Perpetual Healthy Eating and Fitness Rant & Rave thread

[triciaflower]

Tricia, I am so sorry about your dog, that must have been heart breaking. 

thanks. 

I LOVE Ezekiel bread! It's a little dense for sandwiches imo, so I usually just have an open-faced sandwich.

Those tortillas look good. I've seen that brand in our stores, looking forward to trying them. I like how there is no fake sugar (or any sugar for that matter!) in them. I've tried to buy those little deli flats and ALL of them have sucralose in them. YUK.

[Run Amok]

The flat out ones don't have sucralose. The do have malatol and sugar and generally are "food".

The thing that always surprises me about this diet is how much food it is. I branched our a bit and made a bean burrito- beans, cheese, salsa, sour cream, sauteed veggies and a big salad. Full and satisfied.

Did my run and of course felt better.

Made dd a pot of potato soup. So tempting to eat a big bowl, but I made my dinner, and roasted a spaghetti squash for another night.

Then I hyperventilated about the state of my kitchen, cleaned it, took the dog for a walk and am finally sitting down to watch a bit of tv before bed. So much to do but I give up. Having a bit of a pity party about doing it all myself everyday. #sigh#

[merigayle]

RA- that is my kitchen daily  we do too much cooking! LOL. Anywho, did you see the spaghetti squash with avocado sauce recipe i made recently? it was soooo good. Have a spaghetti squash for later this week for it!

[triciaflower]

We cook every day. Our kitchen is always a disaster. It's a never-ending cycle. Clean the kitchen. cook cook cook. Dirty kitchen. Lazy lazy. Clean. cook cook cook.

[merigayle]

We cook every day. Our kitchen is always a disaster. It's a never-ending cycle. Clean the kitchen. cook cook cook. Dirty kitchen. Lazy lazy. Clean. cook cook cook.

yeppers.

[Run Amok]

We cook every day. Our kitchen is always a disaster. It's a never-ending cycle. Clean the kitchen. cook cook cook. Dirty kitchen. Lazy lazy. Clean. cook cook cook.

That comment could probably use some explanation. I cook every day and clean every day. But, my new kitchen is much smaller/less counter space and it just feels like it gets covered in crap really quickly. Also, DH was a neat freak. So, although I'd generally pick up- he did a lot of cleaning too. If I left something to grab later- 90% of the time, he'd just take care of it.  He also cooked at least half the time.

wHaving to do it all, all my self, every single day is just exhausting, hence the whambulance. I mean... I did it myself for 5-6 years (though admittedly, I didn't cook much at home in those days). It's just an adjustment period to have to handleeveryfuckingthing myself. My car needs a new windshield and I have a tire that needs to be looked at, dd needs to go to the dr and have a wart on her finger frozen off, and she's due for a dentist appointment, and there is a lightbulb and two door handles I need to fix.  So... it's not just about the kitchen.

[diablita]

 

[Courtney]

thanks. 

I LOVE Ezekiel bread! It's a little dense for sandwiches imo, so I usually just have an open-faced sandwich.

Those tortillas look good. I've seen that brand in our stores, looking forward to trying them. I like how there is no fake sugar (or any sugar for that matter!) in them. I've tried to buy those little deli flats and ALL of them have sucralose in them. YUK.

No big loss, those flat sandwich things taste like shit, IMHO.  I much preferred light bread, the sara lee kind.  Back in the day, when bread was something I did.    I do good like 90% of the time with this whole GF thing, but every once in a while, I'm sad for the absence of bread in my life.  I love(d) sandwiches.

RA,   

We had our annual health screenings today at work.  I'm healthy, but fat.  *sigh*  My glucose was actually a bit high today, tho.  It's usually in the 90s, and today it was 111.  So that concerns me.  Oh, and the "being obese" thing.   

[caito]

wHaving to do it all, all my self, every single day is just exhausting, hence the whambulance. I mean... I did it myself for 5-6 years (though admittedly, I didn't cook much at home in those days). It's just an adjustment period to have to handleeveryfuckingthing myself. My car needs a new windshield and I have a tire that needs to be looked at, dd needs to go to the dr and have a wart on her finger frozen off, and she's due for a dentist appointment, and there is a lightbulb and two door handles I need to fix.  So... it's not just about the kitchen.

Welcome to my life.  I hate asking for help even though sometimes I want it desperately.  But I'm scared to accept help sometimes for fear of having to re-adjust to no help.  I'm a mess. 

