Tuesday-March 18th

[Ammy]

Snowy Tuesday in MN today.
It's very pretty...heavy wet snow clingying to everything. Had to walk slowly outside so as to enjoy it because it will be gone by 10am!

I feel like I'm running in neutral today...like time is not moving forward, like I'm stuck.
Weird...
And the weirdest thing? I'm not complaining about it...just acknowledging it...
Okay, THAT'S weird :o

Food is odd today, I'll do what I can.

8am egg casserole, virginia ham
12pm salad with chicken, celery and PButter
3pm yogurt, almonds
6pm ground beef, lc bread, mayo, mustard

Pro: 170
Ecc: 41
Fat: 164
Cal: 2372

That's a lot of calories, so I better get in a decent workout today!

[maxlharris]

Busy day in Maxburgh today. First reach of a job offer (in Chicago, special hiring authority... I feel special). Hint of further trouble with my apartment's shuttle bus (full details in my journal), closing out my travel (it's actually closed out, but I have to submit four receipts for cabs!), working on my book (I am very out of practice at fiction writing), and so on.

I took the wife out to dinner last night at our diner. I made a sharp move, and made a lunch for today (3 egg fritata, 2 ounce dreamfields pasta, 2 aidell's chicken-apple sausage (http://www.aidells.com/sausages/descriptions/details.cfm), some heavy cream and some 3 year aged gouda cheese... I made it, and I don't know that I can eat all that in a sitting, or that I want to). Felt pretty slick with this.

I can get used to frittata lunches, that's for sure. Easy.

[Karole]

No snow here, but lots of rain. I mean lots of rain. We live by a creek so we are cut off from town and probably will be until tomorrow sometime as it is supposed to rain all day. Luckily we live on a hill side so no danger of flood waters in our house but we can look across the fields and our neighbors field is completely under water. Our ponds stretch out to the road... well I won't go on except to say we haven't seen anything like this since th 80's. Wow.

Looks like I will have plenty of time for exercise today !! Nothing else to do for sure.

[Peachy]

OMG -- to be cut off from going anywhere. I'd go nuts.

Today I have a lunch date with my husband. It's a good thing it's an up day. He wanted to go to lunch yesterday, but it was a down day and I would have been disappointed in my choice availability. I'm doing a day up (1500 calories and 50 carbs) and a day down (1300 calories and 30 carbs). So far I've lost 3.5 pounds doing this and I feel great. I know that there is an apple with peanut butter waiting for me the next day and it keeps me from being deprived on the down days.

Okay -- I'm off to work out with my girlfriend. TTFN

[Rhyme'n Reason]

Good afternoon, all--

We were supposed to get some sleet and snow changing to rain, but I haven't seen any precip at all. We are scheduled for a lot of rain through tomorrow.

Busy morning again, but I think that posting keeps me accountable, so I'm going to make a better effort to set things aside and at least write down what I plan to eat.

Breakfast--2 pb cookies, 3 links sausage
Lunch--hamburger and pizza toppings in Joseph's pita
Late afternoon--pb in pita
Supper (after parent-teacher meeting)--roast beef and cheddar cheese

Have a good day!

[gitfiddle]

Hi, all.It's a bit of a crazy day today, but everything's under control--more or less.

Breakfast was a protein shake, lunch was two brats and some 72% chocolate with almonds. I'll be glad when the salads are back tomorrow!

Karole, keep your powder dry! :eek: We have flooding along our river in the spring when the ice breaks up, but our house is about a half mile inland so no issues.

Someone just came by and offered me a piece of dessert that looked like a graham-cracker/cool whip sandwich. I said no thanks and she insisted it was only one carb. I don't have time to look it up, but it was two squares with what seemed like 1/3 cup of cool whip in the middle. Ugh! Anyway, it was not even tempting. No way was it one carb, either! :rolleyes:

[maxlharris]

Cool Whip is 1g/TBSP. I am assuming they are talking a level TBSP as opposed to how much you can heap into a tablespoon. I swear, I'd build a house out of the stuff if it were heat stable. It's pretty structurally solid. DW was amazed that it has no actual dairy in it. She had to read through the label.

