| ||
|
|
Free Truly Low Carb Recipe of the Month: >> Don't Miss my big FIBERFIT CLEARANCE SALE - Save over 60% NOW!<<
>> Don't Miss my big FIBERFIT CLEARANCE SALE - Save over 60% NOW!<<
|
|
August
- October 2000 Journal
MY
CURRENT NUTRITIONAL GOALS:
FAT
GOAL: = At least 65% of total calories, but more works better for me!
CARB
GOAL: NET = < 30gm but I don't worry if I go up to 40 net
occasionally.
PROTEIN
GOAL: 120 gm (based on my LBM of 142 lbs as well as my activity
level)
CALORIES:
I keep track but I do not actively restrict them.
DAILY
SUPPLEMENTS: *2 GNC women's basic multi's *1 Citrical calcium +D *2
99mg Potassium *2 Microhydrin (a super antioxidant) *1 EAS Structured
Essential Fatty Acid Complex including Vitamin A, natural vitamin E,
cold-water fish oils, flaxseed oil, and evening primrose oil
AUGUST 2000
August
1, 2000 Tuesday
BREAKFAST:
700 am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 TLC peanut butter cupcake
LUNCH:
12 pm 3 slices (3 oz) ham wrapped around 2 oz (3 slices) swiss cheese,
1 Darrel Lea chocolate bar over the course of the next couple hours,
one delicious bite at a time until suddenly! It was all gone *oops*
And although they no longer give me diarrhea, my little tiny town in
Colorado qualifies for the name "windy city" much more than
any town in Illinois does, once I have eaten one of these treats!!
Yikes. Don't eat one at or before work, you have hereby been warned.
SNACK:
3pm 2 TLC bran crackers with 2 Laughing cow chz wedges and a CarboLite
chocolate egg protein shake OMG. Can you say chocolate 'instant
breakfast'? These shakes are GOOD. I added some heavy cream and a
little chocolate DaVinchi along with some ice cubes, and it tasted
JUST like a frozen chocolate milkshake. I highly recommend this shake
mix. Besides, it is nice to have something without soy in it - given
all the negative things they have been saying about soy lately, I get
more than enough in my fake baked goods and occasional tofu. AND
these shakes have ZERO carbs. Yup, ZERO.
DINNER:
6 pm Chicken Alfredo over shredded steamed napa cabbage &
cauliflower. OMG. This was one of the fastest and best low
carb meals I have made. And it took a total of just 20 minutes, start
to finish. If it hadn't been so very colorless I would have snapped a
picture, but it was just too white. I was a bit frazzled and neglected
to write down what I did as I went along (duh!) but I will recreate it
again soon, and it is definitely going on the list of entrees for the
book today. Only 4 carbs per serving, I can add some red peppers for
color and still hit the under 5 per serving mark that I strive for.
And the napa cabbage was much better than the bed of green cabbage
that I had under my lemon chicken.
Why
was I frazzled? Because yeast bread attempts #4,5,6,and 7 are all in
my trash can. I wasted a whole day and a bunch of expensive
ingredients trying to improve on a recipe I had already made
satisfactorily! DUH. I wanted to lower the carbs further and got what
I thought was a good idea after reading the ingredients in the
CarboLite bread mix. I should have left well enough alone! Though I
finally got it through my thick head what was happening, and one more
try might just do it. But I am going backwards to bread #3 that I
liked, and making SMALL modifications next time. And if the carbs are
higher than 5, well, it will just have to be recipe that waits for
maintenance to be enjoyed, you know? Some things just can't be lowered
enough without totally sacrificing taste and texture and that I vow
not to do!! I'd rather eat none than eat a poor imitation, and that
goes for ALL foods, not just bread. I do not think I am alone in this
sentiment.
WATER:
4 liters
EXERCISE:
16 minutes on the NordicTrack, then 110 crunches (advanced position)
and a 2.2 mile fast walk. No weights as today should be an off day
(you can't do resistance training every day and get results, your
muscles need a day to heal in between. But aerobics, situps, and
walking, stuff like that, you can do every day.)
CALORIES:
2162
FAT:
164 Gm, 70 % (Sat 80 gm, 34 %)
CARBS:
36 gm (9 fiber) 25 net 5 %
PROTEIN:
134 gm 25 %
Morning
after notes: The first time I got on the scale it read exactly the
same as yesterday. Talk about pissed off! I went back to bed after
announcing to the bedroom walls in general (loudly) that I was NOT
going to exercise today, and I WAS going to eat like a %$&*ing
pig- and why shouldn't I????
After
five minutes though, I went back in the bathroom and got on the scale
again why?? It's not like I had a BM or anything that would have
changed it and yet it was down half a pound., Then I noticed
that the BF reading was at 27 ya, right!! That's my GOAL
so I got on it again, and took care to place my feet straight on the
pads like you're supposed to instead of the pigeon-toed stance that I
naturally assume when not paying attention, and lo and behold! This
time I read a full pound lower than yesterday, only .5 over my all
time low. I think I will start yelling at the walls EVERY morning,
LOL. And TOM made an unexpected afternoon comeback yesterday so I
suppose I could assume that I may drop yet more water today. Maybe
tomorrow I will be back to where I was just in time for a visit
from my brother and his family. We are headed up into the hills
camping and though I will attempt to make a journal by hand of my
food, there will several days when I am missing in action from this
website, starting this weekend don't miss me too much, haaha.
August
2, 2000 Wednesday
BREAKFAST:
700 am Coffee with half and half cream, ½ an omelette made w/sausage
and cheese, 2/3 of one piece toasted LC bread with butter and TLC
jelly
LUNCH:
12 pm leftover chicken alfredo and cauliflower
SNACK:
2pm 3 TLC coconut kiss cookies
DINNER:
6 pm Pan fried pork and sauerkraut
WATER:
4 liters
EXERCISE:
Nope, should have, but skipped it in favor of chores that needed doing
CALORIES:
2493
FAT:
195 Gm, 71 % (Sat 119 gm, 43 %)
CARBS:
43 gm (12 fiber) 31 net 5 %
PROTEIN:
146 gm 24 %
Morning
after notes: Down one more pound. Saw a bear 10 feet outside my door
at 7 am. Yikes!!
