Food for today
Breakfast- Shredded wheat
Lunch- turkey breast and swiss on whole wheat, tator tots, carrots
Dinner- Homemade chicken and noodles with dumplings, 2 ice cream bars
I ran 8 miles tonight. It felt good. I decided that I am going to weigh once a month. I am going to weigh tomorrow.... I think. I'll let you know how it goes!

I was wondering about varying foods. I have a bad habit of eating the same thing over and over. I love fresh tomatoes so have been eating them every day but lately my stomach has been aching and I wonder if I'm eating too many tomatoes. I have soy milk every morning because I love milk but can't have calcium. I flavor it a little. It has 9gm protein and 4gm fiber. I really need the fiber. I lost another lb so am happy about that. I wonder though beause over a few months time it might not keep coming off consistently. That't the way it has been in the past.... up and down.

I applaud you for feeding your child real food. I look at what some of my friends feed their children and just cringe. Not only because they are being malnourished, but because they are being trained that the junk they're eating is real food.

People don't seem to realize how easily you can re-train your palate to like drastically different food. I had a boyfriend several years ago who was really hooked on fast food. After eating at my house several times a weeks for a few months, he told me that he had recently bought what used to be his favorite kind of fast food burrito, and it didn't taste good to him anymore. He jokingly told me that I had ruined fast food for him forever by getting him used to real food.

Carol,

I believe in general it is wise to eat as wide a variety of foods as possible.

Overexposure to the same food over time can trigger a food allergy or food intolerance. I have seen this happen with my own mother. Like you, she eats a very small variety of foods. Her doctor has tested her for food allergies, and she is showing signs of becoming allergic to almost all the foods she normally eats. So one by one she cuts them out of her diet, leaving her an even smaller subset of foods to choose from, which of course exacerbates the problem. I think the only foods left that she feels she can still eat are beef and leafy greens.

I also believe from my own experience that eating a wide variety of foods assists in weight loss. I eat a wider variety of foods than anyone else I know. My pantry is stocked with ingredients that a lot of people have never even heard of. I know that in my own case, I usually don't have any kind of food cravings to deal with as long as my diet is varied enough.

I came across this thread while looking through todays posts and think it is the greats thing since sliced bread.


I have a habit of starting a new diet plan and after a few days I am craving whatever it is I can't have, and usually at the same time being crushed that the scale isn't moving or is moving in the wrong direction.

So Sunday, I decided I would just watch what I eat, eat smaller and try and make better choices and break some old habits.

So I've noticed little things that I have an instant need to eat when I get home. I won't call it hunger. Since I knew I was going to want to eat something when I got home i would stop at the local fried chicken spot and pick up something, or whatever fast food spot was open. On saturday I went food shopping and now I have a small snack and a quarter of a glass of juice or a full glass of water.

I have another need to eat when I get to work. I think it is just the habit of eating a meal before i start work. So I eat when I get to work, but moderatly and try to make sure I include vegetable and healty stuff.

I also have a bad habit of wanting to eat on the way home from my parents or grandmothers (they live across the street from each other)
I managed not to get the snack I usually get on the way home from grandmas house. I am realizing there are certain things that I am just used to doing....One is grabbing something while I am in the car...as if it doesn't count while I am in the car.

Since i haven't limited what I can eat I tend to eat what I am supposed to. I tend to go low carb, but today I wanted some pasta. I had a little pasta with some broccli rather than 3 servings worth and I seem ok.

Anyway.....Just want to say Hi.....will read through more of the posts.

Welcome, Obsidianbow. I think you would enjoy reading The Overfed Head by Rob Stevens. It is short, to the point and full of encouragement. Fiddler, I'm with you on home cooked food. I have 10 kids and live 30 mi from any fast food place. I have a big garden but only 1 kid at home so I need to cut back one of these years. Today I put up 16qt of tomatoes and 14 of beans. I usually do 100 of both except for last summer when I was ill. Most of my kids don't have gardens yet so they enjoy the produce. I think we did 90 qt of corn (frozen). The corn is put in the ground by machine. It fills the whole east side of the garden. We had good strawberries this year, too. But after cooking all these years (been married 37 yr.) I sometimes wish someone would just tell me what to fix!!!

Carol, I envy your garden!

I've put in an herb garden, an orchard, a vineyard, and a chicken coop, but I haven't gotten around to doing the vegetable garden yet.

I guess I should feel lucky I have a job, but sometimes working fulltime makes it tough to get anything done, lol.

Hi ladies,
Tonight was my first night of graduate school and I was so nervous. The minute class was over I wanted to go somewhere and get something to eat to comfort myself. I decided to just go on home since I knew I wasn't really hungry in such a way that I needed to go binge. I went home and fixed a couple of eggs and a piece of sausage and put it in a tortilla. It was a perfect dinner. Yeah!!! It used to be a losing battle fighting my mind when I was tempted to just fill myself up. The urge tonight was much more of a passing thought than an all out war that I used to have. Baby steps!

Congrats on the baby step Runnin' mama....one at a time ;-)

Well I am going to eat out with a few women from work and the problem I have is whenever I am trying to eat better and I eat out it is pretty much a recipe for failure so my goal this afternoon is to eat until I am not hungry and not anything I don't want. I also have clean plat syndrome...blah. Hope everyone else has a good day.

Years ago, when I had a garden and lots of little kids. I also had a LOT of weeds. But the vegetables always seemed to make it. Now I have a tiller so do better but by this time of year I just get tired of weeding. Fiddler, got any good recipes for eggplant? Great job Kay. How did the dinner go, Obsidianbbw (got your name wrong the last time, sorry)?

Hi all,
I have not lost any weight in a while - about a month. Do not know what I am doing wrong. I am getting fustrated. I am going to review some of the books I have (Intuitve Eating, the Overfed head) this weekend to try and get motivated again.

I think that may be a problem of mine, eating too much processed and fast food. Unfortuanately I happen to love fried chicken that I cook at home. I have to learn how to do better. I keep gaing and looseing the same couple of pounds over and over.

Thanks Kay - I am going to try them.

Don't give up Lisa! After 35 yr. of dieting I can tell you that it isn't the answer. One thing that really dawned on me one day was that when I started to do regular fasting, my problem got worse. I think fasting might be good for some things but not permanent weight loss. I read The Overfed Head for encouragement and it really works.

Lisa,

My suggestion would be to keep making your fried chicken at home, BUT use whole wheat flour instead of white flour to bread it, fry it in canola oil, and keep the salt to a minimum. Then accompany it with some healthy, naturally low-calorie foods like steamed asparagus with lemon and baked sweet potatoes. You CAN have your fried chicken and eat it too.