Pam in Colorado wrote:
Linda, I have not been able to lose weight in the past 14 years, ever since I got pregnant with my 13 year old. Starting Monday, my dh and I are going to be eliminating all grains, sugar, dairy, legumes, white potatoes, rice (a grain also I know) and going veges, fruits, and good meats, eggs, ocassionally nuts (no peanuts) and seeds. I will follow this for 30 days and then see if I want to continue with this way of eating. I have a feeling I will.
I need to give my body a chance to detox and heal. Grains and legumes really make me not feel well at all. Any milk other than raw milk makes me sick, as does icecream. So, I'm taking it all out and going to see how that all goes. If I start feeling better and perhaps losing some weight, then I'll see if I can add back in some cheese, yogurt and sour cream as I LOVE them, but willing to let them go altogether if I feel better and can get to a healthy weight again.
I am also going to start riding my stationary bike and may be buying my oldest daughter's treadmill so that I can get some exercise over the winter. I am determined to start stretching first to see if I can get my body loosened up. I'm tired of being tired, tight, and too fat!!!
I am going to be keeping a daily log for the 30 days of what I'm eating, how I'm feeling and will weigh at the beginning and end of the 30 days. No weighing in between!!!
I am totally in agreement of eating only when hungry, and only until the hungery feeling is gone. No eating until full. Not that I follow that, but totally believe in it and will be using that as a gauge over the 30 days as well.
What you're planning to do sounds somwhat like what I'm trying to do, I do feel better when I don't eat certain types of food, also I've found that when I am able to eat fresh foods I feel even better, (by fresh I mean out of the garden) I want to plant a better garden this coming year and I am hoping we will be able to get a couple of hoes at least (it will make weeding a lot easier)
Cutting out the foods you mentioned along with portion sizes, water and exercise will probably make you feel a lot better, but it may take longer than thirty days.
Something else we've cut out almost completely is anything in storebought cans. for a couple of reasons one we can't seem to find a can-opener that stays working more than a couple of weeks which is very frusterating, plus since we've practically stopped eating foods that are processed into cans, we've found that we've felt better than we ate mostly canned foods. Instead of canned vegetables when we buy them we try to buy frozen or fresh.
*we wanted to can some things this year but that was not possible because we ate things as they got ripe, and we didn't have a very large garden and only just enough seemed to be ripe at any given point in time. Then some things the kids have liked to snack on like raw okra and raw beans for example, and the chocolate mint leaves, and orange mint leaves *I'd planned to make mint jelly but that didn't work out so far for this year. I don't mind the kids eating things out of the garden because I'd rather them snack on the things they were than to be snacking on breads, cookies and cakes, candies and soda's.
We've almost elimated soda's, kool-aid and sweet tea, we stopped buying orange juice due to price, we only buy it when it's on sale, the same with milk, which is making it so everyone is forced to drink more water because the stores are not really close by, and it's not in the house. The first few weeks that we stopped the flow of sugar water in here a lot of people in here were extremely cranky, plus acted like they were having withdrawals especially my oldest son. He still tries to buy soda's and sweets whenever he can, but we don't and because he isn't currently working he is not drinking as many soda's as he would otherwise, he keeps telling me about how he doesn't like the water here, (he takes after me and has never really liked water, I have just repeatedly told him that I can't help that it's all thats available and I can't do any more than that)
I think if we can continue to eat more whole foods we'll feel better, plus if we can get started on a walking routine.
I've been doing a lot of reading the past several months on the health benefits of different foods then trying to find ways we can just plant those because a lot of the foods that are supposed to be healthy for you are going to cost more than we can reasonably afford in the stores for every day or even just a couple times a week for the number of people in here.
One thing I'd like to get for next year is kiwi vines, the reason why is because I was reading kiwi fruits are good for people who have allergies and asthma, they can reduce the number of astham attacks or the severity of attacks someone has. (one of my kids has asthma, and my dh has allergies so if we can grow these and it helps it'll be a lot cheaper than doctors visits or buying the fruits in the stores.)
Then I read that cherries are good for different types of pain (I cannot afford to buy cherries every day,) so I found out you can grow cherry trees in pots so I planted a couple in some flower pots, they are not producing yet but will in a couple of years and they are healthy and grew a lot this year.)
Then blueberries are good for your heart, blood pressure, vision and digestion, (and cost a lot in the store) so when I found some very large blueberry bushes for sale for 15 dollars I got my dh to buy them, they will also grow well in pots, plus I bought a couple of smaller ones that are not yet producing but will be next year.)
Last night I read that spearmint tea is good for women who have a problem with hiristuma (sp) which I do have, so I want to get some spearmint planted specifically for that purpose, I am so sick of the excess hair it is very embarrasing to me, so if spearmint tea will work I'd like to try it. The herbal teas in the store average close to five dollars in the store which is a lot for just ten or so bags *I can't remember the exact number now but I know it's not a lot.
There are also teas that can aid in weightloss that you can grow the leaves for or roots, but some of them you have to be careful about because they can make you sick or have severe bowel problems.
Anyway, basically I'm trying to find a good reason for the things I want to plant to grow some things I want to put in containers because we don't own this property, and it will make it so we can take it with us if and when we move, other things I want to plant in the ground like a garden and hopefully kiwi's because I think they won't do as well in pots.
I'd like to be down to what I was when I got married at least, by next year sometime, and I think it's possible if I can just stay consistent and walk more, and avoid sugars, breads, pasta's, rice, and things I know make me feel tired or fat. (some foods feel heavy when I eat them, so those I want to avoid too)
Anyway thats my two cents on the matter, lol