Suebee wrote:Please help me with suggestions. What do you put on oatmeal? Do you use soy or almond milk? I use unsweetened soy (regular fat because there is NO low-fat, sugar free soy milk); almond milk has too much sugar.
I find that using the frozen fruit makes oatmeal plenty sweet. I nuke it enough that the fruit breaks down--mix it in and it's very sweet and yummy. No need for milk of any kind, sugar, etc.
Ditto sweet potatoes and fruit--plenty sweet w/ no added sugar.
Part of the journey, really, is getting used to how REAL FOOD actually tastes, without all that added stuff on it. How food tastes w/out salt added, without sugar added is how it's supposed to taste. Add spices if you like--they are harmless. Cinnamon on oatmeal or sweet potatoes is great. Cumin and turmeric keep you from missing salt. Once your taste buds change, you will no longer miss the salt and sugar, and when you have items that have salt and sugar added they will taste bad to you!
Actually, Westsoy makes a fat free soy milk, FYI. I only use a splash in my Bengal Spice herb tea (chai-like) a few times a day.
I tried going without bread (whole wheat) and felt so awfully deprived I couldn't continue. I can't seem to eat a salad (especially a tart vinaigrette dressing) without taking the edge off with a bite of dry bread. How on earth does one stop eating bread???
For me, I just had to let go of bread b/c bread made me want things like sour cream and fake butter spread and soy mayonaise, etc. etc. etc. Getting the bread out of my life made it easier to get the other stuff out of my life, too.
I kept (and keep!) telling myself: Nothing tastes as good as thin feels. That is really TRUE. If I see every bite of some off-plan item as giving up a little bit of being slim and healthy, then it is for SURE not worth it! And I don't cheat.
How do you eat your whole grains? Do you eat them several times a day? Which ones?
I mostly eat brown rice and oatmeal. I'm very busy (2 jobs) and tend to keep it simple. I have grains once a day usually--occasionally twice--my most frequent starch is pototoes b/c I love them best. Sometimes I have taters for all 3 meals AND a snack, LOL!
I really need to lose only about 10 pounds but that seems impossible. I just seem to maintain my weight but losing is an impossible mountain. I was alright with weight until I hit menopause. Now, nothing budges. Unfortunately because of health limitations I am unable to do a lot of exericse, just a mile walk a day on some days.
Keep in mind that when you are close to a good weight, it is harder to lose. That's just physics. The more you weigh, the more calories you burn just EXISTING. But if you follow the MWL plan religiously, you WILL lose the weight, albeit slowly. The key, then, is not thinking you can go OFF the plan once you lose weight. Right now the amount of cals I am taking in on MWL w/ a little regular plan maintains me at 120. If I were to even go to all regular plan I would start gaining slowly. How do I know this? It's what happened before. But if I keep on keeping on as I've BEEN keeping on, I will stay at this weight.