Class 4/6 and BBQ sauce

Well, last night's class was actually informative. We talked a lot about protein, and protein amounts after surgery 60-80g (WOW!), which will be REALLY hard to get in, especially since for the first 5 months, I'll only be eating 2 oz. meals. After that, they'll slowly move me up.

The next thing we talked about was exercise. I'm working on getting in my exercise. They suggest we start small. I do AT LEAST 3- 20 min. walks each week. A lot of the time, they're a lot longer than that. Ideally, they want us doing 150 mins. of exercise a week, which is the minimum time that you have to work at it to get health benefits from it. I had already planned, once my walks got easy, and I had less knee pain, to up the number to 5 per week. No biggie. I'll just make sure I get at least 30 mins in each walk.

My dietitian read us an astounding statistic in last night's class though. As I'm sure you've seen on here, I have knee problems. Well, one knee. But my dietitian told us that one pound lost? One pound. That equals FOUR pounds of pressure off your knees. No wonder my knee is starting to feel a bit better. I've lost 40 pounds. That's 160 pounds of pressure off my knees. ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY POUNDS. That's A LOT of pressure. This proves that every little bit helps your health. :)

Sadly, they informed us last night that they're no longer doing the food journals, which makes me really sad. They said that so many people didn't use them, because of all the apps out there on phones. I do have two apps on my phones that will help me keep track of food, so, I guess that's ok. I'll have to focus more on the Baritastic app, since they help majorly with tracking protein, which, as I mentioned above, is a BIG thing!

In other news, totally found a diet compliant BBQ sauce, and it's AWESOME. So, on one of my support groups, someone started talking about a Sugar Free BBQ sauce that they really liked. The posted pictures of it, and said they got theirs at Wal-Mart. Well, I found it.

And it IS awesome! It's sweet, even though there's no sugar, and smoky, since the one they had was hickory. I guess the company makes other flavors. It IS a bit expensive ($3.26 at my Wal-Mart, where I could get a bottle of Bullseye BBQ for $1.26), but it's totally worth it, since I can now do BBQ Ribs, Chicken, ect. Here's the company's website. I guess he also does ketchup. I actually just bought some Heinz reduced sugar ketchup, so, we'll see how that goes... I'll let you know. :)

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Lady D