• Re: My "wake up" was when

    From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to MRO on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 09:09:00
    MRO wrote to Andeddu <=-

    dont you get food fatigue?

    One way is to adjust the seasonings. This was really important when I was losing the weight because it let me eat the healthy stuff without getting tired of it.

    Today, I'll adjust what greens I have for dinner and change up the dressing.

    I usually change my eating habits with the seasons. Right now win Winter,
    my steel cut oats in the morning and soup in the afternoon are very satisfying. But when it gets warmer, I'll move to fridge oatmeal and sandwiches (actually usually wraps).

    But I always change up the seasonings so that each meal tastes a little different.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dr. What on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 21:17:05
    Re: Re: My "wake up" was when
    By: Dr. What to MRO on Wed Jan 27 2021 09:09 am

    MRO wrote to Andeddu <=-

    dont you get food fatigue?

    One way is to adjust the seasonings. This was really important when I was losing the weight because it let me eat the healthy stuff without getting tired of it.

    Today, I'll adjust what greens I have for dinner and change up the dressing.

    I usually change my eating habits with the seasons. Right now win Winter,


    i get real tired at work so i want to eat real fast so i can feel better.
    also i have a baby that i'm taking care of sometimes.
    i dont have time for making dinners sometimes.

    that makes it hard because i can just throw some popcorn chicken in the microwave and eat like that.
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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to MRO on Thursday, January 28, 2021 05:05:42
    Re: Re: My "wake up" was when
    By: MRO to Dr. What on Wed Jan 27 2021 09:17 pm

    Re: Re: My "wake up" was when
    By: Dr. What to MRO on Wed Jan 27 2021 09:09 am

    MRO wrote to Andeddu <=-

    dont you get food fatigue?

    One way is to adjust the seasonings. This was really important when I was losing the weight because it let me eat the
    healthy stuff without getting tired of it.

    Today, I'll adjust what greens I have for dinner and change up the dressing.

    I usually change my eating habits with the seasons. Right now win Winter,


    i get real tired at work so i want to eat real fast so i can feel better. also i have a baby that i'm taking care of sometimes.
    i dont have time for making dinners sometimes.

    that makes it hard because i can just throw some popcorn chicken in the microwave and eat like that.

    Yeah, I think that is one of the reason why convenience foods are so widely used. It is faster to throw something into the
    microwave than to boil an egg.

    Then people gets wild variations of sugar level so they have an hyper-caloric breakfast but still end up getting hungry
    mid-morning. I have heard the nutritionist we have here is recommending chromium for stabilizing sugar levels btw.

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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to MRO on Friday, January 29, 2021 08:45:00
    MRO wrote to Dr. What <=-

    i get real tired at work so i want to eat real fast so i can feel
    better. also i have a baby that i'm taking care of sometimes.
    i dont have time for making dinners sometimes.

    I hear you. What my wife and I do is pre-make healthier choices for the
    week when we have more time on the weekends.

    For example: The steel cut oats that I have for breakfast. I make several servings, put them in microwavable containers and put them in the fridge.
    When I want one, 3 minutes in the microwave and I have a hot, healthy breakfast.

    We still do a good number of "quick meals", but we try to get the ones
    that are on the healthy side. ex: 200 calorie soup instead of 400 calorie soup. Or Lean Cuisine style instead of "hungry man" frozen dinners.

    And a salad goes together quick if you pre-cut all the veggies for it.


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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Arelor on Friday, January 29, 2021 09:20:00
    Arelor wrote to MRO <=-

    Then people gets wild variations of sugar level so they have an hyper-caloric breakfast but still end up getting hungry mid-morning. I have heard the nutritionist we have here is recommending chromium for stabilizing sugar levels btw.

    IHMO: Any "nutritionist" who prescribes chromium (unless there is another health condition other than "bad eating") to lower blood sugar is a quack.

    Simply eating healthier meals and not grazing all day will lower blood
    sugar.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Dr. What on Friday, January 29, 2021 14:50:53
    Re: Re: My "wake up" was when
    By: Dr. What to MRO on Fri Jan 29 2021 08:45 am

    I hear you. What my wife and I do is pre-make healthier choices for the week when we have more time on the weekends.

    Maybe I should do that more often. I'm not sure how often I'd want to spend a weekend day cooking food though.. I also live by myself, so it's just me. But sometimes I like to make a batch of spaghetti sauce and put it in mason jars so I have some home-cooked spaghetti sauce when I want some. Also, there are some things I'll make for dinner for myself that are enough for several meals for me - Sometimes I'll make meatloaf, and with just one pound of meat and a side to go with it, I could get maybe 4 meals out of that for me. I'll usually take leftovers to work for lunch. And for something like stir-fry and rice, I usually make enough to have several leftover meals that I could use for lunch or dinner.

    For example: The steel cut oats that I have for breakfast. I make several servings, put them in microwavable containers and put them in the fridge. When I want one, 3 minutes in the microwave and I have a hot, healthy breakfast.

    Isn't 3 minutes about the time it takes to mircrowave steel cut oats in the first place? I've bought those sometimes, and I seem to remember about 3 minutes being the microwave time from the box.

    We still do a good number of "quick meals", but we try to get the ones that are on the healthy side. ex: 200 calorie soup instead of 400 calorie soup. Or Lean Cuisine style instead of "hungry man" frozen dinners.

    I've done that too.

