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I have lost 2 kgs since Boxing Day. I have also started more exercises they are now up to 3/4 hour most days instead of 30 mins.
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I was scared of Hell Week. I prepared myself as best I could. I took the week off. I stocked up on junk food, thinking I'd probably just eat my way through my first week. I expected to be gorging on cookies, chips, chocolate - anything and everything that was probably not great for me in abnormally large doses. As long as it kept me from smoking, I was ok with it, figuring I could always ramp up my workouts when I was ready. I was right about one thing. I ate. Though eating is probably a gross understatement of what I did. :lol: I ate constantly. But, what really took me by surprise was, I didn't eat cookies, or chips or chocolate. I had absolutely no desire to touch any of it. I wanted tangerines. And snow peas. And sugar snap peas. And tuna. And chicken soup. Not one or two here or there either. Oh no! I ate three bags of tangerines that week. Three! Two bags of snow peas, three of sugar snap peas, SIX CANS OF TUNA! And bowl after bowl of chicken soup. I thought I would explode. :wacko: But I couldn't stop!! I generally eat a pretty healthy diet, but it's a far more balanced and moderate approach. This was so weird. But I figured my body must have some kind of a need for this stuff, so I went with it. Much of what I ate had a high Vitamin C content or other antioxidants. I also take a cranberry supplement with vitamins c and e, and I kept up with that. At least I wasn't smoking, right? I developed an aversion to my beloved coffee and drank cup after cup of green tea. I drank so much water, I was sure I'd drown. Every time I had a craving, I would grab another handful of sugar snap peas. The crunch of these was somehow super satisfying. I watched a lot of Netflix. I read these forums and I ate. My strongest cravings were near the end of Day 2. I came so close to going to the store to buy a pack. But, honestly, I was feeling way too full and, as a result, lazy, to bother going! I held on and I ate. I figured if I could just make it though three days. Just three. If I couldn't manage past that, I would get a pack. On Day 4, I woke up and I didn't really want a smoke upon waking. Which was so strange to me. I think that was the moment that I really committed to my quit and realized that there could be life after smoking. Also, I really didn't want to go through the first three days again. I wanted to see what came next. From that point on, there were some strong cravings for a cigarette. But none as strong as in the first three days. And they weren't constant. They felt more like "I could really go for some cake" type of thoughts. And, as long as I kept myself distracted, they went away. By day 10, my food cravings went back to normal. I'm back to liking coffee, but I'm down to only one cup a day. Not my usual 5 or 6! I still drink green tea and a variety of different herbal teas, as well as a lot of water. I'm back to eating a normal, for me, diet that includes a wide variety of vegetables, lean meats, and whole grains. Also, chocolate. And cookies. And, while I still love tangerines and peas, I no longer eat double my body weight in them daily. :D Progress.
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ZUCCHINI CAKES 2 medium zucchini; 1 tsp salt; 2 green onions, finely chopped; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 1 egg; ½ cup almond flour (optional); ½ tsp baking powder; Coconut oil or clarified butter, for cooking Cooking Instructions Begin by using a large-scale grater to grate your zucchini. You want to avoid creating small, thin strands, as the zucchini could get mushy upon frying. Once grated, place in a bowl and toss in the salt. Allow the zucchini to sit in the salt for at least 10 minutes. Then, extract any excess water from the zucchini (if you have never done this before, I am sure you will be surprised at how much water there actually is!). The easiest way to do this is to place the grated vegetable in a large piece of cheese cloth and wring it out. Use a strainer if no cheese cloth available. Return the zucchini to a large bowl and combine with the green onions, garlic, egg and baking powder. You could use almond flour, as it really helps in keeping the cakes from crumbling a apart, but you can also do without. Once everything has been mixed, form cakes of about 2 to 2.5″ in diameter out of the mixture. Place a large skillet over a medium-high heat. You want to allow the skillet to really warm up prior to adding any cooking fat to the pan. Add some of your chosen cooking fat to the pan, just enough to coat the surface.
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I like to hear what everyone is doing for dinner... and I don't mean this thread to replace that one. But I was hoping we could have a thread about eating healthy. A place to share ideas and recipes etc. I know Christa is thinking about becoming a vegetarian, I saw her post somewhere earlier but I cant find it now and I bet she will have lots to contribute here in the coming weeks too. So I am giving this a shot and we will see how it goes. What started this was when I read an ingredient list for a product and thought to myself, " I wonder how many people actually read these and understand them? " I did not want to hijack another thread so I am posting my thoughts here. I hope it helps someone out or at least makes you think... This is an ingredient list and it got me thinking about how these things read some times... ------------------------------------------------- Ingredients: Potato ingredients (potato flakes, potato starch), Sunflower, safflower and/or canola oil, rice flour,salt. ________________________________ ,... I am always looking at ingredient lists to see what is out there that I can eat with my diet restrictions. Well this one is a NOT for me because I do not eat corn products. This ingredient list has a few interesting elements to it and I thought I would translate this ingredient list for you all just so you are aware. Reading an ingredient list 101 First of all ingredients lists are in order where the first ingredient is the biggest part of the food, and then it follows down to the last ingredient that would have the smallest amount in the food. Usually when there is a sub title "Potato ingredients" what follows in the parenthesis would not be at the top of the list like this. Note that by doing this they also got the word Potato into the list three times, its all a mind thing. My guess is that oil would be the second ingredient and that would turn most ingredient readers off. Another thing where you see the choice of three oils... Well this just means that they can use any one of the above. But don't believe for a second that they are using anything other than the Canola oil. This and/or is used to get some good oils into the list, and since they can then put the 3 oils in any order, it pushes the canola oil further down the list. It is all a Mind game, we want to feel good about what we consume... Sunflower and Safflower oils are to expensive to use in this manner (see below). Canola oil is just a crappy vegetable oil that is mostly corn oil and it is a cheaper oil to use in bulk. Dont quote me, this is all JMHO... but I bet the igredient list if written accurately without the bells and whistles would look more like this..... ------------------------------------ Ingredients: Potato flakes, canola oil, rice flour, potato starch, salt. ________________________________ This product would be a not for me because I do not eat corn products. It is not a chip, but a processed potato snack that has better ingredients than alot of them. If you do eat these, as far as snacks go, it would be far better than a lot of things out there! A note on the oils.... I have a link below about Safflower Oil and some of the benefits of using it, Sunflower oil also is very good if you want to google that one too. It was always my understanding that all the benefits of using Safflower Oil were lost when you heated it, so I only use it in cold cooking ( salad, hummus, tahini etc. ). Look into it for yourself and make up your own mind but there is some really good reasons to use this and other oils. There is a lot to know about Oils, be careful because some of them are not meant to use for cooking and can be bad for you if you use them for cooking. Always check the temperature range for any oil before cooking with heat. Check out some of the benefits below,,, very interesting. http://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/oils/safflower-oil.html