August
3, 2000 Thursday
BREAKFAST:
700 am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 atkins bar
LUNCH:
12 pm salad bar salad in parking lot of grocery store, 1 oz. maui
onion macs
SNACK:
2nibbled on some nuts
DINNER:
7 pm 5 oz. Sirloin steak, 1 venison brat with jalapeno mustard and ½
cup rainbow salad. My SIL and I also drank a pint and a half of vodka
with splenda and whip cream and a WHOLE BOTTLE of strawberry Davinchi
syrup between the 2 of us. Dacquiris, mmmmmmm.
WATER:
4 liter
EXERCISE:
None
CALORIES:
3417
FAT:
266 Gm, 81 % (Sat 84 gm, 26 %)
CARBS:
44 gm (9 fiber) 33 net 5 %
PROTEIN:
103 gm 14 %
Morning
after notes: Didn't sleep very well considering all the alcohol I
drank. Up 1.5 pounds so far I say so far because I can tell I am
very dehydrated ATM. Not too hung over though, and I am sure I can
thank the sugar free mixer for that! The cousins are getting on like
gangbusters and if the rest of their visit is anything like Day 1, I
am going to have a ball - and gain a TON.
August
4, 2000 Friday
BREAKFAST:
700 am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 piece chocolate cheesecake
LUNCH:
12 pm My favorite salad: romaine lettuce with grape tomatoes, red
pepper, feta cheese, bacon and S.H. mustard, also ate 1 oz macs and
drank a beer
SNACK:
OIAB
DINNER:
Italian grilled chicken breasts, MockaRoni & Cheese, another small
salad sans the meat this time and made with asst. baby greens instead
of romaine
My
brother invited another CHEF who he worked with in the old days when
he lived here to eat with us! (No pressure there, right?) I also fixed
scalloped cheesey potatoes for everyone else, but all the adults
actually PREFERRED the mockaroni!! Both cooks, as I like to all them
(gentle ribbing) really liked the red relish, too. And couldn't guess
what was in it, either (I was patting myself on the back then, hehe).
My SIL said she would not have even tried the mockaroni had I told her
what was in it first! (you can see she hasn't thoroughly checked out
the recipes on here yet! But she probably will. I fixed all my faves
for her.)
WATER:
at least 5 liters, gotta flush out that alcohol!
EXERCISE:
None
CALORIES:
2480
FAT:
200 Gm, 76 % (Saturated fat 73 gm, 28 %)
CARBS:
45 gm (12 fiber) 32 net 6 %
PROTEIN:
108 gm 18 %
Morning
after notes: No change this time
August
5, 2000 Saturday through August 7, Monday
Truthfully
cannot remember precisely! On Sunday morning we left for camping,
where I typically ate bacon and eggs for breakfast, and salad for
lunch, with steak, venison brats, hamburgers, or hot links for
dinners. I had a couple pieces of cheesecake and a couple servings of
OIAB while there. I boiled up some turnips and sliced them and put
them in foil (potatoes for the kids and bro) with an onion ring and
some butter and salt and pepper. Those were good thrown on the grill
as a side dish, and we had creamed cucumbers and salad and rainbow
salad with us, so I ate well and stayed very low carb. The last night
I toasted one marshmallow and ate it. I had eaten barely any carbs
that day and the pkg. said only 4 each. Not too bad ~ considering. (We
couldn't have a fire up there because it is SO dry, but the kids
toasted marshmallows over the grill or camp stove.) I felt really
strong and good, & I did a 4 mile walk one morning early, at an
average elevation of 9,500 feet, all up and down. Then there's the
constant walk to go pee, downhill and then back up a steep grade. That
has to add up. And then rafting. All in all, I was good, but I was
good on vacation in June too and gained more than a pound a day, so I
was pleasantly surprised to see that I was still the same weight upon
my return. Of course I was up 2 TOM lbs. when I left and those should
have passed, but I'll still take it!
August
8, 2000 Tuesday
BREAKFAST:
83000 am Instant coffee with half and half cream, scrambled eggs with
sausage, bacon and pepper jack cheese, 2 Tb. 505 green chili sauce
over the top, couple more pieces of bacon on the side
LUNCH:
12 pm My favorite salad: romaine lettuce with grape tomatoes, red
pepper, feta cheese, bacon and S.H. mustard, also ate 1 chicken breast
SNACK:
OIAB
DINNER:
Drank 2 miller lites after rafting the Arkansas through Brown's
Canyon. Yee-hah! A class III float even at this time of year. I
snorted a bunch of water in the bottom picture but kept my seat in the
raft and so did my 8 year old son, 10 year old nephew and 12
year old neice, which is more important. Bet they won't forget this.
Who's your favorite aunt NOW, huh? Haha
WATER:
4 liters
EXERCISE:
A TON. Carrying rafts and gear and paddling for almost 3 hours
hard.
CALORIES:
2428
FAT:
182 Gm, 74 % (Saturated fat 43 gm, 18 %)
CARBS:
35 gm (6 fiber) 29 net 5 %
PROTEIN:
113 gm 20 %
Morning
after notes: See below
August
9, 2000 Wednesday
BREAKFAST:
700 am Coffee with half and half cream, 2 oz. bacon
LUNCH:
12 pm salad: romaine lettuce with ½ pkg. buddig chicken meat, 2 oz.
extra sharp cheese, 1 oz. bacon and S.H. mustard, also ate ½ a Darrel
Lea bar
SNACK:
1 oz. maui onion macs, 1 piece TLC jerky, ½ of a TLC choco coconut
bar
DINNER:
¼ lb. burger with Kraft Deluxe cheese and 1 cup TLC coleslaw
Last
day with the family and it went WAY TOO FAST. Bro announced at dinner
that he is "ready to do this thing too" which made me feel
pretty good. My SIL lost weight while she was here, on vacation!! (and
she was not exactly devout, drank Doc Otis lemonades daily!
(unknown carb count but my guess is high) - and a bunch of bloody
marys one day instead - at 9 carbs per cup). Or course our eating was
similar otherwise. It is just further proof to me that I AM NOT NORMAL
as far as metabolism goes. That's okay, at least I am secure in the
knowledge that"it" was NEVER MY FAULTand it is not my style
of LC food that keeps me from losing either. I do keep getting smaller
regardless of how slow the change is on the scale, and for now I must
try to be content with that. Because I am just NOT going to go the
calorie restriction route. I've been there, done that, and WILL NOT GO
BACK there. Remember me saying " as God is my witness, I will
never be hungry again" Well, I am determined that that remain
true. Because deprivation only made me look and feel ill while I lost
just as slowly. Gotta count those blessings instead of dwelling on the
"it's not fair, everyone else loses a ton doing what I do"
blahs
WATER:
4 liters
EXERCISE:
None
CALORIES:
2579
FAT:
225 Gm, 81 % (Saturated fat 51 gm, 18 %)
CARBS:
20 gm (6 fiber) 14 net 2 %
PROTEIN:
106 gm 17 %
Morning
after notes: Up 1.5 pounds. You can guess how I feel about that!! I
thought the above numbers were damn near perfect and expected to lose
at least a pound of the extra I have been carrying around. L My
muscles are SO SORE today, though. Even my thighs, from bracing myself
to stay in the raft I guess. Maybe they are just late retaining water
in order to heal, repair and grow. I can hope, right?
