olive oil, canola oil, peanut oil are all good (monounsaturated).
You may find the flavor of one or the other goes better with a recipe.
Places like Costco and Sam's Club sell packages of boneless/skinless chicken breasts. We split the big packages up into little freezer bags, take out and thaw the amount we need.
re: cereal, my daughter discovered Nature's Path Optimum Slim cereal - we get it at Trader Joe's. Very low fat, 0 sat., 11g fiber, only 10g sugars, yummy too. 9g of protein - soy. Whole grains, organic. www.naturespath.com
We've been substituting brown rice for white rice, whole wheat pasta for plain, sweet potatoes for white, whole wheat bread/pita/bagels/tortillas.
HTH, good luck.
-Ben
>Thanks Sandy. This is a lot easier for me to understand. I can do most
>of this with little effort. I'll have a hard time working breakfast in
>but I know it's some thing I need to do.
>
>I used to be vegetarian but now I eat a little meat. I grew up on a
>dairy farm so we ate beef at _every_ meal. :-| Now I eat it mixed with
>food. I hardly ever eat steak or hamburgers.
>
>If I cook I use only olive oil. I'll try to pick up so chicken strip or
>de-boned breast meat and freeze it. Then de-thaw only what I need.
>
>I really want to change my eating habits for me and my boys. I want them
>to learn by example so I really need to change.
>
>Sandy Clark wrote:
>
>> Best thing to do is plan your meals. If you don't want to go low carb
>> (and
>> it looks to me like your diet is almost entirely composed of carbs)
>> then try
>> something like this.
>>
>>
>> I also can't tell if you are a meat eater (your diet looks fairly
>> vegetarian
>> from what you posted)
>>
>>
>> Breakfast:
>> Include a high fiber low sugar cereal or eggs.
>>
>>
>> Lunch
>> Salad or Cottage Cheese
>> Grilled Meat
>> Roasted or Grilled Vegetables
>>
>>
>> Dinner
>> Meat or Protein Dish (Beans are fine, so is Tofu)
>> 2 kinds of vegetables (stay away from potatoes for now). Make sure at
>> least one of the vegetables is a green
>> Salad
>> Rice or Pasta occassionally, but make it the side dish and not the
>> main
>> course.
>>
>>
>> Snacks during the day can be cut up veggies, fruit.
>>
>>
>> Basically get away from the highly processed foods, start adding in foods
>> that are high in vitamins and that give you bang for your buck.
>>
>>
>> An easy way to do this is to start shopping the edges of a grocery store.
>> (Meat, Dairy and Vegetable sections are all along the walls, processed
>> foods
>> are in the aisles).
>>
>>
>> Sandy
>>
>>
>> _____
>>
>> From: Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:00 AM
>> To: CF-Community
>> Subject: Re: Weight loss advice
>>
>> Well, you could get your tonsils out.
>>
>> When I got my tonsils out in 2002, I lost 15 pounds in 1 1/2 weeks. Give
>> it a shot... ;-)
>>
>> p.s. I gained the 15 pounds back in about five days after that.
>>
>> At 08:16 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote:
>> >I need some advice on losing some weight. Over the last year I have
>> >gained about 30 pounds and its all in my gut. I call it my coder gut.
>> >:-\ Any way. I want to lose a few pounds but I don't really know where
>> >to start.
>> >
>> >I'm clueless about health eating. All I really eat is pasta, some type
>> >of potato and beans. I've started eating salad for lunch with a cup of
>> >soup but that is as healthy as it gets. So what are some simple things I
>> >can do to start losing some pounds?
>> >
>> >Phillip B.
>> >
>> >----------
>> >[
>> _____
>>
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