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| What is a complete sample menu for a day on Phase 1? If we could leave off the exotic havetobeaculinarychef items from this menu too, I'd appreciate it. I see lots of veggies are allowed on this diet, but I don't even know what those veggies are. My experience with vegetables are cans of green beans, sweet corn, sweet peas, Veg-Al mixed veggies, and then the occasional frozen bag of broccoli. Of course everyone is familiar with lettuce for a salad and celery as a snack and mushrooms to be thrown in every dish out there. But these do not make for any variety except as what's sitting on your plate beside your "good food" at dinnertime. I'm not convinced yet that this diet has much food on it that is palletable. |
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| vickil
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| Have you checked the Foods to Enjoy list? It's in the SBD book and also in Kimboroni's FAQ. There's tons of food you can eat in Phase 1. |
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Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:10 pm |
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| baptistbluerose
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| I don't have the book and don't even know who Kimboroni is. I was hoping some folks would just put what THEY eat as NORMAL folks without being chefs or anything close to it. :? |
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Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:17 pm |
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| blessed
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Hi Vickil, I have been following the different foods on the list and I believe that is what's causing me not to lose any weight. I'm on my 12th day of P1 and have not lost any weight and have shown a very small change in inches. I have decided to cut back on some of the items on the list like: black beans, garbanzo beans, caf. free diet soda and pudding. I'm extremely fustrated. I've read the book and read comments from the discussion forum for days now. I'm glad you have been successful. Can you share some of your experience with P1 and give me some advice? I work out 3-4 times a day (cardio only). Brkfst is usually 2 eggs or an omelet w/veggies and cheese. Today I had 2 eggs w/1/2c. of garbanzo beans. Lunch is usually a salad with chick or turkey and blk beans or veggies (squash, zuc. onion & tom). Dinner is lettuce wraps with turkey or canadian bacon, tomato, avacado and cheese (2%). Desert: diet jello w/ lite whip cream or sugar free butter toff. lifesavers. My snacks are: dill pickles, green olives or pistachios (30). I drink 8-12 glasses of water.
Any suggestions?
I have cheated twice: I had 3 individual chips and 3 indv. french fries (out of habit, I forgot I was on the diet) and 2 rolls of smarty candies (0 fat) . Is this enough to kick me out of losing weight? Oh, and I had over 30 pistachios one day - I was stressing out.
Thanks for hearing me out. |
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Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:32 pm |
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| babice
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baptistbluerose wrote: I don't have the book and don't even know who Kimboroni is. I was hoping some folks would just put what THEY eat as NORMAL folks without being chefs or anything close to it. :?
Hi again! You can get some info in your other post where you asked a question about Atkins. I posted a list of allowed veggies and beans and someone posted a link to Kimboroni's FAQ. Also, there is a thread at the very beginning of this forum that is a link to Kimboroni's FAQ...this has so much info you'll be very pleased, I think! :D
Much, much luck to ya on the Beach!! :wink: |
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Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:39 pm |
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| RedRox
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Kimboroni is a long time poster here who is a great resource to this forum, an actual beacher who continues to make slow and steady progress to her goals and she is not a chef! You will likely run across her posts her at one point or another and generally be more knowledgeable afterwards for having done so. You can find the link to her FAQ page in my signature lines at the bottom of my post. She has recently split them into P1 and P2 threads, so read the one that most applies to you! There is soooo much good info in her Q&A format to existing threads here that it really should be a starting point for newbies and continues to be a reference for us old-timers as well.
Although I am in P2, I had a mostly P1 breakfast. I just had scrambled eggs with onions, green pepper, black beans, LF cheese and salsa since I couldn't find any tomatoes in the frig. Not sure if I got to my full 1/2 cup for breakfast, but I was probably close. I also had 1/2 a banana which is a P2 item only.
For lunch I'll have a large chef's style salad with mixed greens, chickpeas and some diced up ham and turkey for protein and a side of black beans with green pepper, tomatoes (if i can find them!) and some salsa.
