Plans/Goals for May 12-20

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Plans/Goals for May 12-20
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Fri, 05-11-2007 - 1:20pm

Okay so I have done nothing but think of my predictament all morning and here is what I am coming up with....Using Sparkpeople.com to track I am going to attempt to stay within their recommended guidlines for calorie/fat/carb/protein intake and monitor other nutrients at my discretion that I know I need to increase like calcium, fiber, iron, etc and SODIUM- I am going to try to keep this under 3000 preferably under 2400. This is going to be a MAJOR struggle for me as I am used to seasoning with season salts, garlic salts, etc that is slam full of sodium. SO I have to learn to season my meats a bit differently, lay off the dales, lay off the season salt which is my major 2 I use. I need to use my spice rack and lemon juice more and less sodium packed marinades. This is going to be a real challenge and I need someone to hold me accountable. Seems this is a must do thing now so maybe i can make myself have the willpower. I grill just about EVERYTHING so that should help some too. For lunch today I am going to have my french fries, but then I want someone to remind me that I am not supposed to have them again for a week. LOL Mcdonalds has a fruit salad I am going to try sometime in the next week. It has walnuts in it so I will have to pick around those as I don't care for them but other than that it is just supposed to be apples, grapes and such. No kind of dressing but you can have that on the side if you want which I dont'


Does anyone know if this is good?? It is the fruit and walnut salad??


I don't have a choice somedays at work I will have to eat out but I will try my best to go to subway as hello grilled chicken sandwiches are packed with sodium if not fat. LOL SO maybe subway will be better will have to check that out. Other than that I will bring Veggies/fruits, chicken breast, turkey, stuff like that to eat here. This is going to be really hard, and my grocery bill is going to jump up big time but it will benefit me a great deal I know. I hope to get dh to do this with me as he needs to lower his cholesterol too so.......Maybe. I will have to continue getting up this early even when he goes back to taking Blade to school so I can fix my own bfast, maybe

 

Angela

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Fri, 05-11-2007 - 3:56pm

Angela, you can DO this!

Annie

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Fri, 05-11-2007 - 4:07pm

LOL


Annie, that is the bad thing, I have tried to choke down a salad, YUCK. I have been trying new veggies though, and I have found some that I actually can tolerate, okay maybe not love but tolerate them....LMAO and that is exactly what I will try to do. I also need to try to eat more fresh/frozen over canned. Canned has just always been more convient but I guess it is time to say goodbye to convience! And yes I CAN DO THIS. that is exactly what I have been telling myself all day, just keep on reminding me of it okay. I am going to go one day at a time, each day I am going to work towards that goal, and I am going to keep on keeping on til I do this. I HAVE TO DO THIS. I can't take meds the rest of my life. I just can't. I won't let myself come to that. I hate that idea with a passion. so I CAN/WILL do this. I HAVE to do this.


Keep reminding me okay??


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Angela

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Fri, 05-11-2007 - 4:54pm

Angela,


I can relate on the salad and veggies thing. I am not much of a salad person. I have however tried and actually eaten salads for lunch a few times a week in the past several weeks. I have learned that alot of it is in how you look at it. I hate them but I tell myself that its the right thing to do and, if I do enough of it that thing will be moving in the right direction. Since I started thinking this way it has helped me in eating more salads. Which thus has made me feel better and move the scale in the right direction. Just a thought, maybe it will help you if not then maybe someone else.


Have a nice weekend!

Caroline





 

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Fri, 05-11-2007 - 9:52pm

Angela,
I am perfectly willing to be 'tough on you' if that is what you think you need. But your friendship through this board means a lot to me, so if I cross any lines, please just tell me 'back off' before I do any damage.

I don't think your total food budget will go up if you replace lunches you buy from places like McDonald's and Subway with lunches you bring from home. Your grocery store bill will go up, but your 'walking around money' will last longer. I HATE to bring my lunch. The only time I ever did it before now was when I had my first 'real' job, and it didn't pay me enough to go out to lunch. I felt sorry for myself every day when I was eating my pitiful lunch in the lunch room...and once I got to where I could afford to buy my lunch, I did. But in March when my trainer told me 'SJ, you need to take control of your own food-you don't know what other people are putting in stuff' I agreed to try to bring my lunch twice a week. I don't actually like sandwiches much, so I make a salad the night before, but if you do like sandwiches, can you just buy turkey or roast beef and a loaf of bread and make a sandwich? You can even put the bread in a bag, the meat in a bag, and make the sandwich at work. I think you aren't big on lettuce and tomato, but if you eat those, they can make the sandwich a little crunchy. With a nice piece of fruit, that's a good lunch.

