Diet

If this is a duplicate, please accept my apologies.

I weigh 184 and am 5'7". I need to lose twenty pounds and I cannot exercise
because I'm in a wheelchair.

What is your daily calorie intake and what do you eat to keep your taste
buds interested when you've cut back on food or calories?

I eat All Bran with skim milk in the AM and at least two apples a day. I
drink four or five glasses of water a day, some decaf tea and two Metamucil
cocktails. I also take several B-Complex vitamins. I ran into some 90
calorie "garden burgers" and 230 frozen dinners. I hardly ever use salt.
Sometime I have half a sub from Subway. A dietician said that is OK.

I stopped chocolate and ice cream months ago. Fat free pudding and fruit
are my dessert, if I have any.

Do you eat soy burgers or other soy products? I can make them taste good,
if I add a little low-cal salsa or other spicy stuff.

Ideas welcome. Thanks

On Nov 16, 2:34*am, "Info" wrote:
If this is a duplicate, please accept my apologies.

I weigh 184 and am 5'7". *I need to lose twenty pounds and I cannot exercise
because I'm in a wheelchair.

What is your daily calorie intake and what do you eat to keep your taste
buds interested when you've cut back on food or calories?

I eat All Bran with skim milk in the AM and at least two apples a day. I
drink four or five glasses of water *a day, some decaf tea and two Metamucil
cocktails. *I also take several B-Complex vitamins. I ran into some 90
calorie "garden burgers" and 230 frozen dinners. *I hardly ever use salt.

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On Nov 16, 2:34 am, "Info" wrote:
If this is a duplicate, please accept my apologies.

I weigh 184 and am 5'7". I need to lose twenty pounds and I cannot
exercise
because I'm in a wheelchair.

What is your daily calorie intake and what do you eat to keep your taste
buds interested when you've cut back on food or calories?

I eat All Bran with skim milk in the AM and at least two apples a day. I
drink four or five glasses of water a day, some decaf tea and two
Metamucil
cocktails. I also take several B-Complex vitamins. I ran into some 90
calorie "garden burgers" and 230 frozen dinners. I hardly ever use salt.
Sometime I have half a sub from Subway. A dietician said that is OK.

I stopped chocolate and ice cream months ago. Fat free pudding and fruit
are my dessert, if I have any.

Do you eat soy burgers or other soy products? I can make them taste good,
if I add a little low-cal salsa or other spicy stuff.

Ideas welcome. Thanks

Hi there,

First off I wouldn't eliminate exercise altogether just because you're
in a wheel chair.

I assume you can use your arms??

If so you can easily do bicep curls, shoulder presses and an
assortment of other exercises while sitting in your wheel chair. Just
by doing some of these exercises will help you burn some extra
calories and ultimately help you lose some weight as well as increase
your lean muscle which will help increase your metabolism.

Everyone's daily caloric intake is different. However it seems that
you are on the right track in terms of eating healthy foods.

What you can do if you have a craving is to put some dark chocolate in
the freezer and when one of the cravings hit you, suck on the piece of
chocolate as if it were hard candy. This will allow you to enjoy the
chocolate for a longer period of time without indulging.

Remember everything in moderation should be key, it seems like you
have a ton of discipline at this point so don't stop and keep going!

havent tried the soy burgers, but I am a big fam of veggie and turkey
burgers...salsa's always a nice treat!

Hope that helps.

Marci Lall
http://www.marcilall.com

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The arms don't work either. They'll move, just as the legs will, but it's
fatiguing because of the disease.
http://www.charcot-marie-tooth.org/a...t/overview.php Exercise won't
work.

Does anyone have an opinion about the reliability of this websites:
http://www.calorieking.com/

Thanks

On Nov 16, 2:34*am, "Info" wrote:
If this is a duplicate, please accept my apologies.

I weigh 184 and am 5'7". *I need to lose twenty pounds and I cannot exercise
because I'm in a wheelchair.

What is your daily calorie intake and what do you eat to keep your taste
buds interested when you've cut back on food or calories?

