Diet Advice!

[Whiskey]

ohhhhhhhhh and i just remembered this.

At my job we serve breakfast, like all fast food joints. If you REALLY, REALLY have to hit up a fast food joint, heres a tip

Order an egg. Or two eggs. I can ring people up for individual eggs. I can also ring them up for an individual tortilla. Or just ask for a side of "leaf lettuce." Granted, the eggs are still cooked in whatever butter is on the grill (and maybe a little grease from transfer, but eggs are cooked on the opposite side of meat ALWAYS), but its better than a chorizo breakfast burrito or something similar.

[TelephoneAngel]

Just for the sheer hell of it I made a list of what is in the fridge and freezer

I made chicken and veg lasagne and spiced apple and plum crumble for dinner tonight.
Tomorrow I will use up bacon suasages tomatoes eggs and has browns.

I am going to try to make meals of what is there and run down the whole fridge freezer.I might throw the icecream away.


Freezer

fish
prawn curry from frozen
smoked salmon 12 prawn skewers
admirals pie from frozen 10 x fish fillets
4 x fish finger 5 fish in butter

meat
chicken curry from frozen 2 lamb chops to defrost
bag sausages to defrost 3 battered fish
4 x chicken pieces to defrost 3 x bacon
20 chicken satay 2 x doner kebabs from frozen
5 bags chicken nuggets

veg
bag broccoli and cauliflower half bag hash browns
4 and a half bags of chips bag sprouts
6 x yorkshire pudding

icecream
raspberry ripple icecream half tub black forest icecream
rum and raisin icecream chocolate icecream
6 x minimilk 12 x throat coolers
2 x choclollies 1 wafer icecream
29 x icelollies
11 x chocices 8 long icepoles
37 small icepoles 13jubblies
3 snickers 4 x cornettoes

other
36 chinese selection
mushroom pizza 2 x spinache pizza
11 x small pizza 6 x bagels
1 x oven pasty

Fridge

cheese/butter/yoghurt

1 1/2mature cheddar ½ smoked cheddar
3 x leerdammer cheddar and chutney
small parmesan 2 x primula
medium cheddar 4 x feta
banana yoghurt ½ honey yoghurt
apricot yoghurt 2 x strawberry yoghurt
plain yoghurt 2 x orange
3 x choc mousse

sauce

mint sauce
5 x small jam 1 jam ½ marmalade
gherkin relish 2 x pickle
salad cream dijon mustard small wholeseed mustard
small seafood sauce ½ seafood sauce ceasar dressing
1 ½ thousand island dressing ½ mayonnaise 2 garlic mayonnaise


drinks

squash milk orange carton 2 x 1/2fruit juice
can rum and coke

salads

spring onions 3 small tomatoes
½ aubergine 14 ½ tomatoes celery ½ cucumber
2 x chicory 3 x avocado baby corn 9 x lettuce 4 x beetroot
olives 2 x jar olives
red cabbage 2 x gherkins

other

pack sausages 2 x bacon 2 mushroom
1 ½ flake sandwich spread korma paste ham
cherries

[Whiskey]

^ ive only got an hour and a half before work so ill reply to that later :P

I just logged in my dailyplate in the longest time. I put myself at "very active" since I lift a couple times a week, do some cardio.


Our estimate is that you may consume about 2,267 calories a day to lose two pounds per week.

3 eggs for breakfast + sriracha and veg is about 300. Ive already hit 45% of my daily protein in this meal. mm. maybe ill start keeping track of my macro split again. nothing else to do.

[Seshat]

I wish I had a butcher in my area, i'm so jealous. And you listed barley on your list. I have like a good pound of barley sitting in my cabinet that someone gave to me but i have absolutely no clue what to do with it.

I have two butchers in the closest shopping centre (one halal), and a bunch of others in other shopping regions. And grocers. And the city's major grocer market (wholesale) is being moved to near-enough to us, and will probably have a retail outlet. I have no excuse!

Barley: lamb and barley stew is YUM.
Soak the barley like you'd soak dried lentils or split peas. Use the same amount of barley as you'd use for lentil/pea based stew.
Defrost lamb if needed while you're waiting. I usually use cheap cuts, the sort recommended for stewing and casseroling.

Get a big stewing pot, crockpot, whatever.
Put the barley in, and the lamb. Fill with enough water to cover everything. Add salt - as for any other stew this size.

Add a bay leaf or two, a bouquet garni if desired, any other herbs or spices you want to put in now. Given that it's new for you, you may want to wait till it's mostly cooked, taste it, and then put the herbs and spices in.

Add stewing veggies. I'd use stuff like swedes, turnips, parsnips, carrot, onion. Root veggies at this point: they take stewing well. Others wait till later.

Simmer till it smells unbearably good and the lamb is tender and the barley is, well, al-dente-ish. Plan for this to take a few hours, like making a slow-cooking lentil stew.

