Eating Intuitively

I am looking to make a few changes to my healthy eating plan.  I know I need to increase the intensity of my exercise on the recumbent bike.  I also took another look at my vegetable options with NutriSystem Select.

When I first started NutriSystem Advanced last June, the meal planner suggested eating salad vegetables with lunch.  Those vegetables include cucumbers, cabbage, and mushrooms.  They were meant to be eaten raw with fat-free salad dressing.  I have stuck to those vegetables, but I have “enhanced” them over time, possibly to the point of adding too many calories.

I started the NutriSystem Select plan a couple months ago.  With it, I received a new meal planner, and it allows many more vegetables.  At lunch, two vegetable servings, raw or cooked, are allowed.  At dinner, up to three vegetable servings, raw or cooked, are allowed.  There is no longer a distinction between salad vegetables and other vegetables.

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Although I’ve had this information, I have not done anything with it, but I am ready now.  Since it takes so much effort to make the salad vegetables enjoyable along with the fact that I actually enjoy many cooked vegetables, I am going to replace my salad vegetables with other cooked vegetables I prefer. 

I am thrilled I am now acting on this information, and I am excited to start enjoying these vegetables at lunch as well as dinner:

• artichoke hearts
• asparagus
• bell peppers
• broccoli
• brussels sprouts
• cabbage (but cooked)
• cauliflower (roasted!)
• eggplant
• fennel
• mixed vegetables (without corn, peas, turnips)
• mushrooms (cooked!)
• rutabaga (roasted!)
• spaghetti squash
• spinach
• tomatoes, grape
• turnips (also roasted)
• zucchini
• (there are others, but these are my favorites)

I create my shopping list on Thursday, and I prepare my weekly vegetables on Friday.  So, I’ll be eating these new vegetable options by Saturday.  I’m looking forward to it.

What is your favorite vegetable, and how do you like to prepare it?  I’m really interested in roasted beets.  Do you have a sure-fire way of making perfect roasted beets?

Breakfast:  Cranberry Orange Pastry; Egg; Banana; Morning Coffee; Cracker, Honeymaid Graham Crackers (Nabisco)

Morning Snack:  Ham, low-fat; Banana

Lunch:  Pasta with Beef; Mushrooms, raw; FF Dressing

Afternoon Snack:  Zesty Herb Snack Mix

Dinner:  Zesty Cajun Style Chicken and Sausage with Brown Rice; Asparagus, cooked; Mandarin Oranges; Oil, canola, olive, peanut, safflower; Pasta, cooked al dente

Dessert:  Chocolate Crunch Bar

Drinks:  Crystal Light

Exercise:  none again today.

Pedometer:  ?