Today I weighed, and had lost 7 more lbs in 2 weeks. I'm at 220. Only 25 more lbs to get to my goal. I really thank you guys for all the good info on this thread, and glad to be a part of this going fwd.
I've been in misery the last few weeks. Been waking up from a full night's sleep feeling like I didn't sleep at all. I have no idea why, no changes to diet, workout, or sleep time.
Anyone here try and slam all (or most) fruit/vegetable servings into 1 or 2 smoothies? I'm thinking that may be the easiest way for me to do it. If I can get it all into one, I'd drink it in the mornings. If two, I'd do 1 before work, 1 after. Just trying to see if anyone else has a similar plan.
I do this- 1 Apple As much Baby Spinach as you can stand 10 Baby Carrots Water or coconut water Smoothie bam
I'm not on any meds. I'm starting a new job at work in a few months but it's nothing stressful. I fall right asleep every night now problem.
Would also consider a new mattress. Worth the investment for a place you spend 1/3 of your day, even if you're unconscious for most of it.
feel like there's some sciency explanation with the different levels of sleep and maybe you're not getting to the good ones
According to Blue Apron, I consumed 1500 calories of spicy chicken wings and salad last night. God it was great
The crockpot thread had a simple meal where you took one small can of Cheddar Cheese Soup, one big can of Cream of Chicken Soup, throw chicken in, crockpot it for hours, then cook up 1 cup of rice. I now add two cans of reduced calorie Cheddar Cheese soup instead, throw in 1 or two chopped onions, and when it is done I shred the chicken, add in the rice, and then pile in whatever veggies I want. I've done just chopped broccoli, peas and carrots with corn and a little spinach...what ever sounds good to me. I mix it all into the crockpot then dump it into a casserole dish, top it with garlic powder, Trader Joe's riced cauliflower (I haven't been able to find the frozen bags lately, but the meal can be made without this...just a good way to sneak in more veggies), and 1-1 1/2 cups of panko bread crumbs. Bake that at about 400 degrees until the top is browned. When served I sometimes top it with the crispy onions for a little crunch. It comes out to anywhere between 200-250 cals for a 12 ounce serving, and i'm getting plenty of protein and veggies.
Bro, I was like a savage. I don't even like chicken wings on the bone and I just destroyed it. All pretty healthy aside from the sauce I imagine. In sum: cooked the whole meal, ate the whole meal.
I've always been confused about why chicken wings are so unhealthy. Are most of them fried? Is it the sauce? I would think you could bake some tasty wings with a pretty low-cal sauce and the only unhealthy parts would be the fat from the dark meat and the sodium in the sauce.
Sauce, fried, fatty pieces of the bird. If you roast/grill them and use a lower calorie sauce they're much easier to fit in your macros
most normal wing sauces are ketchup & soy based and just have a lot of sodium so they're not even unhealthy. the answer is fried and:
Yeah I've noticed that when buying wing sauce to make buffalo chicken in the crock pot that you really need to check the label. Some are ketchup/soy based and are fine, while others can be creamier and loaded with fat. They don't really look any different without checking though.
The wings I made were baked. It was 1500 calories because I literally ate the entire meal that Blue Apron sent me. Everything, I ate it all. Meals are for two people.
The ranch, they are fried the "buffalo sauce" which is often butter based. Grilled wings aren't that bad.
grilled wings with dry rub. my go-to sauce for making at home: cup of ketchup. 2 lime's juices. soy + hot sauce to taste. always gets compliments and is very simple and health
Started shakes in the morning about 3 years ago. Spirulina, cod liver oil, flax seed, almond milk, spinach, and other fruits and vegetables. I eliminated all fruits because of sugar, which makes it not taste great but not drinking it for fun just breakfast. Long story short, kids haven't missed a day of school and the amount of shit we pick up in terms of colds, flu, allergies is almost negligible. I would not say I could put a marker on how I feel in terms of more energy but I can't complain about not having energy, although I never had that issue personally. In terms of brand, look for American, organic IMO. You could read paper after paper blog after blog on what's legit. I just went American organic to stop the research anaysis paralysis. It's better than a sausage egg and cheese biscuit and empty calories IMO. Just decide on something start you regiment and move forward.
Ate at Moes for the first time ever and now I'm on the gym shitter. Gonna be a real gamble pushin through those dumbbell presses.
Need some opinions on how to make this smoothie better. Trying to have it post workout. What I have in mind (and at home) is plain Greek yogurt, 1cup blueberries, 1 banana, serving of powdered peanut butter, and a scoop of whey. That comes out to roughly, 445cal, 62g carb, 46g protein, and 4g fat. Then on top of that a handful of baby carrots and 2-3 cups of spinach. Any changes/suggestions you guys would make?
If the whey is chocolate flavored just take out the carrots and spinach and use those in a 2nd shake later on. The chocolate, PB, banana and blueberry smoothie would be fire
Guess it depends on what you meant originally by "make the smoothie better" - I was answering based on taste. For making it better = more healthy... add more veggies. But if you want better taste just separate the veggies and fruit/protein
and throw in a dollop of PB and some strawberry banana yogurt helps you get your fruits and veggies if you dont have any at the house
made mass quantities of chicken/zucchini rice and turkey spaghetti last night. ate like shit last week/weekend and am repenting to the health gods. have all of my meals from today til I leave for the beach on 7/2. yes I cooked 12 days worth of lunch and dinner. penance is not for the weak minded
Watched Sugar Coated on Netflix. It's a Doc on how much more sugar we take in now and how much of it is being pumped into our foods. I've made an effort to drastically cut down on it for several days. I have solid energy through the day, sleep like a baby, my appetite is down dramatically, penis is at an all-time high 4", and I don't feel the need to reach for much caffeine at all.
Have become very interested in the DNA profiling that's becoming more popular now, and some of my test results came back suggesting needing higher anti-oxidant, low gluten type foods, so making an attempt to eat healthy again. I have a freakish metabolism, and I have a pretty small appetite, so I've always used that as an excuse for not eating healthy. Trying to change that up now. Made a great smoothie for breakfast this AM, we'll see how it goes. Just posting to bookmark this thread. Tried reading through the thread and skipped a bunch but a few things that jumped out: I'd recommend the Sleep Cycle app for anyone interested in this kind of thing. It measures your sleep cycles (like I'm sure the fitbit does) but it allows you to put in parameters about what you did that day (drank > 3 drinks, worked out, ran, etc) and then gives you statistics so you can see which of those parameters have the best impact on your sleep quality. Pretty cool. I don't think this is true. The nutritionist for the Falcons and a professor at GSU came and spoke at work, and he was pretty strong against just trying to hit a calorie number. Basically your body doesn't process 2 1,000 calorie meals near as well as it would process 5 400 calorie meals. Don't shoot the messenger?
I did mine through ancestryDNA. It's $99, you spit a lot into a tube and mail it off and it takes 6-8 weeks. The output from that is a raw DNA file, then there are several sites where you can pay $5 - $20 to upload the raw DNA file and it translates it a littl ebit for you. It's still pretty tough to read for a normal person, luckily my dad's doctor is pretty good in the field and he helped me with mine. But there is some good info out there on it. The chick that runs foundmyfitness.com is big on it.