Posts by nutrio602

I have had the book for a few months and just decided to follow it to the T(started today!) the first hudle that I am working on is getting enough calories (1700) and eating with in the parameters.  I am a Slow Oxidizer and she says to eat less than 20 g of fat but to balance the ratio with carbs and protein.  I have eaten the diet through to snack and though I am not hungry right now I know (using the food log) that I am only going to hit around 1300 calories and that is just not enough.  so I am trying to add protein and carbs with out adding fat and by not running up a huge grocery bill.  so I am working on modifications without leaving the ultimate premise.  I love Jillian micheals and I am sure it will work well I just need to adjust for my needs.  Im thinking an extra bowl of oatmeal or some more quinoa at dinner will do just fine!  goo luck... keep me updated on how you do!

Well my best weapon is planning ahead.  I have put Sunday's aside to cook or atleast plan for my food throughout the week.   I grocery shop with my sister in law andmake sure not just to purchase the regular meal foods but Plenty of good snacks... I work at a desk too and the worst is sitting there waiting for somethign to load or whatever and you look for munchies... I bring a smaill container of Planter's Nut-Rition mixes and usually a small apple and an orange that I pre peel at home and carry ina bag (for somereason havign to peel it when I actually am hungry seems too hard and causes me to look for soemthing else often taking more time and effort than just peeling the stupid orange.) I will also air pop pop corn and keep it in a paper bag.  I have a need to crunch things a lot. I always pack a lunch (usually select harvest soupbecause it is easy)soup and sandwich is easiest and if you break up your lunch break and have half early and half later that keeps food goign into you stomach throughout the day and so less hunger pangs.  I also make sure I save one of my favorites daily snack for the ride home or as I am leaving (its usually the popcorn:)) so I am not tempted to go to the drive through just because I am in the car and even though I know It will be time for dinner when I get home. Some nights I end up working late and don't know I will have to on my way in.  So I have an extra can of soup in my drawer at my desk at all times and I have a delivery sheet from a great healthy place called the pita pit.  I have it filled out to the healthiest meal off the menu so all I have to do is fax it if I get into an emergency situation.(delivery always makes me feel like I am cheating even if it is healthy food:))  also those mini boxes of cereal are good  (cherrios or what ever)  as far as working out.  I plan 3 times a day to workout for atleast 20 min each.  If I hit all three I will get a full hour 7 days a week if I get one in I atleast did something.  (most weekdays I only get one 20 min work out in) but then the weekend I make an hour long workout plan and also try to get my friends to meet me at places that involve movement and not just drinking at the bar ... usually Bowling but golfing (no cart) andbaseball when it is warm.  Bowling alley is perfect in the winter during the footballs eason because you can be doing something and still watch the game(atleast at my alley) and they serve alcohol in the bar for my friends that need that to feel like we are having fun.everybody wins.  So thats what I have got.  hope it helps .  good luck

well I have to say the 5 lbs are doing me well the work out gets easier every day I am going to start level 2 on Monday who knows maybe I'll bump it up  to 8 lbs that is the next size up I have.  I am also going to add in  a 20 min yoga or pilates i finish this work out and feel like I lost a lot of flexibility and if you watch Jillian at the end she has n flexibility.   see this with a lot of strength training Gurus.  I am very flexible and I don't want to lose that. but the inensity of these workouts are great.

They ar ethe same as the 30 day shred DVD and I am also doing it from comcast. started 3 days ago and wow are tehy hard but I feel that burn that tells me "you definately worked out"  the next morning.  I am going to try them all 30 days and also include a light jog each morning and hope fo rht ebest.  Good luck toyou!

If they eat Factory farm(whatever is cheapest or onsale at the super market) meat.  Ask them to atleast switch to locally raised humanley treated meat.  and if you are up to it agree to partake of the meat dish once a month if they purchase that type of meat.  In return they have to designate one dinner a month to you to cook a completely vegetarian meal...(my suggestion is always spaghetti with a tomato sauce with a lot of different vegetables (all the ones you like to prove how many you like) in it.  include garlic bread and a large salad.... it is a very familiar homestyle dish that everyone appreciates and often forgets that it is "vegetarian."    Cook your dish and (as my parents did when my sister and I suggested this compromise) they may not want to dish out the extra bucks for the properly raised meat after a few months and then you do not have to eat it... but it did open thier eyes on the cost to produce meat correctly and they (10 years later) have progressively lessened thier meat intake and buy sustainable meat when they do eat it. 

So I am not a vegetarian because I host the Sunday Dinner at my house with a TON of relatives all of which are Rediculously over opinionated about what I do with my life.  ("why are we using Cloth napkins?" "why is it under 80 degrees in here?")  Anyway we have many different dishes at the table and one main piece which is ofcourse some sort of meat weather it be a wild turkey,  deer or beef from a local farm that I know the owner of that treats his animals very humanely and has organic grass fed beef.    1 wild turkey that lived in my in laws back yard can feed 28 people with left overs which I push on them but anything left goes to my husbands lunches and the rest of the week I eat vegetarian meals.  I know the horrors of the farming industry and so I avoid it at all costs and I make sure my relatives have the option of having the food they believe in as responsibly as possible.  At the beginning of the meal I offer a prayer for the animal and the people who raised it properly and that others may follow in thier foot steps... it is woven into a total prayer for "creation"(my extended family are VERY religious.)   The point of this is your father BELIEVES that most farms are good and do not treat animals inhumanely... You believe that obstaining from eating them will help the cause.  so you stop eating meat and try talking your father into following his beliefs and only purchaseing meat from which he knows how the animals were raised.  if he can get on board with that maybe he cna compromise with other things like saving large quantities of meat for special ocasions and not for every meal (having oatmeal for breakfast instead of a breakfast sandwhich)  this is the way I was raised (not due to beliefss but out of need) meat was once expensive and eaten weekly not daily let alone at every meal... if he doesn't listen to "Trash on the internet" hit him with traditions... Thats how I work it.  Baby steps and mutual respect for beliefs is the way to go.  My sister has been a Vegetarian since age 13 though couldn't cook and only ate junk food because she didn't have the respect of my family for her choice and mom tried to prepare vegetables with meat in it so I lended my hand and became a very good vegetarian cook if I do say so myself.  At 27 my sisters lifestyle is finally accepted and my mom went back to her traditional Sunday meat  traditions... good luck... don't give up and learn to cook nutrious meals