Diet/Exercise/Health/Wellness Support Thread

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<p>I outdid myself in the low(ish) carb cooking department this afternoon. My little variation on a Yucatin pork dish: Cochinata Pibil.</p>

<p>4 lbs of pork butt/shoulder, cut into 3 inch cubes and marinated in:</p>

<p>Juice of two oranges
Juice of six limes
12 cloves garlic (mashed)</p>

<p>Fresh ground spice mix:</p>

<p>2 TBS Achiote/Annatto seed
1 TBS cumin seeds
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground thyme
2 teaspoons Mexican oregano
6 allspice berries
2 teaspoons sea salt
2 teaspoons black pepper</p>

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<p>Over a roaring fire on the grill, char/roast:</p>

<p>5 Vidalia onions
5 Anaheim chile peppers (fresh)
8 Roma tomatos
1 red bell pepper</p>

<p>Cool, and scrape the skin off the tomatoes and peppers, slice the veggies and put in foil roasting pan.</p>

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<p>Then, char the pork chunks on the grill and add to roasting pan.</p>

<p>Pour marinade over everything in the roasting pan, cover tightly with foil, and put back on the grill for 2 to 3 hours, until the pork is falling apart tender.</p>

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<p>In the Yucatin, you are supposed to put bananna leaves on top, but my bananna trees aren’t doing so well. so I skipped them!</p>

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<p>Wow! This was so good. It can be served Mexican style with tortillas and Mexican red rice, but for a lower carb variation, I just served it with corn on the cob I roasted on the grill.</p>

<p>Depending on how you look at it, this is Yucatin pot roast or the best pork burrito filling you’ve ever eaten or Yucatin pull-pork bar-b-q.</p>

<p>Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 8 oz (raw meat weight)
Calories 504
Fat 53%
Carbs 20%
Protein 28%</p>

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<p>I had a brisk walk to the Kroger ('bout a mile there & back) to buy milk and the first ice cream of the season. So I had ice cream but I WALKED to get it. Is that ok? :D</p>

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<p>I started to go for a run tonight, but turned around before I got off our street. Too much lightning in the area although there’s not much going on storm-wise…</p>

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<p>Did you eat the ice cream?</p>

<p>I find that Greek Yogurt is like eating ice cream but it’s not sweet and it’s not cold. It’s quite filling though it doesn’t have a lot of calories.</p>

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<p>The one good thing about living in the ice age is that I can’t even imagine eating ice cream. It’s 48 degrees here tonight and I’m about to go get a pair of gloves and a ski cap. This is just getting ridiculous.</p>

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<p>“I had a brisk walk to the Kroger ('bout a mile there & back) to buy milk and the first ice cream of the season. So I had ice cream but I WALKED to get it. Is that ok?”</p>

<p>Perfectly OK! That’s what DH and I do when we go to Maui: we walk 4 miles to earn our scoops of mac nut ice cream. The harder you work to get something, the better it tastes. :)</p>

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<p>Outside pool is openning this weekend, forget gym, walking, rollerblading, nothing compares to swimming and I need much shorter time to exercise. Unfortunately I cannot swim inside though, otherwise I would not do anything else, being in a water is amazing, huge mood enhancement also,…and you really do not care what and how much you eat after.</p>

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Well if you managed to only eat 200 cal worth you’ll break even.</p>

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<p>Good weekend at the sabaray house. SabarayH has joined the program. </p>

<p>iDad, that pork recipe sounds fantastic. Good thing the banana leaves are optional- they’re in short supply in VA as well. </p>

<p>We walked together Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. Sunday’s walk was abbreviated due to incredible thunder and lightning which quickly overtook us. </p>

<p>Saturday we did an incredible amount of yard work - digging, weeding, mowing. Sunday was food preparation. I cooked a chicken and cut it into portions and packaged accordingly. I made pork barbecue - roasted a 10 pound pork shoulder and finished it on the grill;made a homemade NC sauce of ketchup, vinegar, honey, cayenne and Splenda. Grilled very lean hamburgers for H as well. </p>

<p>We both ate breakfast together this morning (which he doesn’t usually do) and I packed a lunch for him (another first). </p>

<p>And, we started making inquiries for a new family member (a Labrador, not human, child).</p>

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<p>I did it again. I lost five pounds. I got within a half pound of it ten days ago, then bounced back up, then spent the last two days teetering on the brink, within 2/10ths of a pound. Today, I blasted through with over half a pound to spare. It could very well stick.</p>

