Trigger Foods

"Laura" wrote in message ...
"siDetRaked" wrote in message
news

Part of the problem with your original breakfast is that it might not
have
been enough food/points. Try adding a cup of berries to the cereal. How
much
cereal and milk are you having? It should be around 1 cup each with a
cup
of
berries. That should fill you up for a lot longer. Is Puffins cereal
without
sugar?

Without sugar. The Puffins are 1 point and the milk is 2 points. I
usually
have 1 cup each.

WW is fine for diabetics as long as you choose foods that don't shoot
your sugar high. I've gleaned a lot from the diabetes newsgroups, and
the trick for me has been to eat only whole foods and cut down on
processed ones--and avoid low-fat and fat-free ones (except dairy,
which is fine), because the replacements are generally also carbs that
diabetics still react to.

Since Puffins are highly processed and full of sugar (molasses), they
mess with my sugar, too, since milk is also high carb. Focusing on
whole instead of processed grains helps me a lot. I am fine with
Puffed Kashi or oatmeal (especially the 5 minute kind), and I can add
1/4 fruit to it for sweetness. I also eat a raw veggy and drink a
pint of water before breakfast--usually cherry tomatoes or carrots.
That seems to help. Combining foods helps me, too. Eating a fat or a
protein at breakfast, for example, slows digestion and keeps the carbs
from affecting the body at once. Always drinking a lot of water with
carbs helps keep carbs in the bloodstream longer.

I'm a diabetic newby, and still learning, but I've figured out how to
control my blood sugar by just reading, experimenting, and testing a
lot. Here's a site I got from a diabetes newsgroup that has helped me
a lot (talks about the latest food pyramid research and includes
discussion of diabetics):

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritio.../pyramids.html

Good luck!

pc

I'm soooooooo with you there.. boredom is my worst enemy

--
Will~

196.2 / 133.4 / 137 lbs
89 / 60.5 / 62.1 Kg

Personal goal 125 lbs / 56.7 Kg
"siDetRaked" wrote in message
...

It's great that you're thinking about this, experimenting with
different foods to see what triggers hunger and overeating, and
recognizing the differences. Not everyone is willing to go to those
lengths. Congratulations.

Thanks. Another huge trigger for me is boredom. This time of year at
work
I don't have a whole lot to do but they want me to be here all day anyway.
I have a cup of green tea and this seems to take the edge off.

siDetRaked

I'm soooooooo with you there.. boredom is my worst enemy

--
Will~

196.2 / 133.4 / 137 lbs
89 / 60.5 / 62.1 Kg

Personal goal 125 lbs / 56.7 Kg
"siDetRaked" wrote in message
...

It's great that you're thinking about this, experimenting with
different foods to see what triggers hunger and overeating, and
recognizing the differences. Not everyone is willing to go to those
lengths. Congratulations.

Thanks. Another huge trigger for me is boredom. This time of year at
work
I don't have a whole lot to do but they want me to be here all day anyway.
I have a cup of green tea and this seems to take the edge off.

siDetRaked

I like morning star better than Boca..

--
Will~

196.2 / 133.4 / 137 lbs
89 / 60.5 / 62.1 Kg

Personal goal 125 lbs / 56.7 Kg
"siDetRaked" wrote in message
news

Part of the problem with your original breakfast is that it might not
have
been enough food/points. Try adding a cup of berries to the cereal. How
much
cereal and milk are you having? It should be around 1 cup each with a
cup
of
berries. That should fill you up for a lot longer. Is Puffins cereal
without
sugar?

Without sugar. The Puffins are 1 point and the milk is 2 points. I
usually
have 1 cup each.


I would also add a salad or raw veggies to your lunch. You don't seem to
be
having your 5 fruits and veggies. Getting those in every day will help
keep
you full.

