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My, you've had a large day freemotion!
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See ya tomorrow!
Freemotion's food journal: Expanding the gardens, pics p 53
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Dace
Revolution in Progress
Free...I am super excited about your food journal! Very cool and interesting, not boring at all girl!
For us who are not savvy to your eating theories, can you fill me in on your diet and what you are trying to accomplish?
I really want to clean up our diet, but I am so lazy and suffering a bit from the short-term-rental-blues
so I am not quite ready to make a drastic leap but I as I try to pull away from process foods I realize that the kids snacks are mostly that...processed crap. AND I have the pickiest kids ever! I am going shopping today and I plan to load up and healthier, more natural snack foods. Any suggestions would be very welcome!
For us who are not savvy to your eating theories, can you fill me in on your diet and what you are trying to accomplish?
I really want to clean up our diet, but I am so lazy and suffering a bit from the short-term-rental-blues
so I am not quite ready to make a drastic leap but I as I try to pull away from process foods I realize that the kids snacks are mostly that...processed crap. AND I have the pickiest kids ever! I am going shopping today and I plan to load up and healthier, more natural snack foods. Any suggestions would be very welcome!
TanksHill
Super Self-Sufficient
I am right there with you Dace. With school out for the year we have finished most of the "lunch box stuff" so I am giving them options A, B & C. Usually Fruit, veggie snack or maybe a cheese stick or something. It helps that the carrots and cuc's are from the garden. big $$$ saver.
Free I am interested in your school of thought as well.
Free I am interested in your school of thought as well.
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freemotion
Food Guru
First I have to update on yesterday.....of course, I was still hungry after that dismal eating afternoon and evening (dh usually cooks on the days that I work late, but he got stuck at work, too) and so I made a batch of popcorn with almost 3 T of butter and ate the whole thing, with a vodka collins made with the juice of half a lemon, a shot of vodka, three squirts of liquid stevia extract, and filled the tall glass with water. Mmmmmmm! Took both to bed and fell asleep on my book, which was my goal!
Today, breakfast was the same, supplements, warm chocolate milk, 3 eggs (gave half of one to the dog, he was extra-stinkin'-cute this morning) and a big glass of strong ice tea with a squeeze of the other half of the lemon and some stevia.
Lunch so far was a huge pile of grapes and cherries, on sale at the discount grocery I just went to. Got some garlic......oh, that goes into another thread! I also had a small bag of plantain chips. See, it is not all perfection here. But about 90% or more.
My eating philosophy has evolved, and continues to. I've tried to eat "healthy" over the years, except in my 20's, although then I still cooked a lot from scratch, it was white flour and margarine and crisco....ugh!
A few years ago, my doctor and friend was one of the principle investigators in a study on the low glycemic lifestyle plan developed by Dr. Shari Lieberman, called Transitions Lifestyle. I got my dh into the pilot study and my friend taught me all the in's and out's of the diet, and I did a lot of reading and experimenting. We both loved the way we felt eating this way for 12 weeks, and I didn't have the scary stuff that happened when I did Atkins with dh to support his efforts a few years earlier. I had to stop (at least severely modify) within a few days. But I felt great on this one. I didn't need to lose much, maybe 5 lbs. DH lost 26.2 lbs, 6 inches off his waist, and his blood pressure dropped to healthy levels in the first week or so. He hadn't been allowed to use the machines at the gym that he'd joined when the study began. His total cholesterol went down by over 100 pts during the trial as well.
In the trial, the patients on meds ALL dramatically reduced or eliminated ALL meds. So this is why you haven't heard of it, even though it is the ONLY clinically PROVEN weight management system in this country. It leaves Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watches, and the Zone in the dust. By miles.
I now teach it. I will be doing a distance-learning version again in the fall, hopefully. It is still hard to get people to understand that January is the worst time of the year to start a weight management program, summer is best. Oh, well. Another reason that this nation is struggling with overweight.
