Re: My Daily "Weighing in"
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 8:43 am
1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.yes
2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert.yes
3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts, too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them.yes
4. Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).yes
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).yes oops ! now it is no. I had some peanut butter on a banana
6. Eliminate any added oil.yes
7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e., bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit.yes
8. Don't drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).yes
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself.yes
10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).yes
Victories, comments, concerns, questions:I started my day by eating a banana and then went out the door and walked 3 miles followed by some stretching.
Breakfast: a handful of spinach, mango, oat groats with some cinnamon and cardamom sprinkled on top
Lunch: very large salad with balsamic vinegar and my hummus on top. Also a Japanese sweet potato
Dinner: a few slices of cucumber, steamed broccoli, a smallish baked potato, a mix of chic peas, greens, onions with ginger. After that I had a banana with peanut butter.
that's my Saturday !
-squealcat
2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert.yes
3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts, too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them.yes
4. Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).yes
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).yes oops ! now it is no. I had some peanut butter on a banana
6. Eliminate any added oil.yes
7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e., bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit.yes
8. Don't drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).yes
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself.yes
10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).yes
Victories, comments, concerns, questions:I started my day by eating a banana and then went out the door and walked 3 miles followed by some stretching.
Breakfast: a handful of spinach, mango, oat groats with some cinnamon and cardamom sprinkled on top
Lunch: very large salad with balsamic vinegar and my hummus on top. Also a Japanese sweet potato
Dinner: a few slices of cucumber, steamed broccoli, a smallish baked potato, a mix of chic peas, greens, onions with ginger. After that I had a banana with peanut butter.
that's my Saturday !
-squealcat