I can tell right off the bat that I am not eating properly. After looking at the meals all of you are preparing; I am afraid to post what I consume.
This is definitely motivation to clean-up my eating habits. Just to show how badly I need help; this is what I have consumed this morning thus far:
- Breakfast Sandwich - whole egg, whole wheat toast, tomatoes, onion, 1 slice of sharp cheddar cheese, 3 slices of hickory smoked turkey breast, 3 slices of off-the-bone ham and iceberg lettuce.
- Small Buttered Toffee Cappuccino
- Green Tea Vitamin Water & a 16 oz. bottle of SmartWater
Oh my gosh that sandwich and cappuccino sound good!
But yeah, definitely not clean eating!
This is why I feel it's very important for you to try to eat clean first before taking any further steps into what you were thinking about.
Even if you did that stuff you were thinking about, I don't think it would get your body to to your goal w/o eating clean!
And I know you must realize that some of these people are NOT eating clean (Mike Arvilla!!), but it is fun and funny for them to post up their food
It would be nice if someone was dieting for a show and posting, but if they are paying for their diet they probably couldn't post it up.
Mimi, I also want to tell you that even clean food tastes delicious! Sometimes it's hard to realize how good it can be, but when is the last time you ate an apple? Man, those are good! Somehow to me they are better when I cut it into slices but there are foods we ignore thinking others taste better....sometimes that's true and sometimes it's not.
If you were dieting for a show you would be THRILLED to have as many steamed asparagus spears as you wanted. I've been tending to roast vegetables recently tossed in a little olive or canola oil and Kosher Salt and Cracked Pepper. The flavor of roasted vegetables are one of my favorites as far as vegetables go.
Please don't be afraid to post what you consume. We can give you tips and suggestions to clean your meals up. Once you do that and you start seeing differences in your body, you are no longer going to be "impatient and frustrated" as I think you said!
In place of your sandwich maybe have 3 egg whites on Ezekiel bread (or Mestermacher broken in half to make a sandwich) if you can find it...and keep the tomatoes and onion and maybe a slice or 3 of turkey (depending on how thin it is)! That sounds good, doesn't it?
And replace that buttered toffee cappuccino w/black coffee or use stevia or something in it...sorry about that