Biffster's WeightJournal.com http://weightjournal.com Biffster's battleground since 1997 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:56:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 ©a 2003-2006 biffster@weightjournal.com (a) biffster@weightjournal.com 1440 Biffster's WeightJournal.com http://weightjournal.com 144 144 Mediterranean Diet Pyramid http://weightjournal.com/2008/07/06/mediterranean-diet-pyramid/ http://weightjournal.com/2008/07/06/mediterranean-diet-pyramid/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:56:06 +0000 Biffster http://weightjournal.com/2008/07/06/mediterranean-diet-pyramid/ It should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me that I am still toying around with a Mediterranean diet.I love the idea of the Mediterranean diet, especially for its supposed benefits for a person’s heart. I am still very concerned about my heart health. So anything that can help keep my heart healthy is going to serioulsy get my attention. Green tea is a recurring one, the Mediterranean diet is another.

The idea behind the diet is pretty straight-forward: eat like people along the Mediterranean always have. That means a whole lot of whole-grain breads and pastas, fruits and veggies, and olive oil. Daily yogurt and cheese. Smaller portions of fish and skinless poultry. And very little of other types of meats, sweets, etc. It makes a lot of sense, and should be easy to follow. Especially for someone addicted to breads and pastas like me.

My problem is visualizing what I should eat frequently versus what I should try to avoid all together. Fortunately, I was able to track down an awesome  food pyramid tailored for the mediterranean diet (oldwayspt.org). There are actually two pyramids available for download/printing; one for adults (includes wine) and one for children (no wine). This makes a very easy-to-read guide to foods that are okay. Theoretically, that’ll make it much easier to create food plans. And to put lunches together.

My favorite part of this: since nuts are one of the Daily foods, it means I have (get) to eat a lot of peanut butter. YUMMY!

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    ]]>     http://weightjournal.com/2008/07/03/links-for-2008-07-04/feed/     Breakfast and such http://weightjournal.com/2008/06/30/breakfast-and-such/ http://weightjournal.com/2008/06/30/breakfast-and-such/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:29:02 +0000 Biffster http://weightjournal.com/2008/06/30/breakfast-and-such/ Hello everyone. I know I have been away for a while. Don’t worry, I haven’t gone off the deep end or anything. My weight has actually been failry stable lately. I just haven’t had much time to write, well, anywhere actually. All of my blogs and journals (for a list, see the Links section in the sidebar) have been neglected over the last month or so. I’ll get back to posting at least weekly here soon.

    I have been keeping my eye out for interesting nutrition/health/weight loss articles, which is how I stumbled on a great article giving suggestions to make healthier foods breakfast. I have to admit that eating breakfast has never been a problem for me. I adore breakfast. I am sure to eat it every day, and I sometimes have breakfast foods for lunch or dinner. However, I know that a lot of people don’t. Many of my friends never eat breakfast at all, because they figure all of the breakfast foods are too fatty, or too calorie packed. I figured that at least some of you Loyal Readers will have the same problem.

    The article on About.com has some very good tips, IMHO, including my favorite: “f you normally use eggs to prepare an omelet, consider changing to egg whites or egg substitute. All of the fat (and cholesterol) in eggs are found in the yolk. Egg substitutes and egg whites are fat free.”

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    ]]>     http://weightjournal.com/2008/06/30/breakfast-and-such/feed/     Weigh-in for June 4: Bad, bad, bad http://weightjournal.com/2008/06/08/287/ http://weightjournal.com/2008/06/08/287/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:30:13 +0000 Biffster http://weightjournal.com/2008/06/08/287/ Current weight: 292.5
    Difference from last entry: +6
    Difference from 2008 starting weight (290.5): +2

    Yeah, this is bad. There’s no way for me to even try to hint that there’s good news here. This is bad, very bad. I’ve lost track of my goals, and that has made it easy for me to lose track of my habits. I am obviously eating way too much. And the bad thing is that I am not eating good things. Good as in tastes good. Obviously I am also not eating healthy stuff. Or at least not enough of those.

    Like I mentioned in my last entry, I joined Weight Watchers again three weeks ago. And proceeded to gain 3.2 pounds in my second week. That was very impressive, in a bad way, considering I am walking anywhere from 40 to 65 minutes every workday. My exercise is up, but my calories are up even more. Way, way more.

    I am trying to re-convince myself that I can do this. I can get back on track. I just need to pull myself out of this stupid-ass laziness that I’ve slipped in to. Losing weight is hard work. Learning new, healthy habits is hard work. But it is something I can do. I just need to stop being lazy.

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    ]]>     http://weightjournal.com/2008/06/08/287/feed/     My absence http://weightjournal.com/2008/06/05/my-absence/ http://weightjournal.com/2008/06/05/my-absence/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:31:18 +0000 Biffster http://weightjournal.com/2008/06/05/my-absence/ Ayup, as you might have guessed, I’ve been having a damned hard time weight-wise, which is why I haven’t posted here in a few weeks. I will be writing more soon, but I just wanted to give the difficult part to say first: I am up to 292 pounds again. I was out of control again. I am having a really hard time again. And I don’t know why.

    On the positive side, I have re-joined Weight Watchers. Yesterday was my second meeting back. It wasn’t a good one, but it was the kick in the ass I needed to get me moving in the right direction.

    This sucks… but I am working my way out of these bad days.

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    ]]>     http://weightjournal.com/2008/06/05/my-absence/feed/     Weigh-in for April 26: More of the same http://weightjournal.com/2008/04/27/weigh-in-for-april-26-more-of-the-same/ http://weightjournal.com/2008/04/27/weigh-in-for-april-26-more-of-the-same/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:13:03 +0000 Biffster http://weightjournal.com/2008/04/27/weigh-in-for-april-26-more-of-the-same/ Current weight: 286.5
    Difference from last entry: +2
    Difference from 2008 starting weight (290.5): -4

    So I still don’t have a job yet. and the stress is getting to me, just a little bit. And, as is the norm for me, it shows most in my weight. I have reverted back to some of my old habits - maybe most of them. I have only worked in exercise once or twice this week. I am snacking continually. And I am having more sweets - many more sweets - than I should allow myself. And I’ve been drinking a lot of soda and not drinking much water. All very, very bad habits.

    I decided that my life is simply too stressful right now to try to lose weight. Instead, I am going to try and keep my weight steady. I’ll slip into a maintenance mode right now, aiming to keep from gaining. I am going to work on finding some way to deal with stress other than eating. And I am going to try to get some more exercise in this week.

    And start with baby steps. :)

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