Gah my grandmom bought like 10lbs of easter candy because it was cheap. She does stuff like this all the time, gets a craving or sees something "cheap", buys tons of it and 90% of it gets thrown out.
This is why I have to have an F it attitude towards wasted food.

I have a hard time with the wasted food thing too but lucky for me candy does not fall into that category! :) I am throwing that stuff out all of the time cause my kids bring home bags of it for Valentine's Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween and then Christmas...but I think they actually get to eat all of the Christmas goodies, lol. Every other holiday though, it ends up in the trash. It's done tactically, we put it up, dole out a bit for a few days, they forget about it and then to the trash it goes. Yes, let your conscience be clear- candy is not food!

I have been doing pretty good on the weekdays with my eating, raisin bran, oatmeal, salads but the weekends I am not doing so well on :-/ bacon is my downfall. I thibk I only excercised once this week...I do a morning routine so if j sleep in I miss it. My job can be really physical but it is mostly just heavy lifting throughout the day and other than that I am doing customer service and doing paperwork. There is a local gym with a low membership fee that I thought of joining but I'm not sure how realistic that is for me because of my child care needs. Do you ladies have 'excercised routines' you do?...

It's not just candy, it's everything. It would be extremely easy to gain hundreds of lbs in my house. The waste really bothers me, we could have better quality food for the same money.

She wanted a coffee drink, so she bought a case of those starbucks frappachino things from Sams, drank 1, threw out 9 after they took up fridge space for 3 months.
She went to the meat store, there was a sale on ribs, so she bought 5. She's the only one who eats ribs, I can't eat them, they make me sick. I'm just glad we have a chest freezer.

As a child I was expected to be able to lose weight and maintain the loss with tons of soda, ice cream, candy, cookies, pasta, etc in the house. Few adults can do that, much less a 10 year old.

I've gotten to the point where most things don't really tempt me, but it's not always easy.


I don't have any advice for exercise except it might be worth buying a stationary bike or a treadmill, assuming you have the room.

Does your grandma live with you? It's harder when you have more people living in the house. Either everyone has to be on board or the person dieting has to have crazy will power. Luckily for me I don't see candy as a temptation. Even as a kid. My dad has a crazy sweet tooth and we always had easy access to sweets, chocolate and ice cream especially. So I became "meh" about it. Salt on the other hand.... my mom has high blood pressure which I thought was something heavier people got. Not so. My mom is 4'11" and 95 lbs. Her doctor always told her to cut back on salt. So needless to say, I hated her cooking. My brother and I were so craving salt all the time we would take the salt shaker into the closet and shake salt into our palms and eat it just like that. Even now, salt is my weakness. Though I know when something is TOO salty. Her cooking was just plain bland.

I don't have an exercise routine. I only walk the dogs and in the summer I swim. I hate gyms. I get anxiety in there. And most of the people annoy me. We have season passes to the water park here and we go in the wave pool. When the waves are on, I run in against the waves, or hold myself up on an inner tube and do sort of like leg lifts against the current. Then when the waves are off (I think for five mins) tread water the whole time.

Wondering why ribs make you sick? Is it bc too much fat on them? If you cook them long enough most of the fat renders off.

Eek! That's terrible :(

I have a yoga mat and some relatively light pink weights, I typically excercise for about a half hour...I want to say three days a week but I don't think that's true lately. I would love to go to a gym for the focus I would get to have on one task with all the tools to support me- but realistically, I would only get to go once on the weekend and I am just not sure I am able to commit, same with a class- I would love to take an adult ballet class! But the time commitment...eh, idk. We don't really have the space for excercise equipment, I would love to put up an outdoor 'shed' of sorts as an excercise room but that is indeed a pipe dream at this time too :) putting in a walking path might be an option we could do with our space.

Fatty foods are my weakness, typically I could walk by sweets without blinking but fried chicken on the other hand, or a pepperoni stick...danger! Swimming is super fun, my kids are getting older so I am passing the stage of being a milk producing baby manager and could maybe start thinking about venturing a few feet away :) I have actually never been to a gym so I don't know how I would feel in one...

Yeah my mom and I live with my grandmom, the temptations don't bother me as much now, but it was awful and mean to do to me as a kid. I probably would have been able to become very meh about the junk, if there had been alternatives to eat.

The only thing that really tempts me now are homemade baked goods, and we still have those way too often and my grandmom insists on making way too much.

I can see how having something forbidden would make it as hard to resist as having something in excess. Some of the low sodium salts really taste the same as regular salt, I've used it at other people's houses without knowing and I'm generally very aware of fake tasting things.

Idk why ribs make me sick, my grandmom cooks them in the oven sitting in bbq sauce. I can eat pork chops cooked the same way without a problem.

Pork chops are very lean compared to ribs. And the fat on chops are easily cut away. In the ribs it's almost like they are in the tissue. Yeah but I feel for you. It's hard when other people are in the house. Esp if it's your mom and Grama. Like if you don't eat their food they get all butt hurt. LOL

What is low sodium salt? I've been using sea salts for a few years and it's WAY more salty than regular Morton table salt so you use less and it has nutrients unlike table salt.

OMG along wit salt is carbs!!! You know how people ask what you'd pick if you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life? Mine is bread and butter. Doesn't even have to be GOOD bread.

