My SO and I are both on diets for high triglycerides. We have been dieting since mid-February and I'm starting to get a little bored with the things we're allowed to eat. I'm a pretty picky eater in general so this had made this even harder. The only two meats that I like - and can eat are chicken and turkey. We have grilled chicken salad pretty often along with chicken fajitas on whole wheat tortillas other than that, it's just grilled chicken with a variety of vegetables on the side. Any fun / flavorful ideas or do you happen to have a favorite website that has healthy recipes?
TIA
Thanks ladies. I was doing really good at exploring for the first few months now I'm just bored with all of it..lol! When I asked the question I was bored at work just wanting something really good to eat! I tried the fish oil pills (and maybe I need to try a different brand) but they didn't seem to agree with my stomach. Also, to the poster that mentioned eliminating wheat - we are also thinking of going gluten free. I go back to the doctor next Monday. We'll see what my results are!
Thanks for the suggestions / advice
Nothing low fat helped to reduce my triglycerides. They were cut to almost a third (from 163 to 68) when I gave up wheat. I eat red meat, bacon, butter, but gave up all grain. My bloodwork is better than ever.
If you're getting results on your diet then great, keep on keeping on but if not...for many people the problem with triglycerides isn't fat or dietary cholesterol, it's sugar, including in the form of starchy vegetables, whole grains, and of course the refined added sugars that are obvious to avoid. My brother tried to lower his triglycerides via eliminating alcohol, refined sugar and going low fat but after a couple of years of this, things weren't where they needed to be despite his hard work. He started doing T-25 and following the beachbody diet and boom - all bloodwork in the normal range in a matter of months.
Honestly I wouldn't waste my time with this restricted diet if I were you...read Dr. Mark Hymen's Blood Sugar Solution and try the 10-day detox that goes with it. The food is very flavorful and filling and the dietary changes really work. Here is a link to the website with lots of recipes. I'm a pretty adventurous eater but there were quite a few ingredients I hadn't tried before and wasn't sure about but figured that if I was going to do this, I was all in. I took a leap and tried these new flavors and loved most of them. Not only that, my picky kids liked these recipes too, so give them a chance:
http://drhyman.com/blog/category/recipes/entree-recipes/
Also open your menu up to fish...I wasn't crazy about fish but found some recipes from the detox book that are delicious and now we have it at least once or twice a week.
ETA: Please don't follow advice to use fake foods to lower the fat and sugar in something...fake butter is terrible for you and artificial sweeteners might be the worst thing in our food.
Good for you. No food suggestions just now.
Interestingly, lots of nutritionists are now questioning the need to eliminate cholesterol from the diet (for most people). I actually have been able to add a few eggs a week after discovering that increasing the Omega 3 oils in my diet by taking Krill (or fish) oil into my diet. My triglycerides dropped dramatically, as did my LDL. My doc is very impressed.
I should mention that I'm taking about 4-6x the amount recommended on label. No burping up of fishy flavors with the krill oil. And I originally started using it for rheumatic joint pains. It has been very helpful; I notice if I run out for a few days.
Go to your local food court and ply the menus for ideas-
No reason that your chicken, and bunch of veg can't lean towards indian, chinese, japanese, malaysian, caucasian, italian, french, spanish, portuguese, chilean, peruvian, british, greek, ethiopian, senegaliese etc.
food is really the same the world over a bit of protien, some veg and some starch, whtat they do with it is where it breaks out of boredom.
Best,
F. B.
Oh boy...you can make almost anything low fat and low sodium..honestly. You just have to look through a recipe and sub out the right ingredients.
Make meatloaf with eggbeaters and 95% lean ground beef (or turkey). No salt bread crumbs/saltines in the mix.
Make soup, or any pasta creation with low sodium chicken broth, instead.
Oatmeal is your best friend! Use yogurt or flavored extracts to zazz it up.
Fake butter is OK to use, and Splenda for baking rounds out most recipes.
PB2 is WONDERFUL if you like peanut butter, but don't want the calories, fat or oil that goes along with it. (Also works nicely in baking and oatmeal!)
This is how I eat 99% of the time, honestly. I just look at most recipes and sub the ingredients for low fat/sodium options. It's not all that hard. Just look at what you currently have and start looking and web searching on how to cut out the junk. Most things out there today have a healthy substitution.
Explore seasonings and salsa!
There's no reason for chicken/turkey to be boring (unless you like it that way).
Check out some Thai recipes - I love what they do with chicken, coconut, garlic and lime juice.
There are some great curry recipes out there too (and curry can be sweet, spicy or both).
When I make meatloaf from ground turkey and ground chicken I replace the bread crumbs with oat bran.
You can get very creative with how you put a meal together, have it taste great and still be healthy for you!
I usually don't eat that much meat. My go to is black beans (I cook them myself in the crock pot and freeze in 1 cup portions) with a half cup of rice 4 or 5 tablespoons of salsa.
I agree with the other poster, don't use fake butter, margarine, or man made oils in a bottle. The healthiest oil, really the only one that doesn't harm the body- is raw flax seed oil. And you can't heat it. So use it to make salad dressings. Don't eat pasturized milk, if any milk then raw milk, or organic nonfat yogurt. We eat lots of baked potato with chives and nonfat yogurt on top. Yummy. potatoes are high in proteins, so is oatmeal and carrots....so you can get your proteins without much meat or fat. We juice our carrots. I loe to make a yummy drink: I take home juiced apple juice, then blend it with frozen organic berries. It is a smoothie without dairy in it....my kids actually prefer it to a dairy version.
Get a subscription to Cooking Light. We've had a subscription for years and have yet to have a bad recipe from them. Every one has been flavorful. I'm a picky eater, too, and even I find great recipes.
