The Good news and the Bad news
The good news is that I've dropped 8lbs to my pre-wedding weight with diet, exercise and tracking my calorie intake in Excel. Suh-weeeeeeeet!
The bad news is that I recently had a blood test and while my total cholesterol is well under 200, my HDL lowered, my LDL jumped up a lot as well as my triglyceride level. So even though I am eating around average of 1600 calories daily, percentage-wise I may be eating too much starches (pasta, bread, potatoes) and I am a fiend for Captain Crunch Crunch berries cereal. If with all my efforts, I had to give up what I eat now, I'd be in a real rut.
I started eating bean thread noodles (fun see) last night and it's very satisfying but I don't see myself putting marinara sauce on it anytime soon. I think I'm going to bring my spreadsheet to the doctor next time and see what he thinks at that point. For now I am making changes but I really don't want to be on an Atkins lifestyle or eat legumes (hell, I don't even know what legumes are).
Edit 2/27: Blymie! I compared the nutrition labels between the mungbean nooodles and spaghetti. It turns out that a 2oz serving of each both contain 210 calories. However, the 20z serving of spaghetti has 44g of carbs while the mungbean actually has 52g of carbs! How ironic!
The bad news is that I recently had a blood test and while my total cholesterol is well under 200, my HDL lowered, my LDL jumped up a lot as well as my triglyceride level. So even though I am eating around average of 1600 calories daily, percentage-wise I may be eating too much starches (pasta, bread, potatoes) and I am a fiend for Captain Crunch Crunch berries cereal. If with all my efforts, I had to give up what I eat now, I'd be in a real rut.
I started eating bean thread noodles (fun see) last night and it's very satisfying but I don't see myself putting marinara sauce on it anytime soon. I think I'm going to bring my spreadsheet to the doctor next time and see what he thinks at that point. For now I am making changes but I really don't want to be on an Atkins lifestyle or eat legumes (hell, I don't even know what legumes are).
Edit 2/27: Blymie! I compared the nutrition labels between the mungbean nooodles and spaghetti. It turns out that a 2oz serving of each both contain 210 calories. However, the 20z serving of spaghetti has 44g of carbs while the mungbean actually has 52g of carbs! How ironic!
posted by baconandeggs at 9:56 AM
2 Comments:
legumes are beans & nuts...soy, black, pinto, white, red, etc. maybe try to make your own chili with ground turkey and red kidney beans and other veggies, which is still quite healthy.
ah, I guess I can live with that.
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