I load up on veggies at dinner. Sometimes have a salad in the afternoon.
I'm lucky that I'm home from work by 1 pm each day. Fruit doesn't mix
well
with my diabetes. Especially citrus. I do try and eat at least one fruit
a
day. A banana or peach or something.

I avoid them now as much as possible. I have 1 standard lunch that is a
boca
burger on a roll.

Tried Boca burgers but didn't like them.

siDetRaked

I like morning star better than Boca..

--
Will~

196.2 / 133.4 / 137 lbs
89 / 60.5 / 62.1 Kg

Personal goal 125 lbs / 56.7 Kg
"siDetRaked" wrote in message
news

Part of the problem with your original breakfast is that it might not
have
been enough food/points. Try adding a cup of berries to the cereal. How
much
cereal and milk are you having? It should be around 1 cup each with a
cup
of
berries. That should fill you up for a lot longer. Is Puffins cereal
without
sugar?

Without sugar. The Puffins are 1 point and the milk is 2 points. I
usually
have 1 cup each.


I would also add a salad or raw veggies to your lunch. You don't seem to
be
having your 5 fruits and veggies. Getting those in every day will help
keep
you full.

I load up on veggies at dinner. Sometimes have a salad in the afternoon.
I'm lucky that I'm home from work by 1 pm each day. Fruit doesn't mix
well
with my diabetes. Especially citrus. I do try and eat at least one fruit
a
day. A banana or peach or something.

I avoid them now as much as possible. I have 1 standard lunch that is a
boca
burger on a roll.

Tried Boca burgers but didn't like them.

siDetRaked

learning things like this about ourselves is what makes WW successful. I
don't get triggered by bread, and in fact seem to eat more when it is out of
my food plan. This is the last week of core for me for a while. Lee
siDetRaked wrote in message
...
I was reading with interest about trigger foods in the group. This made a
lot of sense to me. I leave for work at 4:30 am and don't have much time
to
fix breakfast. I was having a cup of Puffins cereal & a cup of FF milk.
Well about 7 am I really got hungry. Sometime I ate my lunch by 9 am
which
is usually a ham and FF cheese sandwich & that made things even worse.
Yesterday I changed things. For breakfast I had 2 scrambled eggs cooked
in
Pam. I didn't get hungry until lunchtime and then I had ham and cheese
rollups, no bread. I easily made it until dinner time with only a snack
of
sugarfree Jello when I got home.

To sum up. I don't know if the milk or cereal triggered hunger but I
don't
want one without the other. And I reckon bread is a trigger food for me
too.

siDetRaked
248/248/180 first week.

learning things like this about ourselves is what makes WW successful. I
don't get triggered by bread, and in fact seem to eat more when it is out of
my food plan. This is the last week of core for me for a while. Lee
siDetRaked wrote in message
...
I was reading with interest about trigger foods in the group. This made a
lot of sense to me. I leave for work at 4:30 am and don't have much time
to
fix breakfast. I was having a cup of Puffins cereal & a cup of FF milk.
Well about 7 am I really got hungry. Sometime I ate my lunch by 9 am
which
is usually a ham and FF cheese sandwich & that made things even worse.
Yesterday I changed things. For breakfast I had 2 scrambled eggs cooked
in
Pam. I didn't get hungry until lunchtime and then I had ham and cheese
rollups, no bread. I easily made it until dinner time with only a snack
of
sugarfree Jello when I got home.

To sum up. I don't know if the milk or cereal triggered hunger but I
don't
want one without the other. And I reckon bread is a trigger food for me
too.

siDetRaked
248/248/180 first week.

and you might want to think of trigger foods as allergic foods, instead of a
rash you get an internal reaction, Lee
Prairie Roots wrote in message
...
Figuring out your trigger foods can be hard. Who wants to admit to
themselves that their own body can't handle certain foods? It can feel
like a betrayal to realize that your body can't deal with the very
foods your mouth desires. And food restrictions of any kind is one
reason "diets" don't work. Yet if we think of our overweight condition
as something similar to diabetes, it's easier to understand (and maybe
accept) that eating particular foods results in particular and
unpleasant consequences.

