diet

everyminute

I need to get a grip - lately I have been doing a lot of stress eating and feel very out of control and weight is up as well.  I am a vegetarian but I do a lot of snacking and grazing and really need to reign it in. 

Please share your thoughts and suggestions on what you do and don't eat and maybe some healthy recipes?  Unfortunately it seems that in order for me to actually lose weight I have to be very restrictive and eat salads two meals a day (fortunately I like salad!)

Please share!

KerryMac

 Soup!! Have a bowl before dinner, it fills you up so you eat less. And it is more portable/comforting than salad, so you could freeze portions and take it with you to work for lunch. I cook up a big pot of different veges with some stock, then puree it, add a bit of milk if you want, and it is delicious.

If you are snacking, try nuts. Although they are high in calories, they do seem to fill me up. A handful of walnuts seems to do the trick if I am hungry between meals. And they are super good for you.

apple

i think it is totally normal to be a bit heavier in the icy grip of winter.  your body needs that insulation.  I find I can eat quite a bit in January and February.. I am always hungry. 

come March, the pounds and 'hunger' dissappear

Texas357

I cut my appetite with a small handful of mixed nuts or a slice of extra sourdough bread (nothing on it). When I get bored with what I've been eating, I'll dig out my recipe books or start searching Cooking Light recipes online.

diana50

nuts. i eat a few nuts and they fill me up.  anything with fiber is really good for you and also fills you up . 

diana50

oh yeah, beans too. i really like refried beans...vegetarian refried and they have tons of fiber and low cals.

Pure

I eat egg or flax/granola cereal for breakfast-red pepper for snack-banna/almond milk smoothie for lunch/ carrots and then a fairly normail dinner.

The biggest thing that helps me is I downladed the daily burn to my phone and you can log just about anything you eat in there and it subtracts from the totl calories I allow myself a day. Also, remember if you need 1400 cals per day to maintain your weight but then run and burn 1000 calories you need to add that to your 1400 calories which can seem like a lot of food but your bidy needs it-you just need it to be healthy food.

jenn3

Try to figure out what the trigger is?  When is it you start to eat without being hungry?  If you can pinpoint the trigger, maybe you can change it.........Also, nuts are a good cruncy and filling food.  I also like raw carrots, it satifies that urge to eat crunchy, takes a little while to eat and for me tastes good.

Anonymous

Nine Rules for Proper Food Combining  By Dr. Herbert M. Shelton
Reprinted from Dr. Shelton's Hygienic Review There are sound physiological reasons for eating foods in compatible combinations. In other words, some foods, if mixed in the digestive system, will cause distress! The principles of food combining are dictated by digestive chemistry. Different foods are digested differently... Starchy foods require an alkaline digestive medium which is supplied initially in the mouth by the enzyme ptyalin;