    Nightfox

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Dr. What on Friday, January 29, 2021 17:49:41
    Re: Re: My "wake up" was when
    By: Dr. What to Arelor on Fri Jan 29 2021 09:20 am

    Arelor wrote to MRO <=-

    Then people gets wild variations of sugar level so they have an hyper-caloric breakfast but still end up getting hungry mid-morning. I have heard the nutritionist we have here is recommending chromium for stabilizing sugar levels btw.

    IHMO: Any "nutritionist" who prescribes chromium (unless there is another health condition other than "bad eating") to lower blood sugar is a quack.

    Simply eating healthier meals and not grazing all day will lower blood sugar.


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    I don't have the hard stats here, but I'd say about 70% of the patients that get to see the nutritionist suffer from some severe condition. Like tiroids gone wild, diabetes or worse.

    That said I think the total amount of chromium prescriptions we have issued this year is 3 :-) So I am farly confident the nutrition lady is not giving chromium away to everybody just for the sake of giving chromium away.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dr. What on Saturday, January 30, 2021 06:43:00
    Dr. What wrote to MRO <=-

    For example: The steel cut oats that I have for breakfast. I make
    several servings, put them in microwavable containers and put them in
    the fridge. When I want one, 3 minutes in the microwave and I have a
    hot, healthy breakfast.

    I should try that. I love "proper" oatmeal, but only have time on the
    weekends to make it.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dr. What on Saturday, January 30, 2021 06:53:00
    Dr. What wrote to Arelor <=-

    IHMO: Any "nutritionist" who prescribes chromium (unless there is
    another health condition other than "bad eating") to lower blood sugar
    is a quack.

    Simply eating healthier meals and not grazing all day will lower blood sugar.

    Point taken, but I think we were talking about stabilizing blood sugar
    levels, not lowering overall levels.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Saturday, January 30, 2021 06:58:00
    Nightfox wrote to Dr. What <=-

    Maybe I should do that more often. I'm not sure how often I'd want to spend a weekend day cooking food though..

    Buy a crock pot, and you can make healthy stews and roasts without taking up
    a lot of time on the weekends - and have leftovers for a couple of days.

    I've been making vegetable stews during the week in a stock pot. It takes about a half-hour on-and-off and ends up making a couple of meals.

    My wife made a veggie chili last weekend, it took maybe 10 minutes of prep
    and 6 hours in the pot. Combined with corn bread muffins from mix, it was a great, comparitively light meal.



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, January 30, 2021 15:02:32
    Re: Re: My "wake up" was when
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat Jan 30 2021 06:58 am

    Maybe I should do that more often. I'm not sure how often I'd want
    to spend a weekend day cooking food though..

    Buy a crock pot, and you can make healthy stews and roasts without taking up a lot of time on the weekends - and have leftovers for a couple of days.

    That's true. I had a crock pot, and it was handy for that.

    Nightfox

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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Nightfox on Sunday, January 31, 2021 09:19:00
    Nightfox wrote to Dr. What <=-

    Maybe I should do that more often. I'm not sure how often I'd want to spend a weekend day cooking food though.. I also live by myself, so
    it's just me. But sometimes I like to make a batch of spaghetti sauce
    and put it in mason jars so I have some home-cooked spaghetti sauce
    when I want some. Also, there are some things I'll make for dinner for myself that are enough for several meals for me - Sometimes I'll make meatloaf, and with just one pound of meat and a side to go with it, I could get maybe 4 meals out of that for me. I'll usually take
    leftovers to work for lunch. And for something like stir-fry and rice,
    I usually make enough to have several leftover meals that I could use
    for lunch or dinner.

    We don't "spend the weekend cooking", though. But we do similar things.

    Last week, we made a double batch of Porcupine Meatballs. We had a couple for dinner then
    had a bunch for meals for the rest of the week.

    We've pressure cooked a chicken - for chicken and stock for soup. With an Instant Pot, it's "set it and forget it".
    So we start it, go do other things then come back later and process it into containers. That works for several meals:
    Chicken soup - just need to cook the noodles before putting into containers - and extra chicken we can have for other
    things during the week.

    We will also chop up veggies for the week, so that when we want some, it's just open the container and sprinkle
    some on whatever we want.

    Isn't 3 minutes about the time it takes to mircrowave steel cut oats in the first place? I've bought those sometimes, and I seem to remember about 3 minutes being the microwave time from the box.

    Those are the par-cooked quick steel cut oats. Not nearly as healthy (and tasty) as the uncooked ones.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Sunday, January 31, 2021 10:30:00
    Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Buy a crock pot, and you can make healthy stews and roasts without taking up a lot of time on the weekends - and have leftovers for a couple of days.

    That's true. I had a crock pot, and it was handy for that.

    The great thing is that you can find them for cheap at thrift shops.

    My project this week is learning to get better at using my rice cooker. I bought uncooked brown rice instead of those microwave packets.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, February 01, 2021 08:25:05
    Re: Re: My "wake up" was when
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sun Jan 31 2021 10:30 am

    That's true. I had a crock pot, and it was handy for that.

    The great thing is that you can find them for cheap at thrift shops.

    My project this week is learning to get better at using my rice cooker. I bought uncooked brown rice instead of those microwave packets.

    I had a rice cooker but didn't use it. Typically I cook rice in a pot on the stove. Seems to me like a rice cooker is pretty much the same, except they just have a timer to automatically stop cooking after a certain time.

    Nightfox

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