Making Plans to EAT HEALTHY

Posted on January 25, 2015

My husband and I actually do a pretty good job at eating healthy. He does a better job because he is the one with blood sugar issues. I say this because he has never been on insulin. Although about 7 years ago, due to a very weird eye exam, he had his blood sugar done at work and it was - over night fast - 253!!! EEEK!!! We did an immediate lifestyle change. And we manage his blood sugar nicely with diet, though it would be nicer to do it with exercise (which we have done in the past)

I on the other hand, have no such problem! I can eat cake, double icing and in two hours I am fine! Yes I have tested! And another drawback, as I tell him, is that I know how to cook and do math in my head. If I feel like a cookie at 2:30 in the afternoon, I can make 6 quite easily and then gobble them down even easier! -- Homemade cookies are heathy, right? --

I have been on some diet for most of my life and I posted a selfie from a few months ago from the 'WRONG' angle to show my CHINS! UG. I forget where this was taken but I think it was as we were walking to the National Cathedral from the waterfront. We took a tiny wrong turn and it ended up taking us 2 hours to get there by foot! OH YES I remember that day!

Let's get back to the CHINS and my post for today.

EAT HEALTHY! -- my salad before dressing!

Name	Size	Calories
Zucchini, Raw	1 large	54
Iceburg Lettuce, Head	1 large	105
Tomato	1 large	32
Grape Tomato	6 grape tomatoes	30
Cucumber	1 large	47
Onion	1 large	60
Celery	1 cup chopped	16
Salad Total:	344

Now I made this for the most part last night in a huge 4 quart pyrex bowl. and it was wonderful

(changes half an onion; no zuchini;half a lettuce;no grape tomatoes; 2 regular tomatoes;)

I drenched it in italian dressing and let it sit in the fridge. (I tossed a couple of times) for 20 minutes or so while the fish fillets were cooking!) IT WAS WONDERFUL - but let's face it, almost a cup of Italian Dressing added like 1000 calories and even splitting it with my husband, that was a lot of calories for one meal!

MY PLAN, after I post a weighin picture will be to make this often but use DIET DRESSING!! OR, I found a recipe for the spices for Italian... maybe I can make my own diet recipe or just sprinkle with spices?

If I do - When I do - I will write a blog post and post a picture of it!

For now, let's all enjoy those CHINS and hope to see less of them in 28 days!

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Tinkntx

02/06/2015 9:31AM

I've found that the frozen vegetables that come in microwaveable bags are a big help. Sometime I take them to work for lunch. The ones that have corn in them have more calories, but they all taste good.

no name

01/26/2015 8:11AM

LOL, I cook for 2, me and my husband.. I won't eat his way at all anymore and yeah it's a pain in the butt, but it's working. I'm glad you found DB too, I will be doing Adrienne's next one next month, been with her since Aug, we don't make much money on her's, but the real win is our wt/loss, this month I'm at 9-10 lbs lost, I've yo yo'd between 2 lbs for the last 2 wks, and I might try a Transformer next month, not sure I can lose 10%, I'm pretty close to my goal wt and it's getting tougher to lose wt at a good pace like in the beginning, but dietbets keep me in line and I found out taking off one month for the holiday's did me in, I gained back like 8 lbs...but all is good, I like being on here and love my new friends I made, I couldn't of done this w/o them...

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Louise

01/26/2015 7:30AM

Thank you! We eat a lot of salads, but they are usually NOT very low calorie!! That will be my challenge. Keeping them tasty enough for my husband and low calorie enough for me. We have agreed that I might split the salad before adding toppings, so that he can add his cheese and oil / vinegar dressing and I will just add spices.... I will continue to post. Also -- ref DB -- I will look forward to your posts! This is my first. If I am successful then I might add multiple next month! I AM GLAD I FOUND THIS SITE!

no name

01/26/2015 6:20AM

HI Louise, I liked you blog... there's a lot of low cal salad dressing out there or whip one up yourself. I myself am not big on dressing, I do like putting a few sprays of olive oil on my salad or tossing it with a fruit like kiwi, banana, blueberries or strawberries, the juices from those are enough dressing for me... I'm excited about doing Ali's DB right now I'm finishing up Adrienne's Loving the New Me in 2015 DB and Chris & Heidi Powell's...I've with Adrienne's DB's since end of Aug and have lost 35 lbs on DB challenges and 40+ since July... I love dietbets because it works for me and keeps me focused and accountable.. I hope you enjoy it and wish you the best of luck...btw, I'm Sandy from Oregon

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