Actually they don't get offended, it's mostly harder from a money/energy/time POV. My mom and I only really argue when she wants me to bake something and I tell her no, we have enough junk already or when she buys me stuff like donuts.
They get mad at me sometimes with Lola though, it took a few major fights to get my mom to switch from a handful of buddy biscuits to a handful of green beans for her nightly treat. Lola is just as happy with the green beans.

Low sodium salt is potassium instead of sodium, my mom's bf has high bp and he used to use nu salt, we didn't know until my mom filled the salt shaker one day. It doesn't have any iodine in it though. There are other reduced sodium salts with a mix of sodium and potassium.
http://ketoreview.com/wp-content/upl...05/nusaltn.png
Some people also use it to make a DIY gatorade, salt + nu salt + flavoring. I'm going to try it because hydration is a problem with one of my meds.

At least they don't get offended. My MIL is a really good cook but sometimes we just don't feel like eating. It's like she ripped out her heart. LOL And she cooks a lot at once!

I'm glad to hear they changed over to green beans vs treats. The dogs are happy with anything really.

Have you guys head of Nutritional Yeast? Apparently it's a cheese substitute and dairy free.

https://www.yahoo.com/food/nutrition...217448104.html

I've heard of nutritonal yeast but I've never tried it.

What do you guys usually eat?

Here are some of my usuals:
Cottage cheese with banana & peanut butter powder sprinkled on it
Greek yogurt, 1/2 flavored mixed with 1/2 plain
Cottage cheese with tomato
Eggs with spinach, mushrooms and feta, or whatever I have
Cucumber, tomatoes, avocado, and mushrooms with catalina dressing
Cucumber with kraft mango chipotle dressing
Quinoa salad with corn, black beans, mango (recipe from skinny taste)
Quinoa salad with cucumber, tomato, olives, and feta (skinny taste)
Spanish rice, chicken, cheese, greek yogurt
Broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots
Ham lunch meat roll ups with chicken and avocado
Chicken with veggie cream cheese or tropical pepper co mango coconut sauce
Skinny pop popcorn
Tuna mixed with avocado on cucumbers

I have less healthy regulars too, but I eat these things a lot. Basically I eat a lot of chicken and eggs.

We usually will buy a large hunk of meat and use that for the two of us for the week. Mostly will buy pork butt, swai fillets, chicken (either market rotisserie or thigh/legs), and once in a while a whole chuck roast. We buy mostly from the asian or mexican market bc their prices are way cheaper. I love pork butt bc it's very tender. Sometimes I will get the ones with the skin and fat still on and make a faux pork belly but it's much cheaper. Last week I made carnitas. The chuck I will portion out and sometimes cook it as kabobs, or gyu don, or sometimes just as steaks. Chicken if it's not rotisserie I brine them and pan fry and it's so good with crispy skin. That I serve it hainan style but pan fried instead of poached. Much better texture.

For breakfast we always have eggs. Sometimes it will be a breakfast sandwich with ham, cheese, mayo and pesto. Or breakfast burritos with what ever meat we have and eggs, cotija cheese, refried beans. Or omelette with the same ingredients.

Between breakfast and lunch we will have a shake. Banana, apple, carrot, celery, orange, ginger, flax meal, greek yogurt, kombucha, frozen berries.

Lunch will be one of the above mentioned meats. I will make something veggie to go with it. I like chinese broccoli. It's very cheap, cooks up super fast, and I like the texture and slightly bitter taste.

Snacks I always have pickled stuff in the fridge that I fermented myself so I get the probiotics.

My bad habit is I like to drink. We usually have 2 rum drinks each night. Sometimes I don't eat dinner (rare though). But when I do, it's small. Our meals are largest in the morning and get smaller and smaller. When I do eat dinner, it's just a smaller version of lunch.

Some of my favorite healthy snacks:
sunomomo: sliced cucumber with red onion in rice vinegar, sesame seeds and a touch of sugar (can also sub Mirin)
tsukemono: another jap salad, fermented cabbage with carrot and seaweed
esquite: mexican corn with cotija, mayo (sub in greek yogurt), hot sauce
ceviche, which I make with the swai, with avocado
carrot sticks with homemade hummus or tzatziki
tabouli: parsley, quinoa, tomato, onion, cucumber, lemon, salt (or sub olives), oil

Honestly we try to eat semi healthy at home, but since we are in Vegas we do eat at buffets about maybe 2 or 3 times a month. I try to stick to my rule to only eat seafood and veggies at buffets. Except for a bowl of menudo. I can't resist that stuff.

The meat stuff doesn't seem all that healthy but our portions aren't that large. I used to shy away from carbs but now eating on a budget, the carbs help fill us up, and we try to eat wheat. My weakness is rice and noodles. What can I say? I'm Asian LOL

Good thing is I'm not into sweets.

Lol I had to google a lot of the things you mentioned. My family is very against trying new things so I didn't even get to try Chinese food, Mexican food, or even yogurt until I was a teenager. I still can't try a lot because my stomach is pretty bad, that's why my food is usually bland and I'm careful about fats.

They just opened a south asian market near me, I'm anxious to check it out.

I'm your opposite, I like sweets but I'm not really into alcohol, I like it but it's a waste of money IMO and it makes me dizzy.