My
bear picture was on the front page of the local weekly paper today
I emailed it to them right after taking it. Apparently there have been
quite a few sightings besides mine. They say it is too dry and they
are hungry. Hmmm. Where have I heard that before.smile.
August
10, 2000 Thursday
BREAKFAST:
700 am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 Atkins bar
LUNCH:
12 pm 3.5 devilled eggs, 1 vanilla CarboLite shake, ½ oz. bacon
SNACK:
nope
DINNER:
1.5 cups Romaine topped with 6 oz. grilled chix, 1 ring red pepper and
ranch
WATER:
4 liters
EXERCISE:
Tried to Nordictrack and made it 59 seconds before I quit. Too SORE
from rafting! Did manage to do 200 crunches
CALORIES:
1778
FAT:
132 Gm, 69 % (Saturated fat 40 gm, 21 %)
CARBS:
16 gm (3 fiber) 13 net 3 %
PROTEIN:
121 gm 8 %
Morning
after notes: Back down the 1.5 pounds. Yay!
August
11, 2000 Friday
BREAKFAST:
700 am Coffee with half and half cream, 2 pc. (½ oz.) bacon, 2
sausage links
LUNCH:
12 pm Leftover chix breast (5 oz) topped with creamy Italian
sauce/dressing that I whipped up gotta add this to the book list
now, it was awesome and my daughter begged me to make more for her
when she tasted it! 2 oz. (½ cup) blueberries
SNACK:
nope
DINNER:
TLC green chili and a LaTortilla quesasilla (the quesadilla wasn't to
good, won't try that again the LaTortillas just don't cook up
right, they get all tough but the chili was fanatastic and only
3 carbs per servings. DH ate 3 servings but one was enough for me.
WATER:
at LEAST 4 liter
EXERCISE:
Nordictrack- 15 hard minutes then could only manage 110 crunches
then 230 separate arm lifts THEN walked to the PO (in the heat,
yet, at noon, only 99 degrees here!) that's 1.5 miles
CALORIES:
1374
FAT:
98 Gm, 66 % (Saturated fat 41 gm, 28 %)
CARBS:
34 gm (14 fiber) 20 net 6 %
PROTEIN:
94 gm 28 %
Morning
after notes: Little low on protein, esp. considering all the exercise.
Fat is low again was sort of worried about that but, even
though I am still retaining a ton of water (due to the heat?) I was
down 2½ pounds to my NEW all-time low weight!!! I am going to have to
change the flasher on my front page!!! Wish you could see me grin J It
seems that right now reduced calories may be the ticket. It didn't
used to work for me at all, but things change, maybe this is the way
to shake things up for a while. Don't know if I can keep my calories
that low regularly, or that I would want to (I do enjoy some cheese!
And I swore I would not go hungry) but I will try for a while to hit
these low numbers 2 or 3 times a week and see what happens
August
12, 2000 Saturday
BREAKFAST:
700 am Coffee with half and half cream, 4 sausage links, 2.5 scrambled
eggs with pepper jack cheese and 1/3 cup TLC green chili over the top
YUMMM
SNACK:
10am after my ass-kicking walk 1 slice Oroweat light wheat,
toasted with butter and almond butter. Found this new Maranatha almond
butter in my store, all natural and it says 2 Tb = 6 carb and 6 fiber.
I input it into Lifeform as 6 and 5 since nothing in life is
really free! And my snack still only had 6 carbs. Yahoo.
LUNCH:
115pm 1 leftover chicken breast shredded in a latrotilla with
1/3 cup shredded cheese and 1 Tb sour cream & some green tobasco
sauce. Later I ate ½ a Darrel Lea bar.
DINNER:
No real dinner but in three separate installments I ended up eating 6
oz. of cream cheese (2 oz. nuked for 10 seconds and stirred into 1 Tb.
french vanilla Davinchi and 1 tsp. splenda, with 1 tsp, almond butter.
I know, bad girl. Should have eaten a real meal. Had no kids around to
cook for though. And cream cheese is the perfect LC dieter's food,
right, Dr. A? (Don't plan to make a habit of this, don't worry.)
WATER:
4 liters
EXERCISE:
1.5 mile power-walk that completely kicked my ass. I should not have
worn the wrist weights, my arms reminded me of my weightlifting from
yesterday before I even got out of my neighborhood. And my sneaks are
worn out (new in April, $90) so my feet start hurting at the ¾ mile
point. Going school shopping on Monday to Grand Junction, so I will
replace them then. Can't wait! (not for the school shopping, for new
Adidas'!)
CALORIES:
2670
FAT:
211 Gm, 73 % (Saturated fat 85 gm, 29 %)
CARBS:
49 gm (18 fiber) 31 net 5 %
PROTEIN:
146 gm 22 %
Morning
after notes: Too much protein, much higher calories, nevertheless I
was holding at my new low weight this morning, (without the bm that
got me there yesterday!) so I'll take it. Percentages look good, at
least. Today I plan to work on a new dessert steamed blueberry
pudding cake. Wish me luck not eating it all if it comes out as well
as I hope!
August
13, 2000 Sunday
BREAKFAST:
700 am Coffee with half and half cream, 4 slices (1 oz.) bacon, 3
scrambled eggs with 1 oz. pepper jack cheese, 1 slice toasted LC soy
crunch bread with butter
LUNCH:
115pm TLC Green chili my 8 year old BEGGED me to make
more, how about that! Then a serving of steamed fruit pudding
like a bread pudding, you know? Topped with fruit syrup and a drizzle
of heavy cream. YUMMM. All the fruit (rhubarb and blueberries this
time, think I'll do strawberry next time!) pretty much covered up that
nasty soy taste completely. It was really good ~ both my kids wanted
seconds.