Factor two: A naturopathic doctor I went to later, for food allergies, IBS, etc, immediately educated me on the virtues of raw milk and traditional foods and food preparation. Hence all my harping on Sally Fallon's book, Nourishing Traditions.
Just so y'all understand, I didn't jump into this with both feet. This has been a long journey, and I am still on it. There is light at the end of my health problem tunnel. And best of all, we are eating very healthy foods for less money than we were spending on crap.
Off to do some chores, I'll be back!
Today, breakfast was the same, supplements, warm chocolate milk, 3 eggs (gave half of one to the dog, he was extra-stinkin'-cute this morning) and a big glass of strong ice tea with a squeeze of the other half of the lemon and some stevia.
Lunch so far was a huge pile of grapes and cherries, on sale at the discount grocery I just went to. Got some garlic......oh, that goes into another thread! I also had a small bag of plantain chips. See, it is not all perfection here. But about 90% or more.
My eating philosophy has evolved, and continues to. I've tried to eat "healthy" over the years, except in my 20's, although then I still cooked a lot from scratch, it was white flour and margarine and crisco....ugh!
A few years ago, my doctor and friend was one of the principle investigators in a study on the low glycemic lifestyle plan developed by Dr. Shari Lieberman, called Transitions Lifestyle. I got my dh into the pilot study and my friend taught me all the in's and out's of the diet, and I did a lot of reading and experimenting. We both loved the way we felt eating this way for 12 weeks, and I didn't have the scary stuff that happened when I did Atkins with dh to support his efforts a few years earlier. I had to stop (at least severely modify) within a few days. But I felt great on this one. I didn't need to lose much, maybe 5 lbs. DH lost 26.2 lbs, 6 inches off his waist, and his blood pressure dropped to healthy levels in the first week or so. He hadn't been allowed to use the machines at the gym that he'd joined when the study began. His total cholesterol went down by over 100 pts during the trial as well.
In the trial, the patients on meds ALL dramatically reduced or eliminated ALL meds. So this is why you haven't heard of it, even though it is the ONLY clinically PROVEN weight management system in this country. It leaves Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watches, and the Zone in the dust. By miles.
I now teach it. I will be doing a distance-learning version again in the fall, hopefully. It is still hard to get people to understand that January is the worst time of the year to start a weight management program, summer is best. Oh, well. Another reason that this nation is struggling with overweight.
Factor two: A naturopathic doctor I went to later, for food allergies, IBS, etc, immediately educated me on the virtues of raw milk and traditional foods and food preparation. Hence all my harping on Sally Fallon's book, Nourishing Traditions.
Just so y'all understand, I didn't jump into this with both feet. This has been a long journey, and I am still on it. There is light at the end of my health problem tunnel. And best of all, we are eating very healthy foods for less money than we were spending on crap.
Off to do some chores, I'll be back!
TanksHill
Super Self-Sufficient
Ok yes I remember hearing you talk about your classes last year.
My DH and I did Atkins after my 2nd child. I was really not into extreme "Atkins" style eating but more of less followed the guidelines for low carb veggies and increased proteins. For us it was more of a substitution diet. Instead of coffee I had decaf, instead of carbs we had a second veggie. Usually one hot and one cold with each meal. After the initial sugar and carb withdrawls we did very well. DH melted off more than 60 lbs and I lost about 40. We both felt amazing and had so much more energy.
Do you have a book or pamphlet, guide that goes with your program. I would love to read more.
Keep us in the loop on your distance learning version.
Thanks gina
My DH and I did Atkins after my 2nd child. I was really not into extreme "Atkins" style eating but more of less followed the guidelines for low carb veggies and increased proteins. For us it was more of a substitution diet. Instead of coffee I had decaf, instead of carbs we had a second veggie. Usually one hot and one cold with each meal. After the initial sugar and carb withdrawls we did very well. DH melted off more than 60 lbs and I lost about 40. We both felt amazing and had so much more energy.
