Healthy Weight Loss

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by Sachita

I love fitting into jeans I haven't worn in a while. I mostly wear sweat pants this time of year and my clothes loose. But I was going through old clothes trying to find stuff to wear and BAM! They went right on!

I'm having a hard time juicing when its chilly out. I'm still doing it but not as much. I'm looking for comfort recipes that use a lot of veggies, spices, no grains. I took cubed lamb, cooked it in ghee, added lots of curry type spices, coconut cream, keffir lime, mushrooms and then emptied a few packs of organic mixed veggies. It was really good and the sauce full of flavor. If anyone has any recipes for filling foods using small amounts of meat but huge amounts of veggies will you send them to me?

Someone told me yesterday that coffee increases cortiosol levels and if you stopped drinking coffee you'd drop weight. I majorly cut back and noticed all kinds of differences but damn do I miss coffee.

what about decaf coffee?

[Sachita]

Originally Posted by girl_dee

what about decaf coffee?

I'm not sure. I'll look. I was mixing half decaf but still had trouble with coffee. I think the process of removing caffeine is really unhealthy. I have been drinking Numi age earl grey and its really yummy. In fact I;m getting use to tea. It has caffeine but doesn't bother me like coffee does.

[nycfem]

As a no-caf person for 6 years now, I try to stay away from decaf too. It is supposed to be much more unhealthy than regular coffee (google/processing). Also, decaf has caffeine in it, sometimes a lot of it. I splurge on something decaf (meaning about 1/4 of a cup at most) when I'm dying for it but that's a rarity. The hardest part of no-caf for me is not having chocolate but the mind and body adjust with time.

Originally Posted by girl_dee

what about decaf coffee?

[Dance-with-me]

My life is about to have some structure and consistency back, so I'm hoping to really start focusing on my health including healthy eating and adequate exercise. I'll be back in my own house in a few days, and I have a treadmill, elliptical and bike there, plus I just had a cortisone shot that is addressing some of my pain issues.

One of the things that I plan to do starting on the 2nd is a one-week holistic whole foods cleanse. It's NOT one of those purge (aka poop your brains out) cleanses - it's a careful balance of whole foods that work together to reset your system, and is one that several friends have followed and loved. I'm hoping that it will help me pull away from sugars and other craving foods, get me back into eating the smaller portions that my body's good with when I give it the chance to not be stuffed full every day, and more. There's a small fee for getting the information but it includes support from the holistic health counselor who developed the program.