MOUGHI's Aug 2008 CalorieKing Blog
TVP: Textured Vegetable Protein
Friday, August 29th 2008
The other day I was in Whole Foods picking up some dried cranberries in order to make my dried cranberry/cereal/toast almond mix for after work out pick me ups when I noticed a lady getting this weird looking stuff from one of the bins. So, I asked her what it was and what it was used for. It turned out to be soy protein or other wise known as Textured Vegetable Protein. Now vegetarians might be more familiar with this product as this lady was one and used it a lot in her diet. You can use it a...
back to the basics
Tuesday, August 26th 2008
Remember when you first started your diet and everything you did seemed so strange to you ? Well, after doing those things for so long they have become second nature to me, but now is the time to make sure I haven't started to skip or change any of those things that have led to my success. Over the past few weeks I have found myself wanting to not log and not figure out my recipe calories counts because I didn't want to take the time. Huh-huh, call it what it is, diet fatigue, getting lazy, men...monday morning
Monday, August 25th 2008
It was a wonderful Sunday filled with memories and a nagging cold. Hubby and I went to my married daughter's house to check up on the newlyweds and have dinner with them. Hubby helped son in law fix a shower fixture and give him advice on some sort warranty stuff. I sharpened my daughter's kitchen knives with me Edge pro professional knife sharpener. Then we sat down to some Bison dogs I had found at Whole Foods. My son in law grilled them on his new grill he had had been given from my brother ...Biting the extra eating
Thursday, August 21st 2008
I have one bad habit that keeps biting me in the butt. It's that night time eating after all my calories are used up. Sometimes I di it because I am still hungry and other times I do it because I am just plain indulging myself. I never go over but a few hundred calories now, but just enough to ruin a good eating day. I say, I have been doing this 3 days a week now lately. I had broken this habit I thought for good, but somehow during my travels I started it all over again. I found that for some...geting new motivation
Wednesday, August 20th 2008
It is sometimes hard to motivate ones self once you reach that comfortable stage in your weight loss program. I have reached that stage where I have lost that significant amount of weight to reach all my medical goals and even my emotional goals. I even look better enough that some would say and have asked, "why go on from here. " This is a good question I have had to ask myself. Do I want to go on from here. I had to answer this question deep within me before I could continue or I wo...« Previous