Re: Staying on track with BFL nutrition (Formerly: 8/24- Accountability )

[Guest guest]

Only my daughter will eat BFL authorized foods. My husband and son

find them incredibly boring and get up from the table wondering what

is to eat. So, we have all kinds of food at our house. Having done

BFL for so long and being sort of weird about food I'm not tempted by

any of it. In fact, it sort of makes me sick to think about them.

After a long enough time on BFL it is likely that some of you will

have the same experience and actually come to crave the good stuff.

It won't happen in the first couple of challenges though so it's best

most of the time to avoid people, places, and things that involve

unauthorized food. It helps if eating clean is a top priority.

Stasia

[Guest guest]

>> I guess what I'm trying to say is....... I understand that how

being tempted on a regular basis is hard..... I still have a jar

full of white basmati rice that I haven't touched.... miss my

regular visits to my fave Indian and Chinese Restaurants and have

been REALLY struggling to get back on track post-family

reunion.........

>

Same here Hubby's sample menu:

Breakfast 4 pieces of white bread (which thankfully isn't tempting)

slathered in PB or poptarts or honey buns

Lunch: fast food lately so at least the food isn't at home

Dinner: he does eat a BFL meal with me

Dessert/snacks: real cheese (a big temptation for me), candy bars,

cookies, potato chips....

And now that we are bringing food to my dad in the hospital and the

ONLY thing he eats is sweets we now have hostess cupcakes,

strawberry ice cream, fudge ripple ice cream, nuts, and M & Ms....

In the past month, let's just say my success rate was lower than my

failure rate on temptation...but today's a new day and I'm feeling

more confident these days that those foods altho " sound good " really

do make me feel crappy and are a bit easier to avoid.

Colleen

[Guest guest]

Hi Colleen,

It does make everything so much harder when the very foods you are trying

to avoid are sitting in your own kitchen. It also doesn't help to have

your loved ones around you eating this stuff!!!

Be gentle with yourself. Make sure you have lots of good food you enjoy in

the house as well as the junk. Focus on how good it feels to be healthy

and strong. You can do this!

Redondo

> In the past month, let's just say my success rate was lower than my

> failure rate on temptation...but today's a new day and I'm feeling more

> confident these days that those foods altho & quot;sound good & quot;

> really do make me feel crappy and are a bit easier to avoid.

>

> Colleen

[Guest guest]

> Nutritionally, not so great, but is he at least starting to put

some weight back on? I think you said he was severly undernourished,

which I took to mean that he had gotten quite thin.

>

> How's he doing overall?

Thanks for asking. Thin? That's an understament. He entered the

hospital at 105 lbs 6 ft tall. They pumped him up with fluids and

had him as high as 137 but he had edema everywherre. That has mostly

settled and he is at 129 or 130. He's gained 1.5 lbs in two weeks at

the SNIF. I am THRILLED that he is eating anything!

Overall, is a hard question to answer. We have so much to be

thankful for. No one thought he would survive the surgery and then

to survive and recover enough to be sent to the SNIF in a week or

two was amazing. So in that respect good. However we have a myriad

of non-ER problems to still fix: abdominal aortic aneurism,

congestive heart failure, pneumonia (they can't seem to get the

fluid off his lungs even when they had chest tubes in), high blood

pressure, fungal infection on over 25% of his body, mental issues

(short-term memory loss, can't remember where he is, who has his

wallet, where his truck is, if you can today or yesterday, etc.),

swallowing problems which relates to the eating and then the not

wanting to eat, no use of his legs.....so in a nutshell I am so

thankful he is still with us but stil very concerned about the

quality of his life. On a positive note, he converses with us when

we visit, does crosswords with us, plays cards, dominoes, sings to

music, etc. And also the only SNIF in Northern California for VA

does not have a PT at the moment. So the longer he is without PT,

the less chance he will have of recovering any use of his legs.

Colleen

[Guest guest]

,

> It does make everything so much harder when the very foods you are

trying

> to avoid are sitting in your own kitchen. It also doesn't help to

have

> your loved ones around you eating this stuff!!!

>

I know how that is my husband quit doing BFL a couple of months ago,

because of a shoulder injury and he is always trying to tempt me with

unhealthy foods especially ice cream which is my weakness.