SNACK:
4 pm 1 oz pepperoni
DINNER:
530pm about 8 oz. of smoked turkey, yummmmmm, if you don't have a
smoker, consider getting one! Cheap at Wal-Mart and well worth it.
Also ate half of the first vine ripened tomato from my garden, I am
totally impressed with myself. No one out here grows tomatoes but me
and mine always do great! My first garden, a few years ago, I got a
plot at the community gardens and out of 30 plots mine were the only
tomatoes to ripen on the vine at all and I had a bushel from
just 4 plants. All Hail Miracle Grow!!
WATER:
only about 3 liters
EXERCISE:
Day off
CALORIES:
2146
FAT:
151 Gm, 66 % (Saturated fat 59 gm, 26 %)
CARBS:
40 gm (10 fiber) 30 net 6 %
PROTEIN:
148gm 29 %
Morning
after notes: Down another full pound! Yippee!!
August
14, 2000 Monday
BREAKFAST:
700 am Coffee with half and half cream, then at 9, 1 Keto-bar while on
the way driving to Grand Junction to spend entirely too much money
school shopping.
LUNCH:
1230pm in the car in the parking lot about 1 cup of Romaine with
2 oz. smoked turkey and 3 Tb. Ranch, also 1 venison pepperoni stick,
carbs unknown, which I counted as ½ oz. pepperoni cuz it has so much
less fat in it
DINNER:
Ate one more Keto-Bar while driving home about 5:30, at 8pm I had two
bites of the turkey salad I had just made, then at 9pm I had 2 oz. of
cream cheese with 1 tsp. Splenda and 1 Tb. french vanilla Davinchi
syrup
WATER:
only about 3 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
I forgot!
EXERCISE:
Walking all over Sams, the Mall, Wal-Mart, and Target must count for
something
CALORIES:
1713
FAT:
129 Gm, 73 % (Saturated fat 41 gm, 23 %)
CARBS:
23 gm (4 fiber) 19 net 5 %
PROTEIN:
87 gm 22 %
Morning
after notes: Whooooosh! Down another 2.5 pounds!!!!! All (good) things
DO come to those who wait (patiently). I knew (hoped) it was coming ~
because I stepped on the scale when I got home last night and fully
dressed (no shoes) I was only 2 lbs. over my new low weight. That
makes 7.5 pounds in just 5 days, 3.5 pounds of gain-back and 4 pounds
of new fat loss. Hallelujah, I am ecstatic.
August
15, 2000 Tuesday
BREAKFAST:
630am Coffee with heavy cream only got tied up at the computer
forever, it seems.
LUNCH:
after my workout, 11:30am - about 6 oz. filet mignon that I pan-fried
in safflower oil, 2 fried eggs, 1 slice toasted LC soy crunch bread
with butter. Then a little less than half of a Darrel Lea bar. I was
ravenous! Didn't quite make it the whole hour after before I ate, but
close.
SNACK:
about 3pm I got hungry and ate about a cup of the turkey salad I made
with celery and mayo and vinegar and a titch of splenda.
DINNER:
630 beef tenderloin with a few slices of marinated cukes and
tomatoes, then at 8pm the cream cheese concoction I have been eating
at night lately with such good results.(But then I stayed up till
12:30 so I night as well have skipped it!)
WATER:
4 liters
EXERCISE:
Well, after only 2.5 minutes on the NT, I started having heart
palpitations (in between the constant pounding I was already having) a
headache, and felt like I was going to throw up. This made me realize
that I forgot my supplements yesterday! So I went and took today's,
then did 150 crunches, 100 arm lifts, and one more minute on the NT
before I decided to give that up for the day and took a 2 mile walk
instead (sans weights, my arms hurt enough already!) TAKE THOSE
SUPPLEMENTS!
CALORIES:
2303
FAT:
166 Gm, 68% (57 Saturated fat gm, 24 %)
CARBS:
22 gm (2 fiber) 20 net 4%
PROTEIN:
154 gm, 28%
Morning
after notes: Lots of protein, but I do love that beef! And I am
working out hard these days, so it should be okay. Up ½ pound, no big
deal, I consider it a normal fluctuation. Up and down up and down,
just like always It was bound to happen.
August
16, 2000 Wednesday
BREAKFAST:
630am Coffee with half and half cream, 3 eggs scrambled with 3 slices
Am. Cheese and 1 oz. bacon
LUNCH:
1230 Romaine with turkey, feta, cukes, tomatoes and my new Creamy
Italian Parmesan. It is so good I think I can give up my carby ranch
dressing, between it and the Sh Mustard I'll be just fine.
SNACK:
about 3pm 3 oz. cream cheese nuked with Davinchi syrup and cocoa and
splenda
DINNER:
630 Leftover green chili and I made a cheddar cheese crisp to go with
it
WATER:
barely more than 2 liters, don't know why but I just wasn't thirsty
today
EXERCISE:
Managed 175 crunches. When I started I didn't think I'd make 50
I was still sore from yesterday. But I kept at it until I had done
MORE than yesterday. Am going to try to do these every day, and some
cardio and weight lifting every other day (except for weekends,
weekends are for being a slug).
CALORIES:
2090
FAT:
171 Gm, 75% (71 Saturated fat gm, 31 %)
CARBS:
24 gm (6 fiber) 18 net 4%
PROTEIN:
108 gm, 21%
Morning
after notes: Numbers look good nvertheless I am up another half pound,
dang it. Oh well, that's nothing, really, I am still closing in on 40
gone and just a few weeks ago I didn't think I was ever going to break
30. Better be happy, I guess! I may even be retaining water because of
an infection and I am having some trouble exercising, I have had a
sore on my right calf since MEMORIAL DAY weekend. I had my doctor
check it before we left for California in June because it looked
infected and wasn't healing. I then took a whole course of keflex, a
heavy duty antibiotic, then I had him check it again in late June when
I went in for my blood work and pap. It STILL hasn't healed. While
rafting last week it got wet, soft, bumped, and broke open. Either I
re-infected it or the infection has just now finally come to the
surface cuz I am MISERABLE. The top layer peeled off and I now have a
hole in my leg where it has been abcessing under the scab. I soaked it
a bunch yesterday and kept applying neosporin and it HURTS HURTS
HURTS. And although it looks worse than ever, (can you say RAW MEAT) I
think this was all a good thing, at least something is happening now.
