Hi all.
My boyfriend and I recently made some lifestyle changes. We both quit smoking, and it's been about 5 weeks now. I was the worst, I'm 19 and I was smoking more than a pack a day!
We've also taken up exercise---running for 30 minutes every night, or when attainable which sometimes is every other night. This past week, however, we haven't been able to get out there because my boyfriend's legs have been hurting.
Anyways, we've also made some changes to our diet. Or, rather, I made the changes and my boyfriend is just confused.
Thus far, our diet has changed like this:
Breakfast-- changed from sugary cereals (I have younger siblings) and waffles w/ syrup to
granola cereal/multigrain cereal, with FF milk, scrambled eggs cooked lean with dry wheat toast, toast and fruit, etc. Instant oatmeal. Around those lines.
Lunch: We both are working and in school, so we grab what we can usually, but we've changed that to sandwiches w/ no mayo on wheat, with fruit and such, or if we're on the go or at work, we grab a frozen dinner and take it with us or we eat Subway or the like.
Dinner: my parents make it, so we eat that, but if my mum's been busy and she's "being lazy", as she says, and she does chicken nuggets or other not-so-healthy stuff, we eat frozen or make somethingourselves that isn't bad.
Now, what I need feedback on is any more changes we could make. Our main problem right now is portion control and hunger--my boyfriend packs food away, and now when I put food in front of him, he eats it and is still hungry. He also wolfs it down, so he's been trying to eat slower and get fuller.
I basically just need some ideas on other foods we could eat for lunch or breakfast, because I'm running out of creative ideas, so we don't eat turkey sandwiches everyday for lunch. For snacks we've got cereal bars and some crackers.
Our beverages have changed, too, from soda to sugar-free Tropicana Lemonade, Orangeade, and Fruit Punch. I've also been drinking at least 2 glasses of fruit juice a day to replace soda and get that fruit serving.
I've also downloaded a free trial software called "Calorie King". This thing is wonderful and awful at the same time.It has a huge database of food, restaurants and home-cooked common meals, veggies fruits, beverages, condiments, even candy and gum and mints. I've been keeping track of what we're eating and watching all the calories and carbs and fat and sugar and protein add up in this program, and it's been helping me keep track of how much I eat and how much is really in that glass of Coke or grape juice. Now that I have this program, I look at the labels on some things and my mouth drops. Aka, a 20 oz. Coke has 240 calories. That's nuts!
I think I really just need support, and for someone to tell me I'm doing okay, or ideas or suggestions or something! Any feedback would be really, really appreciated.
