Newbies

Ossie, Any chance you can give us a run down on King Arthur Whole Wheat flour. My wife bought some for a banana bread recipe she ran into. I used it last night as a flour coating for some chicken breasts I sauted in Olive Oil and butter. I read the package and it appears that all they do is grind the wheat and package it.

anna: Definitely. Give the goat cheese a try. I’m sure that my experiencing a lack of taste is because since I had that cold/bronchial infection….what ever it was, I don’t taste a darn thing. Everything taste, or doesn’t taste, the same. I can barely pick up distinctive odors. Everything I have read indicates that it will pass……I hope so.

Hi, BM38. Hopefully you are getting regular check-ups and care from a healthcare professional for your lipid issues. I’m sorry to say, but with your level of triglycerides, fruits are not your friend, other than those thought of as vegetables, such as zucchini. In the zucchini family are the sweet fruits with the lowest sugar content – melons; other sweet fruits in the low-medium sugar range include fresh berries and pomegranate. If you really love fruit, try eating just 1/2 portions twice per day instead of whole, and never juice.
Limiting your sugars, especially fructose (in fruits, honey, agave, non-diet soft drinks, and regular sugar, which is partly made from fructose), is as important as limiting fats and “bad” fats for your lipid profile. Recommended are brightly-colored non-starchy vegetables, especially with extra-virgin olive oil and lemon juice, nuts and seeds, whole-grain cereals such as oats and rice bran, legumes, and fresh herbs such as oregano, rosemary, and of course, garlic.

Hi, GinnerLou. For muffins, can use all of those flours if they are in combination in the proper proportieons. Quinoa is the closest to wheat flour, rice flour is the lightest with the least structure, coconut requires more moisture, but if used together in equal proportions with a small fraction being bran and an extra 1/4 cup liquid or whole egg for every 1/4 cup of coconut flour, you should be fine.

I am just piping in. Had my L hip replacement surgery on Tues 3/19. I am at at a rehab facility for a week or so. I was so pleased with my progress on our program but hospital stay and now rehab have played havoc. I am not going to quit.when I get home I will begin again. My weight was down before and when they weighed me in at the rehab I was 10 pounds up! I need to know how much the new hips weighs plus they tell me water retention and swelling are there too.to add to everything I have NO appetite. So I will begin again.

Marcia, Wow. That’s some news. I hope you are recovering well, and I know you will do great when you get home. I am so happy to hear how you are ready to get back into the swing of this program.
Much like you, I just couldn’t wait to get my feet wet again. My body can tell the difference. I don’t need any pain meds for my arthritis when I am on this program and doing well. For the while that I was off of it, the pain was more intense. The good part about it all, is that I still do not need to use my walker again.
Keep up the great work and stay motivated. I admire your commitment.
Anna

Hi everyone, well not much new for me still on the healthy eating. I have also finished my hard craft working week of cleaning windows and shutters in a very big new house (along with eveything else). BEV, I thought I’d see some big change in weight with all the sweating but was so disappointed when I done a weigh in. I have gained 2 kilos, and my body still aches plus my ankles have swollen up, oh the joys. My headaches have been getting better and then worse again all week so a wee visit to the doctors tomorrow 🙁 it gets me down because they don’t have appointments so you just go and wait which is usually over 2 hours, then I have to try and translate my problems into Italian…ha ha not easy for me. But the headaches and ankles need seeing and can’t put it of anymore.
Great to see you back on and so positive ANNA. 🙂
MARCIA, hope your feeling better, it won’t be long to your back in the swing of things but in the mean time you take it real easy.
APENSA, just been reading back old post and forgot to say I also thought it was strange getting emails from TRIM DOWN promoting slimming pills when this is a healthy eating plan, but everyone to their own and at least it gave a full money back guarantee if you bought the pills and didn’t find them helpful. Have you noticed an increase in weight loss KATIE, as I think you said you were trying them out.
BEV, hope you had a good weekend with your family, are you managing any walking or have you put exercise on hold for a bit?
RADISSON..hope your enjoying your holiday in Florida, walks in the sun.
GINNERLOU..what flour did you use for the muffins. How did they turn out?
I can only find kamut flour or rice flour here. So if anyone know which recipes have these please could you let me know. Last week I came across a health shop in town, it’s been there longer than I have so was shocked I’ve never seen it before. It had Kamut crossiants but with the weight gain, I gave that a miss and just got whole grain bread…still not sure if its SWG, but they told me it’s 100% whole grain which is better than nothing. It was fun looking round the shop because I’m sure a lot of the stuff is on our food list, just need to take some time to look at the menu again and translate the items before I go shopping again.
Well till next time. take care &..happy healthy eating all

Ossie, or anyone: Can you tell me where I would find a rundown on the different salts and which, if there is any difference, is the best……..salt, sea salt, kosher salt, epsom salt….just kidding. I can’t seem to find my answer in the publications. It seems to me that salt…..NaCl…is NaCl…..isn’t it?

Morning cruisers….thought I better sit here for a tic and chat to you all!!! Read through all the comments earlier, and went back to bed to see if I could catch some more zzzz’s…I think I got a few, which is great, but the phone rang and I flew off the bed in shock..well, you guys would know how that leaves you!!! Lol…every little nerve-ending goes into shock!!! Lol….
MARCIA….good that your op is over and done with…I guess things will only get better now, once you can start the program all over again…all the best!
ANNA…good to see you on board again love….hope you get more of those restful nights, and you can hide that walker and the arthritis meds in a dark cupboard somewhere mate.
JACKIE….I am glad you are getting those headaches sorted love…and now the cankles!!! I am sure that will be a fluid build-up. I get that from doing too much on my sore foot. I haven’t been out walking lately…I should but I am probably being over-cautious so I don’t get any tireder!!! I am getting better nights with this mask, but still very tired….just sick of being like it! And sick of not bouncing all over the town like I normally am….and poor old Bill has to put up with “grumpy Bev”…not good. This week I will be changing to a little nasal mask…hopefully, that will be even better than this little one.
We have had Rani’s 35th birthday over the weekend….ate pizzas, and a little slice of cake, a gorgeous chocolate “Drumstick” icecream (I am sure you all will know them if you see them, but will have different names in different counties. In NZ they called them “Trumpets”, which was very confusing for them and us when we tried to buy them the first time…Bill asked for nine as we all waited in the nice warm van….and the shop assistant went and got him a bag of frozen “chicken legs”…he took so long the kids and I joined him inside, to find all this confusion. The kids found them for them….and they thought we were crazy Aussies!!! It was a great laugh from all..lol..). Anyway, with all that bad stuff, I have actually lost some today! As they say, it is nice to be naughty…sometimes!!! Lol.
HOLIDAYMAKERS – KATIE, RADDISON…hope you are having a fantastic time!
PPEDDLE…has the snow dissapppeard yet?
Well, must be off…got some work to do…going to paint a bedroom this weekend, so got a clean up to do first!
Gonna love you and leave you all….see you on deck later…Bev.