I do have a big red patch around it, though, which worries me a lot as
it has started to travel down my leg in a line. I can't help but think
that if I had had a systemic infection for this long I should have
been either cured or dead by now in the middle of the night I lay
there thinking about lovely things like gangrene and flash-eating
bacteria and cancerous tumors. Then I call myself a hypochondriac and
roll over. I will give it till Friday afternoon and keep the hot
compresses going and if it is not significantly better then I will see
the doctor - AGAIN. But I do not think I will be NordicTracking for a
while. I think I can handle a walk though. I guess I will have to
credit all the vitamins and exercise and good nutrition for holding
this infection at bay all these months so far.
Been
looking over my food notes I ate 2 Keto-bars one of the days I
swooshed. I never seem to lose anything when I eat Atkins bars
,though. Tthe Keto Bars say they have 4 carbs and I think they count
ALL of them, unlike the Atkins bars and the uncounted 12 carb of
glycerine. Anyway, I am giving up all the Atkins bars & I am
ordering some more KetoBars. Even though I am eating an Atkins bar
right now! DH doesn't like the Keto bars (am I the ONLY one who
does?), so maybe he won't eat them all in one week. Like he does all
the rest. Grrrr.
August
17, 2000 Thursday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with heavy cream, 1 Atkins bar
LUNCH:
1230 Romaine with half a fresh tomato and 2 oz. cheddar and my new
Creamy Italian Parmesan.
DINNER:
I had something planned but had a cooking catastrophe I was
working on my sweet green relish and I screwed up the seasoning but
good, the first attempt. So I decided since it was already in tiny
tiny pieces, surely I could put it down the disposal without any
problems. DUMMY! I should know better, I stopped using that damn
disposal right after they finished my brand new kitchen you see,
we did all the remodeling ourselves with the help of some friends in
various trades (DH is in construction and so was I for over ten years,
between the two if us we have ALL the trades covered!) ANYWAY, whoever
we got to plumb was not the brightest bulb in the fixture - and we
ended up with about 8 90s in our pipes, which I think is why it CLOGS
UP ALL THE DAMN TIME. Anyway, when I realized that I had clogged it up
again I started pulling all the crap out from underneath so we
could try to snake it out AGAIN and discovered that my top
of the line water filter was leaking like a seive under there. The
board in the base of the cupboard was all rotted out, dipped down, and
holdiong several quarts of slimy stinky water, smelled like some 300
year old basement under a morturary. So now we had to cut out that
piece of cupboard floor and check the subflooring (I have oak hardwood
in the kitchen, a REAL catastrophe if IT gets flooded and warped!!)
Now Dh is planning to re-do the pipes and eliminate three of the 90s
but meanwhile I have dirty dishes all over and no way to clean them
unless I carry them all to my bathroom and do them in the shower. *BIG
SIGH* DAMN IT!
Anyway,
after this happened, I ate some pepperoni chips and cheddar cheese
with the kids instead of the dinner I had planned to cook, and I had a
6 oz. glass of Chardonnay and ¼ cup of pistashios in the shell (I
shelled them and weighed them and they weigh 15 gm. Now I know how
much to enter in Lifeform and I am keeping a ¼ cup size scoop right
there in the jar to help me measure.) I did stop at the one glass of
wine but it gave me the munchies, cuz then I ate an ENTIRE Darrel Lea
bar. THEN I went and nuked 2-3 oz of cream cheese and stirred a Diet
Swiss Miss cocoa packet into it along with Davinchi syrup. Egads! And
it had been a real good day (diet-wise) up till then .
WATER:
only 2 liters, don't know why but I just wasn't thirsty today
AGAIN. What's up with that?
EXERCISE:
Managed 115 crunches. When I started I didn't think I'd make 50
AGAIN - I am sore from doing them every day! Also did about 300
individual arm presses of various types and that's all, no walking
even. (Leg hurts!)
CALORIES:
2124
FAT:
171 Gm, 79% (76 Saturated fat gm, 35 %)
CARBS:
28 gm (5 fiber) 23 net 5%
PROTEIN:
81 gm, 16%
Morning
after notes: Low protein, bad girl! Still I am down half a pound. I
WAS up ANOTHER half pound, which really pissed me off - and so I went
back to bed for an hour to wait for DH to finish with the coffeemaker
and leave for work before I got up (I drink COFFEE, and he drinks
mildly-coffee-flavored water with cream and AS!, so we don't share
coffee). Anyway, by the time I slept some more and then went to the
bathroom again, I was a full pound less than before. Isn't that
weird?! But I'll take it, between my leg and what I did to the kitchen
yesterday, I don't need any additional stress DH is pissed at me, to
say the least, but if I hadn't caused a clog, we might not have
discovered the other catastrophe-in-the-making until it was too late
and we lost a $6K oak floor.. so I am trying to rationalize my
stupidity by telling myself it was all for the best. Meanwhile, I have
no usable kitchen. Guess I will work on typesetting recipes for a few
days more instead of cooking. As long as I can cook all next week
while the kids are in school, this shouldn't affect the book schedule.
(SCHOOL! What a lovely thought.) And I think I will pitch the damn
$300 water filter, start buying water like everybody else in this
town, and put an insta-hot or a soap dispenser in the hole instead.
(We already went through this once - I got replacement parts for the
filter and we thought it was fine it WAS fine, for months.
Gradually I filled up the space down there with cleaning crap again
and forgot to keep checking for new leaks. Duh! Duh! Duh! I will not
stop kicking myself for this one for a looong time.
August
18, 2000 Friday
BREAKFAST:
630am Coffee with half and half cream, ½ cup Nutlette cereal with
watered down heavy cream and a drizzle of vanilla Davinchi syrup.
Mmmmm.
LUNCH:
1230 8 ounces of GF chicken breasts dipped in TLC BBQ sauce
SNACK:
about 130pm 3 oz. cream cheese nuked with Davinchi syrup
DINNER:
630 2 cheeseburgers and 1 cup Romaine with feta and SH mustard
WATER:
3 liters, better
EXERCISE:
Managed 175 crunches again.
CALORIES:
2240
FAT:
165 Gm, 67% (92 Saturated fat gm, 38 %)
CARBS:
31 gm (10 fiber) 21 net 4%
PROTEIN:
161 gm, 29%
Morning
after notes: Protein high, but is always is when I eat burgers. No
change on the scale.
