From HealthDay News. Hey, hey we're the monkeys...with caloric restriction.
When someone comes up with a scale that measures calories, I'll start measuring them--until then, I feel I do enough weighing, measuring, and sub-dividing in the kitchen as it is. This would be like taking it to a microscopic level.
UPDATE: I just found this--CRON (Calorie Restriction with Optimal Nutrition) and Easy CRON.
It's not like I eat junk food or heavily-caloried foods, or anything. From all that I've learned over the years, vegetation is the least-caloried food, and the more you eat, the less you have to worry about it. But then, there's that pesky meat and dairy...most protein, most cholesterol-forming, most caloric (other than fat itself), and hard to get a meat-and-cheese-lover husband to cut back his daily intake. Besides, they're about the only protein sources he ISN'T allergic to!
This is why we eat a truckload of veggies every week to offset our meat intake...but then, there's the output.
I sense a discussion this afternoon when Hubby comes home.
On another note: who needs health care when (once again) food can be your medicine?
Friday, July 10, 2009
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I don't worry too much about all the dairy, butter, meat and other fatty foods. We eat all raw dairy (make our own butter & cheese) and eat pastured dairy, eggs and poultry from a local farm. We just try to eat a little less of it to help offset the cost.
We decided last year to go local and to nix all processed foods from our diets. Since then we've both lost around 10 pounds (and we're not heavy to begin with) we're much healthier as well, I attribute it to home-grown and local produce and all organice pastured protein.
The way I look at it is: garbage in/garbage out. Good healthy food = healthy people! I'll do without a lot of other things in my life that I don't need (cable, cell phone, new clothes) in order to buy good quality healthy food for us.
Amen, sister! We're having great emotional difficulty with cutting the cable, but we've found a cheaper solution: a digital converter, digital rabbit ears, and the internet.
Most local stuff can be picked up via the rabbit ears, and the basic cable stuff is mostly on the web for free viewing.
...and just in time for Michael Jackson's Kennedy-esque media splash! Judging by the wall-to-wall coverage, you'd think he was a head of state or something!
My eldest diabetic cat died about a month ago, so there's 1/3 batch of cat food I no longer have to make, along with one batch of meds, and extra bucket of cat litter I no longer have to buy. The survivor cats seem to eat less, and therefore, go less--it's eerie.
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