What are some healthy options for breakfast?
What are some healthy options for lunch?
Thanks.
I want to watch my sodium intake and became motivated once buttons starting popping off my shirt and being out of breathe when I walk up a flight of stairs.
I would recommend you talk to your doctor. Any advice we give here may not be right given your age and health status. Generally speaking, portion control and exercise will get you back in shape, but again, talk to your doctor.
I just wanted healthy options for breakfast or lunch. No medical advice
Whole grain cereals with a lot of fiber (15 to 25%) and skim or 1% milk for breakfast. No Chocolate Covered Sugar Bombs - just good wholesome cereal. Sliced banana or dried fruit like raisins or cranberries on top if you need to add anything.
For lunch have something like a nutrigran bar and go for a walk while eating it.
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While this is more about the health and nutrition of food rather than the enjoyment of it, let’s go ahead and move this to CS anyway since that’s where all the foodies hang out. This will also allow folks to comment on what foods are not only healthy but taste good as well, instead of being restricted to factual nutrition information in GQ.
Moving thread from General Questions to Cafe Society.
The poster specified that he wants to cut back on sugar. Despite their healthy looking name, it seems as though the healthiest thing about them is their name.
Maybe I can just do the nutri grain bar for breakfast and just stick to fruit salad for lunch.
The standard recommendation for what you are looking for is the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) plan (a Mayo link with many days of sample menus). Clicking through gives, for example:
Many options listed as you click through. FWIW. It’s at least a good place to start. Of course specifics are individual to you and your circumstance.
ETA: Nutrigrain is a candy bar.
Thanks. Need to leave the greasy homefries and sausage alone for a long time
I eat Kashi go-lean cereal and Fage non-fat yogurt with seasonal berries pretty much every single day for breakfast.
It’s a very high protein meal, and has a reasonable amount of fiber and fairly low carbs.
Lunch: Oven roasted Chicken breast spinach salad with low fat dressing.
NO Bread (sandwiches) Subway makes a great fresh salad right in front of you. Its what I have every week day.
Breakfast: Fill just the very the bottom of the bowl with Grapenuts and lowfat granola. Top with lots of fruit and nonfat milk.
Went from 177 lbs to 147 lbs. over a five month period. That was over a year ago and I’m still at around 150. I’m 5’11" 63 yo.
Get some dumb bells and a treadmill and do some ab work as well.
So a Oats and Honey Granola Bar would be a good option for breakfast?
Very well. Load up on veggies and lean protein…salads, carrots or celery with hummus, grilled chicken, lean cuts of beef, fish, etc. Incorporate exercise…walking at least 30 minutes a day (you can break this up into ten minute increments) then build up from there with strength training. Cut out the soda and drink water. Check out the nutrition information on the packaged foods…you want single digits for the sugar and double digits for protein. Good luck!
Yeah I plan to increase my activity starting on monday. My job relocated and my activity decreased since everything was closer to home.
So I was eating bad and walking less which is not a good combo.
We have a diet and fitness thread…come join us! I can also highly recommend Sparkpeople.com. It’s completely free, chock full of resources, and allows you to track your nutrition and fitness. I joined in April 2008, lost forty pounds, and have kept it off ever since.
Yesterday (because they were on special, hah) I bought a packet of LCM’s for the grandies who are going back to school and kinder this week…a special ‘Nanna’ treat in their lunchboxes.
Well, my daughter cracked it that I was so irresponsible to buy such awful food for them. She’d intended to bake some home-made muesli bars from a packet of stuff she had in the pantry.
I was vindicated though when she checked the ingredients of her ‘organic, hand hulled, super-dooper muesli’ to find that it actually had MORE sugar and MORE other crap than the LCM’s above.
BOOM 
Thanks
I make my own yogurt and eat it topped with fresh fruit. Sometimes I stir in one pack of Splenda + dextrose calorie free sweetener. Depends on the fruit and my mood. I use Fair Life high protein skim milk to make the yogurt, and it turns out well.
I usually eat 1/2 a cup of yogurt for breakfast and toast with a small amount of PB. You could skip that, or use light bread and light PB, but I think PB is already pretty heart-healthy.
Corn muffin I know is not healthy. What could I eat a banana with in the morning?
Never startle your body. It only has a few ways to react, and they’re generally unpleasant.
If you’re in the kind of shape where it’s a strain to walk up stairs, start with light exercise like walking, and keep eating pretty much the same way you have been. You can change to some of the dietary things people have suggested here, but if your body is used to getting fed several large meals a day and suddenly you cut your food by half, it’s not going to be fun. Ease into it and, once you’re used to exercising every day or two, you can start cutting back on some of the bad stuff and increasing the good stuff, or just plain eat less, if that’s what works for you.