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Post by bmazzo on Feb 9, 2021 1:04:20 GMT
Every success starts with a single step in the right direction.
Suggestions for weight-losing meals.
Breakfast: Enjoy a big breakfast. it is an easy way to increase fat burn. Research has found that people who ate a hearty morning meal followed by a lighter lunch & dinner burned twice as many calories as those who ate their heaviest meal later in the day, even when they consumed the same number of calories. Metabolism runs higher in the mornings, this speeds the body's ability to use fat for energy.
Lunch: Add some fun to your mid day meal! Tune into a favorite music station while you eat lunch automatically speeds your metabolism, plus you eat 9 fewer grams of fat & 122 calories without even realizing it. Listening to music that you love increases feelings of comfort, making us less likely to turn to emotional eating or feel as hungry.
Dinner: Eat dinner at 6 pm. People who eat dinner earlier tend to burn more fat than those who ate later in the evening. Plus, those who eat earlier dinner, report that they are less hungry the next day.
Thoughts on any of these suggestions? ideas of your own?
Our little group seems to be dwindling, hope everyone is ok.
FUN: What's the last movie you saw in a theater?
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Post by cathygeha on Feb 9, 2021 11:17:25 GMT
I kind of have a pattern of my own for meals and always have breakfast with lunch usually being bigger than dinner. My husband and I rarely eat at the same time...different schedules.
I can't remember the last movie I saw in a theater...maybe the funny comic book movie with the space ships and the guy who got buff and was taken into space as a kid...maybe the actor's name was Chris Pratt? Think he divorced and remarried Schwarzenneger's daughter?
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Post by jasimons on Feb 9, 2021 11:53:04 GMT
One of the reasons I've preferred the WW programs that were no-count or less-count -like core or simply filling - is that I can have the option to eat a larger breakfast and not be wary of running out of points. Logically, I did know that it wasn't the end of the world to go over points on the "counting" programs, but I was very focused on doing the program perfectly when I started the first time.
Breakfast does vary for me. Different things I might choose: scrambled eggs, cottage cheese on english muffin, oatmeal & fruit, cheese and triscuit crackers...most with fruit as well. I still have the grazing habit of smaller meals, habit from my work schedule. I do have to watch to make sure it's not constant grazing.
No idea what the last movie I saw in a theater was. It's been a long time. Possibly one of the Star Wars movies in the second trilogy?
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Post by cherryt38 on Feb 9, 2021 14:36:23 GMT
My breakfast doesn't vary as much as it used to. Usually I'll have a slice of whole wheat toast with peanut butter or almond butter and a piece of fruit, which changes every day. Some days I'll have oatmeal with berries, sometimes a smoothie or an egg and toast, or cottage cheese and pineapple or other fruit.
Lunches tend to be a small bowl of soup or a salad or sometimes fruit, cheese, and crackers. Sometimes if I'm busy with something I don't feel hungry and even forget about lunch. Dinner is more substantial. I emphasize veggies and have a small piece of meat, mostly chicken or fish or I'll have beans or lentils or rice instead. I often have a potato or sweet potato (both small). I usually eat around 7:00. I could easily eat by 6:00 I guess, and probably should. Often I'll have a snack before bed, such as fruit and nuts or a couple of Dove chocolates and nuts.
When I was growing up, dinner was at noon and the biggest meal. When working in the field or harvest time, there would be a big breakfast, a mid morning lunch taken to the field, dinner, then a midafternoon lunch in the field, then supper which was rather late. Lunches in the field usually consisted of sandwiches, cookies or bars, and coffee and lemonade and fresh cold water. There was usually dessert after dinner and supper. Does anyone remember the heavy canvas water bags the guys used to carry out to the field? They held about a gallon of water and the water would slowly seep through the canvas, which was supposed to help it stay cooler.
It has been years since I've been to a movie theater. I think the last movie I saw was in about 2005 or thereabouts. I don't remember the name of it but it was with Garrison Keillor and was about the production of Prairie Home Companion. It showed them doing the show but also was about the goings on behind the set.
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Post by bmazzo on Feb 9, 2021 15:04:04 GMT
We do eat dinner around 6. We almost always have a good meal, a meat, a starch & at least one green vegetable. We don't eat out anymore, so it seems like we do eat better.
I like cereal, so I often have that for breakfast, with fruit & either skim milk or almond milk. Eggs a couple of times per week & Sundays are usually some recipe of WW pancakes and fruit. Last Sunday I made the WW recipe that is made of 1/4 c cornmeal & 1/4 c oatmeal. I didn't care for it at all! Won't make that recipe again.
Lunch is usually leftovers from the night before. Sometimes sliced turkey or chicken on a wrap.
I have trouble staying out of the kitchen at night, I try to curb it with a glass of skim milk his & a couple of crackers. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't
This schedule could probably use tweeking.
Pre-pandemic, we went to the movie almost ever week on Mondays, as it was "old folks day". We got the movie plus all the popcorn (which I can't eat, because of dental work), & soda that we wanted for $7. We saw a lot of movies & I really can't remember what was the last one that we saw before the pandemic.
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