[merigayle]

so 4 days into eating super duper clean, nothing refined, no sugar, nothing. I am up 2 lbs. WTF body. I am so sick of this. Just needed to rant, now time to hop on TM

[omega lambda]

We cook every day. Our kitchen is always a disaster. It's a never-ending cycle. Clean the kitchen. cook cook cook. Dirty kitchen. Lazy lazy. Clean. cook cook cook.

This is us now too.  In the last couple of years, I would say our eating habits have really changed into better habits.  It was hit or miss so much of the time because of the availability of decent and inexpensive restaurant/takeout food.  It was way too easy to be too tired to cook, or it's too late to cook.  Since we've been spending the majority of our time in the mountains, the nearest restaurant is a 20 minute drive from our house, and the others are about 30 minutes.  Our habits really changed when all our meals were more convenient at home.  The biggest change though, is how much more often I'm running the dishwasher!  I enjoy eating more home-made meals, and am thrilled the habit continues when we are in SoCal where fast and inexpensive food is 5 minutes away.  But the never-ending cycle of cooking (the fun part) and the cleaning (the not so fun part) does get a tad tedious.  If I could do the cooking and magic brownies did all the cleaning while I worked or relaxed, my world would be perfect. 

RA and Caito -    I would gladly share my magic brownies if I had some.

[Run Amok]

It is a difficult balance- for sure- being mindful of eating healthy and convenience. These days, it's not TOO tough to come up with hitting your calorie targets with prepared items... but, for me, the taste and satisfaction isn't there. 1200 calories a day of lean cuisine and canned soup would leave me starving! The flip side of that is that it takes some time even to assemble simple things. Like last night, the only cooking for myself that I did was to sautee some veggies and make a salad. Which really isn't a big deal- but yeah, it's slightly more effort than popping something in the freezer or grabbing take out.

Part of it is also that I know that if I stay ahead of it, it's a little easier. So, if I'm chopping salad veggies, I chop enough for a couple of days. It's not a huge deal to roast some squash off for another night. But, before I know it I have messy counters and pans to clean and things to pack up and put away and and and and...

[Bolloxd]

DH leaves this evening for his trip and I have that full blown snotty cold.  Blah.  Will add more when I get kids to bed.

[merigayle]

Bolloxd-- feel better!

It is a difficult balance- for sure- being mindful of eating healthy and convenience. These days, it's not TOO tough to come up with hitting your calorie targets with prepared items... but, for me, the taste and satisfaction isn't there. 1200 calories a day of lean cuisine and canned soup would leave me starving! The flip side of that is that it takes some time even to assemble simple things. Like last night, the only cooking for myself that I did was to sautee some veggies and make a salad. Which really isn't a big deal- but yeah, it's slightly more effort than popping something in the freezer or grabbing take out.

Part of it is also that I know that if I stay ahead of it, it's a little easier. So, if I'm chopping salad veggies, I chop enough for a couple of days. It's not a huge deal to roast some squash off for another night. But, before I know it I have messy counters and pans to clean and things to pack up and put away and and and and...

i generally make most of our meals for the week on Sundays and Mondays, it makes it a real nobrainer on the nights i get home from work late or what to take for lunch.

Ugh. I am debating going to see my dr, but i had a billion blood tests drawn earlier in the year, i think 9-10 vials and about 30-40 tests, and nothing came up except my zinc was on the low side. Not sure if it is worth the time and money to go talk to her and since i am not fat, though 20lbs over where i was prepregnancy, no one really wants to take me seriously.

[Run Amok]

I like the idea of weekend cooking, but it just seems like our weekends are so busy that by the time I get to sunday evening, the last thing I want to do is anything more than absolutely necessary. This week, I was unpacking groceries at 9:30pm on sunday. Some of it is still just finding the balance of when to clean the house, and grocery shop, and run errands, and still have a life... kwim?

[debbatx]

A life?? What is this life of which you speak?



In other news, I have a celebratory pint of ice cream in the freezer. My class is over tonight. WOOOHOOO!!!

[MiniDriver]

I made it through the day without going to the snack machine.   It was touch and go there for a while. 

[diablita]

Yay Debba!  Congrats on finishing!

And Yay MD, congrats on not finishing or starting (the snack)

I was pretty good today.  A bit of snacking, but mostly on snow peas.  I need a day or two to get myself back down to full austerity again. 

[merigayle]

I came home to a piping hot pizza and put it away (on the counter, not in me!) and ate my lentils and broccoli. I also ignored the fresh loaf of bread on the counter. This all better be worth it.

[diablita]

yay meri!