steam or sautee greens, add a layer of grains and then the protien layer

Heh. These days, I don't seem to be making it to the grains layer. I'll happily eat a pork chop and be done with it.

A little while back I IMed Kat for details about when to take the asparagus out of the oven. I think the first thing she asked was if I had anyone over.

The asparagus was great (if cooked, which is not optimal) and I ate the serving all up. There was just no way I was finishing the rest of the packet before it went bad.

I need to sit down and plan this stuff out hard. Each time I do, I don't keep all the improvements, but I do keep some.

Lee, is your headache better?

It's amazing how challenging feeding yourself can be.

So, if you were preparing to move abroad for the forseeable future, what would you do to get your affairs in order before you left?

I'm going to learn about nutrition, tomorrow, ita.

I want to know how many calories I actually need, how much protein and what sort of carbs. I need to know why it is that I constantly crave bread, I'd eat nothing but fresh bread and cheese all day if I didn't know it was bad for me to do so.

My doctor says it's "good peasant stock" given my family history, which doesn't suit my first world life. Both of my great grandmothers (and grandfathers) went through periods of starvation in their lives, and so on fa back into my genetic history. So I think maybe there's something inside my skull that wants the carbohydrates and fat.

The other thing about bread and cheese is that they contain the same amino acid in turkey that makes one sleepy. Sleepiness aside, there's evidence that tryptophan triggers a rise in seratonin, the lack of which causes my depression.

So I think I'm getting a double whammy in fattening foods. Knowing why makes it easier to control, though.

I'm just really excited about learning to eat properly for the first time in my life. No, no one ever taught it in school.

ita - think cooked greens will do most of what raw ones will. And cooked greens mix well with protein. I know cooking loses some vitamins - but you still have most of the nutrition plus all of the fiber. So if you can do cooked spinach and still get your protein and complex carbs you are doing well. From what I gather you are saying even this is tough? If you eat cooked spinach you will eat fewer of other foods?

Other than liking bread and pasta, all my natural instincts regarding food seem to point in a healthy, low-fat direction. Yet my metabolism's ability to sift everything I eat (and apparently the air around me) for every last bit of cholesterol works to defeat good intentions at every turn.

Oh well, at least it also seems to deal with large amounts of sodium without difficulty.

I know cooking loses some vitamins

This is a myth. Heat makes far more nutrients available for human absorption (heat breaks down cellulose more efficiently than human teeth) than are lost by the cooking process.

you still have most of the nutrition plus all of the fiber

Less of the fibre too, but it's still a start.

Gar, here's what I know about my body: My stomach's teeny, and so is my appetite. In its simplest form, this translates to me prioritising for calories and protein. A typical (not good) day has me having a bowl of no sugar adde cereal (rice or soy milk), tea, juice, cupcake, steak or a burger and a bit of whatever complex-carb side is offered, and then nothing else.

My new and improved self will now have the same cereal, with a banana in it. No juice, but lots and lots of lemon-flavoured water. Same cupcake, but I'll sometimes swap it for an apple or a yoghurt. And I try and have fruit or yoghurt for an afternoon snack too, since my lunches are now smaller--no steak, but a TJ bowl and a small bowl of soup. Dinner, well, lately I've been eating out a lot--sushi or a burger, of which I end up pulling out all the meat and avocado and leaving the bread. Not really touching the fries. If I come home and eat, dinner's a sprouted wheat bagel with cream cheese and roast beef.

That involves eating from my brain and not my stomach. My stomach doesn't want to eat after krav, which would mean dinner's out three/four workdays, and lunch gets really late on the weekend. My stomach is really petulant, though, and sometimes colludes with my oesophagus and wins the battle to stop me eating.

If I add anything, something on that list up there has to go. I'm finally at my target weight. I don't want to lose any.

On net Jesica you are right. But some vitamins are destroyed by heat. I think this applies especially to stuff with c. Cooking breaks down vitamin C,, t hough as you say it makes other nutrients accesible.

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yeah, it looks like you are making the best choices possible in the circs. I wish the freakin doctors would figure out what is wrong so they could fix it for you - or at least help more than they have.

Tom Scola has my dining room table! But his is much cleaner. You can see more than 50% of its surface. It's a very nice table. (and a gorgeous apartment!)

I'm a big fan of easy veggies. Squash sliced and tossed in the pan after coooking some meat thing, broccoli or beans in the microwave.

I will be having TJ's bulgoki with jasmine rice and some spinach for dinner.

So I went out shoe shopping. I went to the DSW in Hunt Valley, which used to be this sad, dead mall with a Burlington, Sears, Dick's and Walmart, with their entrances to the mall all boarded up. Holy moly, it's changed. It's now one of those outdoor "main street" style malls, with the original box stores with new faces, and various fairly nice stores (an Anne Taylor Loft, NY & Co, Chico's some others that I've never heard of but are more upscale than most non-froofy mallish stores.) Anywho, couldn't find any shoes, which sucked. But the Anne Taylor had some nice tshirts on sale that will match my new skirt, so at least it was sucessful. I now have utterly NO NEED for any more casual-but-nice tshirts. I have plenty. Oh & it stormed while I was up there. During the worst of it, I went up to a second floor covered area and watched. It was cool. Hail made me wince for my car, but it turned out ok.

I wish my neighbors would learn how to start their charcoal grill before they start their charcoal grill.

I'm pretty sure it's bringing my migraine back.