Last night I didn’t get home and get dinner cooked until 11:00 PM. I was a little behind on timing all day. Dinner was a chicken leg w/o skin, brown rice with mushrooms & onions sauted in olive oil, and broccoli. About 600 calories, all foods I really like. I couldn’t eat it all.
I had [...]
Okay, I’m thinking that last post was a bit of a blind-side coming maybe from a whine. Here is what I’ve learned about me and goals. You’re right; it is very personal.
“Weight” goals don’t seem to be good for me because I tend to get caught up in losing as fast as I can, and [...]
Having completed the 28-day plan on the Flat Belly Diet, and, having experienced a plateau effect already, and, having begun exercising while pursuing that part of the program… it is time to raise my calorie levels. WooHoo!
Here is what nutritiondata.com says I need:
Calories Burned
Daily Energy Expenditure:
2446 kcal
( 10241 kJ)
Additional Calories from Exercise:
+ 218.0 kcal
( 913 kJ)
Estimated Energy [...]
Subject to change:
1. Simplify, simplify, simplify my menus.
2. Try new Flat Belly menus and add in things learned to my menus.
3. Settle on 30 days worth of menus for all four meals a day, 3 meals and a snack (as a start).
4. Set up the menus on the google docs so that I can easily create grocery lists from [...]
I know, mixed metaphor. But sometimes this is what it feels like.
There are a lot of things I like about the Flat Belly Diet and some that challenge me. For example, it is great that the online website will choose wheat-free (or other option) menus for me, make shopping lists, let me log food. It [...]
