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 NEED to improve my diet - helpModerators: Moderators Jump to page : 1 2 Now viewing page 1 [25 messages per page] | View previous thread :: View next thread |
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A juicer can becaome your best friend! Think about investing in one. I used to go to school and work full-time, probablly will be again, and a juicer has SO helped me! That's the best way I can think to sqeeze in more fruits and veggies! There's a lot of good juicing cook books too. :-) AND THEY DON"T TASTE HORRID! (Okay, some do, ha ha!)  I'm anxious to see what others post. Good topic! and Good luck!  P.s. If your work/school has a microwave, a lot of the Weight Watchers meals are good. Trial and error! | |||
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| YogaGuy |
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| I say get Enter the Zone by Dr. Barry Sears (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000AZ26N/qid=1109315594/sr=8-2/ref=pd_csp_2/103-6835563-2816659?v=glance&s=hpc&n=507846). You can find it used for cheap. I also recommend looking into the Paleo Diet. http://www.google.com/search?q=paleo+diet&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US  fficial The Zone is a diet where you eat a balance of proteins, carbs and fats. As long as you keep the proportions correct you can be vegetarian or you can be a carnivore. It's up to you. I highly recommend it. The Paleo diet is based on the types of foods you eat. Basically it consists of nuts, berries, leaves and meat, things that paleolithic man ate before neolithic man. It's a hunter gatherer diet vs. an agricultural diet based on grains. You can do a Paleo diet (type of foods) on the Zone diet (proportions). I have a juicer and I do NOT recommend getting one. First, they are expensive. Second, they are hard to clean. Third, drinking juices can lead to greater weight gain. Juices are high in sugar and calories. Of course it depends on what fruits or vegies you juice. However, the danger is that you will make sweet juices (carrot, beet, apple) which although tasty and nutrient dense, those juices can spike your insulin and pack a lot of extra calories into your glASS. The problem is sticking to a diet. Get a support group. Eat meals with other people that are also motivated to lose weight. Set a goal or contest. I know all too well about how hard it is to eat right, but I know it can be done with just a little more effort and though. | |||
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| Cyndi |
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Expert Yogi Posts: 5098 Location: Somewhere in the Mountains of Western NC | |||
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| Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I felt compelled to defend my friend the juicer. :-) You can buy inexpensive ones for under $100. Mine works great, and it was right at $100. I guess you could say that is expensive, but if you use it, then it's worth it. :-) There are more expensive ones of course, and I'm sure they work better, but my "cheap" one works just fine. So they can be expensive, it just depends on how much you want to spend. Some are probably hard to clean, but it takes me 5 minutes at the most. For me that's better than cleaning up the kitchen after having to cook. Again, that depends on the juicer. (And I hate to cook, so the juicer is a blessing to me!) I definitely agree that drinking juices can lead to weight gain if you drink them all the time, but as with all food, everything in moderation. Sometimes I try to replace a meal with juice instead. I see it as a good way to get some veggies and other things I wouldn't normally eat. Juice is fast and more healthy than Pizza! LOL! I replace dessert with fresh juice sometimes as well. Maybe that would help your sugar cravings? I find it hard to get all the servings of fruit that Scientists say we should have, so the juicer makes it easy for me. :-) As with everything, all is a matter of preference! It is not a cure for all your dieting needs, just a suggestion for a busy lifestyle. --- As for a "diet," I have to agree with Cyndi on that one and say you need to try to choose a "Healthy Lifestyle" (for lack of better words). I was / am on Weight Watchers, and that is a "lifestyle" or at least they promote it as such. That's been the only "diet" (again, for lack of a better word) I have ever been able to loose weight using. It basically just promotes eating healthy and an easy way to help you perceive what is too much food for you and what isn't. This is the way I eat on a regualr basis. It works for me. :-) They have an Internet based program as well, although I can't speak from personal experience on that one since I physically went to the meetings. It was expensive for me to start, but after I got the information, I could carry on all by myself. Well, that's everything that has worked for me! Healthy lifestyle + Exercise I used to be about 30+ lbs overweight, and I found school to be horrible on my figure as well! I gained 20lbs everytime I went for a degree! A lot of it is willpower too. Pizza was and still is a particularly tough one for me. I just try to eat only one to two slices opposed to my normal 4 slices....  Good luck finding something that works for you! Let us know how you're doing! P.s. There's also a Yoga for Weightloss section on the forums. You may have some luck reading posts there.  | |||
