Breakfast is a lot easier for me, some chocolate almond milk and a scoop of chocolate royale Slim Fast in the Magic Bullet, yummy and filling. I have the ingredients for a lot more involved breakfast (fresh spinach, egg whites, etc) but liquid chocolate seems so much more exciting.

I do cereal at night when I have midnight munchies. Chocolate Cheerios rock my socks!:thumbsup


In a previous life, I was a stay at home mom for 7 years and would cook a bunch of entrees on Sunday, (like casseroles) then have it ready to pop in the oven during the week. I need to get back into that pre-planning mode.

Dynamo, are you looking for dietary alternatives?

I have found that whatever I start my morning with, I tend to crave throughout the day. If I have an Apple and some juice, the rest of the day I am all about fresh and water. If I start with a donut and a Red Bull, I'm craving sugar all day.

Your body tends to crave what it gets used to. The "getting used to" part is what's difficult. For me, it's about a week.

Too damn lazy at the moment! But I am going to start going to the gym after my surgery to remove my port and after I get better! Then life will get interesting. lol

good posts in here!

expanding on a couple of comments, the higher price of eating healthy does have SOME basis in fact. fact is, organic products are more expensive than not, by far in some case. hell, i can pay .97c a pound for mass-produced chicken breasts or i can spend $9+ a pound on free range organic raised chicken.

there are some other examples too, not saying it's the rule.

healthy foods are not marketed as convenient either but more importantly, i think *comfort* foods need to be addressed. so many unhealthy foods are advertised to us that way and i know when i am hungry, many times i ask myself what am i hungry for instead of what is a healthy meal to consume.

all of the fast food joints offer healthy meals, right. yet they primarily sell comfort foods- french fries, milk shakes, etc.

Organic is more expensive, absolutely. But not being organic does not mean not healthy. In fact, the term organic has very loose restrictions on it. "Free range" could be considered allowing the chicken out of the cage for three minutes a day, that would classify as "free range".

I was hoping you would post it on Bob's FB page for him

:thumbsup i've been eating more and more healthy over the last few months and began looking for what i called the perfect meal. one that satisfies all nutritional requirements (without debate and not *fortified* with synthetic/manufactured/processed nutrients and is convenient. i could not really find any that were not at least laden with a sweetener or dairy or meat.

so i've been working with my chef mom and am putting together my own creation that satisfies that goal.

i have also become interested in the whole nutrition/energy thing. i've lost most (all) cravings for any sort of junk food and find myself craving healthy items when i find myself hungry and also notice an increase in energy, alertness, everything when i eat properly.

so many of those things they advertise with comfort foods i am realizing are more valid for nutritious foods!

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lately I've been bringing fruits and vegetables to work.. snacking on them all day. sure they have lots of calories but I find myself with a lot more energy and less likely to over eat at lunch (which is my biggest junk food meal temptation normally) So essentially i'm eating less salts, less saturated fats and boosting my fibre/antioxidents intake... plus there is an unlimited amount of combinations too so hasn't gotten old or boring yet..

coke is killing me

Nope I still keep it undercover till tomorrow

- Paparazzi were already trying to sneak into my shower ..

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Fiddy food thoughts...


It's definitely a lot cheaper to eat crappy than healthy for sure. You can do a lot of things with Tofu, the super silky version is a great to blend up with fruit for a creamy smoothie, the more firm versions are good as meat substitutes if you are trying to venture away from a lot animal protein.

I'm a steakaholic, so its hard for me to give up that up, but gimme a George Foreman, a bag of salad, throw on some mandarin oranges and cilantro on the salad and you're good to go.

I've been really into lemon pepper lately, and found that even tuna sandwiches have become more interesting with it mixed in (where you can really taste it, not just sprinkled on).

why wait till tomorrow when you can give peeps a sneek peek right here!

5 home cooked meals a week;) every two weeks fresh fish, so i would say yes.

Tomorrow is 90 days, I won't look any better tomorrow since I'm currently sick, but I gotta keep the rules I set for myself

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Again, less dollars short term in exchange for what costs long term? If only there was a tangible good representing a positive or a negative health effect that they also put in your shopping bag. It's clearly not a top-of-mind consideration by the look of things. We're very price tag driven, arent we.

there's the rub. :)

Btw. I absolutely don't understand this "costs" argument.

I'm saving loads of money by making (cooking would be a strong word) my own meals.

It's also the only way to control what you eat.

I've never been more cost effective than now although I eat 5 times a day.

1. Expensive in either cost or time.
2. Taste.

#2 is likely because I was fed junk food more or less while I was a kid, so I grew up on it. Trying to shake bad eating habits for good has been a lifelong battle. It wasn't until a few years ago that my addiction to soda ended, and it was as simple as quitting it pretty much completely for about 5 or 6 months...after that, I could have one every now and then and not get back into the habit of having 2+ liters worth a day.

What I need to do is start applying that one-by-one to the junk foods I eat, but it's tough especially when my focus in life right now is on money vs. health and I loooooove the taste of some foods.

At the moment, I'm about 230-235 lbs...was about 280 30-36 months ago, had gotten all the way down to about 205 around a year and a half ago but have slowly gone back up since then as eating habits kept creeping back to junk and exercise habits have eased. I actually did start just yesterday my latest conscious effort to kick some ass with eating and exercise...we'll see how well it sticks.

I eat pretty healthy like 98% of the time. Occasional dessert, beer, or butter when eating out or traveling is the remaining 2%.

I could get off the computer and be more active though and it wouldn't be excessive.

Up front, the cost is higher, but over time, I'm sure the benefit of eating healthier is much more cost effective (in terms of $, and health)

I drink no soda, energy drinks, vitamin water, sports drinks, etc...Just filtered water which is free (more or less), 100% real orange juice (about 9 for a week's worth) and the occasional beer at home.

I eat 6 times a day, but with portion control, 1 "mea;" can be split into 2. Since I am a pescatarian (vegetarian that eats fish occasionally), my diet is mixed with fresh fruits and vegetables, soups, wraps, whole grain pastas, sushi every now and then, burritos/tacos and brown rices, whey protein and a men's daily multivitamin.

All in all, I feel fairly healthy and I allow myself one day to splurge per week. I'm far from the healthiest, but I feel better than I did 2 years ago!