Posted on Monday, 24th August 2009 by Bill Bean
Started an 8 week weight loss class at Fitness By Design. Same principles of nutrition and calorie counting that I’ve done during the previous 10 months, so nothing new. I just need to knuckle down for a couple of months and make it to my original goal of getting to 250lbs. That will require 10lbs more or so.
Dialing it in will be tough. I need to stay on the lighter side of 2000 calories a day. Doesn’t take much to get to that, even eating “clean.”
Here are a few of the highlights from tonight’s class meeting:
At the grocery, shop the perimeter.
Had never thought of it like that before. Makes sense. Whole foods (veggies & fruit),lean meat, and low fat dairy are almost always around the edges of the store. The bad-for-you prepackaged and processed stuff is up and down the aisles (generally speaking).
Buffalo is awesome!
Leanest meat choice is buffalo. I had no idea. Cold-water fish is always a good choice but I will have to try some of the tatanka.
Trader Joes FTW.
Having this little store in the neighborhood is a real benefit. Lots of good, healthy food there at prices that are quite reasonable. Beans are good. Already knew this. As always, I have Beans at every meal.
High fructose corn syrup bad.
Did you see Food Inc? Sorry corn growers association. No way to pretty it up. We’d all be better off not consuming any of this stuff. We’ll need to do other things with all that corn. I’m looking forward to future classes. Accountability will be good for me and I enjoy learning more about nutrition.
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