LIVING STRONG

Hi Friends!!! This morning I wanted to talk about my new diet buddy. Her name is www.livestrong.com . This has been an excellent resource for me because I’m able to log in (for FREE…btw FREE is also a good friend of mine) on and document everything I eat for the day. This may be considered hard for some people, but it has helped me be more conscious of what I put into my body. One day last week, I ate boneless butter garlic and lemon pepper wings….yum (I’m salivating, pardon me)!! Surprisingly, my fat intake (not protein) equaled about 40% of my diet for that day. Talk about dumbfounded!!

NOW GET THIS!!! The best thing about this site is that you can choose how much weight you want to loose in one week & it will give you a number for the proper amount of caloric intake. IT can’t get any easier than this! I’m not going crazy so I selected 1.5 lbs per week. That is about 6-7 lbs per month…over a three month period you can start calling me by my alter ego…SATIA (that short for insatiable)!! Yep, I said it!! I’ll let you guys know next week how this goes for or against my workout regimen.

So now, even on my free days, I’m conscious of what I’m eating – it may not be the perfect step, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction for how I want to live my life. It takes me about 10 minutes in the morning to enter everything in my lunch bag, including breakfast. So, by the time I leave work, I know what I can eat for dinner. Even if I’m not able to log what I eat that night, I go back and do it the next morning. Also, I enter everything I put in my mouth…gum, peppermint, vitamins, chitosan (fiber pills), etc.

According to the Mayo clinic, you should be eating about 15-35% protein (20% for me), 20-35% fat (20% for me), and about 45-65% carbohydrates (about 60% for me). REMEMBER: your proteins should be from beans, lean meats, and seafood; your fats should come from nuts, olive, canola; and your carbs should come from whole grains, fruits, veggies (not from cotton candy, red velvet cheesecake, and candy bars…although that sounds excellent). HOWEVER, this leaves lots of room for moving around and juggling food, so that you ensure that you’re eating properly.