Cutting down on calories
I'm making efforts to finally get my bad eating habits back under control which I had fallen into in the last few years while life was rough.
My overall health and my weak muscles have not been not happy lately about the 20 - 30 kg of excess body fat that all the overeating for pleasure and comfort has accumulated.
Food isn't an easy task with a broken body that only manage to burn about 1100 kcal per day and also can't handle certain fermentable sugars without great pain, but maybe I'm finally figuring out a decent diet plan for myself now.
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To improve my soluble fiber intake, breakfast is currently a 65g dry portion of rolled oats cooked up into a porridge with water, milk, blueberries, and liquid sweetener. It's good stuff, especially with the cooked blueberries spilling into it like a berry sauce.
...And as main dish I've been assembling this. (No, that's not a cheese sauce.)
It's chicken breast, bell pepper, zucchini and eggplant, seasoned with black pepper and a grilled chicken seasoning mix.
Then a simple sauce made with water, cream, Maggi liquid seasoning, and sauce binder. Topped off with cayenne pepper to punch it up a bit.
Turns out quite nice really. I might ditch the eggplant though for more zucchini in the future, because I've read now that eggplant doesn't have a whole lot of nutrients in it anyway.
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So far I've been good at sticking to my new meal plan and I haven't needed to fight overeating urges too much.
I will avoid buying snackable foods, because I know that I lost control too much with those. I don't have the discipline right now that I used to have back in 2016, when I had managed to fix my eating before.
If I do snack now, it's only kiwis and mandarin oranges to keep it light and to add more fiber to my diet.
Movement has been extra unpleasantly lately, so hopefully I can recover some muscle strength with light workouts soon as well.
Life in this chronically ill body is bad enough without adding other problems onto it, and I would like to get a couple more decent decades out of this body.
Cutting down on calories
I'm making efforts to finally get my bad eating habits back under control which I had fallen into in the last few years while life was rough.
My overall health and my weak muscles have not been not happy lately about the 20 - 30 kg of excess body fat that all the overeating for pleasure and comfort has accumulated.
Food isn't an easy task with a broken body that only manage to burn about 1100 kcal per day and also can't handle certain fermentable sugars without great pain, but maybe I'm finally figuring out a decent diet plan for myself now.
-
To improve my soluble fiber intake, breakfast is currently a 65g dry portion of rolled oats cooked up into a porridge with water, milk, blueberries, and liquid sweetener. It's good stuff, especially with the cooked blueberries spilling into it like a berry sauce.
...And as main dish I've been assembling this. (No, that's not a cheese sauce.)
It's chicken breast, bell pepper, zucchini and eggplant, seasoned with black pepper and a grilled chicken seasoning mix.
Then a simple sauce made with water, cream, Maggi liquid seasoning, and sauce binder. Topped off with cayenne pepper to punch it up a bit.
Turns out quite nice really. I might ditch the eggplant though for more zucchini in the future, because I've read now that eggplant doesn't have a whole lot of nutrients in it anyway.
-
So far I've been good at sticking to my new meal plan and I haven't needed to fight overeating urges too much.
I will avoid buying snackable foods, because I know that I lost control too much with those. I don't have the discipline right now that I used to have back in 2016, when I had managed to fix my eating before.
If I do snack now, it's only kiwis and mandarin oranges to keep it light and to add more fiber to my diet.
Movement has been extra unpleasantly lately, so hopefully I can recover some muscle strength with light workouts soon as well.
Life in this chronically ill body is bad enough without adding other problems onto it, and I would like to get a couple more decent decades out of this body.