Re: Eating Plan: Catherine
From: Dave (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:56:16 -0000
Ah - I'm not sure that we have that here in the UK. We have milk shake type
drinks that people use when they are trying to diet - but i'd have to check
out the carb content.
Thanks :-)
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From: "Beth" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
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To: "Multiple recipients of list PCOS" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: Eating Plan: Catherine
> V8 is a tomato/veggie drink, think cold tomato soup LOL. You can find
> them in various types (calcium, atioxidant, spicy, low sodium) in the
> juice aisle at the grocery store.
>
> At Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Dave wrote:
> >
> >Beth
> >sorry to butt in, but this looks fantastic, and something even I can
follow!
> >I just have one question what is a V8?
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> >From: "Beth" <anonymous@medispecialty.com>
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> >--
> >To: "Multiple recipients of list PCOS"
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> >Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:18 PM
> >Subject: Eating Plan: Paula LONG
> >
> >> Paula,
> >>
> >> I made a couple of rules for us to follow:
> >>
> >> - No bad carbs during the day and a reasonable amount of good carbs.
Not
> >> a lot of fat either.
> >>
> >> - Dinner is whatever we want, to an extent.
> >>
> >> - We ALWAYS get dessert.
> >>
> >> That being said here is what a typical day looks like for us:
> >>
> >> Beth
> >>
> >> Breakfast: V8 and a cup of Coffee with Cream
> >> Lunch: V8
> >> Afternoon Snack: Orange (my usual choice) or Beef Jerky or some pork
> >> rinds (we do NOT call them pork skins because it grosses my husband out
> >> LOL)
> >> Dinner: Pretty much anything I want. (more detail in sec.)
> >> Dessert: ONE helping of something other than cake or cookies. (cake
and
> >> cookies give us headaches now, not sure why)
> >> Drinks: Coffee at breakfast. I rotate off the rest of the day between
> >> Coke and Bottled Water.
> >>
> >> Exercise: 10 minutes on the treadmill: 5 minutes walking at 4mph and 5
> >> minutes jogging at 4.5mph. I typically burn 80-100 cals and walk 7/10
> >> of a mile EVERYDAY without exception. (the exercise isn't new for us)
> >>
> >> Ron
> >>
> >> Breakfast: Apple and V8
> >> Lunch: V8. 1 slice of turkey wrapped around a piece of cheese with
> >> mustard. Several plain pieces of turkey. Apple.
> >> Dinner: Pretty much anything he wants.
> >> Dessert: ONE helping of something sweet.
> >> Drinks: Nothing but Diet Coke and God help the person that tries to
part
> >> him from it LOL.
> >>
> >> Exercise: 20-25 on the treadmill. Sometimes walks the pre-programmed
> >> trails with huge inclines or walks the entire time at 3mph. He does
> >> this everyday!
> >>
> >> Ok some explanation.
> >>
> >> I used to eat 1 meal during the day, either breakfast or lunch. The
> >> problem was that breakfast would be toast or cereal, lunch a Lean
> >> Cuisine or sandwich. Plus at dinner I would have some sort of pasta or
> >> bread. I wouldn't rotate water with Coke during the day and dessert
> >> could come at any time of day and even several times a day. Carb city.
> >>
> >> I used to get ticked because I DID NOT eat very much and couldn't
figure
> >> out how to cut much down. However when I sat down to figure out what I
> >> eat, TONS of carbs without realizing all of them.
> >>
> >> Since I only ate 1 small meal during the day it wasn't difficult to
> >> juggle that around. The V8's are actually plenty for me and I'm
getting
> >> much more nutrition from them than what I was eating. The orange I
> >> would never have eaten before so that is definitely an improvement for
> >> me.
> >>
> >> My husband, well food is his life, McDonalds is his friend LOL. He
> >> NEVER ate breakfast, somedays he wouldn't even eat lunch then he'd come
> >> home and eat all night long. This way he's eating during the day and
> >> he's not so hungry when he gets home. Again he's getting a good supply
> >> of carbs from the V8 and apples.
> >>
> >> Let me explain the eat what you want meal at dinner. I wanted to do
> >> this so that we could live with this forever. Take away our bad carbs
> >> at dinner and our dessert and well it wouldn't last long.
> >>
> >> I follow a few basic guidelines.
> >>
> >> - Pasta is a side dish, not a meal.
> >> - If something isn't important to me in a meal, I will by pass it or
> >> substitute something healthy for it.
> >> - We each get ONE helping, a regular plate full but that is it!
> >> - Cake and cookies are out.