August
19, 2000 Saturday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 oz. cooked bacon
LUNCH:
1230 3 oz white albacore tuna in 1.5 Tb mayo, wrapped up in a
latortilla, also a chunk (1.5 oz) cheddar cheese and some cream cheese
SNACK:
none I was trying very hard to be good
DINNER:
530 Chauteaubriand (flank steak marinated and boiled whole) and
Twice-Baked Faux-tatoes
WATER:
finally drank the whole 4 liters again today
EXERCISE:
Managed 200 crunches! By then I felt better and also did 350 arm
lifts, then I walked 3.15 miles. It rained hard the night before and
the ditches were almost musical, full as they were of running water.
The clouds were big and puffy and lying low, hugging the mountain tops
like puffy mounds of meringue and the smell in the air was incredible.
There's nothing quite like the sudden burst of green that accompanies
the end of a long dry spell. What a day!
CALORIES:
1951
FAT:
134 Gm, 65% (58 Saturated fat gm, 28 %)
CARBS:
33 gm (13 fiber) 20 net 4%
PROTEIN:
145 gm, 31%
Morning
after notes: Stayed away from AS all day. Managed to drink all my
water. Took all my supplments. Did everything right in fact, these
numbers look damn good, and I exercised my ass off for an hour and a
half straight. SO WHY AM I UP HALF A POUND???? Arrrrgh! Reciting all
the old platitudes about muscles that are worked hard retaining water
for repair but am still not very happy with my "reward" for
being good I can tell you one thing: This Sunday I will be a true
slug. I may do my crunches since I managed to them 6 days in a row so
far BUT THAT's IT! And I think I will make ice cream after dinner too.
I deserve it!
August
20, 2000 Sunday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, protein shake Mid-morning, I had
a TLC Peanut Nirvana bar
LUNCH:
1230 ½ a LC pizza I was so pissed about gaining yesterday that
I threatened Pizza Hut - but I made a LC version instead. No more weak
crust attempts, from now on I'll put it on a cheese crisp and call it
good.
SNACK:
2 more PN bars
DINNER:
New York steak, Shrimp & Scallop Scampi, ½ cup leftover
Twice-Baked Faux-tatoes & another bar
WATER:
4 liters
EXERCISE:
Managed 200 crunches! Again, even on Sunday.
CALORIES:
3031
FAT:
238 Gm, 71% (105 Saturated fat gm, 31 %)
CARBS:
51 gm (16 fiber) 35 net 5%
PROTEIN:
183 gm, 24%
Morning
after notes: I decided if I was going to gain weight I might as well
have a reason, and enjoy it, So I invented a new dessert that the
family proclaimed "the best ever"and I ate like a pig, and
indeed, I gained 2.5 pounds overnight. Just water probably, as I can't
even budge my rings. Damned if I will get upset, I can lose it again.
Besides, being very good was getting me nowhere fast the last few
days. At least now I have someplace to go and maybe when these water
pounds roll off they'll take some new weight with them
August
21, 2000 Monday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, then at 10 I fixed 2 fried eggs
with 3 oz. leftover steak and 1 slice toasted LC bread
LUNCH:
130 Made chicken ceasar salads to go and hopped on the motorcycle and
rode up to Vail with my buddy. We spirited our other friend away from
work and all picnicked in Ford Park. My big celebration of school
starting, I rode my bike for the first time in 6 weeks. Summer? What
summer? Oh that summer when I wrote the book and never went outside,
yeah, I remember that summer sort of. Haha. Hopefully it will
all be worth it. Regardless, it will all be over soon.
SNACK:
none
DINNER:
Nuked some pepperoni chips and ate some sharp cheddar and a handful of
pistachios
WATER:
3 liters
EXERCISE:
None at all, didn't even find time for my crunches. I guess after 7
days in a row one off won't kill me!
CALORIES:
2020
FAT:
164 Gm, 74% (70 saturated fat gm, 32 %)
CARBS:
38 gm (9 fiber) 29 net 6%
PROTEIN:
98 gm, 20%
Morning
after notes: Thought I would dump more of the gain-back but I am down
just a half pound. I sure gain easily, I wasn't even that bad AT ALL
when I gained three pounds (35 carbs and 3000 calories) and I will
have to lose them all over again, the hard (slow) way, it seems. Oh
well, I have that doctor's appt. in a couple hours, he may cut 3
pounds of gangrenous flesh out of my calf. I am scared to death about
this whole thing. At least I got a bike ride in yesterday since I may
be laid up for a while now Cross your fingers for me!
August
22, 2000 Tuesday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream and a Pnut Nirvana bar
LUNCH:
130 Keto-Pasta topped with TLC Marinara. I was practically in tears.
The pasta wasn't ALL that good, but it was recognizably pasta, and
with a killer sauce on top, it transported me back, back, to the old
days the only difference was that after I was done eating I did
not feel as though I needed a nap! I will be ordering more of this
stuff!
SNACK:
30g pistachio nuts (about 50) 2 Diet Rite colas this stuff is
GOOD. Funny, I was a Pepsi drinker and this reminds me the most of
real Coke, but I like it better than either, really. Drank 2 so it
could be a test, I was thrilled to pieces to find it in my local
store, finally.
DINNER:
Taco salad, then half a frozen pnut bar. Whoa! They are even better
frozen, like a chewy but still soft ice cream bar of some kind. Mitch
took one to a guy he knows at the jobsite who went on the Atkin diet
and the guy almost cried, he said. He said I should cut them in the
size of an Atkins bar and he'll charge him $3 a piece and take one
every day. Hmmmm. A profitable little sideline that would be! And I
don't think his wife cooks at all, so even if he buys a book maybe I
can still build a pre-made products business.. hmmm, potential
everywhere. Time is the only current enemy.
WATER:
3 liters
EXERCISE:
Not after the doctor dug around in my leg all morning to take a
culture.
CALORIES:
1392
FAT:
102 Gm, 66% (42 saturated fat gm, 27 %)
CARBS:
41 gm (10 fiber) 31 net 9%
PROTEIN:
86 gm, 25%
Morning
after notes: Protein inadequate but I didn't do diddly (physically)
all day, so, so what. (It does matter, but I have other things on my
mind that seem a lot more important right now.) Down 1 pound. Calories
low enough to balance out the 10% carbs, I guess. Considering how low
the calories were, I sort of expected to lose more, but I will always
take a loss, happily. 1.5 pounds of gain-back to go, still.
