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Getting rid of belly fat!!
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Great peanut butter option (in my opinion) is PB2 http://www.bellplantation.com/
If you want it sweeter – a little Stevia, liquid or otherwise goes a LONG way. I also like cooking with small quantities of simple oils – pressed usually, not overly processed.
Tastes change as we age, as well as what we force ourselves to adjust to. As a kid I loved Pixie stix, now I gag if I have to look at them. Things I also used to hate: broccoli, tomato, spinach. I eat all of those things on a regular basis now. Salsa makes a great replacement condiment (I do homemade). Vinegar has also become a favorite salad dressing. You never really know what you'll like unless you keep trying things.
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I am one who ALWAYS hated peanut butter when I was a kid. I now have a vitamix and make my own natty PB and I LOVE it. My big problem now is finding peanuts without added sugar and salt. Yeah, plain old peanuts in the jar. This is the ingredient list from Planters Dry Roasted peanuts: Ingredients: PEANUTS, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SEA SALT, SPICES (CONTAINS CELERY), DRIED ONION, DRIED GARLIC, PAPRIKA, NATURAL FLAVOR, SUGAR, GELATIN, TORULA YEAST, CORNSTARCH, DRIED CORN SYRUP, MALTODEXTRIN.
It drives me BATTY trying to find them without the added crap and usually when I do they are more expensive.
We have to remember that science is constantly growing and there is so much mis-information out there that was in some study posted years ago and is now taken as gospel even though the original study proved to be false. How many of you have even really read a study, not the condensed version that some journalist or Mercola or Dr Oz read and interpreted? AG and I were just discussing the other night the original study about resveratol and how we now know the original study was falsified. So much is based on "well we saw this in mouse/rat studies" but only a small fraction of that actually translates into humans. We all know that saccharine causes cancer right? It says right there on the label (oops, it used to, I guess it no longer does as it is declassified as carcinogenic). Do you have ANY idea how much they fed those lab mice for them to get tumors (I can't recall off the top of my head but it was some ridiculous amount)? On top of it they got a bladder cancer that I do not think exists in humans. I guess what I am trying to say is that if you base your nutrition knowledge on something you learned even 5 years ago most likely that information is no longer valid.
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Eh, my position is, if there are plenty of other healthy foods that I like and am eating regularly, it's not gonna kill me if I can't switch to skim milk or natural PB. (Soy is a bad idea for me because of my thyroid – I was born with hypothyroidism, and large amounts of soy can further suppress an underactive thyroid.)
I'm willing to go through the adjustment period for some things. When I was on the South Beach diet a few years ago, I made the effort to find a way to like eggs, because they were so much part of the diet in the first phases. But I don't feel I have to make myself do that for everything – nor should I feel guilty that I prefer 2% milk or processed peanut butter to the alternatives.
For as stubborn as I can be, my husband is so much worse. There are some healthy things I like and would want to eat regularly, like whole-wheat pasta and whole-grain, high-fiber bread, but he won't go near the stuff. Convincing him to try it long enough to get through the adjustment period is pulling teeth; we've been together 10 years, I know better by now than to even try it.
So that means if I want the healthy stuff, I have to buy double the quantity, so I can get the stuff he will eat too. And for things like pasta, I even have to cook it separately. Even if I got to the point where I liked natural PB, if I bought it for myself and a jar of Jif to keep him happy… I'd have a hell of a hard time keeping my paws out of the Jif.
Of course, he is one of those people who, as soon as he starts exercising, drops weight like crazy regardless of the nutritional content of his food, so he doesn't have a lot of personal motivation to WANT to make healthier food choices, because he doesn't really have to do that to reach his goals. It's frustrating, but I'm not going to force him to eat foods he doesn't like, or spend double the amount on food (more than double – healthy food is so expensive!).
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Pankake! You just wrote my life story with eating healthy with my partner of 6 years!!!!
Its always double for my grocery bill. Anything green? Forget it unless its drenched in ranch. Drops like 10 pounds in 3 weeks…
Frustrating. I have been making adjustments by cutting my portions and he has compromised a little… But not enough, just have to keep on pushing lol -
Haha AZ, seems we have a lot in common. 😉
My husband loves ranch too! Luckily he does like most fruits and vegetables, one of his favorite snacks is celery or cucumber with cottage cheese (though he'll eat a whole tub of the stuff at once – he's a big guy and obviously can handle more calories in a day than I can, but when he does that, I'm just like https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_eek.gif). And I've gotten him to try and like a few new veggies, like acorn squash and sweet potatoes. But there are several veggies he doesn't like that I do, like zucchini, yellow crookneck squash and eggplant, and no matter what the condiments, he won't eat 'em.
