August, 2105 ~ What's for Supper?

NormM wrote:Dinner tonight was chicken breasts in a cream sauce, green beans, okra, salad and rice.  Charlie put some okra in his salad. I guess they were a substitute for croutons.

NormM wrote:I don't know what the green beans at carry out places taste like. I don't think I have seen any around here.

bethk wrote:Jimmy, I think the only place to get the flat Italian style green beans is in cans or frozen.  I swear, they are only grown for processing.  I've never seen them fresh, either.

It's strange that our appetites are getting smaller and smaller and yet neither of us is losing any weight.  Doesn't seem fair somehow.

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Niagara Visitor wrote:I've been out searching the grocery stores for chanterelle mushrooms.  I found them once last year in late August.  They are the BEST.  Are they available in the US?  In Canada they are in season now on the east coast, my friend in Nova Scotia has them on her property on Cape Breton.  

Bought some Shiitake instead, I'll see if they are almost as good as the chanterelles which are common in the forests in the southern part of Germany also.  I have a small steak to make in my grill pan, the shiitake will go well with that!

bethk wrote:I'm now doing an hour of aerobic/streching water exercise twice a week....cut back on lots of what we use to eat, even cut back on drinking   but still can't drop any weight.  I've got a check up scheduled in a couple of weeks.  I'm hoping it's something stupid like my thyroid isn't doing what it's suppose to and my metabolism is in need of a jolt.  We'll see.  Doc will probably advise me to get rid of my left leg if I want to lose 30 pounds.  I don't use it all that much anyway.....

Bugster2 wrote:
Have you tried Weight Watchers? My friends always have success with that but when they lose the weight they go back to their old eating habits and gain the weight back.
I used to work in a doctor's office and his specialty was weight loss. His patients were the morbidly obese. In order for them to lose weight they were on 1200/cal day diets. Most of them couldn't lose any weight because they preferred to eat over losing weight but if they actually stayed on the diet the weight would come off at about 1 to 3 pounds a week.

As we age we lose mitochondria in our cells which controls how much energy we burn. Fewer mitochondria means it gets harder and harder to burn off calories.

My BIL loses weight on the Slim Fast diet very easily but of course he is a man and they drop weight twice as fast as a woman.

bethk wrote:

Bugster2 wrote:
Have you tried Weight Watchers? My friends always have success with that but when they lose the weight they go back to their old eating habits and gain the weight back.
I used to work in a doctor's office and his specialty was weight loss. His patients were the morbidly obese. In order for them to lose weight they were on 1200/cal day diets. Most of them couldn't lose any weight because they preferred to eat over losing weight but if they actually stayed on the diet the weight would come off at about 1 to 3 pounds a week.

As we age we lose mitochondria in our cells which controls how much energy we burn. Fewer mitochondria means it gets harder and harder to burn off calories.

My BIL loses weight on the Slim Fast diet very easily but of course he is a man and they drop weight twice as fast as a woman.

I know how WW works...but if I deprive myself of too much I'll either binge or just go off completely.  I think it's more my age and the combination of not sleeping as well as I use to, not having as much exercise as I did when I was younger, etc.  I still get in between 9,000 - 11,000 'steps' per day (according to fitbit) and I don't sit much at all.  I started going to the water exercise classes two or three times a week because I have difficulty walking on hard surfaces due to arthritis in my hips and knees. But, like I said, I don't sleep as well as I did and that has a lot to do with how I metabolize what I eat.  I've dropped so much of the sweets I use to eat - I still make it but I give it away so it's out of the house.

It is a little disturbing the way men can usually drop pounds as women have to be happy with ounces....that's really not fair.  But Mr. Amazing is struggling right now, too.  I attribute his problems dropping weight like he use to, to the fact that he has COPD and that really messes with the amount of exercise he's able to do.  

Neither of us is to the point of being morbidly obese, but we'd both like to drop some weight.  I'm still wearing the same clothes size (actually the same clothes since I hate to go shopping....LOL) but it would be nice to wear something a little smaller.