Posts by jannid

Sedentary means that you are bed-ridden, ill, laying about stoned or drunk all the time, or generally in a coma. It means you sit or lay down all day.

If you do any sort of activity as a normal healthy person will - you shop, you clean the kitchen, you walk the dog, you play with kids, you carry and fold laundry, you drive to work where you are typing reaching for things or going from office to office, etc but not formally exercising..then you are not sedentary you are lightly active.

If you want to choose sedentary that's fine, just log every thing you do. Wear a pedometer all day and log your mileage. All regular household activity has a burn rate on the activity list - you can find household chore numbers for light, moderate, and heavy intensity.

The problem with setting your activity level at sedentary is that you can be giving yourself a bigger deficit than you think - not a bad thing if you deficit goal was only 3-500, but if your deficit goal was 800 or more, then you want to be more careful. Try setting it at light activity and then add the big stuff and see what happens.

it is one day, one meal. Choose the things you truly love and enjoy them.

If you are having wine, have a glass of water first and then after before considering a second glass.

Eat slowly and talk lots. Go for a walk before and after the meal.

Eat a good breakfast/lunch before hand because saving calories for a deified treat or meal usually backfires into too much hunger and a binge.

Ditto for eating those things you think you SHOULD have when you would really rather have something else. You will end up not being satisfied and feel like the day is ruined and then eat an entire pie because you are miserable.

Enjoy the meal and eat well the rest of the time, you'll be fine.

ps - your body needs carbs, proteins, and fat to be healthy. The thing is proportion. Easy to find that info here on CC with the search bar.

yum - add some sweet red pepper too! Colorful, tasty, and even more nutrition! Do you do them in olive oil?

Celebrities are paid to market the diets. If they eat and exercise in the way you describe, they will not feel any better than you did. They do have lots of people applying gobs of makeup, using special lighting, and photo touchups to reproduce a "healthly" glow. But when the camera's turned off, they crash and burn.

sending healing thoughts her way. ((((Claire))))

ox-tail comes in nice little cut up chunks just like other meats do. I use them to make a particularly rich pasta sauce - browned and then simmered in the sauce. I like to use the smaller pieces as it is easier to eat the meat. But it is usually packaged with a series of descending sizes and would be useful as a flavor adding meat/bone like any other cut used for soups. It's really no different than a traditional cut of meat.

am so pleased that the hospital may release her, but hope they do not send her home too soon...of course they always do these days.

I've made mini pizzas on whole wheat English muffins. Yummy, and if you like cheese on pizza and that's the taste you are going for you'll find it doesn't take much cheese to cover a muffin half - so use the real stuff so you get the melty yum. Add some veges slices like onion, raw sweet or roasted red pepper, mushroom, and sauce and toast in a toaster oven.

Original Post by doctorgrim:

Original Post by jannid:

I do not put restrictions on what food I can eat. No food is bad. No food is always elevated to an untouchable status except as reward, or cheat, or binge. By mindfully expanding my food choices (adding all sorts of new fruits veges grains beans recipes etc) rather than restricting, I lost 22 pounds really very easily. I am always on the lookout for great new foods and recipes and they don't always have an emphasis on low calorie.

If you eat well and eat what you love you will not have to worry about changing how you eat for maintenance. You'll just change the portions a little bit.

Food is a feast for all your senses as well as nourishment for your soul and body. It provides only one of the elements of shared experience for a gathering of family and friends at a time like Thanksgiving. Equally important is the People - the communicating, the remembering, the planning, the laughing, the helping, and sharing.

"No food is bad."

Heh, you haven't been paying attention. Check out a couple of documentaries that have come out lately called "King Corn" and "Food Inc.". The state of food is pretty sad right now. Especially if you're poor.

No food is bad. The question is what constitutes food. If the ingredients are artificial or filled with chemically rendered products, it's not food.

Yes, that is correct, many of us have read it. Some of us have also found that is the way to easily move towards a healthy weight.

brought it to work when I knew I'd be alone at lunch that day, so only made it just past the part where Grendel is ripping everyone to shreds. It's still at work.

...just sent an email to myself at work so I'll remember it on Monday.

I do not put restrictions on what food I can eat. No food is bad. No food is always elevated to an untouchable status except as reward, or cheat, or binge. By mindfully expanding my food choices (adding all sorts of new fruits veges grains beans recipes etc) rather than restricting, I lost 22 pounds really very easily. I am always on the lookout for great new foods and recipes and they don't always have an emphasis on low calorie.

If you eat well and eat what you love you will not have to worry about changing how you eat for maintenance. You'll just change the portions a little bit.

Food is a feast for all your senses as well as nourishment for your soul and body. It provides only one of the elements of shared experience for a gathering of family and friends at a time like Thanksgiving. Equally important is the People - the communicating, the remembering, the planning, the laughing, the helping, and sharing.

Original Post by crazypotato98:

Jannid, I'm from Effingham, IL! I know Normal very well...my aunt lives there and teaches at Illinois University. I now live in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico right on the US/Mexican border and cross the border five days per week for work.

LOL! Another Normal Person! I'll friend you!

eggs are very good for you. The idea that they are not is a hold over from early nutrition studies of the 1970's.

One of the best and very well referenced descriptions of the properties of whole eggs and their relation to health is here

http://whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspic e&dbid=92#healthbenefits

enjoy your eggs!

was born and raised in corn and soybean land in a smallish Illinois town (approx 50k) called Normal. Have spent the last 29 years in Houston TX population - for the metro area 5.9 million. I do my travel in books!