My baseline metabolic rate is around 2200 (although I suspect it's
gone down a bit, as I've lost weight). Right now, I'm taking in
anywhere from 1000-1500 calories a day. Most days I hit 1200 pretty
consistently, but no diet is without falter.

I'm a resident undergraduate student, so my choices are unfortunately
somewhat limited, but on a average weekday:

Breakfast (~300 cal)
Generally, nothing. But if I do eat something, it's a bagel with
cream cheese & black coffee

Lunch (~500 cal)
A wrap or sandwich (anything from buffalo chicken to turkey club)
A bag of chips (generally try to stick to something in the 200 cal
range)

Occasionally, I'll opt for a 6" sub instead (turkey+green peppers).

Dinner (~600 cal)
This is my grabbag meal. I generally end up with some kind of meat/
veggie mix from an all-you-care-to-eat facility, but sometimes I opt
for two slices of pizza or something instead.

Snack (80 cal)
I chow down on a Dannon Light & Fit Yogurt. They're the best I've
found, to date. Sometimes I stir in a little granola.


I eat All Bran with skim milk in the AM and at least two apples a day. I
drink four or five glasses of water *a day, some decaf tea and two Metamucil
cocktails. *I also take several B-Complex vitamins. I ran into some 90
calorie "garden burgers" and 230 frozen dinners. *I hardly ever use salt.

On 16 nov, 02:34, "Info" wrote:
If this is a duplicate, please accept my apologies.

I weigh 184 and am 5'7". *I need to lose twenty pounds and I cannot exercise
because I'm in a wheelchair.

What is your daily calorie intake and what do you eat to keep your taste
buds interested when you've cut back on food or calories?

I eat All Bran with skim milk in the AM and at least two apples a day. I
drink four or five glasses of water *a day, some decaf tea and two Metamucil
cocktails. *I also take several B-Complex vitamins. I ran into some 90
calorie "garden burgers" and 230 frozen dinners. *I hardly ever use salt.

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On 16 nov, 02:34, "Info" wrote:
If this is a duplicate, please accept my apologies.

I weigh 184 and am 5'7". I need to lose twenty pounds and I cannot
exercise
because I'm in a wheelchair.

What is your daily calorie intake and what do you eat to keep your taste
buds interested when you've cut back on food or calories?

I eat All Bran with skim milk in the AM and at least two apples a day. I
drink four or five glasses of water a day, some decaf tea and two
Metamucil
cocktails. I also take several B-Complex vitamins. I ran into some 90
calorie "garden burgers" and 230 frozen dinners. I hardly ever use salt.
Sometime I have half a sub from Subway. A dietician said that is OK.

I stopped chocolate and ice cream months ago. Fat free pudding and fruit
are my dessert, if I have any.

Do you eat soy burgers or other soy products? I can make them taste good,
if I add a little low-cal salsa or other spicy stuff.

Ideas welcome. Thanks

I would advise you to learn to cook. And stop polluting your body with
industrial food and stuff made in a laboratory. Are your B-Complex
vitamins made from coal? If you visited the place where they produce
and saw the making from A to Z, I'm sure you would say "no thank you!"
if offered to try the pill. Extremely disturbing.

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I cooked for myself every day for 30 years and in restaurants for 5 years .
I can't any more because I can't hold a pan any longer or stand up without
support.
I have seizures and I use a machine at night so I don't stop breathing.

http://www.charcot-marie-tooth.org/a...t/overview.php

http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/

http://www.sleepapnea.org/

Info wrote:
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I cooked for myself every day for 30 years and in restaurants for 5 years .
I can't any more because I can't hold a pan any longer or stand up without
support.
I have seizures and I use a machine at night so I don't stop breathing.

http://www.charcot-marie-tooth.org/a...t/overview.php

http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/

http://www.sleepapnea.org/

Sounds like you have one of the more severe cases. I'm sorry to hear
that. Even with CPAP, the broken nights are going to exacerbate the
other problems.

