Healthy Weight Loss

[starryeyes]

I worked out today, ate lots of protien and only ate a small piece of birthday cake! Yaya. Feels good

[sylvie]

Good Morning Healthies.. ♥

Just got home from work, eating my morning snack now..
Then, going to go to the Gym since i don't go back to work 'til 4pm..

For breakfast:
1 shredded wheat, with 1/2 cup skim milk
1/2 medium banana
1 small yogurt

For snack:
1/2 cup of green grapes

At the gym, i will do:
30 mins treadmill, altering between 1 min jog, 1 min walk
20 mins elliptical
Some weights for lower body (glutes, seated leg press, hip abuctors)
Some Ab crunches & squats
plus walking to & from the Gym (25 mins walk each way)

For lunch:
1/2 whole wheat pita
2 oz. chicken breast
lettuce, chopped tomatoes, red onion
1 Tbsp crumbled feta cheese

For snack:
8-10 almonds & 1/2 green apple

For dinner tonight:
1/2 stuffed pepper
nice garden salad on the side
1/3 lemon , no dressing

Mr Mtn & i made some delicious stuffed peppers on Monday night, and dined together.. ♥ Love Our cooking adventures, and they were soooo yummy!! And taste even better the next day ..

Have a wonderful day all!

[Hollylane]

Good morning

I am dragging ass this morning. I refuse to let the ass dragging happen while I am hiking today. I need a theme song, with some rhythm. I do not like eating breakfast, but I will do it this morning, low carb of course. I need to find some energy!

[ruffryder]

I got this information from self.com. I 'm sure we've all heard it but it's nice to be reminded and sometimes folks don't know.

- Skip added sugars and high fructose corn syrup. White sugar, brown sugar, honey—all sugar pumps calories into your diet and spikes your blood sugar. It makes you feel fatigued, instead of giving you that energy you were hoping for. cold cuts and ketchup are in this list.

- Avoid bad fats. Saturated and trans fats can clog your arteries and promote inflammation. Sidestep the fried foods and anything made with hydrogenated vegetable oils. Wipeout high fat marbled meats and choose skim or 1% fat dairy products. Eat good fat - olive oil, avocado, and nuts.

- Pump up protein includes chicken and salmon. It stabilizes blood sugar and helps you feel fuller longer. Divide your body weight in pounds by 2—that's how many grams of protein you should aim to get each day. Other great sources of protein include whole grain cereals, tofu, and beans. These are also rich in fiber and magnesium.

- Alcohol is no good when it goes along with resisting unhealthy foods. Instead, for drinks make it water, tea, seltzers and coffee. An occassional glass of red wine is good!

- Reach for fiber. It is filling and helps your digestive tract, pulling cholesterol out of the blood stream. Keep fiber foods close at hand always including cereals, fruit, berries, potatoes and edamame. Have two foods with at least 3 grams of fiber per serving every day.

- Chew, Swallow, Repeat. Eat something every 4 hours. This keeps your blood sugar stablilized and your metabolism revved. The right foods help you drop pounds by revving your calorie burn and curbing cravings. Try an energy bar!

[JoSchmooze]

Getting ready to leave for a fun weekend
in Austin in a couple days....
Wodering how I am going to stay on track....
I already toldAbby that I would probably eat,
but already thinking in the back of my mind how to
find the right foods and how to not look like
I am completely crazy about this whole thing....
Food addiction! Dammit!

[PinkieLee]

Originally Posted by JoSchmooze

Getting ready to leave for a fun weekend
in Austin in a couple days....
Wodering how I am going to stay on track....
I already toldAbby that I would probably eat,
but already thinking in the back of my mind how to
find the right foods and how to not look like
I am completely crazy about this whole thing....
Food addiction! Dammit!

NO WORRIES my friend!