Considering the infection in my leg (It is an infection! It is an
infection! It is an infection! The culture WILL grow something - cuz I
don't want to have to see the general surgeon for exploratory surgery
and biopsy, and that is the next step, he says). Anyway, I can at
least blame this current weight gain on the stress my body is under
from fighting an infection (true or not, hehe). On the up side, my
pulse was 58 and BP was 110/71 when they checked it, and they couldn't
be any better. I just wish he hadn't asked me quite so many times
about any family history that includes skin cancers or disorders. I
don't have the time to worry about this right now.. not to mention it
puts a crimp in my exercising. And scares small children. And keeps me
from wearing pants. And keeps me from sleeping. This is the first time
in my life I have ever prayed for something TO grow in a culture. But
if it does then we can treat it with antibiotics instead of surgery.
GROW, bacteria, GROW!
August
23, 2000 Wednesday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream and half a peanut butter and bacon
sandwich 1 toasted slice LC bread with 1 tsp. of pnut butter and
4 slices cooked bacon. Ate 2 more slices by themselves
LUNCH:
No real lunch, too much tasting going on ate 2 TLC brownies and
3 deep fried battered cheese stix
SNACK:
1 slice TLC Impossible Breakfast Pie
DINNER:
Stuffed Santa Fe Chicken at 930 PM I ate half a nirvana bar
WATER:
3 liters
EXERCISE:
Did my 200 crunches, anyway
CALORIES:
2228
FAT:
163 Gm, 66% (27 saturated fat gm, 27 %)
CARBS:
46 gm (11 fiber) 35 net 6%
PROTEIN:
152 gm, 27%
Morning
after notes: Up another **** half a pound. THESE NUMBERS ARE NOT THAT
BAD, DIET GODS. Cut me some slack, would ya?! (Apparently not. This
book is getting expensive in more ways than one.)
August
24, 2000 Thursday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, wasn't hungry and just didn't
force myself for a change
LUNCH:
Tasting! Starting at noon-ish: 1 bag Lean Protein Cool Ranch chips, 1
slice Maple Nut Trifle, 1 square CarboLite dark Chocolate, 1 square
CarboLite white chocolate
DINNER:
530 TLC French Onion Soup and Decadent Crab Puffs. I put my crab
puff mixture from the old days on some imported Italian toasts I found
that have only 5.5 carbs each. OMG. Talk about good. One or two of
those toasts with chicken salad or tuna would be so good for lunch. At
5.5 carbs each, they are do-able for sure. They are called Bellino
Gourmet Italian Toast wheat crackers and I found them near the
crackers and melba toasts.
WATER:
4 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
Started 1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab in place of GNC multi
EXERCISE:
Shot answer NO. Long answer TOM showed up early (right after I started
making the cake and after the UPS man showed up with white and dark LC
chocolate and 0-carb chips! OMG, don't tell me that's not a conspiracy
of some kind, bringing me that stuff when I am most vulnerable and
when I am already making something yummy! But I did really well not
pigging out, I just never did fit in my exercises.)
CALORIES:
1706
FAT:
140 Gm, 73% (63 saturated fat gm, 33 %)
CARBS:
35 gm (5 fiber) 30 net 7%
PROTEIN:
84 gm, 20%
Morning
after notes: Gained a full pound. I'll blame it on TOM cause the
numbers for sure do not merit a full pound gain! Book progress on
schedule this week. Waiting breathlessly for results on the culture
but I have a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach that the answer will
not be what I wish
August
25, 2000 Friday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, 1.5 slices Impossible Pie
LUNCH:
1 cup romaine with 1 oz. pepperoni, ¼ cup shredded cheddar, 3Tb. TLC
Ranch, 1 leftover Santa Fe Chicken
SNACK:
1.5 Nirvana bars
DINNER:
530 Barbecued beans and Beef Stroganoff, later another Nirvana bar
WATER:
4 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
yes plus *1 Antibiotic
EXERCISE:
Exercise and TOM do not coincide
CALORIES:
2492
FAT:
201 Gm, 74% (89 saturated fat gm, 33 %)
CARBS:
48 gm (15 fiber) 33 net 5%
PROTEIN:
130 gm, 21%
Morning
after notes: I expected a big gain since I am bloated and on meds for
my leg, which felt tingly and then swelled some last night, but to my
surprise there was no change on the scale. Must have lost a little bit
of fat, to balance out the water gain. Thanks for the small favor,
God. I appreciate it.
August
26, 2000 Saturday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, 3 slices bacon
LUNCH:
TLC buttermilk biscuit, I ended up eating THREE!! one with TLC sausage
gravy, one with butter and the last one with butter and TLC jelly.
YUM.
SNACK:
1 Nirvana bar, 2 Tb. TLC strawberry jam
DINNER:
6pm Grilled filet mignon with scalloped turnips, Spoonbread
rolls, & some leftover TLC BBQ beans. Then TLC strawberry ice
cream. Ended up eating Mitch's too cuz his was melting while he talked
to the cops. He and a guy he works with worked on our dirt bikes and
got them running yesterday. Someone on our street of
almost-all-dirt-bike-riders-and-owners called the cops to complain
that they were riding up and down the street and "disturbing the
peace" (while tuning them up, you know?) Anyway, the guy working
for him used to live behind us. "She" keeps putting the guy
in jail, it's one of those lovely long stories, anyway we're pretty
sure she must have seen him here and decided to call the cops about
the bikes and see if she could put him in jail again. But now she's
messing with US ..BIG mistake!! Our SIL works for the sheriff's office
and we are gonna find out for sure if it was her or not, and if so, it
is not gonna be a fun neighborhood. She has been running down here
crying on our shoulder about this guy to us for weeks now, how dare
she try to get US in trouble now, just as a small part of her revenge
on him? She knows that he works for Mitchand they are friends and he
is apt to be here, big deal. Why does every couple on the world that
goes through a break up think Mitch and I belong square in the middle
of their dispute, anyway? Seems we are always playing
Johnny-in-the-middle and I am sick sick sick of it!!! I have enough
problems of my own without all the whackos in the world adding to them
speaking of whackos, while I was eating Mitch's melting ice cream his
ex-partner from years ago called on the phone and scared the hell out
of me. First she said she had been drinking and wasn't supposed to be,
but when she started talking crazy I asked her to call sometime when
she was sober and she said she'd only had one drink .. and I actually
believe her. She said she had been in and out of mental hospitals for
years and I definitely believe that! You see she had a substance abuse
problem when she was running the books (she was a partner then) for
Mitch and X's company years ago. X had an affair with her (she was
married at the time, he wasn't) and then when she lost her ability to
run the company any more due to her drug use (and I think after she
embezzled a LOT of money from us to FUND her drug use) they got
together and voted her out of the company. This has been 6 years ago
now! So anyway, she calls and is talking all crazy, first it's
"THEY took everything away from me and my life has been hell ever
since" then it's "X is gonna pay that bastard" and
finally " I love you, Karen, and please give Mitch a hug from
me". Humming the Twilight Zone theme music, Karen says "This
woman is whacked. I hope she didn't hurt herself and even more so I
hope she doesn't come here and hurt one of us!!" A really scary
thing, she seems completely fixated on a past which never happened
not the way she remembers it, anyway. Even though I liked her very
much, I was all for throwing her out of the company when she wouldn't
get help for her cocaine addiction. You can only help an addict just
so much and then it's time to cut the cords so they WILL bottom out
that's the only time they are apt to seek help, after hitting rock
bottom. But this gal is more messed up than ever. SCARY SCARY SCARY.
