still with the weight loss gig...
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which_chickIt is terribly boring when I am working on weight loss because I spend probably an unhealthy amount of time thinking about food, planning how to do better with food, and considering what I can eat that will both serve to satiate and NOT MAKE FAT.
As I've mentioned here previously, weight loss proceeds best for me if I make a concerted effort to limit sugar plus the super-digestible white carbs. These are not foods I can consume in a well-regulated and moderate intake sort of way. *sigh* The problematic foods include but are not limited to... white sugar, honey, brown sugar, molasses, syrups of all kinds, flour (all kinds including wholemeal), rice (white), all breads and noodles (see "flour"), and potatoes (white). Generally, if it's a fast-burning blood-sugar funfest, I do not have good control of my intake or eating patterns regarding the food item. I have tried. Believe me, I have tried. I'm fifty-one. If I was going to learn how to do better about this, it would have happened by now.
I am not saying carbs are "bad". I eat carbs every day. I can eat rice (brown) and grains (wheat, rye -- cooked as 'berry' form, not cracked or altered in any way) in 1/3 cup or smaller servings like twice a week and sweet potatoes (whole, with skin) about twice a week. I can have corn tortillas about twice a week (made from scratch at home, ingredients of hot water, masa harina, and salt) provided I only eat two small ones and pair them with other real food (meat, cheese) that satiates. I eat baked winter squash (acorn, butternut) weekly. Things classed as "dal" by indian food people seem to be largely OK in measured servings though I generally cook & pair these items with an equal volume of greens (collards, kale) or cauliflower so that a cup of the resulting curry-style item is only half a cup of "dal" and half a cup of some kind of bulky vegetable. I eat oven-roasted chickpeas, half a cup at a time, for snack purposes, no more than once a week. Carbs are not at all bad... but for me, for my life, sugar and the super-digestible white carbs are not a good fit.
So what's a normal day at Chez Moi like? Today ... get up, eat custard cup of chobani (plain, whole milk yogurt) with a scant teaspoon of home-made (by me) grape jelly stirred into it. I effing hate yogurt. I do. However, if I make it purple and vaguely-grape-flavored, I will eat it. A teaspoon of sugar is about 5 grams, so let's call the scant teaspoon of jelly 5 grams of "added sugar".
I thought you were limiting sugar, which_chick!
I am. The government suggest no more than 24 grams of added sugar per day for a woman. I shoot for fewer than 10. The same serving size of "vanilla" flavored Chobani has 10 grams of added sugars (not the sugars from lactose which is just found in milk) and the pre-flavored strawberry has 11. My "WTF stirring jelly into the yogurt" method has 5 grams of sugar. I can't even eat the pre-flavored yogurts, they are too effing sweet for me. (And I love sugar. Like, a lot.)
Next is coffee. I have a Dunkin large coffee with 4 creams. It's 120 calories, none of which are from sugar. (I know there are calories from fat. Doesn't seem to matter. I don't eat fat like I eat sugar. I don't put on weight from fat like I do from sugar. I can eat an embarrassing amount -- more than I want -- of stuff like lard, butter, and cream without having it affect my weight.)
Lunch is approximately 1 cup of some-kind-of-real-food made by me plus (right now) two big apples and a diet coke (I know it's a chemical slurry). This week, I had (a) barley-n-vegetable soup or (b) lentil & kale curry. Sometimes it's beef chili. Sometimes it's leftover sweet potato. Sometimes it's vaguely-asian stir-fry. Lunch varies, but it's always real food from scratch with no added sugar. (No commercial salad dressings, no ketchup, no teriyaki sauce, my stir fry is made by me and does not contain any sugar, just kikkoman soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, ginger. I do not use pre-made sauces or flavoring packets for any style of food.) It's apples right now because I love apples and they're in season and I eat them until they aren't in season anymore. I eat them, peels and all. So delicious!
And then there is (optional) a second Dunkin coffee and dinner. Dinner varies, but this evening it was half a butternut squash with (I am not kidding) about a tablespoon of butter plus a chobani like I have for breakfast plus a hunk of pepperjack cheese. There might be an apple or two later, not sure yet. I'm pretty full. If I want something to drink, there is water or unsweetened tea. Diet coke is only at work and only for lunch. I don't have it in the house.
On Fridays or Saturdays, there is sometimes a margarita, but just one per week. :)
I do not do calorie counts or weight watchers points. I cut out sugar and the white carbs and watch the weight fall off while I sit on my less and less ample ass. While missing sugar kind of sucks, the weight loss without exercise is da bomb.
