K's personal health journey (members read only): Smart Food Choices that Improve Your Health & Life

[Kätzchen]

It has been nearly two years since Rico passed away and then shortly after, I became my best friend's love interest and we mesh so well.

But the update I have today is more about the daily commitment of making sure I do not over eat or stray far from the 'magic' formula diet I have been sticking to and mostly that is about not consuming any dairy products of traditional types of bread or enjoying pasta like I used to.

Mostly today, I cook our meals at home and most meals nowadays are summer salads served free of calorie rich dressings. We choose squeezed limes of lemons or oranges for dressing a salad.

But... for breakfast, we do a three-egg omelette with a wasa-bread cracked topped off with freshly ground almonds or roasted peanuts which gives us around 35-40 grams of protein to kick start our lives on the right note.

Souping is a great way to lessen caloric intake yet revs up our dietary liquid intake (water or water based soups) which also aids our digestion and meets hydration requirements.

Oh, and not overdoing exercise. We do weight lifting or add weights to our exercise routine and it helps to build and maintain muscle mass.

Be healthy, be happy and take good care until next time!



--K.

[Kätzchen]

I've done fairly well over the past 5 years at adjusting the way I eat and the foods I consume. I'm within 45 pounds of my weight goal, after being grossly overweight for nearly two decades. One of the latest changes I've made to my daily meal routines is to eat one whole avocado and I eat it at breakfast time, at the beginning of each day, so I don't feel deprived of tasty meal foods and to help my body as I age (gracefully ).

Here is a great article, found here, about the many benefits of Avocado.





Cheers,

[Kätzchen]

I’ve struggled this past year with weight gain when I literally limit what I eat and stick to a vegetarian type diet. What I discovered is that my exercise routine was causing me to gain weight because my muscle mass was increasing due to my exercise routine. Walking tons of steps doesn’t really help me because my right hip and pelvis area is consistently out of alignment and my knees being ‘bone on bone’ doesn’t help with my gait challenges.

So my weight trainer / exercise coach at my local gym is having me try out a yoga routine, and implementing the yoga routine with my water aerobics class.

It’s been so incredibly hot here (we have massive fires all over our state) so I’ve been upping my water intake and journaling my food intake (limits and time periods etc) for my coach and doctor.

Maybe by next spring I will have developed new habits that will keep me lean and strong and finally master my yo-yo weight issues.

Be safe and keep fighting the good fight,

— K.

[Kätzchen]

So, I’ve been faithful to go to my gym three times a week; and in concert with the gym routine, I get more than 16k steps at work — I’m at work about six hours each day I go to work.

I’m down 59 pounds since last summer, but I still have body work to do. This year I hope to lose about thirty pounds before the first of next year. If I’m able to accomplish that goal, then I will transition to a transitory goal of weight management via exercise achievement (s).


One of the small food goals I kept the past few months is to have an avocado each day: half of one for breakfast, the other half for lunch. Having avocado in my dietary schedule helps satiate my hunger for more food. Eat half of one, drink 12 ounces of water; have breakfast or lunch after letting that small avocado boost takes effect on my body. I’m loving that part of my routine for eating breakfast or lunch.

Another goal I’ve upheld too is drinking enough water. Your body works much better when it has proper hydration, so this part of my dietary routine is vital to my health and is lifting me up by correcting my food and hydration choice behaviors.

I’m becoming who I was during my young adult life (slender and toned muscles). And this is what I do daily to help correct the downward spiral I was on, for many years (which led to a pre-diabetes outcome), but now I focus on food and hydration choices which is helping me to achieve the goal of not needing medication support to mitigate my pre-diabetic condition that settled into my life after a near fatal work related accident.

I’m almost there, to my before- accident health status. If I can maintain my goals and improve all the tiny sectors that have improved already, then by next spring I hope to be free from taking medications (glipizide & losartan).


—K.