Weight-Loss Week 3 Bonus

Weight-Loss
The 5 things I'm thankful for:

1. My husband and children
2. My family and friends
3. Mine and my family's health
4. My job working with children at a preschool
5. Everything I'm able to do for my daughters and seeing those smiles on their faces
 
bikinibound said:
I will let people count romaine lettuce, and other kinds of greens as long as it isn't iceberg.
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Thank you! :hurray:
 
Oh, to clarify for Omega, you need THREE of the 8 oz cups, not just one. I would hate you not to get the bonus on a metric technicality!
 
I like veggies, but I don't think I ever ate 3 cups in one day. This is going to be tough. But I will do my best.

I am thankful for....

1. God
2. My husband/kids
3. My family
4. My friends
5. My gym membership...and of course you guys!
Cathy
 
I am thankful for:

1. My husband and the fact that he's so supportive
2. My sister for being some to rant to
3. My cat who doesn't back sass me most of the time
4. The fact that I am graduating soon and already have a job lined up
5. Weight loss even if I didn't lose anything this week!
 
bikinibound said:
Steamed veggies most certainly count. They do not have to be fresh or raw. They can be frozen or canned or fresh.

Tomatoes count as a veggie.



I will let people count romaine lettuce, and other kinds of greens as long as it isn't iceberg. If you have a pre-packaged salad mix that includes iceberg along with other kinds of greens, you can count that mix--but just not pure iceberg.

Potatoes and sweet potatos (yams) are still out. They do have vitamins and minerals, but they are loaded with calories and have tons of carbs/starch. You can still eat them, they just don't count towards your 3 cups. I want people to who don't eat a variety of veggies (especially non-starchy ones) to eat more. We are all adults here. We can eat our veggies even if we don't like them much.



Vegetable juices don't count b/c they are loaded with sodium.

Measure your veggies before cooking them--otherwise you'll have have to eat about double to get your 3 cups. Things like mushrooms shrink considerably during cooking.
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Woohoo!:hurray:
Romaine is sooo doable!:pumpkin::pumpkin:
 
Things I'm thankful for:

1. My family
2. My health
3. Living in the USA
4. Music
4. Job/Boss that is more than tolerable
 
Veggies....doable.

Thankful for:
1) my 5 children and Tom
2) my parents stable health
3) my 5 pets
4) learning to love exercise
5) being an American and grateful for the rights we have and that W. Bush presidential status is not fast enough coming to an end
 
Wow, 3 cups of veggies a day! I always get in at least 1, sometimes 2, but not sure I've ever gotten in 3 cups a day.

Well, if it was easy, it wouldn't be a challange...LOL!

Things I'm thankful for:

1. My family

2. The fact that my parents are still alive, healthy and contine to live completely independently in their own home at the ages of 85
and 89. Go mom and dad!!! :hurray:

3. My friends.

4. My health.

5. My career.
 
1- family/gf/friends
2- Shelter
3- Having a job that I love
4- Speaking french and english (at an acceptable level)
5- This forum : 1st- bikinibound, for creating a motivating challenge that seems to be "drop-out-people-proof" :) 2nd - People here are sooo nice!

Have a good thanksgiving, mine's (like other :eh:s) was in october. Don't eat too much!!
 
Also glad you added romaine back in. I bought some whole wheat pasta at Costco that I think I'll make for the baby and me with a bunch of veggies and some tomato sauce (H will not eat anything w/ veggies so he can have one of his fattening beef patties heated in the microwave LOL).

I'm thankful for:

* My beautiful sweet baby girl
* My other family
* My job
* My health
* For food being plentiful and shelter being readily available (its important to focus on this since most of the world's people dont have these luxuries)
 
I consider the tomato a vegetable, despite what anyone has ever said lol. So I hope that can be included in our veggie bonus as well. :)
 
I'm so thankful Romaine has been allowed.. :waving:

~Thanks~

This is how I get most of my veggies in..

I make huge salads and use lots of chopped veggies to be tossed in.

**Sheeww**
 
I don't guess there is any way to possibly make the challenge 3 C. veggies

OR 2 cups veggies - 1 c. fruit?

After lookin' at my menu and all of the thing I just stocked up on, more than likely I'm not gonna get 3 c. veggies per day..

I bought a lot of fruit this time at store and as we all know, that doesn't keep as long as veggies. I'll have to make sure I'm gettin' fruit in which will probably knock a c. of veggies out..

lol

Oh well... :willy_nilly:
 
I thought about adding fruit to the challenge, but that could be an issue for low carbers who don't generally eat a lot of fruit (make up for it with veggies). Also, most people get enough fruit, it's the veggies that give them trouble.

HOnestly, 3 cups of veggies isn't a ton--it's like a heaping cereal bowl full. In the course of a day, it's not excessive.

I bought a ton of fruit yesterday, too--a 5lb bag of apples, 6lbs of oranges, about 12 bananas, 3 pears, a bag of cranberries and a lb of strawberries. Fruit is good, too--eat it in addition to your veggies. They say you should get at least 5 servings of fruit and veggies per day. And think of all the fiber you'll get from doing so. :D
 
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