Luckily, Candace is on a pretty strict diet right now, too.... so she is bringing a lot of her menu items herself. So, go ahead and grab some healthier options at the grocery store and come on

Plus, me & Medusa will be there too... there is safety in numbers

[ruffryder]

Originally Posted by ruffryder

Divide your body weight in pounds by 2—that's how many grams of protein you should aim to get each day.

I wanted to go ahead and calculate this because I was thinking it was a lot! However here is what it adds up to. .

If someone weighs 200 lbs. / 2 = 100 grams of protein a day or 3.5 ounces. This is very healthy, beyond healthy.

[Hollylane]

Wow. That hike was a lot more challenging than I expected. But....I DID IT! I met some great folks from my hiking group, and got to know the hike leader, her husband, and even walked with their dog, Gauge (an adorable, and well trained English Pointer rescue dog), for a few miles. I got lots of tips, and a few blisters, and some more tips... about blisters.

The weather was very rainy, and I was soaked from head to toe, with a nice layer of mud from the knees down. Fun!

I followed the hike up with a limp into the used/new sporting goods store, and picked up 2 pairs of hiking pants, two extra bandanas, a flashlight, BPA free water canister, a new (gently used) The North Face rucksack, gaiters, synthetic socks (that say they prevent blisters), and drooled over more hiking gear.

I also discovered, thanks to my new hiking buddies, a new app for the IPhone, called MapMyHike. It uses the GPS feature on my phone to track my progress, including:


Mileage
MPH
Elevation
Calories burned (by using my height and weight along with the other data)
Location
Alternate trails

And it has a workout log. Way cool!

I will have to use it on the eight mile hike this Sunday. Now I'm going to relax for an hour before heading to the gym for the hour with the trainer.

I am going to sleep like the dead tonight. That is a fact.

I hope you all had a wonderful and healthy day!

[Dominique]

Originally Posted by ruffryder

I wanted to go ahead and calculate this because I was thinking it was a lot! However here is what it adds up to. .

If someone weighs 200 lbs. / 2 = 100 grams of protein a day or 3.5 ounces. This is very healthy, beyond healthy.

The recommended amount of protein is .036 grams per pound for a HEALTHY female. People with compromised kidney functions will not want to consume this much protein as the process of breaking down protein is very hard on kidneys. (Diabetes and High Blood Pressure to name two) Check with your Doctor to be sure.

[Ginger]

I've been skidding on and off course with what I'm eating. We (I'm the live-in girlfriend of a single mom), went hiking yesterday along the coast of an inland bay. It was steep at places; a short but satisfying hike. I've been too depressed to get to the gym in the last few weeks, but I think this week will be better. Spring weather always helps.

This morning I had a banana, then non-fat yogurt with almonds and dried cranberries.

Yesterday for breakfast, I had a big bowl of oatmeal with almonds and dried cranberries.

For lunch/dinner I had six grilled shrimp over a boring salad that cost too much in a restaurant. For dessert, to make up for up, I had flan, which I adore.

When I got home I had two chocolate chip cookies and my partner gave me a look that ruined it.

(Usually she is great but understandably, she gets tired of me bitching about gaining weight, then standing at the refrigerator eating frozen yogurt out of the carton, etc.)

She tells me I am average in size, when I demand to know if I am thin or average or larger than average. I have no sense of it at all. All my life I have bought clothes that didn't fit.

[JustJo]

Good morning healthies

Thank you so much for that GI resource Kelt...that's super helpful. I try to eat low glycemic index foods because I know it helps tremendously with the diabetes....so thank you, thank you!

It was weigh and measure day at Curves this morning and I don't have anything as dramatic as last month's 10 inch loss to report.

However, considering that I did it a few days late last month, a day early this month, traveled for work for a week (including lots of meals in restaurants or catered in), Easter candy in the house, and insane stress over my mother....I'm actually quite happy.

Normally, I'd be gaining weight like mad at a time like this....and instead I lost 2.5 pounds and about an inch (half from my waist and the rest off my thighs).

I'll take it!