<p>This makes the 17th time I’ve lost five pounds, for a grand total of 85 pounds. </p>

<p>I keep saying that there’s not another 5 pounds to be had, so I think I’ll get out of the prediction business. I’ve been averaging right at 3/4 of a pound per week since New Year’s, so it’s just been a slow drift downwards with just one sustained plateau for several weeks in Feburary. Tracking food and watching carbs a little more closely seems to have taken care of that.</p>

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<p>Yeah. I found them once, frozen in a Latin market. Made a similar grilled chilean sea bass Yucatin recipe with piece of fish wrapped in little banana leaf packages. It was all very fancy, but I prefer the fish directly on the grill.</p>

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<p>Yay! It’ll make all the difference in the world feeding him pork bar-b-q and grilled hamburgers. Finding out that he can eat good satisfying food and lose weight will give him a fighting chance. And, your walks are the perfect way to get him moving.</p>

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<p>Hmmm. Slow roasting a pork shoulder or baby back ribs is on my list of upcoming feasts as well. I just need a little nicer weather. I thought about baby backs for Easter dinner, but ended up with rib eye steaks. I make a similar bar-b-que sauce, only I use brown sugar in mine – very thin, vinegary sauce. Sometimes I change it up and use mustard instead of ketchup for the South Carolina version. Mine is definitely not low-carb, but I have cut back the amount of sugar to make it a little less sweet.</p>

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<p>Fantastic. I was hoping you would get a new pooch. It’s really the best way. A new Lab will walk you and your hubby to death!</p>

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<p>Getting your spouse to join in is pretty tough so congrats on involving your spouse.</p>

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<p>You’re now too thin a target to hit.</p>

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<p>iDad, congrats on the weight loss. Truly impressive. I am certain I will gain some of my most recent loss back but am trying hard not to. Since January of 2010, I have lost 73 pounds. I almost look like a normal human being now. </p>

<p>H had a doctor’s appointment last week during which he not only got the go ahead to exercise, he got the orders to exercise and lose weight. His prior doc was big on weight loss through medication. H never got that you also needed to modify your eating habits. New doc is a bit more no-nonsense and doesn’t feel medication is necessary. One day at a time.</p>

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<p>That feeling of feeling lighter and lighter almost every day when you wake up is a pretty cool feeling. The decreasing levels of joint pain is also cool. I haven’t felt this good in a decade, and there’s plenty more to go!</p>

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<p>Check the linings of that guy’s pockets! Absolutely the worst idea…</p>

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<p>Couldn’t agree more. In fact, that doctor is no longer practicing. And his decision to retire was not of his own volition. </p>

<p>H has always subscribed to the use of Slim-Fast, etc. for weight loss. Not sunstainable in the long run. How do you learn to eat normally? Here’s crossing our fingers that he’ll be able to do it. He wants to, which is a step in the right direction. </p>

<p>BCEagle, I hear you on the joint pain. My knees feel so much better!</p>

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<p>I just finished a great book, “Never Let Go” by Dan John, that talks about the “Velocity Diet.” This isn’t something he created, but something he uses. Essentially for 28 days, you eat only protein shakes. Like 4-5 of them a day! You eat one solid meal a week during that period of time. Then, after that 28 days, you gradually add food back in. He mentioned losing about 25 pounds in that month. Sure it’s a “crash diet” but if you do it correctly, you can gain from it. It will fail, however, if you don’t change the way you eat overall…</p>

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<p>I can see that approach working but you might miss some nutrients and fiber from that approach. It might not be a big deal for a month.</p>

<p>You still need a plan for the long run - of course this plan could give one a good head-start.</p>

<p>I kind of feel like I’m doing something similar except with real food. There are enough protein-rich foods out there to get something similar to this effect though not at the rate of 25 pounds/month.</p>

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<p>Our bodies are not designed to consume some kind of shakes and nothing else. We are designed to place real food into our bodies as source of energy. We might be under certain stress (like sickness) or some other circumstances that require us to pursue unnatural ways for norishments. I would not subject my body to treatment like this without having very valid solid reasons. My body will not like it and will become sick. Of course everybody is free to do what they wish, but this is my way of approaching my health. I have priorities in regard to my health, making myself sick is not at the top, weight loss no matter what is not at the top either, listenning to some gurus is not even on the list.</p>

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<p>I agree with MiamiDAP. I like food. :slight_smile: I don’t think of protein shakes as food.</p>