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Love onions, mostly. Usually make vegetable curries starting with onion and diced potatoes. Build from there.
Because of my love of curries, I've just gotten into "microgreens" and fenugreek sprouts. Have some sprouts starting now in a jar on the window sill.
I used to weigh nearly 400 lb. With a controlled, balanced diet based on vegetables, carefully portioned protein, carbs and fats, I lost over 160 lb this past year.
To keep my vegetables exciting isn't hard. I've learned that just about anything you can do to meat you can do to vegetables. They take spices and flavorings. When I grill them, I just toss on some BBQ spices, like Weber's. Works great!
Favorite roasted vegetables are brussel sprouts and cauliflower. I roast them on the grill on a vegetable tray or put them underneath the broiler in the oven. Takes 20-40 minutes (I like them done till the outsides start turning dark and crisp). I start with them in a big bowl, 2T of canola oil, 1T turmeric, 1T paprika, and 1T black pepper. Toss that for a minute or so then dump them on the vegetable rack.
Wonderful!
Because of my love of curries, I've just gotten into "microgreens" and fenugreek sprouts. Have some sprouts starting now in a jar on the window sill.
I used to weigh nearly 400 lb. With a controlled, balanced diet based on vegetables, carefully portioned protein, carbs and fats, I lost over 160 lb this past year.
To keep my vegetables exciting isn't hard. I've learned that just about anything you can do to meat you can do to vegetables. They take spices and flavorings. When I grill them, I just toss on some BBQ spices, like Weber's. Works great!
Favorite roasted vegetables are brussel sprouts and cauliflower. I roast them on the grill on a vegetable tray or put them underneath the broiler in the oven. Takes 20-40 minutes (I like them done till the outsides start turning dark and crisp). I start with them in a big bowl, 2T of canola oil, 1T turmeric, 1T paprika, and 1T black pepper. Toss that for a minute or so then dump them on the vegetable rack.
Wonderful!
Oh, and when do I eat them? I have 15 g of potato in the morning, often with 1/2 a tomato. Goes well with my eggs and coffee.
I have at least 2 c of vegetables in my curry at lunch. I have another min. 2 c of vegetables at supper. If for some reason I get hungry (I usually avoid disturbing my "hunger cues" outside of timed snacks), I will eat cucumber or some celery. But usually I stick it out, swinging from hunger cue to hunger cue. Routine.
I didn't invent this for myself. It's part of a lifestyle change I enrolled in started by the hospital system here: Profile by Sanford.
I had been an insulin-dependent, insulin-resistant Type II diabetic for more than a decade. I had a Medtronic pump pushing in 170 units a day, usually without enough effect. A1Cs stayed up at 10+. (For those who are unfamiliar, non-diabetic "normal" range is 4.0 - 6.0).
In May my dosage was so low that I turned my pump off. My A1Cs are around 5.5 (the one in May and the one before that). I am not on any insulin nor any drugs, such as Metformin. None. Just my vegetable-based diet and my fitness routine. I test daily and manage to stay at BGLs of high 90s, low 100s, since my carbs are so controlled in portion size and frequency that I eat them (six times a day).
Considering that I have hearing damage, kidney damage, and can't feel the soles of my feet except for the diabetic burning (constant), this is a HUGE difference, to be this controlled now.
Current weight is 225, and I'm going to stick between that and 220. I could go lower than that, I think, but people are saying I'm too thin-looking now. Me, I feel fine! (6' 3", large-framed Slavic/German body, big shoulders, 47" chest ... so 225... not bad, I think). Went from size 48/50 pants down to 34. I don't think my hip bones are going to let me go lower than that. I'm switching to a maintenance routine (from my reduction routine).
I was obese since birth. I am now 50 lb lighter and three pant sizes smaller than when I was 18 (I graduated weight about 280). My family has never seen me this fit. I could not have imagined it. I didn't think this was possible.
Eat chur veggies, fellas! They really are that good for you!
I have at least 2 c of vegetables in my curry at lunch. I have another min. 2 c of vegetables at supper. If for some reason I get hungry (I usually avoid disturbing my "hunger cues" outside of timed snacks), I will eat cucumber or some celery. But usually I stick it out, swinging from hunger cue to hunger cue. Routine.
I didn't invent this for myself. It's part of a lifestyle change I enrolled in started by the hospital system here: Profile by Sanford.
I had been an insulin-dependent, insulin-resistant Type II diabetic for more than a decade. I had a Medtronic pump pushing in 170 units a day, usually without enough effect. A1Cs stayed up at 10+. (For those who are unfamiliar, non-diabetic "normal" range is 4.0 - 6.0).
In May my dosage was so low that I turned my pump off. My A1Cs are around 5.5 (the one in May and the one before that). I am not on any insulin nor any drugs, such as Metformin. None. Just my vegetable-based diet and my fitness routine. I test daily and manage to stay at BGLs of high 90s, low 100s, since my carbs are so controlled in portion size and frequency that I eat them (six times a day).
Considering that I have hearing damage, kidney damage, and can't feel the soles of my feet except for the diabetic burning (constant), this is a HUGE difference, to be this controlled now.
Current weight is 225, and I'm going to stick between that and 220. I could go lower than that, I think, but people are saying I'm too thin-looking now. Me, I feel fine! (6' 3", large-framed Slavic/German body, big shoulders, 47" chest ... so 225... not bad, I think). Went from size 48/50 pants down to 34. I don't think my hip bones are going to let me go lower than that. I'm switching to a maintenance routine (from my reduction routine).
I was obese since birth. I am now 50 lb lighter and three pant sizes smaller than when I was 18 (I graduated weight about 280). My family has never seen me this fit. I could not have imagined it. I didn't think this was possible.
Eat chur veggies, fellas! They really are that good for you!
That graduating weight was significant to me, because that was my "fit" weight, the weight I played lineman at on a championship team. Soon after that I was 325, and I never went that low (325) again for the next 30+ years. I would have been happy to "get down to" 340 again.
Vegetables!!!!!!! (Who knew?)
Vegetables!!!!!!! (Who knew?)
12pups- Congratulations, man, that is a real feat. And your veggie recipes are appreciated. I am just starting to grill veggies.
I have a rough history with fruits and vegetables. I much prefer a meat, cheese, and beer based diet. The older I get, the more I make a concerted effort to eat right. I really enjoy fresh spinach and grilled eggplant, but everything else I have to force down.
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