Two Steps Forward, No Steps Back ... My Health Focused Log

[LisaS]

Originally Posted by Lost Dog

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I stopped buying healthy eating mags and cookbooks, for the most part. If I can't easily make a recipe healthy, I shouldn't be eating that dish anyway.
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I do buy regular cookbooks and cooking mags. Most of the veggie and meat dishes require little change.

when I came home tonight there was a sample issue of "Cuisine at Home" saying "Absolutely no ads - 100% Cooking" - it looks pretty good. Nice recipes - adaptable - technique articles - variations on a basic techinque - I might subscribe. Have you seen it? It reminds me a little of Cooks Illustrated- but different.

[Lost Dog]

I'll check it out. I love Cook's Illustrated. They know everything.

[tkinsley]

Originally Posted by UConnJulie

Intake Report - Total Day
for UConnJulie
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Food Intake Items:
Breakfast
Healthy Muesli, adapted from The Clean Eating Cookbook, page 21, 1 serving
Morning Snack
BLACK BEAN, 1/2 cup
CELERY, RAW, 7.5'' - 8'' long stalk, 2 medium-stalk
COTTAGE CHEESE, 1% MF, 2/3 cups
HORSERADISH, PREPARED, 1 tbsp
Lunch
CARROT, RAW, grated, 1/2 cup
CAULIFLOWER, RAW, 1 cup
GREEN LEAF LETTUCE, RAW, shredded, 2 cups
OLIVE, WHOLE, KALAMATA, 7 olives
POTATO, RUSSET, FLESH & SKIN, BAKED, small (1.75 - 2.5'' dia), 100 grams
SHRIMP, RTE, frozen; ready to eat, cooked, clenaed, tail on, medium or large, 3 oz
TOMATO, RED, RIPE, RAW, year round avg, 60 grams
Dinner
CARROT, RAW, grated, 1/2 cup
CUCUMBER W/PEEL, RAW, sliced, 1/2 cup
GREEN LEAF LETTUCE, RAW, shredded, 2 cups
Ham, Honey, "Natural Choice", preservative-free, nitrite-free, gluten-free, 4 oz
RADISH, RAW, 3/4 to 1'' dia, 5 medium
Ranch Dressing - Homemade, 1 serving
SWEET POTATO, BAKED, NO SALT, baked in skin, 100 grams
Evening Snack
ALMOND, RAW, 10 almonds
Greek Yogurt, 0%, 1 container
MANGO, RAW, sliced, 1/2 cup

Nutrient Value
Calories 1521.75
Protein (g) 116.49
Carbohydrates (g) 165.02
Dietary Fiber (g) 34.96
Fat (g) 47.86

PCF Ratio: 30-42-28

Exercise Intake:
Activity Duration Calories
Yoga, moderate vinyasa 00:40 255
Totals: 00:40 255

Calorie Usage Summary

Calories to maintain weight: 1872
Calories earned through exercise: 255
Total calories to maintain weight: 2127
Calories from food intake: 1522
Today's calorie deficit: -605

If you continue to repeat this intake and activity, you can anticipate losing 1 lb. of body weight every 5.8 days.

What tracking software are you using, Julie? Lookin' good so far, lady.

[UConnJulie]

Originally Posted by Lost Dog

I agree about the desserts. They used to do a lot of bread, too. I'm just glad they stopped the low fat stuff a couple of years back.

There's a decent mix of "healthy" now. In fact, my favorite column is the vegetarian recipe one. You add some meat to those dishes and they're awesome!

My biggest issue with that new mag is this. You know how magazines have those "special advertising sections" that are ads, but supposed to look like part of the magazine? They never do, right. Well, they solved that problem with this one by making the entire magazine look like a "special advertising section!" Seriously, it looks like one big ad (and with all the Tosca Reno Tosca-roony stuff, it almost is... ). It looks terrible, like when a car company makes those fake magazines that have "articles" and every other page is something about their cars.

I stopped buying healthy eating mags and cookbooks, for the most part. If I can't easily make a recipe healthy, I shouldn't be eating that dish anyway. Even the makeover dishes in CL are cookies, casseroles, noodle dishes, cakes and pies, etc. I'm not making even a "healthy" version of those things.

I do buy regular cookbooks and cooking mags. Most of the veggie and meat dishes require little change.

