Guest guest Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 Rob, congratulations on your weight loss. What an encouragement for you! Unfortunately the next pounds may not come off so quickly but now you know you can do it, so just keep going. As for boring meals, I tend to do lots of salads in the summer. Cut up boiled potatoes and green beans, add some onion, red wine vinegar and a bit of olive oil for a nice (carb) salad. Steam broccoli just a little and add it into a tossed salad. Maybe cook some vegies a bit and put them with an egg and some egg whites to make a sort of crustless quiche. But you have my sympathy. Boredom can get to be a problem and also all the extra time it takes to chop! Doing a whole bunch at once might be a plan and then you have handy, legal snacks. Waiting for other creative ideas! Val ----- Original Message ----- From: blackmantle2004 To: bodyforlife Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 5:36 PM My biggest problem now is boredom in the food I eat. Especially vegetables. I wonder if any of you have suggestions on how I can make my potato, cauliflower and broccolli taste better when I'm not allowed to bathe them in oh so buttery goodness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 Hehe yeah I tried the Mrs. Dash thing hehe. Not that good. I'm debating eating most of my vegetables raw now, as I prefer their normal taste to cooked with no butter or anything. Rob > Mrs. Dash!! > She's wonderful!! > > On EVERYTHING. > LOL > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 Rob, I LOVE baked potatoes (sweet or white) with cottage cheese instead of butter, Almond Accents and some of those salad crispy things in the salad dressing section at the grocery. I've even convinced my husband that it tastes as good as butter! Also, when you have a lot of weight to lose, it will come off rapidly at the beginning and should taper off after a while. Sara .. I wonder if any of you have suggestions on how I can > make my potato, cauliflower and broccolli taste better when I'm not > allowed to bathe them in oh so buttery goodness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 My list of vegetables is pretty narrow I suppose: celery, pickles, cauliflower, broccolli, green beans, baby carrots, cucumber, tomato, (sometimes corn in place of my potato). My most common daily menu is: - 2 egg whites, 2 eggs, poached on two pieces whole wheat toast. - Can of tuna, mixed with 1tbsp non-fat miracle whip with celery and pickles. Grapefruit for the carb. - Chicken breast sandwhich on whole wheat with lettuce and cucumber. No mayo or anything. - Two hard boiled eggs. An apple or bannana for carb. - BBQ'd chicken breast, potato, steamed vegetable. - 1 cup cottage cheese blended with 1 cup frozen berries. What do you think? Rob > Rob: > > First let me say congrats on your success! You're doing great! > As for veggies ~ the potatoes can be baked and put cottage cheese > (in place of sour cream). That is one of my favorite ways to eat > them. You also can mash up the cauliflower and eat like mashed > potatoes (very good). What other veggies are you eating? > > Anne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 31, 2004 Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 Hi Rob, Congrats on your awesome progress to date!! You should be very proud of yourself!! As far as veggies go, you might want to try steamed with some Molly McButter or Butter Buds... definitely buttery taste and pretty low-cal. Salty though, so if sodium is an issue, take it easy on that stuff. I tend to eat a lot of the same veggies all the time too. I like carrots (these are an every day commodity), asparagus, salads (every day), artichokes, cauliflower, green beans, red/yellow bell peppers. Occasionally I eat some broccoli, and one of those veggie medleys from the frozen food aisle that has snow peas, water chestnuts, carrots (of course) and baby corn. Those are yummy, especially when the vegetable crisper is bare. Jen B. > Hey guys, > > Well, I should have sent an update a couple of weeks ago (I was > going to do them every 4 weeks) but I've been busy. > > The good news is that I've already hit my 12 week goal of 30 pounds > lost. I came up with that number with the book's goal of 2.5 pounds > per week. Well, obviously I'm going to do more than 30 pounds by > the time 12 weeks comes along. I'm sure that is due to the fact > that I just started, so I've got a lot of pounds to come off and > water weight as well. > > If I continue to lose more than 2.5 pounds per week in the next > challenge then I think that I will have to figure out what's going > on and make sure that I'm not losing muscle weight. > > Well, I'm down to 276 pounds, from a starting weight of 306 pounds. > I'm well on my way to my long term goal of 220 pounds. > > I haven't been posting much, but I have been reading everyone elses > posts and benefiting greatly from your experiences. > > My biggest problem now is boredom in the food I eat. Especially > vegetables. I wonder if any of you have suggestions on how I can > make my potato, cauliflower and broccolli taste better when I'm not > allowed to bathe them in oh so buttery goodness. > > Thanks guys, > > Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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