Diet Blog: healthy weight and food choices

[fabricdragon]

first of all, don't expect to ever read anything positive about being unhealthily thin here. The goal is HEALTHY at whatever weight that happens to be.

while i won't say vanity has NO role in my ideas of health , fitness, and weight, its really about getting my knees to stop hurting, and my energy levels up to where they should be.

Comments

[theosakakoneko]

I have some hypoglycemia problems myself. I've found that keeping sandwich supplies around is ideal. I can make a good sandwich, you know, break with meat and cheese and lettuce and mustard, in like 4 minutes, and I can make a fast sandwich, if I need it NOWNOW, with bread and meat and cheese, in like 30 seconds, which is just as fast as opening a bag of chips or goldfish, and way faster than fast food. And it's easy to keep around and healthy.

But cottage cheese, like 1%, eaten alone, is pretty darned healthy too - it was one of my primary protein sources when I was losing weight. Gets right of shakes, is satisfying. If you eat some of that, like 1/4-1/2 container, it should be enough to even out the shakes, at which point you can go microwave some frozen broccoli so balance it out and get some veggies in, and that's something that never goes bad so it's easy to have around, and is easy easy to make and pretty fast.

I never eat chips with cottage cheese, I always eat it alone, so I guess that makes it easier for me.

[fabricdragon]

i suppose part of the issue is i dont like the texture of small curd, and most large curd is full fat. at least around here.

also i use the chips to scoop out the cottage cheese.

probably switching to low fat woudl HELP, but i suspect its better for me to just try to swap in some veggies

[theosakakoneko]

Ah, I hate the flavor of full fat (grossssss) so I eat the 1%. But I also hate whole milk. And I use a spoon XDXD

Veggies are good :D:D

[fabricdragon]

hummus = garlic usually. the few times i have had hummus without garlic it was awful stuff....

i cannot really picture cucumber slices with cottage cheese, but i could try it....

[selkiechick]

Broccoli is also a good vehicle for cottage cheese. I've also been making the sour cream based dips with lowfat greek yogurt, and they taste just as good, especially with veggies.

[fabricdragon]

ok, i love broccoli. but always have it with tangy stuff if raw. so i cant really picture it with cottage cheese, but i suppose i can try

[fabricdragon]

why chips?
i suspect its what i got used to (habit)
plus i love salt (salt)
and the crunch (texture)

the combination of crisp crunchy salty potato taste, and creamy sweet cottage cheese appears to be one of those things i will literally keep shoveling into my mouth until i get sick, or run out of it.

so it becomes that much more important for me topre measure it into smaller portions, since i either canot, or will not, portion control it when serving from a large tub