Now we shed the five pounds we gained since the start of the holidays.
You may if you wish diet along with us.
Needed: an assortment of breakfast items, either diet bars or eggs, bacon, that sort of thing, no toast.
An assortment of lunch items: Campbell’s original soup, 1/2 can per person for lunch. You add water to these. You may sub a hotdog, no bun, or tuna salad, with mayo, no bread.
An assortment of supper items: packaged pulled pork, packaged chicken bits, parmesan cheese, salt, pepper, olive oil, boneless pork chops, regular pork chops, sesame seed, stir fry sauce, Cardini’s Caesar Dressing, cabbage, cole slaw dressing. Salad makings, baby spinach, greens, lettuce, kale, your preference; packaged pulled pork—Jack Daniels is good; low-carb or whole wheat tortillas, small size; shredded cheese, pick a flavor; chicken breast or salmon
Any time salad dressing is mentioned, the limit per serving is one ounce. That’s 33 grams. Roughly. If you don’t have a scale, you can say 3 level tablespoons.
The recipes:
1. breakfast: fried or scrambled eggs 2, with 2 strips bacon; or a diet bar.
2. lunch: 1/2 can Campbell’s soups, and stick mostly to the chicken noodle or vegetable beef.
3. supper: 1) parmesan chicken salad: diced chicken, salt, pepper, dried basil in small saucepan, olive oil, heat and brown. Prepare salad with parmesan cheese, salt, pepper. When chicken is ready, add (serves 2) a half cup of grated parmesan (Kraft) and stir to coat chicken. Place atop salad, add dressing. You can have as much greens as you want.
2) same, but stirfry strips cut from boneless porkchop til done, add dash of stirfry sauce (1 tablespoon) and sprinkle liberally with sesame seed. Serve as salad topping.
3) fried or broiled pork chops, salt, pepper, serve with cole slaw. Cole slaw dressing 1 to 2 oz. Again, as much cabbage as you want.
4) pulled pork rollups: one per person: 3 tbs pulled pork and a dash of cheese, roll, top with cheese, microwave til melt or bake til brown. Serve with side salad.
5) broiled chicken breast or salmon with side salad.
6) repeat list.
You can have wine, whiskey or vodka, but no mixers and no beer. Moderation.
Misery loves company, so if you wish to join us, feel free.
‘Tis the season… to remove all those holiday snack food products from your pantry. Begone, Christmas candy and cookies! Begone, New Year’s Eve leftovers! Alas, DH and I must return to our regimen of exercise bike and portion reduction. One has definitely had a sufficiency, but the return to healthier habits is daunting.
I weighed myself yesterday on the scale I usually use, the balance beam scale at the YMCA. It says I weigh 189 pounds, which is about 8 pounds heavier than I was 5 months ago. Whether that’s due to a change in eating habits (again), or due to the fact that it’s cold and riding my bicycle back and forth to the YMCA isn’t happening right now, isn’t clear.
I do need to start working on my aerobic exercising, especially since I have a kendo tournament coming up in 6 weeks, and I’d like to be able to last through at least the first match. Of course, if I could learn to force my opponent to do what I want him to do, then the match wouldn’t be all that long, nor would it be all that exhausting. But then, that’s part of the mystery of kendo, getting your opponent to do what you want them to do. For some reason, they don’t always cooperate and go about trying to make you do what they want you to do. Well, there are the new stair machines, as well as the recumbent bicycles, and the elliptical machines, maybe I’ll find something I like. (If I could just get the fitness center to stop showing “Dr. Phil” on all of the TVs in there…..)
I’m already doing a lot of that, as 2014’s gift to me three months ago was diabetes. Was very sad to learn that Campbell’s soups contain high fructose corn syrup; I grew up on their vegetable soup (which probably explains a lot). If one wishes to avoid unnecessary sweeteners, many of their soups (veg, tomato and others) are now off limits. Soups, in my opinion, do not need sweetener anyway. I’ve lost weight and will keep to non-processed foods, concentrating on proteins and veggies, and very limited carbs.
I still like the “Fast Diet”. Yesterday, one of my fast days, as I was prepping dinner, I got shakey. So I stopped and got out my kit. I was 70. Fast cancelled! Last H1AC was 5.7–can’t argue with success.
Have you looked at Progresso soups? These days I’m making a lot of vegetable soups in the crock pot.
I like the pre-fab soups, Progresso and Campbell, just from a straight caloric standpoint. I come home from my late night, can plop one of those from the can into a microwave safe bowl, and have dinner within 2 minutes. No need add water, and the choices for low-fat, low sodium and high-fiber are pretty nice. Campbell’s homestyle chicken tortilla has recently become my new favorite.
Bummer. On the other hand, I think Swanson’s chicken broth or beef might be ok with pasta and a little carrot for a DIY quick soup.
Foxfire – off-topic – I’m looking for an ebook edition of what I think is Foxfire 1, specifically for the story, “The Buzzard and the Dog.” There are about 12 printed books (Pbooks?). I see a series of numbered Foxfire books in Kindle ebook format, but by the titles and descriptions, these seem to be further books, a separate series. Or else I’m confused. Well, I am confused, but that’s beside the point. I’d like to get the story in an ebook volume. For that matter, I wish they’d offer the Foxfire books as an ebook mutli-volume bundled set.
Does anyone know if these are two separate series, or how to get the story, “The Buzzard and the Dog” in ebook format?
The story is from what I think is volume 1 (but isn’t numbered in the title):
The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining, and Other Affairs of Plain Living Paperback – February 17, 1972
by Eliot Wigginton (Editor)
Publisher: Anchor; Later Printing edition (February 17, 1972)
ISBN-10: 0385073534
ISBN-13: 978-0385073530
However, I don’t see a companion listing for an ebook for Kindle, etc.
There appears to be a series, separately numbered, of other Foxfire books in digital format, ebooks.
Thanks in advance for any clarification.
I’m back onto my own LCHF diet myself. Lots of eggs, meat, fish, some dairy (mostly aged cheeses, some cream, some milk, but not a lot) some seeds/nuts including coconut milk/cream, low carb vegetables from the garden or shops/farmers markets. Limited fruit (though some berries are low carb and are fine), low to no dried fruit (lots of sugar) or fruit juice (liquid sugar). No grains as much as possible (especially not wheat, and especially rice. Rice is a problem for me. I love to make Spanish rice, and then I’ll sit and scarf the lot. It kicks off so many insane cravings.) Very limited to no starchy tubers (read: potatoes.)
No added sugar, no processed foods, no refined oils. I try not to use sweeteners much, but I do, occasionally, add a stevia or monk fruit/Erythritol sweetener stick (2gs) to my coffee.
That said, I am trying to get more exercise in, now that my plantar fasciitis is healing up, in the form of walking and aqua fitness (Put the ear buds in, crank the tunes, and strike out in whatever direction pleases you). I also did the 28 Day Body Weight Squat Challenge in December and did great… except the very last set caused a spectacular lumbar strain which has struck me down the last two or three weeks. It was so bad I was worried I’d slipped/crushed a disc. I just had an MRI this morning to rule out any soft tissue problems, even though I’m finally feeling better! 😛
I swear, if you ever end up with a lower back strain, the psoas release technique is your friend, your finest most wonderful associate, which helps release and stretch the psoas muscles in your back/hips.
That said, good luck to everyone in losing those holiday pounds, and good luck to me, in the hopes that I can lose so much more. XD