So I went to a wonderful retirement dinner last night that I made the goodbye cake for. Soft french vanilla cake, with chocolate moouse filling and buttercream frosting. I was soooooooooooooooooo looking forward to having a piece because I haven't had cake in soooooooooooooooooo long. When it came time to dole out the cake, I heard everyone "MMMMMM-ing" when they ate their pieces.
I was disappointed.
It actually didn't taste as good to me as cake has tasted in the past and I was worried the cake was lousy! But everyone else ate every piece, so I have no worries about that.
Have my sweet taste buds changed since I've been on this plan, was my first question. Since I don't indulge in tons of cake and candy anymore, has my desire and natural taste for things like this gone?
It's a double edged sword question, because I'd like to think that if my taste buds HAVE changed, that maybe the weight maintenance won't be so hard. I had the craving for the cake all week but when reality hit, I was not thrilled. This may bode well for my future.
On the other hand, if my taste buds HAVE changed, does that mean that other food will no longer be appealing - food that I should be eating like fruit that's sweet, or sauces.
We'll have to see what the future of my taste buds holds.
Here's a funny side story. Recently I had a conversation with one of my beautiful sisters-in law and she posed this question: if you could be told the exact date and time you would die, would you want to know? I said "yes!" immediately and she asked me why.
My response:" If I knew exactly when I was going to die I would stop dieting immediately and eat everything in every portion that I wanted, because it wouldn't make any difference in the long run to my health or how I looked.."
If that's not screwed up diet thinking I don't know what is!!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Fiber,Fiber,Fiber
I feel like I'm a nutritionist-wannabe! But here's some more foodie news that I think is worthwhile.
Researches from Tufts Universtity ( not exactly a slacker institution, so they must know that of which they speak!) analyzed the diet habits of a random 434 people. They found that those people who ate three servings of whole grains daily - mainly from morning cereals - had lower body mass indexes that those who didn't. Roughly 25.4 to 27.3. These people also had about 5% less fat around their bellies.
Whole grains are typically very fiber rich, so the researchers figure that the fiber in the cereal may pump up digestive hormones, which improve your sensativity to insulin, which in turn leads to reducing the amount of fat your store - esp. in the middle region of your body. The moral of this is that if you eat fiber rich foods, esp. whole grains in bread, cereals, pasta, you can reduce belly fat.
Now, as an aside to that, The FERGUSON plan I am on instructs you ONLY to eat whole grains in most of your fast cars. I have eaten no while flour foods since January 1 of this year. My weight loss aside, my stomach has definitely shrunken. It no longers looks bloated and even feels as if it is smaller. So the fiber issue is truly an important one.\
One adjunct to increasing fiber, tho, is that you have to drink more water to make sure you don't dehydrate yourself. I'm gonna let you fingure that one out by yourselves. I don't want to be TOO graphic here!
Moral of today's post: eat good cereal - I'm not taking Cap'n Chrunch here folks, but good cereals, like Cheerios, Wheaties, Raisin bran, those kinds, and switch to 100% whole grain bread. Be a lable detecetive to make sure your bread REALLY is whole grain. It must be listed in the first 2 ingredients and shouldn't say 'Made from enriched white flour.' That IS NOT whole grain!!
Researches from Tufts Universtity ( not exactly a slacker institution, so they must know that of which they speak!) analyzed the diet habits of a random 434 people. They found that those people who ate three servings of whole grains daily - mainly from morning cereals - had lower body mass indexes that those who didn't. Roughly 25.4 to 27.3. These people also had about 5% less fat around their bellies.
Whole grains are typically very fiber rich, so the researchers figure that the fiber in the cereal may pump up digestive hormones, which improve your sensativity to insulin, which in turn leads to reducing the amount of fat your store - esp. in the middle region of your body. The moral of this is that if you eat fiber rich foods, esp. whole grains in bread, cereals, pasta, you can reduce belly fat.
Now, as an aside to that, The FERGUSON plan I am on instructs you ONLY to eat whole grains in most of your fast cars. I have eaten no while flour foods since January 1 of this year. My weight loss aside, my stomach has definitely shrunken. It no longers looks bloated and even feels as if it is smaller. So the fiber issue is truly an important one.\
One adjunct to increasing fiber, tho, is that you have to drink more water to make sure you don't dehydrate yourself. I'm gonna let you fingure that one out by yourselves. I don't want to be TOO graphic here!
Moral of today's post: eat good cereal - I'm not taking Cap'n Chrunch here folks, but good cereals, like Cheerios, Wheaties, Raisin bran, those kinds, and switch to 100% whole grain bread. Be a lable detecetive to make sure your bread REALLY is whole grain. It must be listed in the first 2 ingredients and shouldn't say 'Made from enriched white flour.' That IS NOT whole grain!!
Friday, March 12, 2010
Protein,protein,protein.
