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Originally Posted by Nancy LC
Looking good! Did you do anything different to get higher HDL? More exercise?
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I'm trying to think and honestly I can't say my diet and lifestyle changed
tremendously.
I tend to go on exercise kicks, but even in the begining I went through those. The last kick I was on was a few months ago and it was pretty short lived. I do walk more than I used to, and I walk very long durations when I do. But then again I do much less treadmill work too.
Diet wise, I can think of very little that's changed. I eat more cals than I used to. Before I rarely ever used dressings with "calories" now I use quality fat based light dressings (they are ken's brand, which are reduced calorie higher quality fat (olive & canola) based dressings with low sugar... not fat free garbage dressings).
Even though I eat more cals than I used to, I use more reduced fat products. Before I would use a very small amount of full fat, now I use full portions of reduced fat... in the end it works out that I am eating more.
Another increase in cals came from eating much more nuts particularly almonds, walnuts, and peanuts. I eat nuts like regular people eat starch. Like for example, today I ate 3 oz of peanuts, a teaspoon of pb & half an ounce walnuts so far. That's an extreme example (my nut/legume consumption usually runs 1-2 oz) but just wanted to illustrate nuts & non-starchy legumes are a big part of my diet. I also have been eating lots of berries. But I've been eating lots of nuts and berries for a long time (after the first result, before the second).
I eat eggs very often, and I typically consume one avocado a week.
Red meat consumption has stayed the same. Oh BTW I eat lots of meat and love it. I haven't had much meat these past few days due to empty fridge syndrome, and I feel really longing for it.
The most common meat I eat is chicken, followed by beef, and then fish, and in last is pork. I also am quite fond of lamb and other seafood products (scallops, shrimp, crab, lobster, etc) but it's rarely consumed.
I love chicken skin, and always eat it. I also love chicken marrow, and eat a lot of chicken bones. Wings are my friend. My fav parts are the tail, the crispy skin around the "cavity", and the wing tip. I throw out the gross "yellow fat" on the inside though. Even though thigh meat is delicious it often has too much yellow fat and turns me off.
I eat beef fat too but not as much as chicken fat, because the type of fat in beef tends to be that soft storage fat that I hate with chicken. I stick mainly to the crispy beef fat which is delicious, throwing away the rest.
I eat just as much fish as always, which is several times per month. Usually it is salmon (and I am a glutton for the buttery fat & skin :yum
or sardines (love em) but also I am partial to a nice cold tuna pita sandwich with low cal mayo (now that I"ve found these awesome 3 carb/40 cal per half pitas).
I also eat a TON of cheese, and like nuts cheese fills the starch void for me. I eat cheese with almost every meal, I feel weird if my meal has no cheese at all
. The cheese usually comes on my veggies. Most often it's reduced fat cheese but I also eat full fat but less often. The only fat free cheese I eat is cream cheese and that's because I view cream cheese as not a real cheese (it's more like a "fun food" and a poor nutritional choice, like say butter and oils... the fat free actually has a more concentrated source of nutrition than full or reduced). I eat other dairy like sour cream, and very small amounts of real milk (but it does not agree with me and tends to mess up my blood sugar).
Veggies, I usually eat at least one big salad a day. I eat lots of carrots as snacks. Avocado, tomatoes, onions, romaine, carrots, bell peppers, cucumber, broccoli, salsa and ketchup (sugar free) are staples. I also eat a lot of spinach asparagus mushrooms but less frequently than others.
I've been eating a lot more low starch grain products (wraps, pitas, bread) and consume an average of 2 every 3 days maybe. I also eat at least 1 serving of LC diet food (cereal, bar, etc) every day.
WAY MORE INFO than you wanted to know but there you go