Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Spent all day cooking...

... and I think it will be part of the key to my success in the upcoming week for healthier eating.

As you may be able to tell from my recent reports, I have been doing much better with exercise, have successfully eliminated soda from my diet (which was a big thing for me as I loooove pop) - except for one day when I got a free one at the movie theatre - and have been cutting back on chocolates and things like that.

My problem is that I have not been eating enough *healthy* things to keep my calorie count up high enough. I have been feeling really tired lately, and I think this might be why. Example: Today was my day off from work, and as I didn't have to get up I didn't set an alarm. I slept until 11 AM!

So today, I did some planning...
I made a big crockpot dinner that fed three of us, and will also feed me and Adrian for lunch tomorrow and the next day (tomorrow night dinner is with family).
I also made a *huge* batch of vegetable soup that I have seperated into "lunch" size and "snack" size servings and frozen. That way, if I am feeling hungry I can heat up some soup for a healthy snack AND it will help me get in more servings of veggies.

I also made two loafs of pear spice bread (with a little less sugar than the recipe calls for) so that if I am really craving something sweet, I have that rather than.. you know, a bunch of ice cream or something.

I also bought some applesauce cups as I had run out and some special K for breakfast. I am also going to start trying to eat oatmeal/oat bran for breakfasts again with fruit.

So there's my plan. I will try to be more diligent with my reports this week so you can see how the plan is working.

Cheers all!
Steph

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~~I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell-I know right now you can't tell~~Matchbox 20
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