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Poached eggs instead of fried can save 100 calories!
I love the runny yolks of fried eggs on something crunchy. Today's breakfast crunchy was a pair of potato hash-brown patties. To save calories of the fat for frying eggs, I decided to search "how to poach eggs" online, found simple instructions and had a very tasty result with 100 saved calories by avoiding the tablespoon…
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Your ring sizes go up and down.
As I lose weight and exercise, my wedding ring threatens to fall off. Other times, water retention keeps it almost too tight. A great solution is a $5 ring size adjustment kit that has spirals of various sizes that you can cut to length and easily add or remove. I've had mine for years and I've yet to use up the supply!
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I live in a seniors' community with people over 100 I envy!
I'm 73 and have been overweight since puberty. I know how to lose weight and how to eat well doing it. What I lack is stick-to-it-iveness. Being heavy is affecting me adversely and if I want to be happy and healthy in my 90s and beyond, I need to clean up my act. I've been in limbo being hubby's caretaker but he's now…
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Introducing myself for the umpteenth time! I'm an old fart named Heidi.
Yup, I'm back. I first joined mfp many-many years ago. I'm now 73 years old and I've weighed a hundred pounds or more too much for years. Unfortunately, for the last several years I've been living in limbo. Hubby had a stoke followed by lots of stuff that meant I was his caretaker and my role was, I thought, externally…
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Weather question.
Columbia, SC. August 16th. 1 o'clock in the afternoon. 66 degrees F. WTF??????
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A1C NSV (although the scale had something to do with it)
My A1C had snuck up past 9 back in early May. I've been watching my calories, keeping my carbs under 40%, and exercising since. My A1C as of this week's blood test is back down to 6.5! Again proof that another of those things that are improved by eating less and moving more are improved by eating less and moving more. Sigh.
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Vaccine or Vaporwear?
I've been thinking about the supposed vaccine that supposedly works 90% of the time for one week and needs a supply chain (that no one is really working on) that will keep it at -100F (-70C) and will require two shots 3 weeks apart and for which we have only a press release and the word that keeps coming to mind is…
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A Month-long Plateau of My Own Making
I have been on a month-or-so long plateau of my own making. I was losing consistently at about 1.5 pounds per week. Then I got sloppy. Sloppy about keeping an accurate log, sloppy about whether to exercise or not, sloppy about snacking, just sloppy. I'm still weighing daily to keep myself honest but I need to get my mojo…
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NSV: 5k!
Me 'n' my upright walker did a full 5k walk today! I've been working up to it and finally made the full distance today! Yay!!
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Eye opening article in Jy 25 2020 New Scientist about undocumented micronutrients
I know we know little about nutrition compared to what there is to know, but a recent article in New Scientist talked about efforts to identify and quantify some of the thousands of undocumented chemicals in what we eat. They describe a database building effort that lists 70,000 nutritional compounds in some foods, more…
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H1C from 9 to 6.5 in three months.
Three months ago, my doctor got my attention by telling me my H1C had leapt up to 9. I hauled out a dusty glucose monitor and discovered my blood sugar was in the mid-300s. Since then, I've been losing weight at about 1.5 pounds/week and lost 25 pounds so far. I've also started exercising 5 to 6 days per week. And,…
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Chocolate drink with hardly any calories - ground cacao brewed like coffee
I know July/August is really no time to think about hot cocoa but I just tried Crio Bru Brewed Cacao. I suspect there may be other brands available but I read about this somewhere -- don't remember where. It's cocoa beans roasted like coffee and ground. You brew it like coffee in a French press and it makes a tasty…
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Inexplicable plateau? Perhaps not.
I'm skating in circles on a plateau. Too hot to go walking; too lazy to exercise indoors. Eating too close to my max calories; going over some nights after the diary is "closed. Oh, dear! How do I ever end this plateau? First one to say "Eat less, move more" gets a kick in the teeth -- as soon as I get a horse and train it…
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100 calories of Oreos versus 100 calories of guacamole
I've spent too much time online reading about food so I need a snack or I'll go crazy. There's a 100 calorie pack of Oreos (2 cookies) in our snack basket. There are 100 calorie single servings of guacamole in the fridge. I considered the Oreos. I even took them back to the living room. Then I thought, will they satisfy my…
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The Pandemic Pixie?