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I believe the intention behind calling things “clean” isn’t to call other things “dirty” or meant to make the consumer feel “dirty” for not eating these “clean” things. I was under the impression clean foods, good carbs, bad carbs, whole foods, good fats/ bad fats is more meant to conotate (sp?) an effect it can be expected to have on the body. Like the so called “clean diet” isn’t about eating literally clean foods (although one should wash fruits and vegetables and take care with cross contamination) but about eating natural, minimally processed foods that will flush out the not so wonderful by-products of processed foods. (with no connotation that said process foods are “dirty” only that studies show they do leave behind by-products that can possibly contribute to negative health issues). i can easily see where one would think oh! This isn’t on the clean list! I’m such a bad person! But, this type of person should evaluate their self-worth and motivations to something more in line with a healthier acceptance of themselves, then move on to truly understanding a healthier look at the aspect of lifestyle that is the nourishing of the body. I use that term as opposed to diet because often people think the word diet and associate it with dieting as in reduced foods/calories/weight watchers/Jenny Craig/etc rather then the broad idea it truly encompasses that is, essentially, the aspect of lifestyle that is consuming sustenance to nourish the body. Which is what i was totally trying to say in the first place… The association of clean eating /dirty eating makes clean person/dirty person is totally erroneous just like the word diet. Sigh, i effing talked in a dang circle again.
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Hahaha, my man has no choice in what food he gets. He originally hated brown rice, but thats all I would make so he had to get used to it or starve! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif
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If you are from the UK you can order all natural peanut butter from http://www.myprotein.com. I hated PB most of my life, but on meeting my fella who is a healthy eating freak, I had to get over it because he eats PB every day! Anyway, brand PB is still nasty, but I don’t mind the all natural 🙂
He switched when he found out that corn syrup (I think) was REALLY bad for you and it was in most PB brands :-/ -
Sorry palm oil not corn syrup!! Dunno where I made that up from??!
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@ Chem……..That's when you start growing your own peanuts! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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Not all palm oil is bad. Read the page I posted earlier.
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Wow. I can’t believe how heated this discussion has become… I think, personal experience is a really reliable source and no one should discredit that–period. Losing weight has also been a personal journey for me. Just cutting calories brought me to a weight I could live with. In the last two years I started toning more. Now I would like to find my 6 pack under my layer of fat and have found aerial Amy’s blog to be very enlightening. http://aerialamy.com/blog/2012/09/13/pardon-have-you-seen-my-6-pack/
I have personally been eating only complex carbs (whole grains), fresh fruits and veggies (99% are raw), absolutely no processed meats, very little dairy, no soda, and more vegan meals. I am not vegan, but the meat and meat products I do eat are inserted into my meals more conciously. Not every diet is for everyone but I think it is very important to have a diet plan (meaning that we are conciously aware of the ingredients we are putting into our bodies). Eating with purpose. My grandma and mother, and grandmas on my dads side are all living with type 2 diabetes because of a lifetime of poor diet related issues. It is a very wise thing to take a closer look at how and what we are putting into our bodies. Sure there are gimmicks and companies who want to take advantage of the interest we are taking in our bodies today. But google and all of its glorious access to so many people with personal experience (who are NOT just obese) who can offer insight on what helped them. After a solid month of being no-nonsense about what I put into my body, I have seen noticeable changes in the way I look and feel. I have more definition in my muscles, I can sleep better, have more focus (I was diagnosed with adult ADD about 5 years ago)… But the scale is NOT my friend. It says my weight is rock solid and will not budge. For my height, I am on the higher side for my weight, but doing pole gives me super awesome muscles! I have decided recently to measure inches instead of measuring my weight. After 1 month of just changing the way I eat, nothing else, I look forward to seeing more positive changes in my body.
Someone I trust told me that I should not ever make sudden major changes in the way I eat. They also said that the lasting changes, in diet and exercise, are the ones that we make gradually.
And once more, no one should ever discredit another’s personal experience. There also seems to be many people in this discussion who have done their research, which takes a lot of time and interest…they also deserve a pat for doing their homework. (;
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