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| Dragon |
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You can do a Paleo diet (type of foods) on the Zone diet (proportions). Interesting... will have to read about that for curiosities sake! | |||
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| Claire DVM |
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| I'd really like to redirect this thread a little -- I shouldn't have used the word diet! I just meant I need to improve what I eat on a day-to-day basis. I'm not looking for a "diet" such as the zone or whatever -- I don't believe in those. I was hoping for some fast, easy meal suggestions or good things to add and eat because, despite YogaGuy's article, it is much easier to pop a frozen pizza in the oven than it is to chop vegetables, cook brown rice, cut up veggies for a salad, etc. Since I'm in school, I cannot afford to eat fast food all the time, although I DO agree that it's just as fast to get healthy fast food as it is to get junk -- but not so when you are making your own meals! I'm really more interested in getting away from highly processed food towards more whole foods. Isn't the zone diet cutting carbs somewhat? As a runner, I'm not interested in that -- I need a good amount of carbs, just less white ones For example, what do you eat as a quick, filling meal when you are pressed for time and don't have time to cook or chop veggies? -- The juicer idea was more the type of thing I was going for. I'm also a vegetarian by the way. Thanks! | |||
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| YogaGuy |
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Claire DVM - 2005-02-25 6:00 PM I'd really like to redirect this thread a little -- I shouldn't have used the word diet! I just meant I need to improve what I eat on a day-to-day basis. I'm not looking for a "diet" such as the zone or whatever -- I don't believe in those. I was hoping for some fast, easy meal suggestions or good things to add and eat because, despite YogaGuy's article, it is much easier to pop a frozen pizza in the oven than it is to chop vegetables, cook brown rice, cut up veggies for a salad, etc. Since I'm in school, I cannot afford to eat fast food all the time, although I DO agree that it's just as fast to get healthy fast food as it is to get junk -- but not so when you are making your own meals! I'm really more interested in getting away from highly processed food towards more whole foods. Isn't the zone diet cutting carbs somewhat? As a runner, I'm not interested in that -- I need a good amount of carbs, just less white ones For example, what do you eat as a quick, filling meal when you are pressed for time and don't have time to cook or chop veggies? -- The juicer idea was more the type of thing I was going for. I'm also a vegetarian by the way. Thanks! If you'd bothered to pay attention you'd note that the zone diet is based on the principal of eating 40% of your meal in the form of favorable carbs (fruits & vegetables) and 30% from protein and 30% from good monounsaturated fats (olives, avocados, almonds, etc). 40% doesn't sound low to me! Furthermore, you should read up on athletic nutrition and you'll see that the carb loading for runners myth has been debunked. If you're running regularly and still gaining weight then that's a bad sign. The Zone is based on doing what your grandma told you and eating a BALANCED meal. It's just that Dr. Sears put some science into it and found out what the right balance was. It takes the guess work out of it. It doesn't mean you can't eat bad carbs but because they are usually so high in sugar, you won't be able to eat as much of them and stay in the zone. 9grams of carbs from 1/2 a slice of bread is equivalent to 9grams of carbs from 2 cups of broccoli. So you'll end up eating a lot MORE food if you stick to fibrous green vegetables instead of nutrient poor bread. The zone doesn't limit you to any particular protein source, so you can still be a vegetarian and eat, soy, tofu, tempeh, mock meats, etc. as long as you balance the appropriate amount of carbs to your proteins and fats. Furthermore, just because something is easier doesn't make it right. It's easier to steal someone else's money than to go and earn your own, but that doesn't justify it. You have to have some convictions and stick to them. You are able to avoid meat, so presumably you are able to make some choices based on your convictions but yet don't want to acknowledge that you are still making some wrong choices. I have a 50 hr/wk job, I teach 3-6 yoga classes a week and 2 jiu jitsu classes. I practice yoga, jiujitsu and olympic lifting. I am trying hard to stay on a good cheap diet. It's not easy. It's really difficult. It $ucks!!! But every time I eat, I have a choice and I can make the right one or I can make the wrong one. Lately, I've been doing pretty well. Last month was horrible. I don't have time to cook and when I do, I try to make enough food so that I can pack it for lunch the next day or the day after. Sadly there is NO EASY ANSWER. If you want health you practice yoga for 90 minutes a day, but most of us don't put that much effort into planning our meals or shopping or ordering food. Here's what you do: Drink a gallon