[gitfiddle]

I knew you'd come up with something. I just checked the carb counter and two squares of plain graham cracker are 10.75.

Too bad it won't do any good at all to tell her. :rolleyes:

[maxlharris]

Forewarned is forearmed.

A strategy. The stuff that you eat and like (I like Cool Whip, complicated story, just accept it as a given), know the count. The stuff that you know you shouldn't be eating (Graham Crackers) assume they are 20g+ ECC/piece. This worked wonders for me my first couple of bouts with Atkins. Kept me out of a lot of bread (I had a roommate worked at the La Brea Bakery (http://www.labreabakery.com/index.aspx) store on La Brea in LA who would bring home the most amazing (looking) breads from the store to "get to know" them. By assuming a "blow my day" carb count on them, I touched not a one (even though La Brea makes FANTASTIC breads... I knew from when I was eating such stuff).

[Karole]

Well, any way, Carol, you did goooood !!

It is so great how we look at things after being on this woe for a while. (Those types of goodies would have automatically slid into my mouth at one time.) With no effort or thought , it would be gone (and on my hips. ) Now there is some thinkin goin on about what is eaten.

Keeping the powder dry, mam, thanks. They are calling for rain up into the night so who knows what the totals will be. This weather is so dramatic this year. First one thing then the other. I cannot believe it.

[Ammy]

I agree...good job on the "no thanks" Carol!

So..I went to Quizno's (http://www.quiznos.com/menu/salads.aspx) for lunch.
Chix caesar (no bread) and cup of broccoli cheese soup.
Soup was 8ecc, salad was 6ecc and the dressing was 6ecc, but I never eat all of the dressing, no matter HOW good it is, so I'm only counting the dressing as 3ecc. total: 17ecc, not bad for a lunch out!
I'd recommend Quizno's as a lunch option...although I question that the soup was only 8ecc. Very creamy...very good...
and I'm not sure I needed the soup to satisfy me...I just LIKE it!
BUT
Don't forget to say NO FLATBREAD! It's too hard for me to pass it up if I accidentally get it!:eek:
And the flat bread alone is 45 ECC!!!

[gitfiddle]

By assuming a "blow my day" carb count on them, I touched not a one...
That's very true, Max. I not only didn't want anything that looked so obscene (to me) I almost forgot to be polite. It was more of a problem to say "no thanks" instead of "EEEEEEEEE-YUK!" :lol: Fascinating!

Yes Amy, I know how you feel about the flatbread because I have the same problem with the lowly, brown, dirty potato (once it's fluffed up or fried up). :D

Karole, I agree with you about the change in thinkin'. :)

[Tresses]

Good afternoon! I haven't been around for a couple of days, but I've been good. Honest! :nod: I was stuck at 155 yesterday, but dropped down to 153 today. W00T! I had hit that just over 2 weeks ago and then crept up again, so it's good to see it. :thumbsup:

Food today:
Bfast: 2 eggs, 2 slices uncured bacon, 1 dark chocolate kiss
Snack: .5 oz raw almonds
Lunch: leftover chicken salsa bake, green beans and cauliflower, greek yogurt
Dinner...still thinking

Got my workout in already, too. (I usually work out in the evening, but am trying to change that schedule.)

So far, so good! Tomorrow might be tricky. My DD turns 13 and she wants a cinnamon spice cake. Kill me now. She also wants macaroni salad (she loves my macaroni salad :D), but I'm going to make it with Dreamfields so hubby and I can eat it, too. :thumbsup:

Have a good one!

[Ammy]

Okay, so I pass up the flatbread no problem...but CAVED to the scone sample at Starbucks!!
I tried to figure the counts...probably 18ecc...ouch.
I'll make it though...
changing my mealplan to this:

8am egg casserole, virginia ham
12pm salad with chicken, soup
1:30 iced latte, scone sample
5:30pm ground beef, mayo, mustard, celery

Pro: 147
Ecc: 45
Fat: 103
Cal: 1770

Hm....lot less than I thought I would have...hmmmm

Now I don't have to workout so hard tonight!!! :D
Wait...:eek:...Shadow, don't read that!!!

