Would you sit down at a meal with a plate of banana, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries…etc. and eat it all at one sitting? So yeah, part of the problem is that the quantity of fruit you use to make that smoothie adds up to LOTS of calories!
The trouble with juices is again that the juice is a lot of concentrated juice (not to mention often extra sugar) - so unless you can be satisfied with 4 ounces or something the calorie count is going to add up.
Again, if you track your food intake you will see this - that the smoothie vs. a bowl of berries is a world of difference in calories.
Thanks, abasket. I do frequently make a fresh fruit salad, especially when I have all the fruit out to make a smoothie. Then I have the fruit salad available to eat for a snack or with a meal. It seems more satisfying to have a mixture of berries than just one, but that said I’ve also enjoyed nibbling on raspberries and blueberries. It just seemed to be less satisfying.
I don’t drink calories because they don’t appeal to me not due to calories. I’ve never been a soda or juice drinker. My entire life milk has made me gag. I grew up on water. I gave my kids juice and milk when they were young, but by the time they were school age I would just serve water with meals. Of my 3 kids only my S ended up a big beverage drinker. He loves juice, lemonade. I have Pelligrino sodas in my garage frig for when he comes over. He also is my big fruit eater.
I’m not a big smoothie drinker. When my kids lived at home I would make them with frozen fruit,ice and pineapple juice, similar to a Jamba Juice without the sherbet. I would sometimes put in a container of yogurt for protein. When I make one for myself I’m trying to get more greens in my diet. I use coconut water for the liquid.
I also don’t eat a lot of fruit in winter. In summer I love strawberries.
Jym- I guessed on my password for Myfitnesspal and it worked. You can also follow the link on the app that you don’t recall your password. I think they have a wider database of foods. I also find it easier to put in a partial serving of an item. It also links to my health step app on my IPhone.
Every Friday I have lunch out with my H. It is my meal of the week where I eat whatever I want. Today is going to be in the high 70’s. I think we will play tourist in our town and go to a tiny place in the marina. It is shared tables and it’s fun to meet people from all over the world. I’ve recently discovered that the Baja fish tacos are amazingly delicious. I don’t usually track that meal but I think I will today.
How do you track foods that have multiple ingredients?
@mom60 Livestrong had the things I tend to eat init’s memory so it’s currently easier for me. I have t figure out how to log in my lunch (1/2 a port in of lamb kabob). I just finished 2.5 mi on the treadmill in 32 min so my pace is improving. I am on the bike at present
@mom60 I got back into the myfitnesspal. I have a vague memory that I had a problem when I originally signed up, so I set up a second account with a slightly different screenname. Well, the last time I logged into myfitnesspal was Nov of 2014, and I weighed 3 lbs more then than I do now
@mom60, there is a recipe builder within My Fitness Pal where you put in the ingredients and it calculates the calories. You might also try inputting Baja fish tacos and you might get a hit.
Livestrong updated its site and it’s not as intuitively user friendly as the classic, which I can pull up on the computer but have trouble on the phone. Will look into the my fitness pal further. Today: 9 down, 11 to go!
jym, that has been my experience with many of the fitness/health/nutrition sites. Weight Watchers is another example of a redesigned site that is very cumbersome and difficult to use. I have a client who wanted to try ww and has given up entering her food. I tried to do it for her and found it to be very time consuming and frustrating. Fortunately, MyFitnessPal, even with all of its updates, has retained the same easy to use interface. And it’s database is excellent, providing foods by brand (including supermarket house brands) and generic names. Sometimes you need to play a little with your profile and goals to get a target calorie setting that will work for your goals but no program outside of a nutritional analysis by an RD will be truly individualized without tweaking.
Thanks. Will give it a try. I remember playing with the livestrong and the my fitness pal many years ago, and liking the livestrong better at that time. Don’t remember why at present.
VaBluebird- thank you.i hadn’t discovered that option.
Jym626- I think we had similar experiences. Obviously I didn’t like MyFitnessAp the first time around and switched to Livestrong. This time around I think MyFitnessApp is more user friendly.
Didn’t end up at the fish taco place. We went to another favorite and split a turkey sandwich. Indulged on the homemade fries and half a peanut butter cookie. Not sure. If it was the bread, amount of food or what but I didn’t feel great in the afternoon.
Whole 30 - day 2 I bit the bullet and officially started
Did Pilates, body sculpting and walking classes Gaiam tv today. Heart healthy happy valentines day for me
Has anyone done certain exercises, like with dumb-bells where you do like 15 reps with the light weights, then less reps with a heavier weight, and then even less reps with another heavy weight? It looked like a method being ‘sold’. Just wondered about it.
The weight, number of reps and number of sets you use for any weight lifting exercise really depends on your training goals, fitness level and familiarity with the exercise movement pattern and form. What you have described is kind of like a piece of a pyramid or laddered routine but is really pretty unfocused and incomplete to achieve any specific desired outcome. As a very general rule, 12-15 reps is for muscular endurance, 8-12 reps for hypertrophy or building muscle size, 6-8 reps for strength and 3-5 reps for power. There’s lots of different ways to structure a progression of reps and weight per set but what you described is not particularly well structured to achieve any of those outcomes. Give me more details of what you want to achieve and your present fitness level and experience lifting weights and I can comment further if you are interested.
I highly recommend “Bodypump” for anyone new to weight lifting. I found a used set via local Craigslist. I love to pop in a DVD and do 30 minutes of weight lifting or even an hour when I have the time.
I used to do it at the Y but man those ladies get really ticked off when people take “their spot.” I would much rather do it from home
^ carachel2 two days piece of cake, ( well actually not at all ) lol
I like the food options, I may or may not have put a wee bit of sugar in coffee, but other then that easy for me. ( been really doing most the food for a week )
Example breakfast,
Breakfast - hard boiled egg, half avacado, left over vegetables, cut ccucumbers works for me ------
Body changes already -
And, underarmour top I bought is looser- and, I’m feeling muffin top shrink. I’m encouraged.
How much activity did you do while on whole 30- light training, heavy ? Exercise is component to success.
@SouthJerseyChessMom …yes, the body changes with the loose clothing start to happen quickly for most people. Tight clothes loosen up for sure!
Exercise: 10K steps every day for sure. At least three times a week after I walk or work out on the elliptical I will grab my body pump bar and do at least 15 minutes of squats, bicep curls, etc. with my bar and weights.
I have a friend who swears she lost weight on W30 without exercise at all. But for me it was key and like I said…it totally fills the moments! If I sit around on the couch I want to eat. Much better to get up and hop on the elliptical while watching a show.
@SOSConcern , if you are new to lifting weights, whether barbells or Dumbbells, please, please don’t just go out and buy a DVD like Bodypump and dive into it. It is an invitation to injury. You need to learn correct technique and form and not just start throwing weights around. I can’t tell you the number of people who have come to me with lower back and shoulder injuries that occurred doing dvd work outs because the person was never instructed on how do do the exercises safely. I’ve seen this happen even with a program like Bodypump where you use relatively lighter weights and high reps, and in fact high rep programs tend to emphasize speed of movement (Bodypump touted 800 reps in an hour) which increases the likelihood of injury for those that don’t understand the movement patterns, don’t know how to brace their core when doing squats and clean and presses, don’t know how to keep their shoulders depressed and retracted and not use their torso when doing curls - the list could go on. Plus, while a high rep low weight routine has certain benefits, how do you know it matches your goals?
If you are going to start lifting weights and are new to it, I urge you to spend a couple a couple of sessions with a trainer learning how to lift safely and to discuss what kind of lifting program will meet you needs and goals.
