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I Wish I Knew How to LOSE You--The Weight Loss Thread (check first post)
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: southendmd on January 06, 2010, 01:59:30 pm ---My favorite source is Atlantic Spice Company in Truro, on Cape Cod. They're an amazing source for all kinds of spices, and they ship to the lower 48: http://www.atlanticspice.com
I like theirs, because it's fresh, and very spicy. It comes in cubes, but I like the discs.
Also, Trader Joe's has their own brand. Whole Foods sells it also.
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I found out that candied ginger is easy to make, once you get the ginger peeled. And I recently learned a trick for peeling it too. Just use a teaspoon turned bowl side up and run it over the peel. It gets into the little crevices very well! I save the peelings to make ginger tea.
Along the same lines, I have several Altoids tins that I fill with a mixture of fennel seeds and sugar crystals. I like it much better than mints, it's healthier (Indians and Italians love it), and it costs a lot less.
Sason:
--- Quote from: southendmd on January 06, 2010, 01:34:11 pm -----candied ginger. I keep a jar in my office. When the hunger hits, I take one piece. It's spicy and has a soothing effect on the stomach.
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I love candied ginger! In fact, I love everything ginger..... ;D
But be careful, there's lots of sugar in them.
About the being-too-hungry-to-cook-when-I-get-home thing.
I always have a snack at work around 3 or so. A fruit and/or a sandwich brought from home and kept in the fridge at work during the day. I also have some low fat cheese there, and some "knäckebröd" (crisp bread that keeps forever), for those days when I forget the sandwich.
Even so, I'm really hungry and must have food at once when I get home. I solve that problem by always cooking in advance, and have something ready to just heat up.
I cook e g a large pot of veggie soup, or oven roasted veggies or sumptin to fill half my plate. I have individually small portions of leftover pasta and rice in the freezer, and see to it the day before that there is some kind of fish or meat to go with it. That way I just have to heat everything up and be able to eat more or less immediately when I get home.
I have a hard time keeping off the chocolate that I tend to indulge myself in in the evenings, after dinner. Even though I have a fruit for dessert, it's hard to leave the sweets be. One solution is to simply not having them in the house. Another is to brush my teeth immediately after dinner, then I don't get tempted to snack, cos I won't bother brushing them again! ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 06, 2010, 04:23:31 pm ---Seriously, I think it's natural to crave carbs this time of year. Once upon a time our ancestors needed them to survive the winter.
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--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 06, 2010, 05:06:45 pm ---Oh, I thought it was fat. At least, that's what my chickens crave. Although come to think of it, maybe fat IS carbs.
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I expect we crave both.
Do carbs that don't get "burned off" turn into fat?
Sason:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 06, 2010, 07:21:34 pm ---
Do carbs that don't get "burned off" turn into fat?
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Yes, they do. It's the body's way of preserving unburned energy for later use.
Same for protein and fat.
Berit:
I wish I would crave carots......
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