Category : daily life, food
Tags: big mac, calories, coke, diet, dietitian, fats, pre-op, protein, starch, vegetables
Originally published November 29, 2009
So yea, I met with the dietitian on Tuesday, and after we talked about eating after surgery we got in to what I need to do before surgery to lose the pre-op weight. Basically, I’ve been put on a “Calorie Controlled Lifestyle” Here’s the explaination of just what that is from one of the flyers they gave me;
This calorie controlled lifestyle is a healthy diet used by many to lose weight or to control their diabetes. It is easy to follow and is appropriate for persons of all ages and stages of life. There is no need to count calories or to spend extra money on specialty foods. This diet is split into 6 food groups, and you are allowed a given number of servings in each group. This will help to ensure a balanced diet that will better support your body and its needs.
And the joyful part of this is I am supposed to limit myself to a whopping 1500 daily calorie level.
I’m still not a fan of quiche, but I do love salads… and one heck of a manly dude seems to agree with me. John DeVore is a former editor at Maxim magazine and maxim.com and recently wrote a piece for CNN.com titled A ‘dude’ explains why salad is ‘man food’
Go check out his article and then come back here… I’ll wait.
Category : cooking
Tags: Alton Brown, beef, dressing, gravy, noodles, pot pie, pot roast, salad, shirataki, tofu, vegetables, video
I inventoried my chest freezer last week, and decided to pull out the chuck roast I had in there and cook that up. I turned to Good Eats for inspiration and cooked it the way Alton Brown showed in his A Chuck for Chuck episode (see videos at the end of this). I did cook mine in the crock pot instead of the oven, and it turned out wonderfully. See!
pot roast with a side of shredded carrots and squash with ziti currants
I’ve been nibbling on it for a few different meals, including a breakfast, over the last few days. I had about a quarter pound left, and decided I wanted to do something different. I put a question out there on Twitter and someone suggest pot roast. Great idea! except… a pastry crust, I’m not sure would be terribly WLS friendly, though I’m sure I could find a recipe out there that is. But… I wasn’t about to bother, cause I’ve never really liked pot-pie crusts anyways. But I still had plenty of “gravy” and I like veges, so I had to figure out something else to use for a crust.