Since starting the FOODLOVERSFATLOSS system, I have been ingesting alternate sources of protein in my daily diet through the use of Protein powder recommended by the program. Lately, I have noticed several changes in my skin, nails and hair that I think are directly related to increasing my protein. For several weeks, I have had to cut my nails at least two times a week, where as just a few months ago I could go for over a month and never even see a white line on them. In the past two weeks, several people have commented on how "good and healthy" my hair is looking,not to mention how long it has gotten in a relatively fast amt of time. I even had a patient ask me if I got hair extensions!! As for my skin, it just looks good. Enouch said.
This got me wondering. I didn't think I was a protein slacker before starting this program, but I probably didn't take in nearly the amt I needed each day.
The Harvard School of Public Health published a paper that says adults should get a minimum of 0.8 grams of protein per kilo of body mass, so roughly 65 grams for a 160 pound person. In the Us, the article states, we get about 15 percent of calories thru protein each day. If you take in 2000 cals a day, that's 75 grams of protein. Not bad.
Believe me, I know I got nowhere that amount before this!
All protein is not the same I learned too. A 6 oz porterhouse has 38 grams of protein and 44 grams of fat. Six ounces of salmon has 34 grams of protein and 18 grams of fat. Less than Half! That's quite a savings in the calorie dept. So even tho I love steak, I realize fish and beans are better, calorically, for me.
Veges and beans are a great source of protein for low calories, so I'm still waiting for those vege recipes from people!!
Try and figure out how many grams of protein you take in in a day and see if you make the basic requirements. If not, an alternate source might help.
WHo knows. Maybe you'll get compliments on your hair and skin, too!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Back to basics
Remember when your Mom told you to eat your vegeatables because there were starving people in 1. Boliva, 2. Asia, 3. Africa, 4. Haiti ( take your pick) and you said, "well, send them this stuff ( !) just so you wouldn't have to eat them??
I heard this refrain nightly growing up and still didn't eat my veges because they justed tasted lousy. Now granted, my mother was possibly the world's worst cook. Nothing was ever seasoned and she considered boiled carrots a delicacy, so my choices growing up to eat well and healthily were few and far between.
But even as an adult, I still have trouble choaking down some veges, broccoli being the most difficult. The only part of a salad I like is the lettuce or spinach used as a base. FOrget peppers, onions, tomatoes, and anything else you can add to it. I just eat the lettuce. Plain. No dressing.
I know, pathetic.
So I've really made a conscious effort to try to incorporate more veges into my diet. The easiest way to do it for me is to mask them. For instance, last night I made a quiche. It had spinach, and green and red peppers in it in addition to the eggs/egg whites and cheese.
Delicious. I've also included asparagus at times.
The idea of eating a carrot in its entirety gags me, but I like them finely shredded on and in salad at times. Yes, I will eat a salad with more than just lettuce!
Omelets are great for hiding veges, too. Vegetable lasagne is downright tasty!
One dinner favorite is baked eggplant on flat bread. Slice the eggplant really thin and lay it out on flat bread dough or even pillsbury rolled out crescents. Season with garlic/herb salt and baked until crispy. Love this!!
I know people have recipes they like that hide or - to use a better word "incorporate" -veges into them. Send some to me and I'll try them and post them here.
We all need to eat more veges. I never have a problem with fruit - but the vegggie eating is tough.
Help me!
I heard this refrain nightly growing up and still didn't eat my veges because they justed tasted lousy. Now granted, my mother was possibly the world's worst cook. Nothing was ever seasoned and she considered boiled carrots a delicacy, so my choices growing up to eat well and healthily were few and far between.
But even as an adult, I still have trouble choaking down some veges, broccoli being the most difficult. The only part of a salad I like is the lettuce or spinach used as a base. FOrget peppers, onions, tomatoes, and anything else you can add to it. I just eat the lettuce. Plain. No dressing.
I know, pathetic.
So I've really made a conscious effort to try to incorporate more veges into my diet. The easiest way to do it for me is to mask them. For instance, last night I made a quiche. It had spinach, and green and red peppers in it in addition to the eggs/egg whites and cheese.
Delicious. I've also included asparagus at times.
The idea of eating a carrot in its entirety gags me, but I like them finely shredded on and in salad at times. Yes, I will eat a salad with more than just lettuce!
Omelets are great for hiding veges, too. Vegetable lasagne is downright tasty!
One dinner favorite is baked eggplant on flat bread. Slice the eggplant really thin and lay it out on flat bread dough or even pillsbury rolled out crescents. Season with garlic/herb salt and baked until crispy. Love this!!
I know people have recipes they like that hide or - to use a better word "incorporate" -veges into them. Send some to me and I'll try them and post them here.
We all need to eat more veges. I never have a problem with fruit - but the vegggie eating is tough.
Help me!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Detoxing, Day 2
SO I did really good for 3/4 of the day yesterday. Stuck to all the liquid stuff, wrapped my head around the no reall food issues I wa shaving.
And then we went out to dinner after Church.
But it was okay because I had a spinach salad so no real diet blaster there.
Today, back on track.
I had my breakfast smoothie, substituting the vanilla protein powder with chocolate protein powder. Hey, if I have to fast, I'm incorporating as much chocolate as I can into the plan!
We'll be home today so I can be rally strict with this. No outside influences.