Add any quickly-cooking veggies you want, and do any final herb-and-spicing.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

Huh. I've discovered that greasy, greasy (delicious Nathans) hot dogs and booze before bed makes for an uncomfy night... and that broccoli now gives me the grossest farts... -____-; (from what? April? I don't make a habit of eating a head of raw broc) Upshot, I'm drinking more water, and am set to exercise in-between classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays... we'll see how Saturdays work out. I don't have anything but homework and house-chores on the weekends, go me. My sister suggested I find that ancient ipod someone gave me a while back and download audio books onto it. Sounds good, considering that there are places online that do the whole audio thing for free, on classics I haven't heard/read. Also, two glasses of water about a half hour before you exercise/do strenuous stuff is very good to do.
EDIT: I have decided on my perfect breakfast. It's easy for me to make, I can get my brain around it in the mornings if I have the time or will to eat (or live) in the A.M., and I've done it many times before, and it's more appetizing to me than most cereal. In winter, it'll probably include cream of wheat or oatmeal. Mmmm cream of wheat.
Toast, of healthy bread naturally, with whatever on it: marmalade, butter, nutella (go easy on it...), cheese, whatever. Egg-- one or two, whatever way, salt and some other flavoring. Tea. Milk if you feel like it. Glass of water with a vitamin or two. I need to put fruit in there. I think I'll try liking bananas, they're high in potassium. (note: I'm of the opinion "eh" concerning bananas.)

[Whiskey]

^i never really use salt because theres already a crap ton of 'hidden' sodium in foods. I just put pepper on everything.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I definitely use too much salt...I'm also trying to cut down the amount of sugar I put in tea. Gotta get used to less sweetness. My cafeteria at work recently started carrying Honest Tea drinks (which are "just a tad sweet" and ~100 calories per 2-serving bottle), and I stopped getting Lipton Pureleaf iced tea (which is slightly better than most mainstream bottled teas, since they don't use corn syrup) and when I do get iced tea I get the Honest Tea (usually they have black tea with lemon, which is not too heavy on the lemon, either; 1/2 lemonade 1/2 iced tea, cranberry lemonade, and pomegranate blueberry "ade"). Last time I got the Lipton it was a little too sweet (and they also recently got "extra sweet" which I don't even want to know what that's like..). I also usually refill the bottle with water to drink through the afternoon. So I'm getting there on the sweet tooth, I think.

[Seshat]

1/2 lemon from our lemon tree, squeezed into a litre bottle, topped up with water. Kept next to me wherever I am, drunk from regularly during the course of the day. Refilled as necessary.

[Whiskey]

how many grams of sugar equate "just a tad sweet"?

edit: looking at their site i cant find a single nutritional guide. all they give is vague buzzword phrases. "half the sugar of THOSE OTHER GUYS!" which other guys? mountain dew? simply orange? vitamin water? nevermind, i found it. 5g sugar for every 8 ounces (10g per bottle). Its actually not that terrible.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

Hypoglycemia is a bitch.
I've been dealing with it off and on (mostly on) for the last few days, started in on the 28th, really. At first, I was dealing with highly unusual and deep depression (like, "kittens? oh how sad. Clouds? Even sadder." sort of a thing, could be separated from actual depressing thoughts, like how people are trashing the world and are so short-lived...); then, it went to something similar to nausea in my thought process-- much like the nausea in my stomach. I sat down and looked at what I was eating... discovered I had to force myself to eat more than 1000 calories a day (kilocalories, for those in other countries. Reference: 1 tsp. sugar= roughly 16 calories). I saw a counselor on Monday, figured out it was hypoglycemia later that night, when I was freaking out and feeling horrible and called my mom-- she has had a similar problem... huh.
Anyway, since then, I've been trying to eat, and I saw someone today (professional, nurse I think) about it, gave me the Weil Food pyramid... so right now I'm somewhere between stomach-nausea and a little rocky mentally. Oooh boy it is so not fun. I feel horrible, like shit. I hope it goes away once I get over 1300, like last time... and I think I need to eat more right off the bat in the mornings. Yesterday (tuesday) the nasty feelings hit right after I ate something for lunch... messed up my night, and I think I'm going to cancel my plans for the night too...
I just want this to go the hell away. (Yes, it happened last month around the same time, right after my period... hasn't lasted this long though.) The nurses think it's more than just hypoglycemia, and some of it could be attributed to ADD, in that I just don't eat/forget/don't want to eat etc. , and hopefully I won't have to take medication for anything other than ADD, which, I'm used to.
Excuse me while I try to drink more milk...
EDIT: totally not exercising right now, need to figure out blood sugar first. o___o

[Whiskey]

Hey TA this thread started 8/21 and you said youd post one weeks worth of food from a food log

Its been almost two weeks.

[lupo pazzesco]

TA...don't make Whiskey come find you!!

She's scary!!!

[TelephoneAngel]

Hey TA this thread started 8/21 and you said youd post one weeks worth of food from a food log

Its been almost two weeks.

Hey Whiskey! I've been in hospital for the past few days.I haven't eaten since Tuesday.Not terribly healthy, huh?

[Magpie]

Hey Whiskey! I've been in hospital for the past few days.I haven't eaten since Tuesday.Not terribly healthy, huh?

No, but that has more to do with being in the hospital. What happened. Are you ok?

[Whiskey]

Hey Whiskey! I've been in hospital for the past few days.I haven't eaten since Tuesday.Not terribly healthy, huh?

There are good reasons to be unhealthy :P feel better hon