Hi!! Thank you, Health 1st / MakeHealthLast for kind comments... you can get back on the train... JOIN us!!!
Love to see you here!!!
Hey Beth,
Thank you too and you come on by and eat all food... (I bet you can't)... But, if you do ---- then no dishes, you can take me shopping as we go to replenish food!!!
This would be hilarious!!!
Hi Marilyn, GLAD that you liked the split pea soup!!!
Hi All,
Going to post a few pics and then just weekly assessment... (unless I get wordy...)
OK, so weather got to 39 degrees a couple of days ago in the AM when I walk. So, this was an experiment that turned out AWESOME!!! I kind of starchified Jeff Longevity soup recipe... (but then I also didn't put the greens that I will do next time...) So this was, 2 cans NSA crushed tomatoes, Pomi strained tomatoes, frozen corn and riced cauliflower, fresh onion and carrots, sweet potatoes, yukon gold potatoes, NSA kidney and garbanzo beans, minced garlic, smoked paprika, rosemary, parsley, about 2/3 water (of tomato cans)... Threw this into crockpot and was delicious ... will be going on with tweaking this... Very easy!!!
Easy lunch...
OMG, sloppy lentils with corn salad... Yum!
Got a bit off with the oats / water ratio here!! But, still delicious!!!
Below is Behavioral assessment that I will post to the Time & Adherence Group.
Hi Team Time and Adherence!
1 Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.
Mostly no. I did do this a few times. Was excited to get screaming ripe red pears and yellow tomatoes at the Farmers Market this week!!! DELICIOUS!!! (did not eat them together... ) 2 Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches.
Choose fruit for dessert.
Yes. Still going oatmeal and fruit for breakfast (takes 5 minutes). Mexican salad for lunch with fruit... until I shifted to warmer starchy stew (with the chilly-ish weather coming on and was excited to make a super easy crock-pot "technique" that was super delicous!). Tons of potatoes, corn, sloppy lentils, Jeff burgers for dinner with various fruit / veggies.
3 Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them.
Yes. Reduced, not eliminated. 4 Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).
YES, of course. 5 Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).
Yes. 6 Eliminate any added oil.
YES. 7 Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e., bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes, puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit.
Yes. 8 Don’t drink your calories especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).
Yes.9 Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself.
Yes. I did not stuff or starve....
10 Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).
Yes.
* 7/7 days walked briskly
OK, well... seriously both the colder weather and the early AM darkness are going to prompt me to shift a bit... Not going to be sedentary, but not loving cold and dark AM walking... (fine so far, but we are still in September!!! )Victories, comments, concerns, questions:
Comment:
1): Well, knock me over with self-awareness... I seem to have a tendency to be doing "ok" and then wanting to raise the bar... Not helpful to sustainability of new habits that I want to just maintain and make easier and easier (which has been happening)... So, announcing my plan for Q4 2022 --- A) Follow the 10 point MWL checklist (holistically, without emphasis on any particular point), B) Will be looking to best re-deploy some of my "nice weather" AM walking time into other productive activity (like meditation, relaxation, stationary biking, strength / balance training), C) If I get it into my head to make additional goals, refer to this post!!!
2) Wishing folks the best... Not sure if anyone in group is in path of Hurricane Ian... Hoping all are ok. Have a friend in Fort Meyers who is ok and Riding the Storm Out gracefully (and hosting some coastline peeps)... so sorry to see the devastation...
Question:
Have an upcoming long weekend where some parameters for preparation are not in my wheelhouse. Hoping if anyone could weigh in to critique my plan / offer additional suggestions. My baseline assumption would be that I should pack all of my meals (but I will be happy to be proven wrong!!!). Hotel we are staying at does not (and will NOT ) have microwave (no control over where we stay as with a large group)... Pretty packed schedule of activities... (so, not seeing time to do something different...).. Anyway, here is my plan (bringing a cooler):
1) Durable / portable fruit --- bananas, apples / pears, grapes
2) Veggies --- Carrots, grape tomatoes, cauliflower
3) Starches --- Jeff Burgers, potatoes (just a bunch of whole ones baked)
4) Vinegar --- small bottle in purse
Considering pasta salad, hummus... I am pretty not picky (but do prefer at least room temp food!!)... Maybe simpler to eliminate what I am considering --- as I don't see opportunity to "do own thing" except maybe breakfast...
Beyond critique... anyone eat oats made with cold water??? Never tried... but curious... or maybe I try before going??
Sorry for perhaps dumb question...
Leaving all with this quote:
"Cover me in sunshine
Shower me with good times
Tell me that the world's been spinning since the beginning
And everything will be alright
Cover me in sunshine" --- Pink and Willow Sage Hart
Hope that everyone has a wonderful week!!
Cheers,
Stephanie