I got a great e-mail from someone reading my blog.
Since I think it may help others, I thought I would
post questions from the e-mail and then
my answer.
I am interested in your menu's from when you first started....
I'm sure your first weeks on the plan are different than your
eating habits now...
I have made quiet a few of the recipes from the Internet site
but would like to view your food plan especially the first
month you started...
I hope to be 70 lbs less a year from now...
DR
Here is my response to DR -
Well, what we are eating now is not all that different from
what we were eating then. We've just had 10 months to dig
and search for more stuff that would meet the diet. I
remember for dinners we had LOTS of turkey. Either ground
turkey for tacos (organic taco shells) or sliced rotissori turkey
from Boston Market and from a local grocery store.
Also, a lot of chicken. Esepecially skinless, boneless thighs. For
lunches back then I was having sliced turkey sandwhiches
with 1/2 tablespoon of canola mayo and some brown mustard
on 100% whole wheat bread. We have always been eating
whole wheat crackers. Either Triscuits or the South Beach
Diet brand.
Salads are a lot of what I eat and have been eating. Fills me
up with not a lot of calories. I tend to use Kraft Light Italian
dressing and other light dressings.
Turkey hot dogs were a good, quick staple as well as turkey
hamburgers, always on 100% whole wheat bread.
And turkey or chicken sauages. There
are a lot of brands and flavors out there.
Sausage like Keilobaska (but made
from Turkey or Chicken)
We did less french fries back then than what we
do now but we still had them. Organic and either
baked in the oven or fried in 100% peanut oil.
(or coconut oil but that's what we use and we know
it's not YOAD approved)
Baked potatoes, canned peas and green beans, steamed
brocolli and carrots...good stuff. And, of course, fruit.
Portions were the hardest for me. I ate much more back
then than what I do now. But, I was 100 lbs heavier :)
Start slow and try to reduce the amount without being hungry.
Listen to your stomach. Start with a small portion and go back
for seconds ONLY if you are still hungry, waiting about
5 minutes inbetween plates. If you are not still hungry,
don't get anymore. Also have plenty of fluids with your meal
as sometimes your body can send signals of hunger when
it's really thirst.
Most of what you see on my menus today would be
fine for just starting out. Especially the core meals, not so
much the snacks.
Hope this helps.
And, DR, I am SURE you can lose that 70 pounds!
Let me know if I can be of more help!
What's a Youatarian? It's my own phrase I have used when people ask me how I have lost my excess weight. I'm a Youatarian and live the youatarian lifestyle. Simply put, a Youatarian is someone that follows YOU On a Diet. For any YOAD followers out there that would like to adopt the phrase
for themselves, please feel free.
- Marshall (aka Orlando Tek)
for themselves, please feel free.
- Marshall (aka Orlando Tek)
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My Story
In July 2006, I visited the doctor for a multitude of
ongoing medical problems and when I weighed
in I remember being 305lbs. That was the heaviest
I could ever remember weighing on any scale in my life.
My wife, also overweight, started some small changes
in her diet at that time and those changes made its way
through into my diet as well.
In September 2006, I watched my mother undergo
triple bypass surgey. And I always believed her
to be of modest health although she had passed
on a few of her problems to me including high blood
pressure and acid reflux issues. In her early 20's,
unaware of her high blood pressure problem, she
actually had a stroke, although not very severe.
My dad is a bit healthier even though being
12 years older than my mom, but he has borderline
adult onset diabetes and he had a stint put into an
artery a few years back.
Taking in all this information, It was then I decided
I needed to make some serious changes in my life
or I will be the next one on the heart ward not too
long from now.
It was Novemeber, 2006 and I was already following
the few changes my wife had made to her diet and we had
both lost about 15lbs in the last few months. Any
change at this point was a good change. We watched
a Discovery Health special called YOU: On A Diet featuring
the YOU docs and a few families incorporating YOAD
into their daily lives and showing their amazing progress.
The very next day, November 7th, 2006, my wife and
I went through every cabinet and cupboard in our
house and got rid of ALL the bad foods. We then
went to the grocery store and bought foods that
met YOAD and from that day we have not looked back!
We could not find the book at any local store so we
ordered it off Amazon. It took a few weeks to arrive
but we started cooking with only YOAD approved foods
using YOAD approved methods and we WERE seeing
results even before the book arrived.
From there it has been all downhilll. I have lost 110lbs
since starting on YOAD in November but about 125lbs
over the last 18 months total. Wahoo!
And most of my medical problems related to my weight
have now vanished including high bood pressure, acid
reflux and sleep apnea. I have much more energy and
I feel better than I can ever remember!
And its all thanks to YOAD!
ongoing medical problems and when I weighed
in I remember being 305lbs. That was the heaviest
I could ever remember weighing on any scale in my life.
My wife, also overweight, started some small changes
in her diet at that time and those changes made its way
through into my diet as well.
In September 2006, I watched my mother undergo
triple bypass surgey. And I always believed her
to be of modest health although she had passed
on a few of her problems to me including high blood
pressure and acid reflux issues. In her early 20's,
unaware of her high blood pressure problem, she
actually had a stroke, although not very severe.
My dad is a bit healthier even though being
12 years older than my mom, but he has borderline
adult onset diabetes and he had a stint put into an
artery a few years back.
Taking in all this information, It was then I decided
I needed to make some serious changes in my life
or I will be the next one on the heart ward not too
long from now.
It was Novemeber, 2006 and I was already following
the few changes my wife had made to her diet and we had
both lost about 15lbs in the last few months. Any
change at this point was a good change. We watched
a Discovery Health special called YOU: On A Diet featuring
the YOU docs and a few families incorporating YOAD
into their daily lives and showing their amazing progress.
The very next day, November 7th, 2006, my wife and
I went through every cabinet and cupboard in our
house and got rid of ALL the bad foods. We then
went to the grocery store and bought foods that
met YOAD and from that day we have not looked back!
We could not find the book at any local store so we
ordered it off Amazon. It took a few weeks to arrive
but we started cooking with only YOAD approved foods
using YOAD approved methods and we WERE seeing
results even before the book arrived.
From there it has been all downhilll. I have lost 110lbs
since starting on YOAD in November but about 125lbs
over the last 18 months total. Wahoo!
And most of my medical problems related to my weight
have now vanished including high bood pressure, acid
reflux and sleep apnea. I have much more energy and
I feel better than I can ever remember!
And its all thanks to YOAD!
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2 comments:
Isn't it nice to be some one's inspiration Marshall. Because of what you did someone else is inspired to do it. It is very kind of you to help!
Checking in on ya, the tilapia sounds divine.
I bought some SB 100 calorie packs today , but have not tried them yet. I got the woven wheat ones and wheat crackers. The cookies scared me off, because of the laxative effect thing on the nutrition panel.
Have a good day tomorrow!
Chari
Hi Chari!
I hope you enjoy the SB crackers.
Both types are great!
It's the maltitol in the cookies
that make them label the box like
they did. I have done research.
Due to its slow absorption by the body, excessive consumption of maltitol can have laxative effect and sometimes cause gas and/or bloating.
We have maybe 1 or 2 packs a week
which is not excessive and we haven't had any problems with it.
I hope you have a great tomorrow as well!
Take care!
Marshall
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