Breakfast, meals, etc.

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- Regarding breakfast: I am a firm believer in protein to

start the day. I have always liked Egg Beaters, and they now come in

Cheese and Chive and Southwestern and Vegetable. I find them yummy.

I can heat up a Teflon pan, pour the EBs right out of the carton

into the hot pan, and stir just a few times and they are done.

Really, really fast and tasty eggs, in my opinion. The protein

really works for me in the a.m. I get jars of the delicious pink

grapefruit sections by Dole, or those 6-packs of different flavored

lite apple sauces, and I'm having a good breakfast in no time. I'm

talking 10 minutes. I've added oatmeal every morning, with Dr. R's

approval, since it keeps me regular and has dramatically lowered my

cholesterol (down to 191 from up in the 240 area) and particularly

my LDL (like down to 105 from 155). I just made up my mind to have

the same thing every morning for a year now, and my body has felt

much better for it. But if you don't like eggs, it's a problem.

I keep cooked chicken breasts or a cooked whole chicken, a cooked

lean beef roast, cooked hamburger patties, or Healthy Choice low fat

smoked (urkey) sausage in the fridge for other meals. I have learned

to make up my own tasty condiments, like a sugar free fruit chutney

for the chicken, and a diet mayo and horseradish sauce for the beef

roast. They are always there, ready to go. I add raw carrots and a 3-

bean mixture of dark beans every lunch, with an Asian Sesame or

vinegrette type dressing (I really like it). (I make up 3 cans of

beans in a container that lasts me several days.) I eat whichever

meat I didn't eat for lunch at dinner, along with a cooked veggie,

sometimes fixed up " special " , like sour cream on Italian beans with

lemon juice. And I have a snack later in the evening - sometimes

it's eggs again. I have found that I feel better eating 4 smaller

meals stretched out all day long, including a small later meal in

the evening. It helps me feel better in the morning if I don't go

over 10-12 hours between some protein or at least something. That

blood sugar thing is a bear when you don't feel good, if you don't

get it tamed.

I'm a long way off from the more interesting cooking I used to do,

but I don't have the stamina to do it all the time anyway, and I

feel better now eating more cleanly and without any " white death " as

Dr. R puts it. It's really made a difference.

The whole trick is determining an array of things you enjoy and

fixing them ahead of time as much as possible. It takes me a lot

less time to fix and eat a meal now. It took me a couple of months

to get my routine down, but my whole appetite and psychological

desire for the bad stuff is pretty much gone now. Even when I go

out, it's usually chopped beef, veggies and a salad or chicken and

the same.

Just my 2 cents worth......Sara

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> > My GI dr. did a blood test for celiac disease. But, they can

> easily come back false negative. The diet alone is the only way

to

> be 100% sure if you are a celiac.

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