Pardon the lack of posts. Work is extremely demanding. Fun but long hours.
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29Aug
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24Aug
Consider rewarding your exercise by giving yourself gifts of equipment along the way.
Cyclist? You’d love a bike GPS.
Walker/runner? Go to a running store and get fitted up for the best shoes for you.
Gym rat? Gift yourself with some personal training.
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23Aug
Interesting new research in the category of “duh”.
As meat prices increase, people are generally not switching to meat analogs, because they don’t like the taste and variet available, and because their price is oftentimes increasing faster than that of meat (they may even cost more than the meat product they simulate).
Meat analogs are, y’know, veggie burgers, veggie turkey breat, veggie hamburger crumbles.
From my own experimentation they’re not bad, though often the less expensive ones have few nutritional advantages over meat.
A better idea for getting good nutrition while stretching your food budget is to use actual meat substititues. Particularly combos like beans-and-rice which give most of the nutritional goodness of each. If you use mostly meat substitutes, look into vitamin B12 supplementation, it’s inexpensive and effective.
Or switch up your favorite recipe by just leaving out the meat. A well-stuffed dagwood sandwich doesn’t suffer if you totally leave the meat out.
Or switch meats. Have your butcher grind a turkey breast while you wait, so you know what you’re eating.
If you do use meat analogs, some are better than others. Morningstar ribs are to die for, and there’s lots of extra sauce. Morningstar Grillers Prime are yummy, and the veggie ground beef-like crumbles substitute pretty well as long as they’re not the main feature of the dish.
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18Aug
LC’s are sort of like booze, if you don’t already partake, don’t start doing it for the health benefits cuz the downsides are major.
LC’s and WW frozen meals are intended to be served with a vegetable portion on the side. But if you’re eating out of the fridge at work, that’s tougher.
Grab a bag of prewashed cole slaw vegetable mix, or broccoli cole slaw, or shredded cabbage, or angel hair shredded cabbage. Dump a nice portion on your plate. Dump the reheated meal on top of that. Especially the WW’s have enough extra sauce to make it a pretty pleasant experience. You’ll get a couple servings or more of veggies and find a use for the extra sauce without trying to drink it out of the tray!
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17Aug
… or in one pot, or in your rice cooker, or crock pot …. nice general resources on low-effort cooking.
http://lifehacker.com/5614388/master-the-art-of-low+effort-cooking
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15Aug
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38311826/ns/health-cancer/
Beginning to get the picture? If it grew out of the ground, it’s great for you. If it had a mama, it’s good for you in reasonable quantity.
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13Aug
Having spent the week writing evaluations for employees, the thought occurred to write one for ME.
Then to write one for GOD. Then to write what God would write for ME.
Then for my WEIGHT CONTROL.
Try it!
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12Aug
Like cookies? Can’t resist if there are dozens of them lying around? Make up the batter, then cook just one cookie at a time in just a minute on your waffle iron.
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10Aug
It’s Saturday, you’re off work, do you still need coffee to get going in the morning even if it’s later than your weekday start time?
Do you get really irritable before your coffee?
If so, think about cutting back.
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08Aug
Yes yes yes yes yes.
ONE. per DAY.
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07Aug
Get a package of brown paper lunch bags, and a jar of popcorn. Orville is our friend.
Put a half cup of popcorn kernels inside a bag, and fold it over twice. Don’t secure it with anything else.
Pop it.
There it is. No oil at all.
Add whatever you want. Chili seasoning is my friend.
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06Aug
That’s the title of an irritating but interesting little story book for adults.
Basically, the mice kept coming to the place in their maze where they cheese USED to be, long after the free food supply had quit working for them (there’s lots of sub-parables along with that main parable but that’s the gist of it).
I can relate! Let me ask you, are there weight loss methods that worked great the FIRST time you lost a lot of weight, but don’t work this time? Certainly. The first time there’s huge optimism and a spirit of adventure, and you’re getting to buy all new clothes in sizes you never dreamed of. But the next time through, you’re trying to get BACK where you were, and the only way I can express it is that it’s a feeling of Suck.
But …
What if you turned that around and said, this time I’m in it for great health and enjoyment of my life, and the weight loss is a great side benefit of eating just what I need, as part of my overall transformation project of learning to really live the life God intended for me?
Would be great!
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03Aug
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01Aug
Could be the 60-40 beef ….
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31Jul
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30Jul
Losing weight is hard. Being overweight is hard. Choose your hard.
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29Jul
One of the top 5 questions we receive..
Here are some possibilities.
1. Your health is such that you don’t have a year to lose each 100 pounds, and you need to drastically speed up. Your doctor is your very best friend there.
2. You initially under-estimated the weekly rate of loss. I did too. It’s ok. If you’re not in #1 above, you have the time. You didn’t sign up for the passage of time, you signed up for the weight loss, and if it’s happening, it’s happening.
3. You’re backtracking through the same lost and found weight. There are a large number of reasons for that … but so far everyone we’ve talked to has already known what happened and how to fix it.
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28Jul
In one hour. I like to use thinly sliced cumbers and onions, mixed, as one great combo.
This recipe is not for long-term storage, but for fresh pickled any vegetable.
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27Jul
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26Jul
If it’s just a few pounds and it’s gone in a few days, don’t even worry about t.
But if it’s long-term weight gain, you’re overfilling your gas tank based on the fuel you need to get through the day. You could eat somewhat less or move somewhat more or preferably, both.
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24Jul
It’s here! The 30 or so days of massive quantities of cheap, fresh, great vegetables arrive at the grocery. Stock up … eat up …. enjoy it while it’s here. Oh wait, you’re saying. Your grocery is like that every day of the year, just that it costs a little less right now. Great … you can participate all year long.
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