> >>
> >> Let me give you some examples of our meals:
> >>
> >> - Salad with regular dressing - Usually a fairly large helping to start
> >> dinner.
> >> - Sirloin tips basted with butter and garlic.
> >> - Corn, green beans or broccoli with cheese sauce.
> >> - Slices of new potatoes - 1 can divided between 3 of us.
> >>
> >> Dessert: 3 Nestles Treasures (caramel YUM), 1 ice cream bar or
something
> >> similar.
> >>
> >> If we go out to eat at Outback for example, these are my portions my
> >> husbands are higher:
> >>
> >> - Bloomin' Onion with Ranch dressing- 1/4
> >> - Salad with Blue Cheese- 1/2
> >> - Steak - 1/4-1/2
> >> - Veggies
> >>
> >> I could honestly care less about a baked potato so I choose to eat the
> >> onion instead, then substitute veggies for the potato.
> >>
> >> If for some reason we go out to breakfast:
> >>
> >> - 1 scrambled egg
> >> - a few pieces of bacon
> >>
> >> I ask them to leave the bread and potatoes off my plate, keeping my
rule
> >> of no bad carbs during the day.
> >>
> >> Worst case scenario for lunch if I don't have access to my V8 and
orange
> >> LOL:
> >>
> >> McDonalds (I hate it by the way):
> >>
> >> - Cheeseburger plain and remove the bread. (I am NOT convinced this is
> >> all meat LOL)
> >>
> >> That's about it. Some carbs mean more to us than others, we don't make
> >> a meal out of our favorites but don't deny ourselves either. We NEVER
> >> eat all carb loaded meals, like a plate of pasta. On nights that we
> >> have things like ribs with sauce, we may have corn on the cob but not
> >> any sort of potato.
> >>
> >> After I fill each of our plates, I throw the rest of the food AWAY. A
> >> waste I know but this way there is never anything sitting around
> >> tempting my husband. (It doesn't bother me to have the food around but
> >> it does him)
> >>
> >> We've been succesful with this way of eating because it's MUCH less
> >> carbs than we ate before plus we're not doing without a thing we like.
> >>
> >> In getting started with this the orange was a life saver. The orange
> >> helped immensely with my sweet cravings during the day. I was also
> >> hungry during the day and at first added a 3rd V8. After about a week
I
> >> wasn't hungry anymore and all of my sweet cravings are gone. My
husband
> >> likes his plan too, he too was hungry at first so I would give him
> >> several pieces of cheese too for lunch.
> >>
> >> These days both of us feel fantastic. A friend of mine who was
> >> skeptical that this would help her recently started a new way of eating
> >> using some of our concepts. She is losing weight and feels great for
> >> the first time in forever. She always thought of "diets" as
all or
> >> nothing and never saw the "in between".
> >>
> >> We don't lose a ton of weight each week doing this, about 2.5-3 pounds.
> >> The most important thing for me though is that my blood sugar ups and
> >> downs are gone. I don't get headaches, nausea or anything else
> >> throughout the day when I need to eat or after I eat. My insulin had
> >> been previously very high, I'm guessing it's more in normal range
now...
> >> I'll find out in March for sure. We also needed to do something
> >> reasonable because I didn't want to cook separately for us and our 8
> >> year old son.
> >>
> >> Anyhow this way of eating is probably not for everyone. Keep in mind
> >> that you don't have to low carb all the way or die LOL. Just cutting
> >> down can be very helpful, often books and Drs. don't tell you that.
> >>
> >> I mentioned in a different post that if you have high testosterone it's
> >> not necessarily going to right itself when you lose weight. If I take
> >> aspirin, tylenol, advil it makes my Spiro ineffective... which means I
> >> get either acne or my hair falls out. Of course that means that my
> >> testosterone isn't miraculously better just that the Spiro is doing a
> >> great job blocking it. Testosterone absolutely can affect your ability
> >> to lose weight. If you have trouble losing weight even when you're
> >> eating well, you need to enlist your drs. help. There are different
> >> ways of either blocking or lowering testosterone though none are
perfect
> >> solutions.
> >>
> >> Please let me know if you have questions or if something doesn't make
> >> sense!
> >>
> >> Beth
> >>
> >> Paula wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Beth, i would love to get my hubby to follow an eating plan with
> >> >me...would you be willing to share how you plan out yours and hubby's
> >> >meal? what is the plan?
> >> >
> >> >love, paula
> >> >
> >> >--
> >> >feel free to email me anytime at paulam74@hotmail.com
> >> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> Beth
> >> Rockport, MA
> >>
>
> --
> Beth
> Rockport, MA
>
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