It's great that you're thinking about this, experimenting with
different foods to see what triggers hunger and overeating, and
recognizing the differences. Not everyone is willing to go to those
lengths. Congratulations.
--
Linda P


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:02:54 GMT, "siDetRaked"
wrote:

I was reading with interest about trigger foods in the group. This made
a
lot of sense to me. I leave for work at 4:30 am and don't have much time
to
fix breakfast. I was having a cup of Puffins cereal & a cup of FF milk.
Well about 7 am I really got hungry. Sometime I ate my lunch by 9 am
which
is usually a ham and FF cheese sandwich & that made things even worse.
Yesterday I changed things. For breakfast I had 2 scrambled eggs cooked
in
Pam. I didn't get hungry until lunchtime and then I had ham and cheese
rollups, no bread. I easily made it until dinner time with only a snack
of
sugarfree Jello when I got home.

To sum up. I don't know if the milk or cereal triggered hunger but I
don't
want one without the other. And I reckon bread is a trigger food for me
too.

siDetRaked
248/248/180 first week.

and you might want to think of trigger foods as allergic foods, instead of a
rash you get an internal reaction, Lee
Prairie Roots wrote in message
...
Figuring out your trigger foods can be hard. Who wants to admit to
themselves that their own body can't handle certain foods? It can feel
like a betrayal to realize that your body can't deal with the very
foods your mouth desires. And food restrictions of any kind is one
reason "diets" don't work. Yet if we think of our overweight condition
as something similar to diabetes, it's easier to understand (and maybe
accept) that eating particular foods results in particular and
unpleasant consequences.

It's great that you're thinking about this, experimenting with
different foods to see what triggers hunger and overeating, and
recognizing the differences. Not everyone is willing to go to those
lengths. Congratulations.
--
Linda P


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:02:54 GMT, "siDetRaked"
wrote:

I was reading with interest about trigger foods in the group. This made
a
lot of sense to me. I leave for work at 4:30 am and don't have much time
to
fix breakfast. I was having a cup of Puffins cereal & a cup of FF milk.
Well about 7 am I really got hungry. Sometime I ate my lunch by 9 am
which
is usually a ham and FF cheese sandwich & that made things even worse.
Yesterday I changed things. For breakfast I had 2 scrambled eggs cooked
in
Pam. I didn't get hungry until lunchtime and then I had ham and cheese
rollups, no bread. I easily made it until dinner time with only a snack
of
sugarfree Jello when I got home.

To sum up. I don't know if the milk or cereal triggered hunger but I
don't
want one without the other. And I reckon bread is a trigger food for me
too.

siDetRaked
248/248/180 first week.

Don't ax all the veggie burgers at once, there a huge variety of them, and
they range from really good to truly nasty in taste, Lee, partial to the
spicy chicken,
siDetRaked wrote in message
news

Part of the problem with your original breakfast is that it might not
have
been enough food/points. Try adding a cup of berries to the cereal. How
much
cereal and milk are you having? It should be around 1 cup each with a
cup
of
berries. That should fill you up for a lot longer. Is Puffins cereal
without
sugar?

Without sugar. The Puffins are 1 point and the milk is 2 points. I
usually
have 1 cup each.


I would also add a salad or raw veggies to your lunch. You don't seem to
be
having your 5 fruits and veggies. Getting those in every day will help
keep
you full.

I load up on veggies at dinner. Sometimes have a salad in the afternoon.
I'm lucky that I'm home from work by 1 pm each day. Fruit doesn't mix
well
with my diabetes. Especially citrus. I do try and eat at least one fruit
a
day. A banana or peach or something.

I avoid them now as much as possible. I have 1 standard lunch that is a
boca
burger on a roll.

Tried Boca burgers but didn't like them.

siDetRaked