Is there anyone who could cook batches of stuff for you that could then
be frozen in single portion lots? A nice variety of low fat,
calorie-counted home cooked meals that you could simply defrost and zap,
followed by fresh fruit, home-made pure fruit smoothie frozen lollies
and the like would probably be more to your taste, more filling, and a
lot better for you than factory processed foods. Frozen low fat yoghurt
deserts, fresh ones, and occasional Skinny Cow treats are permited as
well, just for fun.

If you could get together with a friend and provide recipe and
ingredients and swap those and advice for muscle power, you could both
end up with a freezer full of delicious meals and soups that would fill
you up and not bloat you with excess salt (Subway are particularly bad
for that), flood you with chemicals and what Jamie Oliver calls
'bollock-burgers' (made with 'mechanically recovered meat', or animal
sludge that is mostly fat), or are bulked out with useless stuff like
guar gum.

The Weight Watchers recipe books are full of excellent recipes that
work, and many are very good for freezing. I recently helped a friend
make a vast batch of several different soups like this for a her father
in law, and elderly gent dying of non-Hodgkinson's Lymphoma, who needed
some decent nutriton that was easy to prepare, tempting when he was
exhausted, and could be frozen in single portions that were very zappable.

I tend to batch cook soups, and some stews and casseroles. I also
freeze the 'spare' portions from 4 person recipes as there are only
three of us. It gives us a chance for a decent home cooked meal on
those days that the fibromyalgia takes over and I'm incapable of
anything remotely related to cooking.
--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

On 17 nov, 00:01, "Info" wrote:
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On 16 nov, 02:34, "Info" wrote:





If this is a duplicate, please accept my apologies.

I weigh 184 and am 5'7". I need to lose twenty pounds and I cannot
exercise
because I'm in a wheelchair.

What is your daily calorie intake and what do you eat to keep your taste
buds interested when you've cut back on food or calories?

I eat All Bran with skim milk in the AM and at least two apples a day. I
drink four or five glasses of water a day, some decaf tea and two
Metamucil
cocktails. I also take several B-Complex vitamins. I ran into some 90
calorie "garden burgers" and 230 frozen dinners. I hardly ever use salt..
Sometime I have half a sub from Subway. A dietician said that is OK.

I stopped chocolate and ice cream months ago. Fat free pudding and fruit
are my dessert, if I have any.

Do you eat soy burgers or other soy products? I can make them taste good,
if I add a little low-cal salsa or other spicy stuff.

Ideas welcome. Thanks

I would advise you to learn to cook. And stop polluting your body with
industrial food and stuff made in a laboratory. Are your B-Complex
vitamins made from coal? If you visited the place where they produce
and saw the making from A to Z, I'm sure you would say "no thank you!"
if offered to try the pill. Extremely disturbing.

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I cooked for myself every day for 30 years and in restaurants for 5 years

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On 17 nov, 00:01, "Info" wrote:
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On 16 nov, 02:34, "Info" wrote:





If this is a duplicate, please accept my apologies.

I weigh 184 and am 5'7". I need to lose twenty pounds and I cannot
exercise
because I'm in a wheelchair.

What is your daily calorie intake and what do you eat to keep your taste
buds interested when you've cut back on food or calories?

I eat All Bran with skim milk in the AM and at least two apples a day. I
drink four or five glasses of water a day, some decaf tea and two
Metamucil
cocktails. I also take several B-Complex vitamins. I ran into some 90
calorie "garden burgers" and 230 frozen dinners. I hardly ever use salt.
Sometime I have half a sub from Subway. A dietician said that is OK.

I stopped chocolate and ice cream months ago. Fat free pudding and fruit
are my dessert, if I have any.

Do you eat soy burgers or other soy products? I can make them taste
good,
if I add a little low-cal salsa or other spicy stuff.

Ideas welcome. Thanks

I would advise you to learn to cook. And stop polluting your body with
industrial food and stuff made in a laboratory. Are your B-Complex
vitamins made from coal? If you visited the place where they produce
and saw the making from A to Z, I'm sure you would say "no thank you!"
if offered to try the pill. Extremely disturbing.