Dinner tonight will be some yet to be determined fish I still have to buy inbetween ferrying kids around after school, dance, etc. We will have some steamed broccoli and cauliflower. That's it. We just steam it. It goes in steamer with boiling water underneath it for about 10-15 minutes. Then it goes in a bowl to the table. Sometimes we shake a little McCormick's salt-free lemon & pepper seasoning on it to spruce it up a bit. For P2 we will add some kind of whole grain type of starch/rice/couscous as a second side dish as well. But the rest of it is straight up P1 stuff!
Zucchini is another staple. The easiest way I prepare them is to cut them in half lengthwise, spray them with a little light olive oil, spinkle on some seasoning like pepper and dried tarragon and/or basil and then grill them about 10 mins total. If you don't have a grill broil them under your broiler. BTW, the roasted veggie recipe in the blue book (which it would really help if you had to both understand how and why this lifestyle change eating program works and is good for you and to get familiar with the range of foods that are available to you as well) is really easy to throw together and is incredibly yummy!
If we want to get a little more fancy with zucchini and it is not grilling weather or it fits better with our main dish, I'll split the zukes lengthwise again, but then cut each half into slices. Then saute in a pan with some olive oil until almost done, and then add some diced tomatoes, a little salt if you like, ground pepper, dried oregano and basil and let the tomatoes release their moisture and kind of "steam" the zucchini until they are done to your likering. I don't like them particularly mushy, but some do.
Green beans. Steamed. A little lemon & pepper or other seasoning if you feel you need it "kicked up a notch"
Asparagus. Steamed. A little lemon & pepper or other seasoning if you feel you need it "kicked up a notch"
Eggplant. I'm not a big eggplant fan, but there are a lot of good recipes for this on this forum. Look in the Recipe Summary sticky thread near the top of the Food and Recipe forum here. It is maintained by another selfless poster here by the name of recipelover. She enjoys cataloging different recipes that others post here as well as posting a number of her own. She's really good with recipes!! I don't think she is a chef either.
Spagetti squash. Again, not something I usually eat, but most people seem to enjoy it and I don't think it is that difficult to prepare.
Yellow squash. Steamed or sauteed like zucchini with or without the tomatos.
Okra. Not my thing, but allowed in P1. Just can't bread it and deep fry it which seems to be a traditional preparation.
And things like onions, peppers, mushrooms and garlic can be sauteed first and then added to some browned chicken breasts or other meat like boneless pork and then simmered together in some buillion to braise until fully cooked. You don't always have to think of adding veggies as something separate. They can be incorporated into the main meal as well. Something like eggplant parmesan comes to mind in this category. I'm sure there is a recipe for this in the previously mentioned "Recipe Summary" thread as well.
And just in case I missed some of the more common ones, here is the full P1 vegetable list. See any you like? Oh yeah, I found it in Kimboroni's P1 FAQ page.
VEGETABLES
(May use fresh, frozen or canned without added sugar)
Artichokes
Arugula
Asparagus
Broccoli
Bok Choy
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage
Capers
Cauliflower
Celery
Chayote
Chicory
Collard Greens
Cucumbers
Eggplant
Endive
Fennel
Garlic
Green Beans
Hearts of palm
Jicama
Kale
Leeks
Lettuce (All varieties)
Mushrooms (All varieties)
Mustard Greens
Nopales
Okra
Onions
Parsley
Peppers (All varieties)
Pickles - Dill or artificially sweetened
Radicchio
Radishes (All varieties)
Rhubarb
Sauerkraut
Scallions
Sea Vegetables
Snap Peas
Snow peas
Spinach
Sprouts
Squash, Spaghetti
Squash, SummerYellow
Zucchini
Swiss Chard
Tomato
Tomato Juice
Turnip Greens
Vegetable Juice Cocktail
Water Chestnuts
Watercress
Wax Beans
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