I understand and agree for the most part ... I have still learned some good things from it ... like the Quinoa and Black Bean salad. Most Quinoa recipes I have tried in the past have been uninspired. There are some other good ones here. Much of the time I am so flat out that I don't have time to be uber-creative. I also have to make the meal so that my husband and kids will eat most of it so I am not making 3 different meals each night. So this magazine gives me good ideas for making stuff my whole family will eat.

But to each his own!!

Originally Posted by LoriAnne

Hi! Thanks again for putting this together, and I certainly hope I'm following the rules! : )
I appreciate the welcome and am excited to see what I can achieve in these next 6 months.

Welcome again!!! Thanks for stopping by my log ...

Originally Posted by LisaS

when I came home tonight there was a sample issue of "Cuisine at Home" saying "Absolutely no ads - 100% Cooking" - it looks pretty good. Nice recipes - adaptable - technique articles - variations on a basic techinque - I might subscribe. Have you seen it? It reminds me a little of Cooks Illustrated- but different.

I <3 Cooks Illustrated ... too bad it's so expensive!!

Originally Posted by tkinsley

What tracking software are you using, Julie? Lookin' good so far, lady.

Thanks Tina! You should recognize it ... I got it last year after Johnka was posting using it ... Nutribase EZ. I think you bought it then too, no?


Crazy day today ... cleaned the whole house (mopping and everything!) and then we have 2 cord of wood to stack before the next forecasted snow on Monday. And since I'm working tomorrow and working out with Cass and Tracy .... no stacking tomorrow for me. So we're trying to get it all done today. And something must be in the air ... my kids are driving me NUTS!!! I'm ready to string both of them up from their toenails ... the drama is killing me!!!

Ah well ...so that's my exercise today ... cleaning and stacking wood. I'll probably need to meditate later today too!!

Eats are on track ... haven't entered them in Nutribase yet though ...

[Lost Dog]

Here's a tip to make virtually every quinoa recipe better. Use something else instead of quinoa.

[RacerBill]

Originally Posted by UConnJulie

I <3 Cooks Illustrated ... too bad it's so expensive!!

That's why I let my subscription lapse and I stop by the local library every so often to see if CI has something interesting.

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Hope things get better, Julie.

Originally Posted by Lost Dog

Here's a tip to make virtually every quinoa recipe better. Use something else instead of quinoa.

Ha! 100% true!!

[Lost Dog]

Like buckwheat, which tastes much better.

[RobLL]

Originally Posted by Lost Dog

Here's a tip to make virtually every quinoa recipe better. Use something else instead of quinoa.

put a check mark on that!

[tkinsley]

Oh shit! I forgot about nutribase. Julie, I have SO much fitness crap... right now I'm using the daily plate AND myfooddiary.com.... for weight trends/tracking I'm using weight ware and weight commander AND the online hacker's diet. LOL!

[UConnJulie]

Originally Posted by tkinsley

Oh shit! I forgot about nutribase. Julie, I have SO much fitness crap... right now I'm using the daily plate AND myfooddiary.com.... for weight trends/tracking I'm using weight ware and weight commander AND the online hacker's diet. LOL!

Holy crap Tina!!! How long does it take to track it all in that many places?!

Regarding quinoa ... you have to rinse it well first to get rid of the bitterness (which I never would have known without Tosca Reno's book!). The recipe that I will post this coming week (yes, Tracy, I WILL post it!) is truly delicious ... so much so that it might become my new potluck dish ...

[UConnJulie]