After contemplation of alternatives and a risk benefit analysis, I took some sewing scissors and a brown paper bag into the bathroom and emerged a few minutes later sporting what we will now call "The Pandemic Pixie."🤪
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My upright walker makes walking for exercise possible again
I fly around the local sidewalks using my upright walker. It has made walking for exercise possible again! Bear in mind, I'm pushing 70 y.o. Between being sedentary and obese, having scoliosis, totally lacking core strength, untrustworthy knees, ... walking became painful. Walking is an enjoyable exercise for me. For a few…
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Got to tell the Dr. I lost weight
Gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling today to let the doctor know I lost 26 pounds since the last time I saw him.
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If your scale is acting funny, check it's feet.
My electronic scale has been behaving weirdly. I finally looked it all over carefully. The area around one of its feet is cracked and some is missing. Since it uses all four of it's feet to balance and determine weight, of course it was getting confused! So, check for broken feet on a misbehaving scale.
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Can't be me! Danged electronic scale won't budge!
I was experiencing this lovely WHOOSH. Pounds were falling off and pooling around my feet -- even with occasional, reckless, off-diary snarfing. Then it stopped. I'm behaving now but it stopped. A gazillion (okay three) days ago the scale picked a weight it liked and stuck there. I tried to break the scale of the habit. I…
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Oh, arithmetic!!! I'm losing "too fast"
I'm seeking some advice as I consider the arithmetic to raise my daily calorie intake a bit. Okay, so for the last 6 weeks, I've been losing steadily at 1700 to 1750 calories per day at the rate of 3.5 pounds per week. I've gone from totally sedentary to walking a little over a mile most days, pushing a walker, slowly so…
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Back a month, lost 12 pounds, fasting blood sugar in 130s
A little over a month ago, I got a scare when my increasing A1C was galloping upwards and my fasting blood sugar was in the mid-300s. No more fooling around for me. On to Jardiance and back to MFP it is. This morning my blood sugar was in the 130s (as the endocrinologist said we should aim for) and I've lost 12 pounds.…
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Con to fast weight loss: Gall Stones
Another strike against VLCD, big calorie deficits, and trying to rush losing weight. If one loses weight too fast, the liver can create excess bile that can lead to gall stones. Many of us already have asymptomatic gall stones which are only found through scans for other reasons. I recently found out I do. So, how to avoid…
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Sweet dessert induces snacking -- for me.
I was reminded again yesterday. I saved up plenty of space in my food diary for an enormous chocolate chip brownie that arrived with supper. No problem. Carbs fit. Calories fit. No problem. ... except for a couple hours later when I was ravenous. 500+ extra calories of smoked cheese and roasted pecans later, I was sated…
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Frozen Turkey Meatballs - high protein lowish carb
While casting about for a quick snack, stumbled over a bag of Perfect Cooked brand turkey meatballs. Need only 1 minute in the microwave. Relatively high protein, low carb -- I won't mention fat if you don't.
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Looking for Erickson residents (ideally Linden Ponds)
I'm a new resident at Linden Ponds (an Erickson community) and am hoping to find other MFPers dealing with the meal plan, fitness center, etc. I figure we could pool ideas for using MFP effectively with our stuff here.
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Hint for new & lazy cooks: Google "sheet pan dinners"
Was reminded of the terminology for this as I cook tonight's supper: sheet pan dinners. You prepare the ingredients, throw them on a sheet pan and bake them. If you line the sheet pan with foil you've made it even easier to clean up. Tonight, we're having a sheet pan dinner of pork, potatoes and squash in a Greek marinade…
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A hemi-demi-semi-NSV
My stretchy blue jeans are baggy and don't want to stay up with keys, phone, wallet in the pockets, even fresh out of the dryer. I ordered new a size down, which is actually two sizes down because each fits a range, but its a little too tight. I do KNOW, however, that those new jeans will fit fine in a few weeks.
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Chewing more -- are you changing how fast you eat? Did it work?
The mindfulness craze has me thinking about how I eat. I'm ready with a second bit on the fork before I've fully chewed and swallowed the first. I eat fast. I look down at the plate and wonder where the food went. So, I'm trying now to eat more mindfully. I'm trying to notice each forkful and fully chew and swallow before…
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Sodium rant
I'm sick and tired of the frequently stated belief that you don't need to worry about sodium unless you have high blood pressure. Arguably, all of us, especially those of us who are overweight, should limit our sodium intake because doing so not only lowers blood pressure but helps prevent the development of high blood…
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Calories and sodium in turkey stock -- a conundrum
I have a bunch of turkey necks, parsley stems, peppercorns, and bay leaves simmering away in the oven becoming turkey stock. Who knows how many calories or sodium it will have? Arguably, no one. Looking online you find everything from 86 calories a cup to 17. The 86 is likely from the one listing in the USDA database for…
