kneading, then we take it out and bake it in the oven; we like the results better that way. We also have an Instant Pot and I love it. I made a fresh batch of homemade yogurt last night. My preferred can opener is the kind that unseals the lid rather than cutting through…
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I just finished draining last night's homemade yogurt, and we use the Instant Pot frequently for easy hard-boiled eggs. This has all pretty much been covered, but I also use it for cooking dry beans, making soup or chili, and making steamed puddings and cheesecakes. I'm planning to make butter chicken later this week.
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I don't like meat that's been cooked to mush either, but you can cook food to mush by any method. Learn how to use a pressure cooker correctly and you'll get better results.
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The no-salt bread we make at home tastes like bread.
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...but according to the NIH even a two-year-old needs a minimum of 1000 calories per day to be healthy so not a whole lot of variation.