Intake Report - Total Day
for UConnJulie
Saturday, January 12, 2008

Food Intake Items:
Breakfast
BUTTER W/SALT, 1 tsp
CANTALOUPE, RAW, cubed, 3/4 cups
EGG, CHICKEN, BROWN, large, cage-free; whole, omega-3, all-natural, fresh, 2 eggs
Ham, Honey, "Natural Choice", preservative-free, nitrite-free, gluten-free, 1 oz
Hearty Whole Grain Bread - Gluten Free, Bob's Red Mill, 1 serving
SPINACH, BABY, Organic, 2 cups
Morning Snack
SUNFLOWER BUTTER W/SALT, 3 tbsp
Lunch
ALBACORE TUNA IN WATER, SOLID WHITE, CANNED, drained, 2.7 oz
BLACK BEAN, 1/4 cup
BLUEBERRY, RAW, unthawed, 1/4 cup
CUCUMBER W/PEEL, RAW, sliced, 1/2 cup
GREEN LEAF LETTUCE, RAW, shredded, 2 cups
MAYONNAISE, CANOLA, expeller pressed canola oil, 1 tbsp
ONION, RAW, chopped, 1 tbsp
PARMESAN CHEESE, GRATED, 1 tbsp
SALAD DRESSING, ITALIAN, LIGHT, Newman's Own, 'Lighten Up', 2 tbsp
TOMATO, RED, RIPE, RAW, year round avg, 88 grams
Dinner
BROCCOLI FLOWER CLUSTERS, RAW, flowerets, 1 cup
CATSUP/KETCHUP, Organic, 1 tbsp
CHIVES, RAW, chopped, 1 tbsp
POTATO, RED, FLESH & SKIN, BAKED, 108 grams
SOUR CREAM, Friendship, All Natural, 1 tbsp
Turkey Breast Meatloaf (PN), modified from Gourmet Nutrition, 1/8 loaf
Evening Snack
COCOA, UNSWEETENED, POWDER, dry, 1 tbsp
RASPBERRY, RAW, 1 cup
RICOTTA CHEESE, PART SKIM, 1/2 cup

Nutrient Value
Calories 1631.13
Protein (g) 102.94
Carbohydrates (g) 137.75
Dietary Fiber (g) 27.60
Fat (g) 82.27

PCF Ratio: 24-32-43


I may have gluten-ized myself this evening ... the family was having pizza (homemade with ww crust that I made for them) and I had a leftover from the freezer ... the meatloaf from Gourmet Nutrition ... made with Oatbran ... hopefully it won't be a problem. I no longer have that Oatbran (Hodgson Mills) since it didn't verify that it was un-contaminated and therefore gluten-free. So it would just be from contamination and not direct ingestion of gluten. I tossed the other frozen pieces along with some salmon cakes I had made a while back. Bummer.

I feel a little off, but it could be fatigue ...

[tkinsley]

Originally Posted by UConnJulie

Holy crap Tina!!! How long does it take to track it all in that many places?!

Regarding quinoa ... you have to rinse it well first to get rid of the bitterness (which I never would have known without Tosca Reno's book!). The recipe that I will post this coming week (yes, Tracy, I WILL post it!) is truly delicious ... so much so that it might become my new potluck dish ...

Ick. I'm not huge on quinoa either, but am willing to try again.

The time-consuming portion of things is between the two food logging sites, but still, I bet I spend less than ten minutes/day between both sites. I don't know which one I'm going to stick with, honestly. TDP is great BUT their interface is a little buggy, and it takes more time to add stuff, AND it's a PITA to separate it into meals. But EVERYTHING is in their database. It's amazing. There's a free version also... it's worth a look if anyone is interested Calorie Counter, Diet Tracking, Food Journal, Nutrition Facts at The Daily Plate

The other site... My Food Diary :: Online Calorie Counter w/ Diet Journal & Exercise Log, is nine bucks a month. I like their interface better, but their food items are only around 50 thousand or so. I end up adding stuff to their database pretty often. They have a quicker way to log food overall, and it's easy to log into meals.

The weight tracking stuff takes about ten seconds. I just type in a weight and look at the graph. If I'm bored, I look at trends, etc. Which is why I know that I have slightly gained but am now eating a lot more. Eventually I'll fix my slightly battered metabolism, but right now I'm eating to fuel the olympic lifting, so I'm not overly freaked out about it.

[ToniL]

Julie, your eats look yummay and full of variety! Where did you find a cantalope that tasted good this time of year? I miss Connecitcutt but only in the winter -- I lived in Danbury for 6 years. Beautiful view of the lake. Too overcast and muggy in the summer for my tastes. Hope you get your zing back soon.

Toni

[Lost Dog]

I won't totally bash quinoa. It's the texture that I don't like. I'm all over the rinsing it to remove that bird repellent stuff.

Have you ever tried buckwheat? I find it better than quinoa and it's not wheat related, either. No gluten, for instance. Like quinoa, it's the dried seed of a little berry. It's bigger, though and has a less-slimy texture.