What are you cooking today and how?

[Rick]

Very nice. You covered yourself well. I take a flat cookie sheet and wrap it in aluminum foil. Pour about a one half teaspoon of red pepper flakes in half a beer. The red pepper will add to the flavor without being hot and clean up is a snap with the foil. Just throw it away or rinse and recycle if it isn't too grungy.

[grrlscout]

Still trying to eat healthy. Last night, I made Indian food.

Grilled up a bunch of eggplant, and made some raita, with lots of shredded cucumber and green onions:

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Made the eggplant into a curry (baigan bharta), cooked up some lentils with garlic and spices, and put some chicken boobs that I marinated all day in yogurt and seasonings on the grill.

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[Willie]

Boiled Crabs, Shrimp,Mushrooms and Potatoes!

[grrlscout]

More diet food:

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Leftover thai curried lentils, leftover tangerine and caper vinaigrette-marinated romanesco and gigante beans (bulked up with a little green salad), and langoustinos, sautéed in a little garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, vermouth, and a touch of butter.

[grrlscout]

Weight Watchers chicken satay, un-weightwatchered, by using full-fat coconut milk and full-fat peanut butter. Though I did use half as much as the recipe called for.

On the side, bok choy with shallots and black bean garlic sauce, Uncle Ben's Wild & Brown Ready Rice, and quick-pickled cucumbers.

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[kyratshooter]

Girlscout, I have been on a diet since September. Have lost 40 pounds and have 20 more to go.

!!!SEND MORE PICTURES!!!

At my age food-porn is all I have left.

[grrlscout]

Wow - good job!

My rate is like, a half pound a week.

Probably would be a lot better if I laid off the weekend beers and cocktails.

[BENESSE]

I have been on a diet since September. Have lost 40 pounds and have 20 more to go.

Kyrat, that deserves to be a thread all its own! That's awesome and I hope you tell us how you did it. Coming from you, well...it would mean a lot.

[grrlscout]

Sometimes, I just want a burger and fries.

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Spicy black bean burger on an whole wheat sandwich thin, with 2% 'merican cheez.

Lettuce, tomato, and homemade spicy pickle (I re-used the brine from some pickled peppers I made), smashed avocado, and dijon mustard.

Carefully portioned (3oz!) frozen steak fries to go with, and more dijon mustard.

By my calculations:
Calories: 450
Carbs: 59
Fat: 17
Protein: 23

[kyratshooter]

Kyrat, that deserves to be a thread all its own! That's awesome and I hope you tell us how you did it. Coming from you, well...it would mean a lot.

I hate to spring this on a vegitarian like yourself, but ....

I have been on a modified Adkins Diet, popularily called the "Caveman Diet". The Adkins diet has been out there a long time and many do not like it. It has worked very well for me.

I started the induction phase and have not gone off it. No carbs period! No sugar, period! No milk or icecream (that hurt the worst). No breads of any kind and no "carb exchanges" or trying to convince yourself there are good carbs and bad carbs and you can trade fiber for carbs. I have not had a sandwich in 5 months, although I did fudge on a trip to Cracker Barrel and had a biscuit. But that was only after I had dropped the first 30 pounds.

All the meat and green veggies I can hold. If a cavemen did not have it I can not have it. We apparently were not enginered to eat meat and potatoes, just the meat and whatever tree leaves the womenfolk drag in.

I am not a person that will run around being hungry. That does not work for me. So I had to find a diet where calorie count was secondary. I was not a big calorie intake person, but I was a carb junkie. On this diet I have not sat and wished for food at all. Snacks are now boiled eggs, slices of cheese or sugar free Jello rather than chips or crackers and peanut butter. Icecream has been replaced by sugar free pudding.

I was forced to take drastic action. I am suposed to weigh 200 max (by the military chart not the AMA), and I was at 260. Blood preasure was out of control, and I was having angina constantly. I was on the verge of being crippled and then getting any exercise would have been impossible. Problem was that all of my heart meds have weight gain as a side effect. Increasing the BP meds would be accompanied by more weight gain without other action.

The diet has been accompanied by walking a mile each day that the weather permits. That is simply to get me out of the house and only burns up 100 calories and is not responsible for the weight loss. It also reminds me that it is now easier to accomplish than it was when I started. Gives me a reason to go roam the outlying fields and byways.