of water every day! avoid anything that has msg, high fructose corn syrup or partially hydrogenated oils. avoid grains--especially anything bleached, i.e. white avoid sugar--especially refined sugar carry apples, pears and nuts with you wherever you go eat servings of vegetables the size of your 2 fists with every meal eat a lean piece of protein the size of the palm of your hand at every meal eat 3 meals a day snack on nuts, avocados, olives If you're going to make juice, do yourself a favor and buy some unflavored whey protein (if you eat whey, if not then soy) powder and add a serving of that to your juice. Drink your juices fresh because vitamin depletion is accelerated by juicing. Avoid lots of sugary juices (beets, carrots, apples) and try to drink lots of green stuff (spinach, kale, celery). Try adding ginger and lemon. Get some multivitamins (a good antioxidant formula) and some fish oil caps (if you're not a fishetarian, then buy some flax seeds/oil). Omega 3 fatty acids are essential. Cook enough for a few days and pack single serving containers and freeze them. It doesn't take that much more time to cook a big meal than a small meal so try to take one or two nights a week to prepare ahead. Good planning will help you stay on track. Choose a few healthy items at your local restaurants near home and school. Commit those items to memory and when you are forced to eat out/order in, then get those items. Don't tempt yourself by looking at the menu everytime. Get a support group. Find some other people that want to stay healthy with you and support each other. Make meals for each other and swap them. You don't want to eat the same tofu stir fry for the third day in a row, but it's new to someone else. She might be sick of her veggie chili so she'll gladly switch. Repeat this mantra: Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! Get a support group! Drink a gallon of water ever day! | |||
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yogabrian - 2005-02-25 7:26 PM Protien the size of your fist. Veggies the size of your palm or bigger. QUOTE] Brian, I think you got it backwards. Veggies equal the size of 2 fists and the protein equals the size of your palm. Yeah, you can 1/2 the veggies and add a small serving of rice. I'm only 1/2 asian so I only eat rice 1/2 the time. | |||
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| Actually my rice cooker makes brown rice MUCH better than I do it on the stove! I think it's because I just can't leave something on the stove for 45-60 minutes without messing with it - I have no self-control. Then it comes out mushy and gross and nobody will eat it. With the rice cooker, I can actually leave it alone and everything comes out perfect (if I add the right amount of water, that is)! I've cooked long-grain brown rice, short-grain brown rice, basmati rice, wheat berries, quinoa, barley, kamut, you name it. Actually I don't think I've ever tried white rice in it!  For some reason, it does *magically* know when the water is absorbed. Wheat berries take like 90 minutes, good heavens. I didn't know that, but the rice cooker did! Mine does make large or small quantities, but since brown rice takes so long I like to make a ton and refrigerate it. Then I have it handy to add to soup or heat up for a quickie stir fry. I also like to use it like the crock, adding all the hoo-ha for an actual recipe. My favorite is to throw about a cup & a half of brown rice, a can of diced tomatoes w/ green chiles, a can of pinto beans (drained & rinsed), a chopped onion, 3 cups of water & some chili powder or other seasonings. In one hour, I've got Mexican Rice! Yum! Tons of it, too, plenty to save for later. | |||
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Expert Yogi Posts: 8442 | I bought my crock pot at a garage sale so it was only about 5 bucks years ago. No fancy features but you just throw stuff in and it cooks. Maybe we should ask for a recipe section on the boards. I cook by "feel" more than recipes but ideas are always helpful. If you like tomatoes, canned diced tomatoes or crushed tomatoes are awesome and they come on sale pretty regularly. Throw a big can of tomatoes in the crock pot and add 2 or 3 cans of various beans - black, chick and kidney is a nice combo. Now, you can get into controversy here - my daughter is a firm believer in rinsing of the canned beans and I use the "juice". She is the one who cooks for a living (not a professional chef yet but cooks in a busy restaurant) but I'm a mom - who are ya gonna believe, eh? Anyway, use your own discretion. Then open your spice cupboard and go nuts. I always add lots of powdered garlic and onion because DH doesn't like the chunks but you can go fresh if you want. Dried or fresh parsley, oregano, basil, cilantro, chilis or chili powder, peppers, a little cinnamon is nice. Or go the curry route with the same main ingreds. Or go Italian with mainly oregano and basil. Throw in whatever veg you have sitting in the fridge and voila! Supper! Soup is whatever soup base you like - there are lots of good organic soup cubes out there now, add whatever veg and spices you like, cook til done then throw it all in the blender for a creamy soup or leave it chunky or half and half. Top it with cheese, sour cream or even cottage cheese and it looks very posh. | ||
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