Hello everyone!
Food this week has been at home apart from one compliant meal out with my Mum. I suggested we go to a local carvery which is one of her fav lunch places and she hadn't been since before her knee op. She usually goes there with her friends as she knows its not somewhere I would choose to eat. Looking at the menu online before we went, there were some vegan options but they all looked to have oil, salt etc. and they didn't have any boiled or baked potatoes, or other starches as side dishes. So, my lovely Mum made me a jacket potato and wrapped it in foil so I could take it with me! With the boiled veg from the carvery counter, plus some dijon mustard it made for a filling meal
Meals at home have included tomato and cucumber salad (we have lots in our garden); a root veg, chick pea and pearl barley soup (one of my husband's chuck it all in soups!); courgette soup; minestrone soup; sweet potato baked fries; hummus; braised red cabbage; kale cooked with garlic and onion; 'Portuguese' rice (brown rice cooked in veggie stock, black beans and finely chopped veggies) and steamed potatoes. With us both doing batch cooking, there's been lots of pre-prepared food in the fridge which is great
My weight is down by 1 pound and my husband's is down by 0.4. I think his weight might have been a little lower but he cooked himself some veggie fajitas with shop-bought wraps and used a lot of a pre-made fajita spice mix (30% salt), and his weight is still settling back down after a water-retention increase. Recently we've both been cooking without salt and he's cut out most of the processed foods that he was eating, so the fajitas would have been a big hike in sodium consumption. He doesn't usually weigh himself everyday so hasn't noticed an overnight 2-3 pound increase on the scales before. Anyway, we're enjoying sharing the cooking, (mostly) eating the same foods, chatting about weight maintenance/loss and McDougalling together. And it's certainly helping me improve my compliance and to enjoy the process even more
His fajita-experience has prompted me to remind myself what Dr McD says on the topic of salt and here are the links in case anyone else would like a recap:
Webinar: 04/10/18, Dr. John McDougall: Salt & Sugar RecommendationsMcDougall’s Moments: The Truth About SaltDr McDougall August 2008 Newsletter - Salt: The Scapegoat for the Western DietBest wishes, Sue x