I NEVER ate breakfast, but a few years ago, again, my trainer insisted that it would really help me if I could eat breakfast. I told him that breakfast made me nauseous, and he was blunt with me 'I don't care if you throw it up, eat it'. I never actualy did throw up, but the first few days I choked it down. I tolerated yogurt, but I learned to like it, and after the first week or so, I began to look forward to it in the morning. I added oatmeal to the breakfast rotation for variety-both of these are fast, and that is a big benefit-also that I don't have to actually turn the stove on so there is no chance I will sleepily burn the house down. But if you can get up a few minutes early, boil or scramble an egg and have it with a piece of toast, that's a good start to the day too. Or even frozen waffles if you can eat just one can be a good quick breakfast - but you have to not put butter/syrup on it.

I like vegetables and fruit, so that hasn't been an issue for me, but making the time to buy them and cook them was a big issue. I just have to make myself make buying them a very important thing. If you only like two vegetables, then just decide - corn on Monday, beans on Tuesday, corn on Wednesday...or whatever. If there is something that you haven't tried for a while, I'm with Annie, make yourself eat one new vegetable a week.

You ALWAYS say that you would do ANYTHING for your children. Every time you reach for the salt shaker, say to yourself 'I don't care if my children go to my funeral before I'm old' That is a vey harsh thought, but it is in a way the choice you are making. I don't think salt will taste as good to you if you start making that association in your mind.

I use low fat salad dressings as marinades, but I also use lemon juice and pepper a lot on chicken. I also like granola bars (90 calories) as snacks. They too were an acquired taste, they can be a little dry, butif you know its that or nothing, not that or a cookie, it doesn't taste as bad.

None of this is easy - I am sometims afraid that I make things seem like they are, and I try to emphasize how much I struggle every single day-I am doing a lot of things I said I would NEVER do, but the changes have been worth it.

I know that you can do whatever you set your mind to, and As I said, I am willing to 'call you on your cr*p' if that will help you-but only if you are sure that is what you want/need.

Have a great weekend...
SJ
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Fri, 05-11-2007 - 10:55pm

SJ you tickle me. LOL


Yea your comment bout "doing anything for my kids". I was honestly expecting you to say would you let them dump on the salt on their food to which I have to admit I tell them no, I don't want them addicted to it like me. LMAO


Hoyt has agreed to do this with me, so let's see if he sticks to it. As for the sandwiches, I don't love sandwiches, but I do like them, only I realized tonight when I decided since it was just me & Blade at home not to cook, that sandwich meat has a LOT of sodium in it, so I went over my 3000 today, but live and learn and I don't expect perfect right off the bat. Sunday will be rough as it will be lunch at mom's but I will just have to work bfast and dinner around the lunch. I just got back from the store, I bought lots of fruit, some I can conviently take to work, and frozen veggies. there are very few canned veggie in the pantry right now so I bought several frozen kinds to try. Beans, peas, & such. I eat several veggies, I don't mean to sound like I hate all of them, but I don't eat a lot of them. fruits, there are few I ahve found I don't like. I also found some low fat/low sodium/lower sugar cereal I can tolerate to start with. Who knows maybe one day this will have too much sugar in it too like the frosted flakes & froot loops I used to love do now. I don't eat any kind of dressing, I just think the stuff is nasty. My obstacle with sodium will be ketchup & bbq sauce for sure. I looked for low sodium kind tonight to try but struck out.


Your comment bout burning the kitchen down, yea I fear that too, but I can handle toast....LMAO maybe some peanut butter on it for protein. I don't like yogurt, have tried that one too, but just can't seem to acquire that taste nor the taste for the gronola. I know some things are an acquired taste but I figure if I really just don't like it why force myself to eat it. I also used to gag at bfast but that is one feat I have managed to conquer over the past year. Oh and no I can't do waffles or pancakes without syrup, I barely do them with the syrup. LMAO I would rather have the bacon & sausage.......OH I am going to hate having to back off on the waffle house. We usually have it once a week but it is so full of cholesterol. I have noticed that over the past couple months that when we eat there the choleterol levels are like 3 times normal days.


No I don't like lettuce, I have tried several times to make myself eat it but YUCK!!! Tomatoes I can tolerate. I prefer the tomato sauce as a base of something else though. Hmmmm......Veggies: green beans, english peas, butter/lima beans, corn, potatoes, butter peas, kidney beans in soups, cucumbers.....hmmmm I think that is about it. I can't think of anymore......Oh carrots!! That is what I have

 

Angela

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Sun, 05-13-2007 - 8:05am

You can slice cucumber with your sandwich, that would give it the same crunch as lettuce. I actually love sandwiches with sliced cucumber and tomatos. And you can chop onions, bell pepper, and tomatos to scramble with your eggs (add veggies first and cook until they are tender then add the eggs).. I actually consider this a huge treat (maybe because it's big in volume LOL)..


You can do this Angela!!

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