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Nice. Yes, the granola is for breakfast, that's when I eat it. I use unsweetened vanilla almond milk. Skims great too. The cinnamon is delicious. Probably my favorite one. A few of their flavors are a little heavy on sugar/carbs, just have to be mindful of that. A small bowl of that every morning is miles better than McD's. You'll be so far ahead right out of the gate every day.
I actually looked at the sugars because I thought the Maple one might be high in sugar, but it's actually less than the cinnamon.
Yeah, it's a good brand. Minimally processed. You just don't want to go through a bag every two days which is possible because it's delicious.
red delicious apples are anything but delicious. get yourself some honeycrsip or sweetango
You can add frozen blueberries to it too if you want. They're great with that, naturally sweeten the milk. Will make it a little more filling for you, will feel fuller longer. Can't go wrong adding blueberries to the diet.
The fruit's gonna replace other crap. 2 servings per day. He's getting almost none now.Not sure why you guys are suggesting fruit as a regular snack. That sugar is a great way to jack up your insulin and turn to fat. With his diet, he has enough sugar.
They guy said he's boarder line diabetic, way to send him over the edge
This is very true. He should probably get a couple servings of fruit a day, but eating more than that will require a significant amount of reduction of the added sugar and other simple carbs he's getting from the rest of his diet. When I'm below 50 grams of sugar per day and avoid simple carbs, the weight melts off even without exercise and regardless of how much protein I eat. Over 50 grams of sugar per day and it takes counting calories and exercise to get any results.Not sure why you guys are suggesting fruit as a regular snack. That sugar is a great way to jack up your insulin and turn to fat. With his diet, he has enough sugar.
They guy said he's boarder line diabetic, way to send him over the edge
Disagree - even if he takes 10% of the suggestions offered here he'll be healthier.
Rule #1 for me is 'don't drink calories'. I still have an occasional glass of milk but that's it.
First of all, losing 12-14 pounds the first week is a sign of terrible diet. That's nothing but water weight and then you feel like crap when you gain it back.
I missed it earlier. What brand? I eat bagels when I'm in heavy training because I need the calories, but i don't exercise as much in winter and need an alternative.
That #### would be gone in a day - who am I kidding, a meal - if it was in my house.
If I was boozing, that bag would be gone in 10 minutes. I think that'd be about 1,300 calories. Yikes.
Quarter cup - 13 grams of relatively bad, fast burning carbs. 1/2 cup would be MINIMUM and that wouldn't likely be enough. Why not just go ahead and have a Butterfinger with 29 carbs instead 26 carbs for 1/2 cup of Bear Naked.
Cmon. Protein, fiber, way less sugar. Nowhere near comparable. Look at what he was eating before. Earlier today people making fun of granola, now tonight eating fruit and granola bad for him? Give me a break. He's eating mcmuffins and frozen jimmy deans sausage egg sandwiches before this. It'd be great if this granola was the worst thing he ate all day. Right now it's the best. Baby steps. Today was a good day.
I saw my doctor just before thanksgiving. He said those of us like me who have Meniere's Disease report an increase of cases of vertigo at Thanksgiving. I said, #### it! I'm going to eat thanksgiving food and if I spend hours with the room spinning around while fighting the urge to puke, then so be it. I'm going to risk that to enjoy a traditional thanksgiving meal. Luckily I didn't get any vertigo after I did. I think a lot of people who have Meniere's feel the same way I did, and not all of us get lucky, and that's what my doctor was saying.
I don't, but I have exercised like a maniac for years in part to justify my cheating. Whenever my body fails me I will need to adjust. For now, I eat very well during the day. I let my guard down at night though as I love good food, beer, and whiskey.That said, I had a fat stage about ten years ago. I was strict about my diet until I was satisfied with where I was. Very strict for six months (no alcohol) and still fairly strict for another six (food was good, alcohol crept back in). That's when I brought the cheats back in, but as I did I ramped up the exercise regimen so I wouldn't regress. I'm getting the sense that's not in gussy's wheel house, it isn't what most want to do, which is why I haven't brought it up. My method is probably only sustainable if you really want to push yourself to limits from an exercise perspective.
I won't argue that a Butterfinger is healthier, just a way to make a point about "healthy" foods like granola. Carbs=sugar. And its mostly if not all fast carbs which affect the body like sugar.
Aside from raw veggies, there honesty isn't anything I can think of that isn't off limits in some diets.
I don't disagree - my point is maybe we need to separate "I need to snack" with "I want something that tastes sweet". Maybe introduce the pallet to a different way to snack? Being hungry <> I needing something sweet.
Everyone is so busy arguing with each other, no one has responded to this post.
She's made similar dishes before, both when we were trying to behave and when she didn't have a lot of time. We always have chicken breast around. Everything she makes is great, so of course, it was really good. It was kind of funny, because, as you can imagine, only having had a salad for lunch, I was ravenous. Then I came home and walked and she came rolling in around 5 and decides she needs to go drop off some of her beaded stuff from her party Monday night to one of her girlfriends that couldn't make it, so it was probably 7:15 before we ate. She took her portion and I literally took all of the rest of the rice/quinoa and put all of the rest of the chicken on top. She says "hungry?" and kind of laughed, and I told her I was starving. I got about 2/3 of the way through it and I thought "I really don't need all of this and it would make a good light lunch for tomorrow", so I put the rest in a microwave container. It kept me satisfied through the night. Also, went to bed before 10:30 and up at 5:30 feeling pretty good. It's one of her early days at work so it's easy for me to be up early on those days and be productive as long as I get to bed early the night before.
It sounds good. How was it?
Read the thread. I've numerous times stated that I've always drank a ton of water.
You sir, are a clown.
It sounds good. How was it?
The twist is that I hate clowns.You sir, are a clown.
This isn't an argument against counting calories. Our society consumed more calories and got fatter.