[Ammy]

YEAH TRESSES!!!!!!!

Woopee!!!

[Tresses]

YEAH TRESSES!!!!!!!

Woopee!!!

Thankya. Thankyaverramuch. :)

[Lucille]

i just looked at the calorie count in my hellmans mayo, its 100 calories for one tb, and i been eating the stuff like no tomorrow! in egg salad, and tuna salad, i musta been eating a lot more calories than I thought. I am gonna start eating my tuna without mayo. otherwise i have been doing fine. still on plan. i know they say dont worry about fat, but that hellmans has a LOT.

[gitfiddle]

i know they say dont worry about fat...
Yes, they do. :)

[Lucille]

allright, okay okay, lol
:)

[maxlharris]

Calories count, on the margin. If you have a lot to lose, then not so much. If you are working on going from 12% to 10% bodyfat, then the mayo might present a problem. But for now, if the scale moves, don't sweat it, Lucille. Eating fat is important to how the food portion of this actually works. Essential, actually, to sustainable weight loss. enjoy the mayo.

If you are REALLY concerned, you might try logging food into Fitday.com or thedailyplate.com. It might help you put everything in perspective.

[Lucille]

ok thanks,
its such a hard habit to break, thinking about the fat in foods...plus i have my daughter and son in law who are weight trainers, giving me the evil eye on eating fat...lol...

[Peachy]

Great Job Tresses! I know that feels great!

Cool whip is not my thing unless it's on some pumpkin pie -- my problem is the urge to lick my fingers. Open the kid's pudding, lick, Make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, lick, cut a cake, lick. Sometimes my tongue tastes it and I'm shocked by the sugar and realize what I'm doing. It's just automatic. Beware of accidental carbs!!!

Did some shopping, worked out and had lunch with hubby. I have a minute to sit down until the little ones come home. Let's hope everyone's in a good mood. I have their favorite meal planned and it has a little breadcrumb in it. Good thing it's a carb up day for me.

Lunch was yummy: pistachio crusted chicken, grilled asparagus, a roasted red pepper sauce and a glass of Pinot Grigio. I never realized that Italian places had lower carb options. I was always distracted by the lasagne.

[Ammy]

Lucille...what they said...

but...if you do start loading things in fitday...you have to (somewhat) let go of the old dieting ideas.

For example. I'm friends with a woman who is seeing a nutritionist.
My friend is 6'2, and 266lbs, she's not a small person (meaning her build). She has about 75lbs to lose.
Her nutritionist told her not to exceed 1800 calories per day if she wants to lose weight. At 1800calories, she loses about a lb a week...maybe.

I'm 5'5, 200lbs...I have about 20lbs to lose. My fitday.com average calorie count is 2000. According to her nutritionist, I'm WAY exceeding my caloric needs. (I should be around 1500-1600)

I have to let go of the idea of "watching my calories". When I DID try to keep my calories low, I stopped losing weight...and we all know THAT sucks!!! :rolleyes::D

[Shadow]

Now I don't have to workout so hard tonight!!! :D
Wait...:eek:...Shadow, don't read that!!!

You're busted, Amy :lol:!!!!

[Anniesnan]

Been doing okay, but not fantastic ... definitely short on time, though.

Costco run yesterday - love their rotisserie chicken:D

Karole,
we live in a federal flood zone, but, knock on wood, have never had a problem. Mother Nature can still be so frightening!
Crazy weather this year.

[gitfiddle]

its such a hard habit to break, thinking about the fat in foods...plus i have my daughter and son in law who are weight trainers, giving me the evil eye on eating fat...lol...
That's true, and we all had to retrain our brain. I'm going to have fun when I'm skinny and can eat the fat without raising eyebrows. I'm lucky to have a doctor who advocates low carb; my regular GP simply shakes his head but can't argue with the results.

Any time you need support, you can come here to get it. :)