Do you have a book or pamphlet, guide that goes with your program. I would love to read more.
Keep us in the loop on your distance learning version.
Thanks gina
FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
freemotion and the rest of you asking questions. this is for you. I learned about hypo or hyper glycemia (don't know which is which, but I know it is about blood sugar and insulin inbalance) back in the 70's. My husband's cousin had a bad case of it. And NOBODY knew about H-glycemia in those days. I got a crash course.
Many years later I revisited it by coming across a book on the subject. I ended up lending the book to my daughter and never saw it again, so I cannot quote it.
I followed the directions given in the book and within a few weeks started to feel way! better. Dr. Atkins is a severe and very restrictive version of this book. The book I had was published in the mid 1960's. Basically I avoid processed carbohydrates and processed sugars. And focuss on proteins and good carbohydrates.
I hardly ever in my life had a "weight problem". I had health problems. I was almost annorexic. Eating healthy has changed my life. And I always thought I ate pretty healthy.
My focus these days is on eating "unprocessed food" unless I am the one processing it. I try to live as if it were back in the 1700-1800's food wise that is. With exceptions on occasion. I am not a health nut, but I consume healthy food most of the time.
Many years later I revisited it by coming across a book on the subject. I ended up lending the book to my daughter and never saw it again, so I cannot quote it.
I followed the directions given in the book and within a few weeks started to feel way! better. Dr. Atkins is a severe and very restrictive version of this book. The book I had was published in the mid 1960's. Basically I avoid processed carbohydrates and processed sugars. And focuss on proteins and good carbohydrates.
I hardly ever in my life had a "weight problem". I had health problems. I was almost annorexic. Eating healthy has changed my life. And I always thought I ate pretty healthy.
My focus these days is on eating "unprocessed food" unless I am the one processing it. I try to live as if it were back in the 1700-1800's food wise that is. With exceptions on occasion. I am not a health nut, but I consume healthy food most of the time.
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freemotion
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Supper, more grapes and cherries, some toast with butter and salt, and a bison burger with cheddar and a kosher hotdog that dh cooked on the grill. It was a loooooong work day here, and eating without planning just becomes a series of snacks. Veggies, unplanned, fall by the wayside. I did get at least nine servings of fruit, though!
Now I really have to be good tomorrow.....I look at balance by the day, mostly, rather than by the meal, and on weekends or weekdays like the past couple of days, I just have to reach for balance within the week.
We finally had some haying weather and I spent a lot of time doing just that, dh, too. Besides the time we always take to attend religious services, and in studying in advance so we can actively participate in Q&A portions. So without advance planning, I demonstrated quite nicely how healthy eating gets tricky.
Now I really have to be good tomorrow.....I look at balance by the day, mostly, rather than by the meal, and on weekends or weekdays like the past couple of days, I just have to reach for balance within the week.
We finally had some haying weather and I spent a lot of time doing just that, dh, too. Besides the time we always take to attend religious services, and in studying in advance so we can actively participate in Q&A portions. So without advance planning, I demonstrated quite nicely how healthy eating gets tricky.
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freemotion
Food Guru
Consider it slapped! I was referencing the article in which the results of the pilot study was published, in the journal, Alternative Medicine. But I'll give myself the smack anyways!!! 
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freemotion
Food Guru
My parents were getting trained to do pin-striping on cars in Maine back in the late 70's, and the couple who owned the business stayed with us while they were training my folks. They were hypo-glycemic, and ate mountains of whole foods. We found it quite fascinating. They brought their foods with them. They were both quite thin. Back then, it was also fairly low in saturated fats, now, with what I know, I probably eat very much the way they did, with much less fear of fat. I'm slim, too, and no longer struggle to stay that way.FarmerDenise said:
I am a bit addicted to popcorn and tortilla chips, though! If I continue to eat them the way I did the past few days, it will start to show.....but I'm still gonna go make a big batch of popcorn tonight. It is that time of the month when I indulge a bit more than usual...
