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How did I do at food shopping?

Can running and using the elliptical trainer help build muscles in my legs and tone them?
Also, I went food shopping and bought deli cheese, deli turkey, whole grain bread, smoked almond, a salad and fruit salad for dinner, a vitamin fruit drink, flavored cottage cheese (going to try it), spinach, a salad mix, carrots, tomatos, bananas, kiwis, a nectarine, grapes, pineapple, a 2% milk I think (couldnt find skim milk, but this looked healthy), mini cartons of orange juice, strawberries, oranges, cucumbers. I also have flavored water, organic peanut butter granola bars, nature valley peanut butters and regular water and other things my mom has. So did I do okay with food shopping?
When will I start noticing my results?

I don’t know about the elliptical trainer…I never used one.
I only go to my gym for the aquatic center and the big pool.
I do calisthenics and use small weight at home beside swimming, walking/jogging and biking.
If you want to tone your legs, go for the squats, lunges, leg extensions and heel raises…it’s all calisthenics, using your own body as weight, not using a machine.

Is there anything on your grocery list as ingredients for some recipe that you’re going to cook?

There was a time when I thought “deli” was short for “delicious”…NOT!
It’s short for “delicatessen”, which is the German idea of “delicacies” (fine foods) which in Germany means a lot of beer, potatoes, sausages, fatty cheeses and other processed food…for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It’s basically the opposite of low calorie food.

You could have a healthy sandwich with 100% whole wheat bread and honey ham + smoked ham + turkey + tomato, lettuce, egg white, 3 kinds of different cheeses (not deli cheese…with no name…as you have several hundred different kinds of cheeses and you should be able to find the half a dozen kinds that you personally like and be able to make the difference) and pickles (your favorite pickles which is a choice as complicated as choosing the right kind of cheese).

You could also use fruit/veggies as snacks but you still need to learn how to cook to get as far away as possible from high calories restaurant food and packaged/processed food.

1% or 2% milk is fine (I do not like skim milk…it’s like bland white water to me) and I don’t like the taste of milk so I always add coffee or chocolate or strawberry but still…the skim milk is not my cup of milk.

Do not buy a prepared fruit salad, make your own with 8 to 10 of your favorite fruits (like every 4 days and you get a daily low calorie good snack and dessert) with your favorite fruits like the ones you bought…kiwi, nectarines, grapes, pineapple, strawberries, oranges…add the banana just before eating (bananas would still be good but turn ugly black after a few days in a fruit salad so add a third of a banana just before you eat a cup). I like apples, pears and melon as well in my fruit salad and add a lemon juice for conservation and keeping the colors fresh (apples will turn weird looking without lemon but still be nutritionally good…just not as pleasing to the eyes)…and either use peaches in cans for syrup or a coolie of raspberries (mashed up in my mini food processor) for sauce and never have to add sugar…except in winter when fruits are not so sweet and you need some sugar, but very little. One tsp of sugar is only 15 calories.

Mini cartons of OJ? Obviously, you haven’t been in a OJ sticky factory (nobody has unless they work there and then stopped drinking processed OJ). I still sometimes buy “not from concentrated” OJ (mix it with vodka for a screwdriver and you don’t care where it comes from) as I don’t mind how many bugs and rodents got in the batch…more protein for me…eeww. Still freshly squeezing an orange is better for taste.
Buy oranges and squeeze them for great unprocessed, bug free and rodent free, fresh tasting juice or peel them and eat them like that and get all the fiber. If you squeeze them, either by hand or in a juicer, keep the pulp to eat as snack right away (it’s delicious) or you can freeze it to use later when making bread or cooking. I have to refrain myself to eat the pulp right away when I want to use it to enhance a bread that I will make later on.
Before WWII (1939-1945), kids in some countries (like the lucky ones in France) would get an orange for Christmas (the only orange they would get in the year). An orange orange was like gold. Nowadays, people get OJ in mini cartons and think it’s normal to get tons of vitamins C (water soluble vitamin that they probably pee away as they get too much) and miss out on the great “eating and orange” experience.

Flavored water? Go for just plain water so you don’t mess up your taste buds (or at least readjust them by avoiding unnaturally sweet drink/food). One of my guilty pleasure is favoring (favoring…without the “l’) Deer Park (but I recycle the bottles). For me, it tastes great as it tastes like nothing except refreshing water (plus it’s often number one in tests, ahead of more expensive water bottles so my taste buds are not wrong).

When will you start noticing your results?!? What results are you talking about? The ones from running and using a trainer?
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