Just make sure you mix it up all the time, Smartones, Healthy choice and lean cuisine make pretty decent lunches. 5 minutes in the microsowave and I am good to go. Healthy choice meat, low calorie bread, makes a great sandwhich. Hebrew national has a 1.5 g fat hot dog. I get those with light bread buns. The reason I have been able to stay on it as long as I have is becuase I don't get bored. I don't feel like I am missing anything, I just eat the same things smarter.
Robert Everland III Web Developer Extraordinaire Dixon Ticonderoga Company http://www.dixonusa.com -----Original Message----- From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 1:33 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Solidarity Ben; Lent, your story, the anniversary of my Dad's 2 heart attacks and a stroke, Bill's story (which just about gave me a heart attack) and the other discussions of people's medical problems lead to this. I give my hunger to all these people and issues. Sad to think it takes stuff like this to open our eyes, but that's just the way people are. Thinking about losing friends and loved ones because of bad habits sucks. I am ready to lose the weight. Just had day one lunch, which was a chef's salad with fat-free raspberry vinagrette dressing. Tomorrow it will be the same thing, maybe without any dressing (it tasted a lot like jelly and I have no problem eating a dry salad), anything just so long as I am not eating cheesesteaks, ruebens, onion rings, teriaki and Gen. Tzo all the time. Sounds to me like the most effective weight loss technique on this list is portion control, so I am going to take the time and really think about what it is I am eating before anything goes in my mouth. I do walk about 10 city blocks a day, and I am trucking when I go. I usually arrive at my daughter's school winded, so something is circulating. Weight loss (for me) comes with lifting weights. In high school, I used to lift all the time in my sophomore year and put on 20 pounds in muscle. Broke my leg playing football in my junior year and (while I was in the wheelchair) gained lots of fat. Weighed 260 at graduation and lost 100 lbs the next year just by lifting and dieting. So this really isn't something new for me, its just trying to discipline myself with a child around is tricky (she makes the best cookies, brownies, cakes, etc). At the end of all this, I hope to have a nice documentary about how a bunch of friends from across the Atlantic came togehter to improve their lifestyles. M -----Original Message----- From: Ben Braver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:50 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Solidarity Mike- coolness. am truly honored if my tale influenced this at all. BTW, my office has a frig and a microwave. I will be able to bring healthy and tasty stuff with me. Re: walking - are you walking at a fast-enough pace to get into your target heart range? The rough formula is 220 - age = Maximum heart rate, do not exceed. Moderate exercise = 65% to 70% of MHR. E.g., if someone were 30 years old, MHR would be 190, target approx. 125 - 135. While "just walking" is good, if it's slower than this, you don't get the cardio benefits. Swinging your arms when you walk ups the pulse a bit. Along with the grilled chicken breast, consider grilled fish, esp. varieties high in Omega-3 e.g. salmon. And with the salad, check the fat content of the dressing. And, check the fiber and sodium content on the labels. Good luck, and here's hoping you have many healthy years!! -Ben At 10:10 AM 3/12/03 -0500, you wrote: >Given the people on this list and their loved ones affected by various >medical issues which will require a lifestyle change, I want to show my >concern for their challenges in a meaningful way. > >I assume many of the CF-Community people are like me, spending a large >amount of time behind a computer each day, eating large portions of >just about anything that passes for food each day for lunch, and >utterly deficient when it comes to exercise. > >Given that it is the lenten season and I am supposed to be giving >something up anyway, I am going to work consciously to change my habits >as a tribute to those who have to change theirs. I am going to eat >healthier and get more exercise. Tonight when I get home I am going to >lift some weights (I would do cardio but I already walk half an hour >each day as it is), for dinner I am going to have a grilled chicken >breast and some broccoli, and I am probably going to just have a salad >for lunch. Tomorrow I will repeat this process, and will do so everyday >until I feel I have really changed my ways. And the snacks, the Famous >Amos cookies my company provides developers for free and somehow make >their way to my desk each afternoon, nixed. > >That's my pledge, anyways. I don't really want to think about what my >arteries look like, or what they are going to look like in 10 years. >With a little determination, I am confident I can drop about 10-20 >pounds in the process. > >Anyone else up for such a challenge? I am sharing my thoughts in the >hope that some other people feel strong enough to want to make a change >in their lives. If that is the case, I will be willing to organize this >effort and put up a community Web site where we can all track our >results, post tips / links / other stuff. > >M > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
