Progress Update - September 19, 2005
Thank you all for keeping abreast of my progress and for the positive feedback you’ve given me, it really helps to push through the struggles that comes with sticking to a new eating plan. It’s been two weeks and we’re getting settled in our new eating plan. When I started the plan I weighed 167.5 and now I weigh 162.5. My husband weighed 210 and now he weighs 206. I can see how you might loose weight on this plan because most of the stuff that we’re used to eating is a thing of the past.
Before we started the new eating plan, I gave my husband a dinner party. Afterwards, I asked the guest to take the entire food home with them, and the only things that were left were the peach cobbler and a big slice of German chocolate cake for my sister. Two days later the desserts were still here and I was struggling. I wanted so much to just taste a little of each and then be done, but I know it wouldn’t stop there. So, I looked out the window and saw one of my neighbors walking down the street and I begged her to come in and take the temptation out of my house because we’re trying to maintain an eating plan. She was very happy to do it, and I realized that I can’t have even a small amount of bad food items in our house because it’s too much of an enticement for me – I really have no control if it’s in my house and I’m alone.
My bad food items are candida, sesame see, cow’s milk, coconut, corn sugar beet, spinach, rye, carrot, coffee, goat’s milk, vanilla, baker’s yeast, sugar cane, salmon, wheat, sweet bell pepper, banana, lentil, herring, prawn, peppermint, cocoa, oysters, sardines, cherry, gluten, brewer’s yeast, green tea, barley, mussels, butter, lemon sole, pork, honey, herbes de province, and oats.
My husband’s bad food items are lentil, prawn, monkfish, tune, banana, gluten, peppermint, honey, lamb, orange, scallops, sweet bell pepper, barley, coffee, green tea, sugar beet, lemon, vanilla, oysters, sesame seed, oats, olive, herbes de province, goat’s milk, seabass, mussels, sugar cane, rye, carrot, baker’s yeast, egg yolk, halibut, lettuce, candida, wheat, beef, brewer’s yeast.
I try to fix items that we can both eat, but that doesn’t always work out because the choices of meat, fish, and poultry would be limited if we only ate the foods that are alike for both of us; therefore when I make beef for me, I make salmon for my husband and when I make lettuce for me, he has spinach, and so on.
For breakfast, I usually make cheese eggs for me, cheese whites for John, red or white potatoes and onions, rice cake with apple butter, and blend some fruit with rice or soy milk for a beverage. For lunch, John usually has spinach, tomatoes, cucumbers, sardines, or anything leftover from last night’s dinner. I usually have, rice cakes, fruit, and leftover dinner. For dinner I usually make me a steak, pot roast, beef ribs and for John I usually make salmon, duck, pork, or pork ribs, or for the both of us I make chicken, turkey, mackerel, cod, trout, or crab legs, with baked potato, scalloped potatoes, or rice, and kidney beans, salad, broccoli, cauliflower, or any other vegetable we can have. For snacks we usually have fruit, nuts, rice or cakes. We sometimes have black tea with rice syrup. There are so many items on our good list that we like and we never thought we would, for example, rice cakes, rice syrup, rice and soy milk with fresh fruits, wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar with walnut or sunflower oil for salad dressing, and so many different nuts.
I just ordered Beyond C and zinc so we can start taking it daily and I’m I n the process of ordering John’s multivitamin and my prenatal vitamins and I can’t wait to see how we’ll react to taking the vitamin C daily. I’ve been researching the equivalent of 2 grams of vitamin C is to a teaspoon and have come up with different answers from online: 1 teaspoon = 4 grams, and 2.107 teaspoon = 10 grams, so if you have the correct answer of the equivalence please let me know. I’m hoping John’s bad cholesterol will start to decrease immediately after taking the zinc and vitamin C. Stay tuned for more good news …
Tara
Before we started the new eating plan, I gave my husband a dinner party. Afterwards, I asked the guest to take the entire food home with them, and the only things that were left were the peach cobbler and a big slice of German chocolate cake for my sister. Two days later the desserts were still here and I was struggling. I wanted so much to just taste a little of each and then be done, but I know it wouldn’t stop there. So, I looked out the window and saw one of my neighbors walking down the street and I begged her to come in and take the temptation out of my house because we’re trying to maintain an eating plan. She was very happy to do it, and I realized that I can’t have even a small amount of bad food items in our house because it’s too much of an enticement for me – I really have no control if it’s in my house and I’m alone.
My bad food items are candida, sesame see, cow’s milk, coconut, corn sugar beet, spinach, rye, carrot, coffee, goat’s milk, vanilla, baker’s yeast, sugar cane, salmon, wheat, sweet bell pepper, banana, lentil, herring, prawn, peppermint, cocoa, oysters, sardines, cherry, gluten, brewer’s yeast, green tea, barley, mussels, butter, lemon sole, pork, honey, herbes de province, and oats.
My husband’s bad food items are lentil, prawn, monkfish, tune, banana, gluten, peppermint, honey, lamb, orange, scallops, sweet bell pepper, barley, coffee, green tea, sugar beet, lemon, vanilla, oysters, sesame seed, oats, olive, herbes de province, goat’s milk, seabass, mussels, sugar cane, rye, carrot, baker’s yeast, egg yolk, halibut, lettuce, candida, wheat, beef, brewer’s yeast.
I try to fix items that we can both eat, but that doesn’t always work out because the choices of meat, fish, and poultry would be limited if we only ate the foods that are alike for both of us; therefore when I make beef for me, I make salmon for my husband and when I make lettuce for me, he has spinach, and so on.
For breakfast, I usually make cheese eggs for me, cheese whites for John, red or white potatoes and onions, rice cake with apple butter, and blend some fruit with rice or soy milk for a beverage. For lunch, John usually has spinach, tomatoes, cucumbers, sardines, or anything leftover from last night’s dinner. I usually have, rice cakes, fruit, and leftover dinner. For dinner I usually make me a steak, pot roast, beef ribs and for John I usually make salmon, duck, pork, or pork ribs, or for the both of us I make chicken, turkey, mackerel, cod, trout, or crab legs, with baked potato, scalloped potatoes, or rice, and kidney beans, salad, broccoli, cauliflower, or any other vegetable we can have. For snacks we usually have fruit, nuts, rice or cakes. We sometimes have black tea with rice syrup. There are so many items on our good list that we like and we never thought we would, for example, rice cakes, rice syrup, rice and soy milk with fresh fruits, wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar with walnut or sunflower oil for salad dressing, and so many different nuts.
I just ordered Beyond C and zinc so we can start taking it daily and I’m I n the process of ordering John’s multivitamin and my prenatal vitamins and I can’t wait to see how we’ll react to taking the vitamin C daily. I’ve been researching the equivalent of 2 grams of vitamin C is to a teaspoon and have come up with different answers from online: 1 teaspoon = 4 grams, and 2.107 teaspoon = 10 grams, so if you have the correct answer of the equivalence please let me know. I’m hoping John’s bad cholesterol will start to decrease immediately after taking the zinc and vitamin C. Stay tuned for more good news …
Tara
posted by Tara at 2:45 PM
1 Comments:
The vitamins will help you so much! And your husband. 1 gram = 1000 mg. We use mg. more often so I am always thinking mg. Your body cannot absorb more than 1 gram per hour so it is important to space out the vitamin C throughout the day. I take approx. 3600 mg about every 2-3 hours all day long. 3600 mg. is 3.6 grams. The reason why I take 3600 mg. is because that is the scooper in my Vitamin C Crystals. 1 scoop is 1 teaspoon and = 3600 mg. Different brands have different mg. per teaspoon.
Best of luck and keep us posted!!
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