Ok.. I'll try it ... again

[Guest guest]

Ok.. I'm going to try this again. I've gained 20 pounds in the last 3

years and I MUST lose some weight. I'm 52 this week. Part of it is

menopause, but mostly it's my sweet tooth and lack of willpower.

Where will I find time to exercise? Shop? Cook? It's depressing...

One son got married, one bought a house, one's wife is ready to

deliver another grandchild...where does the time go?

I'm having a difficult time lately just figuring out what in the heck

to eat for breakfast?

Help? ::::crying:::

And, by the way, there is high fructose corn syrup in EVERYTHING!

How do we avoid corn?

I bought the book, sold the book on ebay, bought the book, sold the

book on ebay.... now I'm going to buy it AGAIN... I think I'm losing

it... my mind that is, not the weight.

[Guest guest]

It could be worse, they could add corn syrup to hamburger... actually it's

only in most sweetened processed foods. Avoid sodas and that's more than

half the battle. I tried a diet soda today and it was yucky...I prefer

plain sparkling water now.

What do you usually eat? and how hard is it for you to avoid wheat? That's

the first step.

Gradual steps are good, get small changes into your routine, and they'll

become easy, then take it to the next level.

I usually have 2 eggs for breakfast, you can add some veggies or ezekiel

toast with butter, ghee, or oil. For me, the eggs add up over the week and

can get a little monotonous, but if I don't have some default like that to

fall back on I end up skipping breakfast entirely. For more excitement,

I'll make extra meat/veggies for dinner and eat that for breakfast, or have

some sliced turkey or beef on hand. Spices help liven it up, and there are

lots of beneficial spices you can throw on.

Sounds like you may be trying to tackle it all at once. Take it one step at

a time, and don't weigh yourself more than once or twice a month, you know

more about your body than the scale does.

Hope that helps...

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Ok.. I'll try it ... again

Ok.. I'm going to try this again. I've gained 20 pounds in the last 3

years and I MUST lose some weight. I'm 52 this week. Part of it is

menopause, but mostly it's my sweet tooth and lack of willpower.

Where will I find time to exercise? Shop? Cook? It's depressing...

One son got married, one bought a house, one's wife is ready to

deliver another grandchild...where does the time go?

I'm having a difficult time lately just figuring out what in the heck

to eat for breakfast?

Help? ::::crying:::

And, by the way, there is high fructose corn syrup in EVERYTHING!

How do we avoid corn?

I bought the book, sold the book on ebay, bought the book, sold the

book on ebay.... now I'm going to buy it AGAIN... I think I'm losing

it... my mind that is, not the weight.

[Guest guest]

Turkey sausage is another sort of standard breakfast item, but in an OK form

instead of pork. I even found some precooked turkey sausage at Wal-Mart not

too long ago. I bought some to try and have around for when I don't have

time to fix something else. I will admit it is not as good as the uncooked

turkey sausage I get.

Don

Ok.. I'll try it ... again

Ok.. I'm going to try this again. I've gained 20 pounds in the last 3

years and I MUST lose some weight. I'm 52 this week. Part of it is

menopause, but mostly it's my sweet tooth and lack of willpower.

Where will I find time to exercise? Shop? Cook? It's depressing...

One son got married, one bought a house, one's wife is ready to

deliver another grandchild...where does the time go?

I'm having a difficult time lately just figuring out what in the heck

to eat for breakfast?

Help? ::::crying:::

And, by the way, there is high fructose corn syrup in EVERYTHING!

How do we avoid corn?

I bought the book, sold the book on ebay, bought the book, sold the

book on ebay.... now I'm going to buy it AGAIN... I think I'm losing

it... my mind that is, not the weight.

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 8/8/2004 10:34:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

mama@... writes:

Part of it is

menopause, but mostly it's my sweet tooth and lack of willpower.

Where will I find time to exercise? Shop? Cook? It's depressing...

Yep. It's probably why you gained 20 pounds. All the commiserating in the

world will not help you get healthy or lose weight. You have to determine how

important it is to you. It wasn't important to me until I almost died.

Hopefully, you're smarter than I am. The earlier you decide to change the

quicker

you'll get healthy and the faster you'll lose weight. Once you do that, the

rest is details. When your sweet tooth is calling, pop in a piece of protein.

Eat a carrot. Munch on celery. Drink water. Take a walk. Whatever works

for you. All of that is very easy to say but hard to do. That's why the first

step is to decide to change.

