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Convenience foods for fat loss, part one

Some of you are highly evolved persons who cook every day, carefully plan your five to six small daily meals, and pack the lot into a cooler before you leave the house in the morning. All I can say is, I admire you. Someday I may get that organized. Or maybe not.

I don’t cook much, I sort of kind of plan my daily meals, and on good days I throw several items in a plastic bag and lurch out the door. It helps that I keep frequently consumed foods in the fridge at work. I do track calories and grams of carbohydrate and protein daily, using a Google spreadsheet. But given the rather laissez-faire manner in which my planning occurs, I really appreciate certain foods that make my life easier.

Here’s part one of my can’t-live-without foods:

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Posted on May 31st, 2008 under nutrition. Tags: Food, Google, Market Pantry, mayonnaise, Sara Lee, tuna, USDA, whole wheat bread. Comments: None

Deja vu all over again

Gulp. It’s been 10 months since I posted. What does that tell you?

Never mind. Don’t answer that.

Well, I’m back, needing calorie counting more than ever. I’m still in favor of using the spreadsheet function of Google docs. I just need to, um, use it.

Easter was great . . . and fattening.

The music season has been busy, busy this year, so I’ve spent much more time wearing my singer hat than my exercise-buff hat. (See my sites for Harmonia Vocal Quartet and the Pope Benedict XVI Schola.)

As I have written here before, the body is responsive. As soon as the exercise habit and the caloric reduction begin, changes start to occur.

Giving myself a pep talk, see?

Posted on March 24th, 2008 under calorie-counting. Tags: Easter, Google. Comments: None

Counting calories with Google docs

I’m back to counting calories, having fattened up by about five pounds over the past six months. What’s different? I let my gym habit slide, simple as that.

The past few weeks I’ve been working hard in the garden (see my other blog, Easy Roses), but once those planting and mulching duties subside, I need to be in the gym. Walking six days a week may do it for some people, but it isn’t enough for me.

In any case, I tried to do Atkins again for a few days and realized–duh–how foolish that was, given that I was doing strenuous physical labor in the garden (on my vacation week!). I simply can’t function on nearly zero carbs.

But calorie counting, a la Tom Venuto’s method (use the search function on this blog [search term zig] for an explanation of the zig-zag method and the sidebar at left for info on ordering his e-book), works very well for me. The hard part used to be keeping track between home and office. I kept e-mailing myself an Excel spreadsheet that I had designed to track daily calories and grams of protein.

Now that I have access to Google docs, it’s a piece of cake (should I say “it’s a toasted pita”?). I just work in the Google doc via my browser with whatever computer I’m on. If you haven’t signed up for gmail and Google docs and all that stuff, I recommend it. I don’t work for Google, I just love their (free) offerings.

Posted on May 28th, 2007 under food plans. Tags: e-book, Google, search function, search term zig, Tom Venuto. Comments: None