I hate diets.

[EweSheep]

No fake bacon for this girl!! I hate those soy things too! It really tears my stomach and intestines up big time! I am not sure if I was allergic to them but man, talk about a real pain doozy!

Sure I can make a BLT with homemade mayo and lots of lettuce to wrap those babies up! Thanks Wifezilla!!!!!

 

[Wifezilla]

Soy is great if you want to GAIN weight and really don't like having thyroid. Unless soy is fermented (like soy sauce), it damages the human body.

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

Cereal is a sure way to spike your blood sugar and flood your body with insulin.

Sure it is. But it also depends on a few things, like WHICH cereal you are eating and WHAT you do after you eat it. Personally I go out and clean a barn full of dirty stalls, so I burn that carbohydrate and am not hungry again until dinner (lunch) time. Other combinations just don't seem to do that for me. Now if I were plopping myself down in front of a computer screen instead of doing stalls, I just might get that insulin spike. But I don't get one (and I have the meter readings that show it), so it works for me. I've been doing this for 10 years now, so I do know what works for me. And I NEVER said my way of eating works for anyone else. I said this is what works for me and maybe something in the post might be helpful to the OP.

Personally my BP cannot handle the daily bacon nor daily eggs, but if that works for you, then go for it. Additionally, fats and I do not get along well. In fact, I dropped that first 10 pounds just by stopping eating peanut butter, which I used to love in excess. Now I eat none at all. For me personally, I have to eat a protein with my carbohydrate or the carb does bother me enough that I can feel the difference.

My personal view is that a healthy diet is all about experimenting until you learn what works for your own body. Then make yourself a formula and stick to it. That is basically what I have done. I do not think it is healthy to be constantly dwelling on what you can eat today and counting calories and such. I think doing that somehow affects the metabolism and helps keep the body in starvation mode and you don't lose anything. I think that working out a formula that clicks with your system and sticking to it so that you are not always thinking about food, actually HELPS reset your metabolism to one that works for you instead of against you. The less you worry yourself over it and stress over it, the better you do.

All of this is totally JMO, of course.

Rusty​

 

[patman75]

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Tea is all good.

Black tea will have the most caffine. Then Green. Herbal tea will have no caffine.


If you feel like you need to snack grab some veggies. Small calories and high nutritents.

Here is a good tip, (its not going to sound good, sorry.)

You will need to reduce your calorie intake by 500 calories per day under your baseline calorie requirements to loose 1lb per week. 3500 calories = 1 lb.

Since you are not active because of your knee, you will need to do it all from diet. You will need to be at least under 1500 calories per day to loose at all.

This means you really need to eat a lot of veggies to keep your calorie intake low. If you can do any upperbody excerise to get your heart rate up that will help so much to burn some calories.

 

[patman75]

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Splenda alters gut microflora and increases intestinal p-glycoprotein and cytochrome
Story
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=150785
research
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18800291?dopt=Abstract

 

[booker81]

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Sure it is. But it also depends on a few things, like WHICH cereal you are eating and WHAT you do after you eat it. Personally I go out and clean a barn full of dirty stalls, so I burn that carbohydrate and am not hungry again until dinner (lunch) time. Other combinations just don't seem to do that for me. Now if I were plopping myself down in front of a computer screen instead of doing stalls, I just might get that insulin spike. But I don't get one (and I have the meter readings that show it), so it works for me. I've been doing this for 10 years now, so I do know what works for me. And I NEVER said my way of eating works for anyone else. I said this is what works for me and maybe something in the post might be helpful to the OP.

Personally my BP cannot handle the daily bacon nor daily eggs, but if that works for you, then go for it. Additionally, fats and I do not get along well. In fact, I dropped that first 10 pounds just by stopping eating peanut butter, which I used to love in excess. Now I eat none at all. For me personally, I have to eat a protein with my carbohydrate or the carb does bother me enough that I can feel the difference.

My personal view is that a healthy diet is all about experimenting until you learn what works for your own body. Then make yourself a formula and stick to it. That is basically what I have done. I do not think it is healthy to be constantly dwelling on what you can eat today and counting calories and such. I think doing that somehow affects the metabolism and helps keep the body in starvation mode and you don't lose anything. I think that working out a formula that clicks with your system and sticking to it so that you are not always thinking about food, actually HELPS reset your metabolism to one that works for you instead of against you. The less you worry yourself over it and stress over it, the better you do.

All of this is totally JMO, of course.

Rusty

This is totally where I'm going

I got a few books today woo!!!! "Good Calories, Bad Calories", Nourishing Traditions, and The New Atkins. The first two I'm really interested in, the last is more to help see if I can use it to start getting a schedule going

Woo hoo!!!

 

[booker81]

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Soy hates me as well...REALLY hates me. Bloating, tired, sick, runs, all that. Some tofu I can handle in small, small amounts, but things like Textured Soy is just.....horrible. Ugh.

 

[feather and mountain man]

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Soy hates me as well...REALLY hates me. Bloating, tired, sick, runs, all that. Some tofu I can handle in small, small amounts, but things like Textured Soy is just.....horrible. Ugh.

Not me I love soy (soy burgers and soy milk) yup love it!

 

[booker81]

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Soy hates me as well...REALLY hates me. Bloating, tired, sick, runs, all that. Some tofu I can handle in small, small amounts, but things like Textured Soy is just.....horrible. Ugh.

Not me I love soy (soy burgers and soy milk) yup love it!

OMG - had soy milk once. Well, had it for about 30 minutes, and then it came right back up and out!!

More soy for you!

 

[booker81]

One things I've noticed since I've started eating less processed stuff, more protein and less carbs the past few days is that my water craving is back. I'm not bloated or retaining water, going like normal, but I've been really digging the water. My cups are 16oz cups, and I probably drink 5-7 of them a day now. Our water especially - which is well water, softened somewhat (I'm not running the softener very high), and then filtered in a Brita pitcher.

I'll take it - much better than craving Diet Mt. Dew like I used to!