I have 20 more to go. I will then celebrate with a Blizzard at DQ! That will be my icecream allowance for the year.

[Rick]

I have to congratulate you on both your weight loss and your perseverance. Not many folks are as proactive in their own health.

[BENESSE]

You rock, kyrat!
It takes motivation and will power to stick to something you're not used to. And you've got the results to prove it. Food can heal and food can make you sick and it's nice when that difference hits home.
Meat or no meat, I'd say, if you're doing it naturally (no drugs no mumbo jumbo substances), more power to you. It's interesting how quickly we can adjust to doing without things that were once something we looked forward to.
Feeling better and being healthier ultimately trumps any instant gratification you might get from consuming something that does you no good and whose effects are only fleeting til the next fix. (been there)
I am glad you took the step, and I applaud you for sticking with it.

[Sparky93]

Congrats Kyrat, that is an outstanding accomplishment!

[kyratshooter]

It has been one of those things I simply had to do. Very much like when I quit smoking. I was lying in the cardiac unit with wires and tubes comming out of places I did not want to imagine and the doctor informed me that I was now a nonsmoker. Every day he came in and asked if I had smoked a cigarette that day? I was hooked up to machines and tubes and could not leave the bed, what do you mean smoked a cigarette?

Then I realized that there were people in that cardiac unit that were rolling their IV bottles and pacemaker monitors down two floors and into the courtyard to smoke! They had just been opened up like a gutted fish and they were still sucking on the smokes.

I had just married my late wife 4 months earlier and though sticking around for a while was a good idea.

Same thing with this weight. I could feel the weight sapping the life out of me. My already damaged heart was forcing blood through pure fat. Moving was becomming a forced activity much like filling a backpack with 60 pounds of rocks and slinging it on my belly 24/7. My back was hurting all the time. When I stood up in the morning my feet would hurt as soon as my weight was placed on them.

I remember making a post here on one thread saying that my max pack loadout weight was 35 pounds. I realized I was already carrying 60 pounds in the front and had no hope of long term carry of another 35 on my back.

All this and I was not even as fat as the average Cincinnati Bengals football fan!

I still have 20 pounds to go before I reach my goal, which is the U.S. Army height/weight ratio for a 60 year old male. I am older than that but that is as far as the Army chart goes.

The Adkins diet is often criticized for not controlling colesteral, but my numbers are better now than before I started the diet. I have had no side effects other than shedding the pounds. I think that people that have a problem are not balancing their diets properly with enough green veggies and fiber. I eat more veggies than meat.

I am sure that if I lived near Girlscout I would gain it all back in short order. I am a good cook but that woman is a food artist!

I wonder how they would word the restraining order? "Subject is constantly standing on the plantiff's front step begging for pretty food."

[2dumb2kwit]

I'm havin' a ham and cheese sammich, but it's just to hold me over until the ribs I just put on the smoker get done.

[lefties]

Can't eat nuts, Reb. For the time being, anyway.

Tonight is gonna' be Shrimp Scampi. A couple of pounds of those 31 - 40 size Shrimp. Butter, Garlic, EVO, Garlic, a Splash of White Wine, Garlic, some Chopped Onions, Garlic, some Spices (a little Basil, Parsley, and Oregano), Garlic, and the 2 pounds of them Shrimp tossed in for 2 or 3 minutes at most.

Served over spaghetti length Zita cooked al dente with a splash of EVO (to prevent sticking) and some Garlic.

I'm not sure what everyone else here will be eating tonight.

I'm also not exactly sure which room I'll be sleeping in tonight, either.

How about some Garlic!!!!!

[2dumb2kwit]

I'm havin' a ham and cheese sammich, but it's just to hold me over until the ribs I just put on the smoker get done.

Those were probably the best ribs I have ever eaten. I wish I could remember what all I put in that sauce. LOL

[Winnie]

I had some Butternut Squash and Parsnip soup and a ham Sammich for lunch. Supper is Sausage Casserole.... nom, nom, nom.

[Rick]

I have to stop reading this thread. It's like Pavlov's dogs. I start salivating every time I read it.

[2dumb2kwit]

I had some Butternut Squash and Parsnip soup and a ham Sammich for lunch. Supper is Sausage Casserole.... nom, nom, nom.

HaHaHa...Winnie said "sammich"!!!

I'm such a bad influence.