Guest guest Posted August 11, 2003 Report Share Posted August 11, 2003 Hi, it took me awhile to post as I read the post about not stating your religion in a signature. I thought signatures were your own freedom of speech. I, myself have my own signature and people are free to read or not read it. But I won't delete it just because one person says so. I was worried about how this group would react in other ways. But reading through the other e-mails, I see it is just one person and not the group as a whole so, I thought, I would go ahead and try this group out. I am just here to get support on losing weight not to see if I am offended by someone's signature. Anyhow, I don't want to be lurker and would like to be involved in this group. I have 30 pounds to lose and I joined ww a week ago and did great until the weekend. UGH! Help, what do you do about the weekend when stuff like the fair and company being in town? Thanks, Neoshea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 > I find it a challenge to prepare > meals. ... Welcome to the club, Tiff! > Hubby is a bit of a picky eater > - he does not like darker fleshed > fish, does not think a salad or > a sandwich is a suitable dinner, ... I think that he might have something there, that is only the first part of a meal! > ... does not like hot (canned) > tunafish (so tuna casseroles are > out). Tiff, there is plenty of information available about nutrition. Maybe if he has nothing much to do all day, he might be interested in learning some of the basic aspects of healthy nutrition. It doesn't cost a cent - the Internet has more than anybody could fully assimiliate. Once he learns what a " balanced " meal really is he might not be quite so picky about salad! > I work fulltime, so I really try > to make the same dinner for both of > us. I can't help you with that but I could describe my problem so that you can see that it is just as difficult in other situations. My wife and I are both retired so we have plenty of time. The problem is that I have to restrict my food intake to 1500 kcal/day or I begin to blow up like a balloon with all the associated problems that causes so I need a slimming atmosphere around the house (I weigh all my food, calculate its contents and stop eating when I reach near 1500kcal for the day). My wife on the other hand is clinically underweight. She has a digestion problem that causes everything to come back up if she eats more than a sparrow's breakfast. It is a fight to get her to eat enough food to keep her going. We watch her weight falling away almost daily and so she needs a " building-up " atmosphere about the house (plenty of tempting food handy). We can't have both so it is a constant see-saw between me losing weight and her gaining some. That is not much help to you unless you can get some consolation out of seeing that no matter how difficult life might seem, you don't have to look far to find somebody nearby has it worse! My wife cooks enough for two people, then divides it into two portions. Then she divides her portion in two and gives me one of them (even in a restaurant). That way I get to eat consistently three times as much as she does. If I stop eating my plate and a half, she stops eating her half-plate, too. > I am maintaining control with a > low - moderate carb diet - 100 - 150 > gms per day - plus meds & exercise. Your diabetes sounds very much like mine. My daily intake is 25 energy% protein, 25 energy% fat and 50 energy% carbohydrate. That works out at 92g protein, 40g fat and 180g carbohydrate, all natural food, no processed food. I take 500mg/day metformin HCL and do some weight-lifting and stepping. I have had an HbA1c steady at around 5.5% for about 4 years now. > I also have controlled high bp & > controlled high cholesterol. That seems to be par for the course and sounds like " metabolic syndrome " so I could hazard a guess that you are just a little overweight? > I have 2 greyhounds. Walking them > is one of my daily exercise routines. Can't keep up with them running, huh? Regards Thornton Pforzheim, Germany Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 How do you cook with one??? -- " The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. " --Carl Jung > > Reply-To: alldiabeticinternational > Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:59:15 -0400 > To: alldiabeticinternational > > Subject: RE: [alldiabeticinternational] I'm new here > > Do you have a pressure cooker? They can make the toughest cuts soft and > eminently swallowable. > > [alldiabeticinternational] I'm new here > > > . > > I find it a challenge to prepare meals. Hubby has difficulty > swallowing drier meats, so I cannot broil meats or saute them in a pan > and add a light sauce. Also, most baked meats are out. Prior to my > diagnosis, we ate alot of pasta and also seafood. Now that hubby > cannot work, we are on a budget and seafood is quite $$$$. Hubby is a > bit of a picky eater - he does not like darker fleshed fish, does not > think a salad or a sandwich is a suitable dinner, does not like hot > (canned) tunafish (so tuna casseroles are out). I work fulltime, so I > really try to make the same dinner for both of us. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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