What I Ate

[Indiana]

Yes Harriet happier that someone feels better because of what they ate.

I like all the ideas of food choices. It gives food for thought for menu ideas.

OKay you are right it has to be water.

Many times someone that weighs every day will see the increase as calories consumed and become discouraged and quit. That is one of the problems with weighing everyday unless you keep it in perspective like you are doing. Getting weighed weekly you don't see the fluctuations.

I was vehemently opposed to daily weighing until I HAD to weigh everyday. I must weigh everyday to track increases of fluid. Now I don't think weighing everyday is bad as long as kept in perspective.

I still think weekly is best. There is less frustration to see the scales every day.

It is a bump in the road. You are doing to well.

[Harriet]

OKay, there doesn't have to even BE a reason for it. But if you'd like my detective work (getting lollipop and trench coat), as I read over your days a little, I would suspect you could use extra water intake to compensate for a little more sodium you've had, the heat of the days, the activity. Then the fat stores ready to leave you will have a "taxi" ride on outathere rather than waiting around with the sodium. (I realize this is technical talk.)

Lynlee, good for you adding swedes - so nutritious - are they easy to find? Here we can hardly find rutabagas except in big health food stores and I've only used them in stews a couple times in my life, only as an adult. I remember when I took my livestock courses in the late 70s I learned that in Europe rutabagas were always for people, turnips for cattle; yet in the US for some reason it reversed and we LIKED the turnips, so made rutabagas cattle food! Who knows the why of it. Maybe, like onions, they taste different in different soils. And turnips have stuck with us here for generations until we forgot swedes, which were even abandoned as cattle food when tractors showed up and made other crops easier.

lucylee, sweat is sweat. It doesn't have to be formal. Good job.

[Indiana]

Harriet that is a wonderful way to put it.

[Lynlee]

Lynlee, good for you adding swedes - so nutritious - are they easy to find? Here we can hardly find rutabagas except in big health food stores and I've only used them in stews a couple times in my life, only as an adult. I remember when I took my livestock courses in the late 70s I learned that in Europe rutabagas were always for people, turnips for cattle; yet in the US for some reason it reversed and we LIKED the turnips, so made rutabagas cattle food! Who knows the why of it. Maybe, like onions, they taste different in different soils. And turnips have stuck with us here for generations until we forgot swedes, which were even abandoned as cattle food when tractors showed up and made other crops easier.

Harriet,,Turnips...I`have`never`warmed`too.
..I`take`it`swedes`are`rutabagas??
Larger`supermarkets`here`have`them...I`think`I'll`find`them`at`farmers`market.
I`used`just`use`them`in`slow`cooked`casseroles...
Now`I`just`cut`a`little`section`off`to`add`to`vegie`pot.`
A`little`goes`a`long`way`for`flavour.
Swede`has`no`salicylates`or`amines...
but`does`get`more`sulphur`the`longer`its`cooked`..I`need`watch`that.

When`I`was`doing`the`total`"failsafe`elimination`diet`I`found`I`had`my`limits
`on`sulphur`producing`food.(I`started`feel`ill,`in`danger`of`losing`appertite.
Seems`like`all`the`allowed`food/veg`were`high`in`that...except`green`beans.
So`I`went`back`to`low/moderate`salicylates.

I`baked`a`beetroot`the`other`day`and`it`was`delicious.
I`left`on`its`"tail"and`just`cut`at`the`stalk...
It`didn't`bleed`except`where`it`leant`against`the`chicken.

Forgot`to`start`cooking`cereals...It`will`be`"out`of`a`box"`today.

[Nancy]

Breakfast: cocoa [dairy] granola bar & 2 egg 3 cheese omlette

Snack
peanuts

Lunch
grilled cheese burger on rye bread [we were out of buns]
salad

snack
berries picking them today was fun!

Dinner
salad & hot pepper cheese no [dressing just vinegar

[Bs was great today yea! Don't have to tweak it tonight.]

[Indiana]

Hmmm roasted beets Lynlee are one of my favorites. They are so good. I'm so glad it is one of my "safe" vegetables. Meaning low in vitamin K and not counted as a starch.

[OKay]

Will post what I ate later but just wanted to stop by and THANK YOU for the encouragement and suggestions.

I am going to make a point of increasing my water intake.

I "lost" 1.4 lbs yesterday so the weight gain was water.

5.2 lbs lost since August 1

[Indiana]

Way to go OKay.

[Indiana]

edited to add...

Thursday

milk - 1 dairy

ice tea
steak & veggie burrito 2.25 starch, 2 protein, 1 fat, 1 veg
beans 2 starch
rice 2 starch
salsa

milk 1 dairy
applesauce 1 fruit

after I posted I was hungry again later so...

cheese 2 protein
grapes 2 fruit
v8 3 veg
crackers 2 starch

1488 calories

The counts are better after I had my snack/dinner

One of the great things about the restaurant where we had lunch is the steak and veggie burrito. It is a burrito minus the beans it only has about 2 tablespoons - just enough to cover the tortilla and filled with steak, green pepper, and onions sauteed.

[Nancy]

Got more exercise last night and bs was down so more tweaking in order today again.

Breakfast
cocoa granola bar & berries
egg & cheese

snack
peanuts

Lunch
grilled steak & stir fry

Dinner
will be a salad and fruit of my choice