>And, by the way, there is high fructose corn syrup in EVERYTHING!

How do we avoid corn?<

If you stop eating everything, you'll probably lose weight--LOL. Seriously,

you have to avoid processed foods and prepare your own. Look closely at some

foods and you'll see that some use sugar instead. For instance, there is a

lunch meat that I get that uses sugar instead of corn syrup because it's an old

company with an established recipe. Mostly, you'll have to prepare your own

foods at least until the industry catches up with us.

[Guest guest]

I found a good and easy way to start the day off right when I was staying at my

married daughter's house last month. I bought a few bags of frozen kale and

spinach. Every morning I would dump a third of a bag (if you're not used to that

you could do much less!) into a pan with some olive oil or melted butter, cook

it a little and then add either eggs or leftover meat (S & P). Almost-instant

breakfast that won't start any cravings. It gives you a calm mind and body with

which to plan for lunch. Every meal or snack that you avoid grains and other

avoids will make it easier to keep on track.

You can do it!

Gretchen

[Guest guest]

> It could be worse, they could add corn syrup to hamburger...

Thanks , for your ideas. Actually, I picked up some hummous at

the store last week, and when I looked at the ingredients, there was

that corn syrup! In hummous!

I can pretty much survive on steak and salad happily. But breakfast

just stumps me on this diet! Eggs get monotonous, and we can't have

cereals if we want to lose weight. I haven't found anything really

filling and good for me yet. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. I

work evening shift, 3 - 11:30, so I get up ravenous....

[Guest guest]

Well.. I had an exciting Monday! My daughter in law gave birth to an

8 pound 13 ounce son! She had him at home! It was a wonderful

experience. I'm stoked... grandchild #2.

So, to celebrate, I took a walk today.. I had to really muster up

some will power, but it's the first walk.. and I did it. Granted, it

was in the local cemetery :::chuckling::: but it was quiet and pretty

and sunset was lovely.

So.. I started. I also ate healthy today. I cooked a pot of Querves,

which is Portugese Kale Soup. If you haven't tried it, let me offer

the recipe.

You need:

2 pounds of shank, short ribs, or stew beef

large onion

2 cloves garlic

large turnip

2 parsnips

1 large head Kale (curly or flat, doesn't matter)

Brown meat in a bit of olive oil. Add 2 cloves garlic and one big

onion, chopped. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Stew it until

the meat is tender.

Add a diced turnip and 2 sliced parsnips. (The regular recipe calls

for potatoes, but the turnips/parsnips are yummy. Sometimes I make it

with sweet potatoe for a different, but also good taste)

Cook til veggies are tender, then add one head of Kale, chopped fine.

I put it in the slicer of my food processor.

Cover and stew until kale is limp.

Add salt to taste.

Eat it! It's better the 2d day after a night in the fridge. Good for

packed lunches too!

This recipe works great in a pressure cooker!

I'm on my way...

[Guest guest]

In hummus? yuck! Why would they put it in there? I don't know how many

times I bring something home from the store to discover something like that

in the ingredients. I read the ingredients at the store, but I still don't

catch everything. My son's allergic to milk, and I can't have gluten, so I

should be more adept at reading ingredients by now, but I'm not, they remind

me of word searches from elementary school...I was never very good at those

either.

I've been happy to see more red sauce without sugar or corn syrup, it used

to be impossible to find any without it.

On the non-secretor version of the diet, I've had to write off most

prepackaged foods entirely, it seems like I can only trust what comes out of

my kitchen. Which is a bummer because I don't have that much time to cook,

or clean. So I make huge batches when I do cook, and pop the extra in the

freezer.

Ooh, if you can get ground lamb, it makes great 'sausages', just add a

little rosemary, and fry it like a hamburger. Much more filling than turkey

sausage, and more exciting than beef.

Re: Ok.. I'll try it ... again

> It could be worse, they could add corn syrup to hamburger...

Thanks , for your ideas. Actually, I picked up some hummous at

the store last week, and when I looked at the ingredients, there was

that corn syrup! In hummous!

I can pretty much survive on steak and salad happily. But breakfast

just stumps me on this diet! Eggs get monotonous, and we can't have

cereals if we want to lose weight. I haven't found anything really

filling and good for me yet. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. I

work evening shift, 3 - 11:30, so I get up ravenous....