Hey, Thanks Heidi and Marilyn!!!
Hey Trinity!!
So, YES ... I am drinking 2 cups of black coffee in the morning... It is on "the list" to reconsider, but .... not going hellbent on getting rid of it yet... Still think plants are making me ridiculously energetic and crazy...
Hey Journal,
Hoping to be able to complete this. My computer is about to explode (per my husband who knows more about these things than I do...)... He has ordered me a new one... So, anyway... if I am not posting this week --- don't worry, I haven't fallen into a vat of peanuts...
Here is today's breakfast...
So, this is a bit of Cedar's oil free hummus with the veggies. It is bland to me --- so the red stuff is just smoked paprika. On the potatoes is a dried onion / parsley / other greenish herb thing...
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.
Yes. Still mostly salad / raw veggies - sometimes fruit. I am looking to maintain weight ... so have been targeting 2 of 3 meals preload (experimenting here...)... Guess 2 out of 3 Ain't Bad... (the irony here is that I have really started to love preload...) 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.
Eating a ton of potatoes, sloppy lentils, rice, whole wheat pasta, split pea soup. Lots of different veggies / fruits included.
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 in cooking or product; at table only). I am really happy to be confident that I don't have any issue with sugar (like I can limit it and am enjoying it without going cuckoo!!). I am including 1-1.5T maybe 50% of days in one dish only. I am not sure of calories to calculate 5% maximum; however, thinking that I am ok (BBQ sauce and California Balsamic Vinegar are the sugars that I include sometimes). 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. No starving or stuffing.
I did have one meal this week where I ate a mind-blowing amount / volume of food (for me)... Hmmm... I don't think that I was stuffing (I really don't like to and I am not volume eater normally)... but it was a food that I was looking forward to... I have to THANK Mark Cooper again for posting his journal with pictures... helped me keep it in perspective and also talked to some folks that even eat more... No worries, was just bizarre...
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
I am giving myself extra credit this week - today walked over 3.5 hours... So, was off work and did 1.5 hour walk in early AM... Then, my son (going back to school) gets up at 11 and asks if I want to do favorite trail (about 7 miles)... So, yeah... why would I not want to??? Worked out fine... We saw deer, weasel ... and a ton of grasshoppers!!! I do this walking thing for mental health too...and I embrace opportunities to engage with people close to me... (so may rest day 1 this upcoming week...)
Victories, comments, concerns, questions:
This is what I packed for myself for outdoor outing. Knowing 100% that only compliant food is $5 water bottle... Worked out well !!! Ate outside area restaurant with my son -- and no pressure on which to restaurant to pick for him.... This is same place that I got my only #6 fail a couple of months ago...
Super excited to be celebrating 30 year anniversary with my husband this weekend!!!
We are going to go to PF Chang's... best choice --- and he wanted me to pick the restaurant (so, brown rice and steamed veggies will be what I eat)...
I hope that everyone has the best week ever!!!
Cheers,
Stephanie