Just using this space to think out loud about what things to make over the next few weeks.
Just using this space to think out loud about what things to make over the next few weeks.
Pesto chicken bake (bone-in breasts slathered w/pesto, topped with Roma tomatoes & mozzarella/Parm)
Salmon patties w/hot dill tarter sauce
Antipasti salad (romaine w/olives, tomatoes, feta, peppers, salami, herb vinaigrette)
Turkey burgers w/mustard, pickles, dill & garlic kraut
Cabbage skillet w/ground chuck, tomatoes, herbs, with or without cheese, kind of like a stuffed cabbage roll w/o the rice
Turkey taco salad w/avocado, tomato, onion, cheddar, black olives
Buffalo chicken wings/drummies (done)
Cauliflower cream of mushroom chowder (2nd batch made)
Turkey sausage egg bake with broccoli & cheddar
Collard greens (bacon, balsamic tomatoes, pepper flakes (GONE, 2nd batch soon)
Taco spinach casserole (spinach, hot Mexican ground chorizo, tomatoes, cream cheese, green chiles. pepper Jack)
Lemon & herb roasted whole chicken
Pumpkin cheesecake fat bombs (tiny bites of “dessert” cream cheese, coconut oil, spices, pumpkin puree, Stevia)
Chocolate peppermint melt bark (2nd batch, peppermint oil en route from Amazon)
BLT salad
Chicken Marsala
Tuna salad lettuce wraps (homemade mayo, lemon, and capers or dill relish)
Chicken soup w/celery, carrots, onions, and herbs (done, in freezer)
Pesto chicken flatbread pizza
Cheddar egg muffins with hot sage sausage
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Christmas cookies
Although I have ground up a handful or two of almonds to make keto pancakes, I have yet to buy bulk quantities of things like almond flour or other grain-free flours, to experiment with cookies that I can eat. I haven’t honestly missed cookies or baked goods, in general.
Tanya G yeah, I don’t use many alternatives to foods that require grains, I pretty much stick to meat+veg and fats (animal and plant)
O, YUM ALL THOSE THINGS
This is maddening, reading it while you are stuck at a warehouse, waiting for time to drive. And you are hungry. Who needs cookies? The cookie monster and me.
Bobbi Jo Woods, before your diet change, did you eat whatever time you got around to it? Did you have a dietary plan? How many times did you eat a day. How has it changed compared to now.
I eat three meals a day, roughly. Sometimes I fat-fast breakfast and don’t have a solid meal til noon-ish. I follow the ketogenic lifestyle and plan to for life.
Before Memorial weekend, I ate pretty much like most people, before I changed my lifestyle. Breakfast with coffee about an hour or two after waking (coffee was usually made as soon as I had one eye open and could stumble into the kitchen). Now I wait until that mid-morning slump and have coffee then. I also do not drink more than 2 cups (8 oz each) a day, before i was drinking it all day, up til bedtime, even and it had little effect.
Lunch was usually whenever I could manage it, working at home meant I had the luxury of preparing a homemade meal at the kitchen counter/stove where most don’t. Dinner was almost always between 5-7 p.m. because that was when I took my insulin.
As far as the type of foods I ate…when I didn’t watch what ate as closely, it was still what most people consider relatively “healthy”, like a big salad with a whole grain turkey sandwich or low fat chili with rice, things like that. The portions were still pretty hefty. The fact that what I mostly ate was low in fat and full of starches and grains, spiked my blood sugar (which was already high all the time) and kept it high – and I had to had to take expensive oral meds (lots of them) and tons of insulin (over 100 units per day) to keep it at bay.
I started reading/seriously researching about ketogenic way of life between last Christmas and this spring, and it seemed to be a natural progression, since I was already eating whole foods and veg mostly (I don’t eat fast food, dine out maybe once a year, almost entirely cooking at home), and just needed to learn to formulate my macronutrients and caloric deficit/portions. Thankfully, since the lifestyle means consuming high amounts of fat, very little carbohydrate (usually from vegetables and sometimes dairy like cheese and cream), and minimal to adequate protein, that is very satiating and it’s easy to keep meals small bcause they are higher in calories. When I was eating grains and starches, it was easy to eat more because foods low in fat and high in grain/complex carbs are hard to fill up on easily and keep us hungry for more, which is why it’s easy to eat a ton of pasta and bread and still be hungry.
I started Obamacare/ACA through my state’s exchange in April. Insulin for 30 days’ supply was $1400 and my monthly premium for one person was over $200/month with an $1800 deductible and $4000 out of pocket spend-down, and did not cover lab tests and only 20% of oral prescription meds, which were, at the time, the only things I needed. I am otherwise healthy and didn’t need doc visits other than 3 lab tests per year and 1 eye exam and those drugs. I changed my diet and now am off all the drugs.
So it was diabetes related. Ok. I’m just 400 plus and need to drop at least 150. Truck stops more and more are only offering fast food joints. So I’m going to have to do some research. Thanks.
You can do a high fat/low carb lifestyle while at work on the road – fast food places are used to low-carb folks now and don’t even look at us funny anymore if you ask for your burger or grilled chicken sandwich without a bun. Make it a double burger and ask for bacon or extra cheese. Mayo and mustard are OK, hold the ketchup. They sometimes will even put it in a plastic bowl with a fork, to make it easy. Skip the fries. If you’re still hungry, get a side salad without the croutons or a taco salad and ask for no shell or no tortilla chips/strips. All Subway sandwiches can be a bowl/salad – just say you want “(sandwich name) bowl”. They put all the stuff from the sandwich into a bowl with spinach leaves/lettuce.
Gas stations/convenience stores are also great for keto. Pork rinds, cold hard-boiled eggs, cut-up raw veggies, and packaged salads in the sandwich section, string cheese sticks (mozzarella string cheese, cheddar), beef/turkey jerky/sausage sticks (go easy on the protein, though–too much of it raises blood sugar over time), sometimes you can even find sugar-free Jell-O cups, packets of almonds (no honey or sugar) or pistachios, sunflower seeds. Hell, worst-case scenario, you can get a hot dog or bratwurst/Polish without a bun. Put a couple in the little paper tray with some sauerkraut or hot sauce and mustard and eat it with a fork.
Just Google “keto fast food” and you’ll see a lot of options. Bread/anything with flour in it, pasta, grains, chips, potatoes…that’s what diabetics do not need, in order to get off the meds/insulin and reverse the issues.
I’ll look that up. Other than the obesity, I don’t have high blood pressure or diabetes. Just a chronic respiratory infection. I just may do the keto thing for 6 months or so.
Keto is not just for diabetics. It’s for anyone who wants to lose weight. The reason we gain weight isn’t always how much we eat, it’s the type of things we eat coupled with something our body needs to correct. You could have inflammation somewhere and not know if, and no matter what you eat, healthy or not, you could keep making it worse. Keto is also a good lifestyle plan for getting into a better mood, boosting your brain performance, having more energy (I’m hardly ever tired anymore), improving your digestion, and much, much more…so many of those things keep us fat.