--------------
I cooked for myself every day for 30 years and in restaurants for 5 years
.
I can't any more because I can't hold a pan any longer or stand up without
support.
I have seizures and I use a machine at night so I don't stop breathing.

http://www.charcot-marie-tooth.org/a...t/overview.php

http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/

http://www.sleepapnea.org/- Masquer le texte des messages précédents -

- Afficher le texte des messages précédents -

I apologize.

For Vitamin B, I've been advised to get it from *natural* yeast that
you can mix with low-fat, no sugar added, yogurt. Do you have
organisations in your area that can help you with cooking?
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Thank you, Mike. It's almost not necessary but a delight to find someone on
Usenet who
will apologize for something. I'm a little embarrassed right now. Your
response hit a nerve, last night,
and I almost ripped you a big one. Again, thank you.

My wife does all the cooking. It's healthy food and I keep the portions
small. It's breakfast and
lunch that I have to take care of.

I was eating the yogurt you mentioned, but I fell off the wagon. I'll get
bake on it, today.

I keep the carbs high because two of the drugs I take cause constipation. I
take a stool softener,
but I need to get rid of what I eat easily and the softener doesn't work
well enough.
I can still walk with a walker, but using the stove and microwave are
getting too dicey.
Early next year the stove will have become impossible. We are moving the
microwave
to put it at waist-level so I can get to it while sitting down.
I am contacting every organization that I can think of and am going to see
rehab doctors and
OT departments at several hospitals outside my HMO.

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On 16 nov, 02:34, "Info" wrote:

If this is a duplicate, please accept my apologies.

I weigh 184 and am 5'7". I need to lose twenty pounds and I cannot
exercise
because I'm in a wheelchair.

What is your daily calorie intake and what do you eat to keep your taste
buds interested when you've cut back on food or calories?

I eat All Bran with skim milk in the AM and at least two apples a day.. I
drink four or five glasses of water a day, some decaf tea and two
Metamucil
cocktails. I also take several B-Complex vitamins. I ran into some 90
calorie "garden burgers" and 230 frozen dinners. I hardly ever use salt.
Sometime I have half a sub from Subway. A dietician said that is OK.

I stopped chocolate and ice cream months ago. Fat free pudding and fruit
are my dessert, if I have any.

Do you eat soy burgers or other soy products? I can make them taste
good,
if I add a little low-cal salsa or other spicy stuff.

Ideas welcome. Thanks

I would advise you to learn to cook. And stop polluting your body with
industrial food and stuff made in a laboratory. Are your B-Complex
vitamins made from coal? If you visited the place where they produce
and saw the making from A to Z, I'm sure you would say "no thank you!"
if offered to try the pill. Extremely disturbing.

--------------
I cooked for myself every day for 30 years and in restaurants for 5 years
.
I can't any more because I can't hold a pan any longer or stand up without
support.
I have seizures and I use a machine at night so I don't stop breathing.

http://www.charcot-marie-tooth.org/a...t/overview.php

http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/

http://www.sleepapnea.org/-Masquer le texte des messages précédents -

- Afficher le texte des messages précédents -

I apologize.

For Vitamin B, I've been *advised to get it from *natural* yeast that
you can mix with low-fat, no sugar added, yogurt. Do you have
organisations in your area that can help you with cooking?
------
Thank you, Mike. *It's almost not necessary but a delight to find someone on
Usenet who
will apologize for something. *I'm a little embarrassed right now. *Your
response hit a nerve, last night,
and I almost ripped you a big one. Again, thank you.

It's all good. One the best advice I can give you is that before
trying to figure out what your menu should be that you build your menu
around veggies. Eat as much veggie you can in a day and you won't have
much have room left for anything left. I'm a steak person. I could
have it for breakfast, no problem. I cooked a large piece of it last
night, enough to feed two persons. If I had not had anything else to
eat, I would have eaten all of it, and would have been hungry an hour
later. What I did is to have a herbal tea and a huge soup of only
veggies. After that, I did not have enough space for the whole steak,
so I ate only the half of it, and kept the rest for the next day. When
it comes to weight-management, nothing beats the veggies!