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Food: Fuel, Not Entertainment

koolman
koolman
It's a very tough concept, I know! I love, relish, enjoy and celebrate food as much as the next person. When I look at the bulging gut next day after an eating party, I know I ate too much, and ate the wrong kinds of foods.

High protein, low carb is obviously the way to lose weight (fat). For the most part, I've given up bread, pasta, rice and potatoes and have been enjoying grilled salmon and flounder garnished with green pimenta olives and fresh mushrooms, with a handfull of almonds in fat-free cottage cheese as an in-between meals snack and watermelon for dessert. What are some of your favorite foods?
terrylarson
terrylarson
I just bought a whole watermelon and it makes a delicious treat or dessert. I also like baby carrots. I need to give up the happy hour each evening or at least limit it to one drink.
koolman
koolman
I feel ya, Terry. Yeah, rum, whiskey, calhoua and mixed drinks have a lot of sugar and beer has a lot of carbs. Probably more fattening, however, are any appetizers you happen to eat with the drinks, like wings with blue cheese dressing, mozarella sticks and fried mushrooms. Skip that stuff and you'll be OK albeit more easily intoxicated on an empty stomach. Goes without saying: Wait an hour and pee the booze out before driving!
daddyslilangel
daddyslilangel
Hi!! I'm new here and looking for some inspiration to take my fitness to another level! I noticed your question kool and thought I'd respond.

Almost all of my favorite foods involve some type of starch, and the latest of my food obsessions is peanut butter and sugar free (truvia) jelly on whole grain bread. Of course there are problems with all three of those ingredients but I think that I could blast away the last 5 pounds I'd like to lose if I ditched the bread. Maybe pb and apple slices? Maybe cashew butter instead?

I will say that although my fav foods and most of what I eat are starchy, I don't eat a terribly large amount of food each day, which helps me stay within a reasonable proximity to my "happy" weight. I know it's not the healthy way to do it though, and I'd like to change that! Hoping to find motivation here!
koolman
koolman
Congrats, Daddy, on your fitness regimen! Peanut butter, if it's the all-natural, sugar-free kind, with the layer of oil on top, like Smuckers, is great. Chunky is the best. Peanuts, from what I read in "The Zone" diet book, are better than cashews. The best nuts, according to the book, as far as protein and heart-healthy oil, are almonds. If there's unsweetened almond butter out there, eat it. The jelly, even if sugar-free (cuz it's sweetened with Aspertaine, Nutrisweet or some other cancer-causing artificial sweetener) and the bread, even multigrain, not so great if you want to lose weight (fat). Yep, peanut butter on apples'll get you there!