Meal Planning

[Decrepidactyl]

Yeah! I am fat! And new to cooking.

My problem, I want to loose weight and eat healthy.

BUTT a big butt, I do not have a good method for meal planning. I want to
eat healthy butt, big butt, what to eat? Is there a good book or system for
meal planning for the week, what to get at the stores, do I know what I
want at the end of the week? In the end I always FRY something in a skillet
with lots of grease or make a sandwich, hot dog or hamburger something
quick and easy. I want healthy but not sure what the best way is to get out
of my eating rut. I have looked for books found nothing that may work or an
app or simply a paper meal planner with options? I have lots of recipes
books, looking for a health meal planning system. Normal amount vegetables,
proteins... Per day or week.

Any advice or just in end up like the heart attack burger guy. I am not as
bad, however, 260 lbs, 6'3" and 52. I know the average age for heart
attacks is what 55? Im' coming emma! My doctor wants me to see a
nutritionist, but liquid protein shakes does not seem like a good way too
go. I want a good method for lifestyle eating.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

[Kyleee]

Nad R wrote:

Wait! I think the google method was from SF.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

[lexy09]

In article , [email protected] says...

Zero details? If you look up the thread you will find I wrote several
paragraphs on the diet me and my doctor came up with and how I
implemented it.. Do your homework before dragging your knuckles to the
keyboard please.

[RaiJean N]

On 3/4/2011 11:51 AM, Janet wrote:


I hadn't looked at her blog before, so thanks for the reference. I'm
going to have to make a batch of the giant breakfast cookies!

[kissable?]

In article ,
[email protected]de says...


Pencil and paper; make seven columns one for each day of the week and
think up three meals for each day. Keep it in the kitchen. From the
menu, make your shopping list. That way you won't make impulse buys that
don't get eaten, and will always have the right ingredients in the
house, for the meal you're going to make.

For an example, take a look at poster Ranee @Arabian Knits blog (in
her sig)
where she posts her family's meals for the week. That is tasty
nutritious healthy food; and not complicated to make.



Eh?
Nutritionists would only suggest liquid protein shakes for sick people
who can't eat solid food. For someone like you, they will provide a dite
sheet and menus and lots of advice.

Janet

[Nicholle:)]

merryb wrote:

I was asking myself the same question.. Why?
One book recommend drinking water when hungry and the hunger goes away?
With me after about seven hours of not eating I start to get a bad
headache.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

[pixley]

merryb wrote:

I like potatoes, but the microwave just does not do the potato justice.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

[Cantankerous Happy Face]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 01:32:22 +0000 (UTC), Nad R
arranged random neurons and said:


Do you have the one that was recently introduced? I was chomping at
the bit for an iPad, but was waiting for the second generation on
general principles that the first generation generally has a bug or
two.

OB: Unexpected dinner company last night threw me into high gear.
Grilled steaks, roasted potatoes, tossed a Caesar salad, just happened
to have fresh snap peas on hand, and vanilla ice cream with fresh
strawberries for dessert. Down and dirty done pretty darned yummy.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

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To reply, remove "spambot" and replace it with "cox"

[asgspifs]

In article ,
Nad R wrote:


Let's see if r.f.c.'s resident dietitian, Cindy Fuller, responds, too.
I haven't seen her for a while, though.

Know two things: If you want to lose weight and keep it off, you will
need to eat fewer calories and increase your exercise. You will need
to change the way you live. Pure and simple.

If you are really serious about it, check the education department of
the hospital your doc is affiliated with and see what classes on
healthful eating they offer. Pony up the $50 it'll probably cost and
go. See if your insurance will pay for it. If you're lucky, it will
be a two-part class where at the second session you will review your
food choices for the previous week (you will have been keeping a food
diary for a week) and will see where you went wrong and where you went
right and where you will ask questions about the comments you will
receive. See the nutritionist or dietitian with an open mind and a good
attitude. I doubt that protein shakes are in the plan. You will learn
about portion size and you will get information about reading labels.

Join the Y. Get a pair of decent shoes and an iPod if your Y doesn't
have built in televisions with their treadmills.

If you don't want to go to the class and you like to read and will make
the time for it, go to the National Institutes of Health website
(www.nih.gov). Get something out of your tax dollars, fercripesake.
Find the link (I'm not going to do EVERYthing for you! "-) that lists
the 27 Institutes and Centers that make up the NIH. When you get to
that page, look for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Go
there and look at the links. And the links that are in those links.
And the links that are in THOSE links. (Remember what I said about
making time?)

Join the Y.

I recommend the Therapeutic Lifestyle Change food plan (designed to
lower cholesterol). If you can't find it in all the reading above,
Google it. DON'T CHEAT! Look at the stuff above first. It (the TLC
food plan pages) has more info and a menu planner that is very useful.

Join the Y.

If you're serious about it, throw out all the junk food in your house —
chips, dips, salty crackers, ice cream — I don't know what your
downfalls are. And don't start whining about how you're not going to
throw away perfectly good food. It's not perfectly good; it's perfectly
horrible for your body. Lent starts next week. Let it not lead you
into temptation. "-) Forget about McDonald's.

Join the Y (or other gym-type facility).

You can do it. It won't be easy. My daughter is a probation officer
who worked with drug felons — she was part of a team approach that held
them accountable in their efforts to become sober. I consulted her once
on behalf of a friend who was worried about her granddaughter's illicit
drug use. The girl didn't want to go to treatment because she was
afraid she would have to make some changes. Beck's comment to me was,
"Mom, I tell my clients that they don't have to change anything—they
have to change EVERYTHING. They will have to give up their friends
because (her clients) the drugs they use are "social drugs" and they
cannot be trying to get clean with old friends who are still using. It
won't work." Success depends on your motivation.

I have one more comment I'd like to make to you privately and will do it
if you will email me at [email protected]. You'll have to jump
through a couple hoops, though. Just do what the EarthLink auto-reply
asks you to do.

I hope I'll hear from you. Good luck!! You can do it.

--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
Pepparkakor particulars posted 11-29-2010;
http://web.me.com/barbschaller

[soccerninja]

Nad R wrote in news:ikr1m3$9q4$1
@news.eternal-september.org:


If you just want to eat normal food and don't mind measuring, Weight
Watchers does not deny anyone anything they want to eat. There is a
booklet they publish with most fast food outlets stuff. They count things
in points, so if you have, say 30 points per day, you can eat anything as
long as you stay within the points limit.

Exercise is also necessary to ensure weight loss, but they introduce things
gradually over 10 weeks.

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"A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a
table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11
of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, 'Watch out for that
union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.'"