Detox/fasting is something that has become somewhat popular among the diet-illuminati of late. Taking food completely out of the equation and just sticking to a most liquid regimine - from a psychological viewpoint - is a pretty good thing. Without choice, I feel that I do better sometimes. Being told exactly what to eat(drink!), what time to do it, and in what quantity kinds of puts my in another plane headwise. I can follow any plan if it tells me those factors. I get into trouble when I have to choose from a myriad of possible food combinations. That's the biggest reason I think Weight Watchers finally started to fail for me. DOn't get me wrong - it's a great program, I was just at a level where it really wasn't getting me any results anymore. I had to many points to count, and combinations to come up with. I was always sweating either being over or under count and then thinking I had somehow failed.
It's funny that I like the stictness of a detox/fast, with no real substitutions or choices, when I'm the first person to say we should all have choices in life.
Go figure.
And then we went out to dinner after Church.
But it was okay because I had a spinach salad so no real diet blaster there.
Today, back on track.
I had my breakfast smoothie, substituting the vanilla protein powder with chocolate protein powder. Hey, if I have to fast, I'm incorporating as much chocolate as I can into the plan!
We'll be home today so I can be rally strict with this. No outside influences.
Detox/fasting is something that has become somewhat popular among the diet-illuminati of late. Taking food completely out of the equation and just sticking to a most liquid regimine - from a psychological viewpoint - is a pretty good thing. Without choice, I feel that I do better sometimes. Being told exactly what to eat(drink!), what time to do it, and in what quantity kinds of puts my in another plane headwise. I can follow any plan if it tells me those factors. I get into trouble when I have to choose from a myriad of possible food combinations. That's the biggest reason I think Weight Watchers finally started to fail for me. DOn't get me wrong - it's a great program, I was just at a level where it really wasn't getting me any results anymore. I had to many points to count, and combinations to come up with. I was always sweating either being over or under count and then thinking I had somehow failed.
It's funny that I like the stictness of a detox/fast, with no real substitutions or choices, when I'm the first person to say we should all have choices in life.
Go figure.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Detoxing
So I started the detox this am and I already miss food!!! Oh well. I'll give it a day or two and see if my resistance not to eat fortifies me onward.
With the detox you have to drink EVEN more than usual, which for me is now 12 - 8 oz things a day! So you can guess where I'm spending half my day. That's right.
In nursing school, back a 150 years ago, I remember learning the reasons for different urine colors. Bright orange if you ate asparagus ( and smelly!); reddish orange for hematuria; bright yellow if you were taking Pyridium. Normal urine should be slightly strawcolored, mostly yellow.
My is crystal clear!
There is absolutely no urea in my urine at all. It looks like I poured a bottle of Perrier down the toilet.
TMI?? Probably. But you get the drift.
I keep thinking I can feel my stomach shrinking - actually shrinking -throughout the day. Hopefully that's true and tomorrow I'll wake up able to fit into fitted trousers once again.
Hope springs eternal.
Off to detox.
(SOunds like I'm going to Betty Fords'!)
With the detox you have to drink EVEN more than usual, which for me is now 12 - 8 oz things a day! So you can guess where I'm spending half my day. That's right.
In nursing school, back a 150 years ago, I remember learning the reasons for different urine colors. Bright orange if you ate asparagus ( and smelly!); reddish orange for hematuria; bright yellow if you were taking Pyridium. Normal urine should be slightly strawcolored, mostly yellow.
My is crystal clear!
There is absolutely no urea in my urine at all. It looks like I poured a bottle of Perrier down the toilet.
TMI?? Probably. But you get the drift.
I keep thinking I can feel my stomach shrinking - actually shrinking -throughout the day. Hopefully that's true and tomorrow I'll wake up able to fit into fitted trousers once again.
Hope springs eternal.
Off to detox.
(SOunds like I'm going to Betty Fords'!)
Friday, March 5, 2010
Fasting and Detoxing
Part of Robert Ferguson's weightloss program has an optional 6 day detox. The detox is planned so that the colon and liver are cleansed and rehabed. Many of you may remember that after Erin was born I did a six month fast that had a detox inlcuded it in and I lost 60 pounds.
I am going to try the detox for a few days and see what happens. I have been stuck in neutral the past few weeks, exercising and eating as prescribed and I have yet to see the scale go down to were it really should be by now. If the detox works it will jumpstart my body again towards losing the rest of the weight.
I read this interesting article today and wanted to share it. Read it and see if you think this is true, a myth, or something that the future of weightloss will hold.
I'll keep you updated on the detox/fast. Wish me luck.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100305/hl_time/08599196980700
I am going to try the detox for a few days and see what happens. I have been stuck in neutral the past few weeks, exercising and eating as prescribed and I have yet to see the scale go down to were it really should be by now. If the detox works it will jumpstart my body again towards losing the rest of the weight.
I read this interesting article today and wanted to share it. Read it and see if you think this is true, a myth, or something that the future of weightloss will hold.
I'll keep you updated on the detox/fast. Wish me luck.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100305/hl_time/08599196980700
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