VegSeekingFit wrote:Hi Moonlight!
I am glad that you are doing what is best for you at this time. Also, wishing you well on your journey!!
I just wanted to let you know that I have been inspired by your journal. I always loved your gardening and cooking stories -- as well as your super attitude and supportiveness.
By the way, you are inspiring in what you have achieved since you started posting!!! Woot!! You have lost weight and kept it off -- nothing to sneeze at!!!
Wanted to share the following links in case they may be helpful or interesting to you (if you haven't seen yet). Both are related to your recent comments on cheese.
https://www.pcrm.org/news/exam-room-podcast/cheese-trapThis one is from Neal Barnard / PCRM / The Exam Room podcast. It describes the addictive factors in cheese and is really interesting - about an hour listen
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157 ... -sugar-fatBook Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss. I listened to this audio and it really made me mad at how Big Food manipulates us. While not focused on cheese, it has some stats on how the average American's cheese intake has gone up (about 3X) since 1970 (and how Big Food achieved that).
Hope to see you around on other threads.
Best,
Stephanie
Thank you,
Stephanie, for your kind words and for the links regarding cheese. I have finally kicked the cheese habit. My husband eats the SAD so there is always cheese in the house. I am finally past the cravings for it. Certainly, not eating out due to the pandemic has helped as the trips to Mexican restaurants were a challenge, too. I guess whenever the time comes when I feel comfortable eating in a restaurant again I may be challenged but I think it will be many months before that time and perhaps I won't be triggered. I've learned that one little bite is a disaster for me.
Zoey wrote:Moonlight, I feel the same as Stephanie. I'll miss your public journaling, too. And I completely understand. My private journal just depresses me sometimes.
Anyway, good luck, and hope to see you still posting elsewhere!
Thank you,
Zoey! I have enjoyed your postings as well. I am ready to start journaling here again. It is easier for me to keep up with daily postings when I post here. No matter where I keep my home journal, I seem to forget to post in it for days at a time! Being able to look back over the week or month is very helpful in seeing where I need to put my attention.
Today's Food Plan:
Make a big batch of soup. I made soup a few days ago but it is calorie dense stew, I think. More like for a meal than an appetizer. It has lentils and rice in it. I'm going to try the cauliflower, sweet potatoes, greens, onions, and spices.
Goal for the week: Do not let nuts of any kind pass by my lips!!! Keeping it simple. One goal. Surely I can do this one thing.
Weight today: 174 lbs.
Food Intake:
apple
vegetable soup
Salad, sweet potato, and Brussels Sprouts
Watermelon, lentil stew, and potatoes
bulgur and Brussels Sprouts
air-popped popcorn
1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.
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.
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.
4. Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).
6. Eliminate any added oil.
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.air-popped popcorn
8. Don’t drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don’t starve yourself and don’t stuff yourself.
10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).Not 30 minutes today