tranum

We eat healthy but need new ideas so keep them coming. I steam Brussels sprouts, marinate in pickle juice, slice into salad. Good fiber & keeps a long time. I have a “yo-nana” machine which makes a faux ice cream from frozen fruit and bananas. We walk as often as we can.

tropit

All of these ideas sound yummy. Sadly, I don't have an instantpot, or air fryer, or pressure cooker.

But, I'm home all the time now, so I have time to cook up a storm on my trusty, 1950, O'Keefe & Merritt stove. (With the griddle-in-the-middle.) I know, I'm bragging...sorry...I love that stove. I probably love it too much, which is why I need to lose some pounds.

This morning, I made an awesome breakfast. I grilled 3, small slices of whole-wheat, sourdough bread on the griddle and topped them with some low-fat hummus and chopped tomatoes. I cut up an orange for a side. It tasted so fresh and lively! I like having something else in the morning besides the regular, American-style breakfast. Not that I don't like American-style breakfasts...I love them, but it's nice to change things up once in awhile.

~ C

maviskw

Low fat is not the way to go. Low sugar is! And all white flour turns to sugar in your tummy. The new way to eat is Keto: High fat, medium protein and low carbs. That's: eat the butter, bacon, lard. Have meat or peanut butter and such, and cut out processed sugars and most wheat flours. There are many natural sugars out there which don't have calories and still taste good. Two eggs for breakfast has been my mainstay for about four years now. I lost 30 pounds, and my goal was not to lose weight. I'm quite tall, so 30 pounds doesn't show as much. The eggs are protein and gave me much more energy than cereal. And I always drink full-fat milk. Tastes soooo good.

maviskw

I forgot to add the reason to eat the fat. Your brain is made up of fat, and it needs fat to function. Mother's milk is made with lots of cholesterol and fat. Nature knew that's what babies need from the beginning, and we all need to feed our brains.

farmquilter

The best oatmeal is steel cut, I make enough for about 4 days. Bring 4 cups water to a boil, add 1.5 cup of steel cut oats, stir, bring back to boil--turn off heat and let set for a couple hours, in fridge to warm up each morning. You can put 1 teaspoon Ceylon cinnamon in oatmeal, does not harm the liver. I am doing the steel cut oats for the true fiber to improve cholesterol numbers at next labs.

For weight loss==As a before am/pm meal, I drank a cup of warm water with 2 tablespoons Braggs vinegar, 1 teaspoon Ceylon cinnamon and 1 teaspoon raw honey. Drinking this every day for 3 months, my A1c went from 6.2 down to 5.8 and have lost weight everyday while doing the drink. I have stopped the drink and take 1 Ceylon capsule at supper because the weight kept coming off and I needed to stop it.
Some say the Braggs can loosen up their colon, so beware of that fact, recipe is from earthclinic.com It must use the Ceylon cinnamon as it by far the safest version to consume daily and be healthy.

I am now eating more organic and lo-carb foods.

Good luck on your adventure for a new you this year.

tropit

Good for you ...you're on a healthy road. I love steel-cut oatmeal too. Plus, if I buy it instead of regular rolled oats, I'm less tempted to make oatmeal cookies. (I'm so bad sometimes.)

~C

tropit

Murphy224...thanks for that link!

~ C

patski

I love veggies, am now making the best green beans ever. Fresh green beans, can of diced tomatoes, allspice, oregano onion/garlic if you like. Simmer for 45 minutes, do NOT peek. I sprinkle lightly with parmesean or feta cheese

JudyG

I've been on WW since last January and have lost 54 lbs. so it works great if you follow their plan. My favorite sites for WW recipes are Skinnytaste (mentioned above), http://www.emilybites.com/ http://dailydoseofpepper.com/ http://www.kitchme.com/ http://www.hungry-girl.com/ https://simple-nourished-living.com/author/martha/
These all have great recipes and tell you what the WW points are.

nlgh

My daughter has been doing WW for almost a year now. She has lost 50+lbs and is faithfully following their point system and is keeping the weight off. She has fibromyalgia and is feeling a whole lot better, but still has good and bad days with her symptoms. As a diabetic, I have subscribed to Mr. Food's Diabetic recipes and they have some good recipes, too. I have a lot printed off, I want to try sooner or later. What is hard for me is Splenda is not tolerated by my body, so buying diabetic is almost out of the question now that a lot of the producers are using Splenda in most of their products.