As I've mentioned here previously, weight loss proceeds best for me if I make a concerted effort to limit sugar plus the super-digestible white carbs. These are not foods I can consume in a well-regulated and moderate intake sort of way. *sigh* The problematic foods include but are not limited to... white sugar, honey, brown sugar, molasses, syrups of all kinds, flour (all kinds including wholemeal), rice (white), all breads and noodles (see "flour"), and potatoes (white). Generally, if it's a fast-burning blood-sugar funfest, I do not have good control of my intake or eating patterns regarding the food item. I have tried. Believe me, I have tried. I'm fifty-one. If I was going to learn how to do better about this, it would have happened by now.
I am not saying carbs are "bad". I eat carbs every day. I can eat rice (brown) and grains (wheat, rye -- cooked as 'berry' form, not cracked or altered in any way) in 1/3 cup or smaller servings like twice a week and sweet potatoes (whole, with skin) about twice a week. I can have corn tortillas about twice a week (made from scratch at home, ingredients of hot water, masa harina, and salt) provided I only eat two small ones and pair them with other real food (meat, cheese) that satiates. I eat baked winter squash (acorn, butternut) weekly. Things classed as "dal" by indian food people seem to be largely OK in measured servings though I generally cook & pair these items with an equal volume of greens (collards, kale) or cauliflower so that a cup of the resulting curry-style item is only half a cup of "dal" and half a cup of some kind of bulky vegetable. I eat oven-roasted chickpeas, half a cup at a time, for snack purposes, no more than once a week. Carbs are not at all bad... but for me, for my life, sugar and the super-digestible white carbs are not a good fit.
So what's a normal day at Chez Moi like? Today ... get up, eat custard cup of chobani (plain, whole milk yogurt) with a scant teaspoon of home-made (by me) grape jelly stirred into it. I effing hate yogurt. I do. However, if I make it purple and vaguely-grape-flavored, I will eat it. A teaspoon of sugar is about 5 grams, so let's call the scant teaspoon of jelly 5 grams of "added sugar".
I thought you were limiting sugar, which_chick!
I am. The government suggest no more than 24 grams of added sugar per day for a woman. I shoot for fewer than 10. The same serving size of "vanilla" flavored Chobani has 10 grams of added sugars (not the sugars from lactose which is just found in milk) and the pre-flavored strawberry has 11. My "WTF stirring jelly into the yogurt" method has 5 grams of sugar. I can't even eat the pre-flavored yogurts, they are too effing sweet for me. (And I love sugar. Like, a lot.)
Next is coffee. I have a Dunkin large coffee with 4 creams. It's 120 calories, none of which are from sugar. (I know there are calories from fat. Doesn't seem to matter. I don't eat fat like I eat sugar. I don't put on weight from fat like I do from sugar. I can eat an embarrassing amount -- more than I want -- of stuff like lard, butter, and cream without having it affect my weight.)
Lunch is approximately 1 cup of some-kind-of-real-food made by me plus (right now) two big apples and a diet coke (I know it's a chemical slurry). This week, I had (a) barley-n-vegetable soup or (b) lentil & kale curry. Sometimes it's beef chili. Sometimes it's leftover sweet potato. Sometimes it's vaguely-asian stir-fry. Lunch varies, but it's always real food from scratch with no added sugar. (No commercial salad dressings, no ketchup, no teriyaki sauce, my stir fry is made by me and does not contain any sugar, just kikkoman soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, ginger. I do not use pre-made sauces or flavoring packets for any style of food.) It's apples right now because I love apples and they're in season and I eat them until they aren't in season anymore. I eat them, peels and all. So delicious!
And then there is (optional) a second Dunkin coffee and dinner. Dinner varies, but this evening it was half a butternut squash with (I am not kidding) about a tablespoon of butter plus a chobani like I have for breakfast plus a hunk of pepperjack cheese. There might be an apple or two later, not sure yet. I'm pretty full. If I want something to drink, there is water or unsweetened tea. Diet coke is only at work and only for lunch. I don't have it in the house.
On Fridays or Saturdays, there is sometimes a margarita, but just one per week. :)
I do not do calorie counts or weight watchers points. I cut out sugar and the white carbs and watch the weight fall off while I sit on my less and less ample ass. While missing sugar kind of sucks, the weight loss without exercise is da bomb.
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Date: 2022-04-09 02:25 pm (UTC)