Protein foods require an acid medium for digestion- hydrochloric acid.  As any student of chemistry will assure you, acids and bases (alkalis) neutralize each other. If you eat a starch with a protein, digestion is impaired or completely arrested! The undigested food mass can cause various kinds of digestive disorders. Undigested food becomes soil for bacteria which ferment and decompose it. Its by products are poisonous, one of which, alcohol, is a narcotic that destroys or inhibits nerve function. It plays havoc with nerves of the digestive tract, suspending their vital action such that constipation may well be a result! As set forth in Dr. Herbert Shelton's FOOD COMBINING MADE EASY these are the salient rules for proper food combining. The Nine Basic Rules of Proper Food Combining: 1. Eat acids and starches at separate meals. Acids neutralize the alkaline medium required for starch digestion and the result is fermentation and indigestion.  2. Eat protein foods and carbohydrate foods at separate meals. Protein foods require an acid medium for digestion. 3. Eat but one kind of protein food at a meal. 4. Eat proteins and acid foods at separate meals. The acids of acid foods inhibit the secretion of the digestive acids required for protein digestion. Undigested protein putrefies in bacterial decomposition and produces some potent poisons. 5. Eat fats and proteins at separate meals. Some foods, especially nuts, are over 50% fat and require hours for digestion. 6. Eat sugars (fruits) and proteins at separate meals. 7. Eat sugars (fruits) and starchy foods at separate meals. Fruits undergo no digestion in the stomach and are held up if eaten with foods that require digestion in the stomach.  8. Eat melons alone. They combine with almost no other food. 9. Desert the desserts. Eaten on top of meals they lie heavy on the stomach, requiring no digestion there, and ferment. Bacteria turn them into alcohols and vinegars and acetic acids.Healthy Foods to EatSweet Fruit
Banana, Carob, Date, Fig, Prune, Raisins, Dried fruit, Persimmon, Mango, Papaya, SapoteSub-Acid Fruit
Apple, Apricot, Blackberry, Cherimoya, Cherry, Elderberry, Gooseberry, Grape, Huckleberry, Nectarine, Peach, Pear, Plum, Quince, Raspberry, SapodillaAcid Fruit
Currant, Grapefruit, Guava, Kumquat, Lemon, Lime, Orange, Loganberry, Pineapple, Pomegranate, Strawberry, Tamarind, Tangerine, TomatoMelons
Banana melon, Cantaloupe, Casaba, Christmas melon, Persian melon, Crenshaw melon, Watermelon, Honeydew melon, Muskmelon, Nutmeg melonProteins
Almonds, Cashew nuts, Hazel nuts, Hickory nuts, Lentils, Peanuts, Gooseberry, Avocados, Pecans, Pine nuts, Pistachio nuts, Soy beans, Walnuts, Sunflower seeds, CoconutsStarches
Artichoke, Bean (lima)*, Beets, Chestnut, Carrots, Corn, Hubbard squash, Jerusalem artichoke, Peanuts*, Peas, Potatoes, Pumpkin, Yam* Peanuts, lentils, beans, and all cereals are considered as protein and starch combinationsNon-Starchy Vegetables
Bamboo shoots, Broccoli, Brussel sprouts, Romaine, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, Chard, Cucumber, Eggplant, Endive, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce: Boston, Bibb, Leaf, Romaine, etc., Okra, Parsnip, Pepper (sweet), Rutabaga, Sorrel, Sprouts: Mung bean, alfalfa, wheat, barley, etc., Squash (ex. starchy), Turnip.Note from Chet: Try food combining if you're suffering from digestive problems. This natural technique has helped tens of thousands of health seekers over the years Barb

Mamita49

I have a bowl with 1 minute oats ( organic) and mable siroup. ( Or you could take argave siroup)

Its sweet, so I trick myself, by thinking, its like cake. Plus has lots of fiber. ( Run to the bathroom in the morning ..........)

I make hummus and pita. Google chick-peas and you will find that chick-peas have an enzyme that actually makes you loose weight. Yes, its true.........

I eat like crazy and I weight 170 by 5"9. So I have my best weight. I just need to do more core exercise around belly. 

Did you know that pumpkin seeds blocks estrogen ????

Put them in your salad......... 

diana50

i also eat rye bread.  fills you up with good fiber.

thanks mamita...good info on pumpkin seeds*

Claire_in_Seattle

I'm with Kerry on soup.  I have a huge pot in the fridge that I made from scratch.  Mine has meat, but you can easily make a vegetarian version of pea soup.

I can't even look at crunchy/crispy cold stuff in the winter.

Another major trick is portobello mushrooms.  They are very filling and "meaty".  So I use them to keep my meat portions down, but they are great on their own.

Speaking of mushrooms, a huge pan of roasted root vegetables.  Minimally fattening, and just yummy and satisfying.  My own belief is that our bodies need these nutrients in the winter.  Much more nutritious than salads.

Of course, what I really want now is a big plate of alfredo. 

BTW - my weight is back down now after having been up a bit over the holidays.  See soup and roasted root veggies tips above.  Good luck. - Claire

krcll

The one time of day I had a high risk of eating something unhealthy was when I came home from work before it was time to start making dinner. Now I make myself some vegetable juice and it fills me up just the right amount so that I am stille hungry at dinner-time. I can also let myself off the hook if I don't include oodles of vegetables at dinner, because I just ate about 8 of them! Of course, you need a juicer but I had one left over after the juicer craze in the 80's. I throw in whatever is in the house- yesterday was ginger, celery, carrot, green pepper, turnip, cabbage, spinach, tomato and an apple. It doesn't always taste equally good, but it could if I was more careful about what I threw in.

krcll

I forgot to add, if you like your cookbooks like I do, Moosewood has some great cookbooks that are mostly vegetarian, taste great, are super healthy and pretty quick to make.

everyminute

Thanks everyone - great suggestions!   I know what I should and should not do - doing it is another story :-)

I am reigning it in.  Funny story - I went to have a package of 100 calorie popcorn this afternoon and ate about half of it thinking, wow - this stuff is just as good as the high calorie stuff.  Sigh - someone put it in the wrong box  - it was butter lovers - ack!

oh well.