If I disapppear and the website is never updated again, someone better
forward this entry to the local police, 'kay? Cuz one the
"exes" did it for sure. And I think it was the ex-partner
from Grand Junction Colorado. Just wanted this on record somewhere,
cuz I am a truly paranoid low carb person after the events of this day
and I am only kidding a little bit.
WATER:
4 liters
CALORIES:
2922
FAT:
230 Gm, 72% (114 saturated fat gm, 36 %)
CARBS:
68 gm (17 fiber) 51 net 7%
PROTEIN:
151 gm, 20%
Morning
after notes: I expected a gain of several pounds, but to my surprise
there was NO CHANGE. Surprise, surprise, surprise! said Gomer.
August
27, 2000 Sunday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 TLC buttermilk biscuit with
butter and TLC strawberry jam
LUNCH:
1245pm 1 piece Impossible Pie and 5/6 of the last leftover Santa Fe
Chicken
SNACK:
2pm 1 Nirvana bars
DINNER:
530 2 slices of bacon yup, that's all, folks. The old man fell
asleep in the chair and I was working at the computer (worked right
through the scheduled chat, oops!). Anyway, I never cooked anything
except bacon and eggs for the kids and since I wasn't too hungry
myself, I nibbled on some bacon and left it at that.
WATER:
3 liters
CALORIES:
1353
FAT:
106 Gm, 71% (48 saturated fat gm, 33 %)
CARBS:
29 gm (8 fiber) 21 net 6%
PROTEIN:
74 gm, 22%
Morning
after notes: Down 2.5 pounds, within one pound of my all-time low and
once again knocking on the door of forty pounds gone, Whoo Hoo! I may
never feed DH again, at this rate.
August
28, 2000 Monday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, noting else as I wanted to work
out on an empty stomach
BRUNCH:
1230pm ½ cup Nutlette soy cereal with soy milk (ACK!) and a drizzle
of fr. Vanilla davinchi syrup
SNACK:
2pm 1 Nirvana bar, then later ¼ cup pistachios in the shell, 15 gm
unshelled, about 25 nuts
DINNER:
6pm 1 bowl TLC crab bisque and about 6 oz of grilled venison that my
brother brought me from Wisconsin. I don't know what they do to those
deer in WI but MAN! That was the best venison I have ever eaten in my
life, better than elk, even. Thanks Kelly & Lynette! 1 more
Nirvana bar later
WATER:
4 liters
EXERCISE:
250 ab crunches, 13 minutes on the NT, and 20 minutes of arm weights
(upped the barbell weight, and lost count of lifts). This all brought
TOM back for an encore performance but hopefully he is gone now till
next month! Good riddance, too.
CALORIES:
1822
FAT:
135 Gm, 68% (65 saturated fat gm, 33 %)
CARBS:
43 gm (19 fiber) 24 net 5%
PROTEIN:
120 gm, 27%
Morning
after notes: no change, darn it. But that beats an unexplained gain,
anytime, so don't get any ideas Murphy!!
August
29, 2000 Tuesday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, 2 string cheeses
LUNCH:
1 cup Romaine lettuce with 2 oz. cold venison, 1 oz. pepperoni, 2 Tb.
TLC ranch dressing, 2 oz. cream cheese
SNACK:
2pm 1 piece TLC coconut pie, 1 piece TLC pecan pie, ½ bag Lean
Protein Chips
DINNER:
6pm 1 TLC corn dog, ½ serving TLC meatloaf (ate both of these with
TLC catsup it's killer! Tastes just like Heniz to me, and has
less than 1 carb per Tb) an entire Darrel Lea chocolate bar PLUS 4
squares CarboLite dark chocolate and 2 sq. white (the dark is the BEST
by far!)
WATER:
4 liters
CALORIES:
2309
FAT:
190 Gm, 77 % (61 saturated fat gm, 25 %)
CARBS:
39 gm (13 fiber) 26 net 5%
PROTEIN:
99 gm, 18%
Morning
after notes: down half a pound again! Forty pounds lost club,
here I come!! ^High^ fat works again, Ya-Hoooooooo!
August
30, 2000 Wednesday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream
LUNCH:
Noonish after working out: 1 pkg. Buddig chicken with 1 oz. cream
cheese
SNACK:
2pm My "real" lunch: 1.33 cups TLC crab bisque, ½ a string
cheese
DINNER:
4pm 2 servings TLC chocolate pie filling/pudding. OMG. Only 2 carbs
per serving without crust, I think I am in heaven! ½ bag of Lean
protein chips.
WATER:
4 liters
EXERCISE:
200 crunches, 13 minutes on the NordicTrack, 20 minutes of weights
CALORIES:
965
FAT:
81 Gm, 75 % (42 saturated fat gm, 39 %)
CARBS:
15 gm (4 fiber) 11 net 4%
PROTEIN:
49 gm, 20%
Morning
after notes: Woefully low on protein but it is just ONE day, right?
Now that I see the numbers I am a little shocked, though. Apparently
crab has very little protein in it!! Results: Down another half pound.
I
DID IT! FORTY POUNDS GONE - FOREVER
August
31, 2000 Thursday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, 2 fried eggs, 2 slices bacon, 1
slice toasted Rainbo Light sourdough LC bread, with 1 tsp. butter and
1 Tb. TLC strawberry jam. Mmmm, my reward (for 40 down).
LUNCH:
11am: 1 Keto-Bar Noon: 1 cup romaine with 50g tomatoes, 2 Tb shredded
cheddar, 1 HB egg, and 3 Tb TLC Ranch, 1 Diet Rite
SNACK:
2pm Tasting! ½ a TLC blueberry muffin (maintenance style, 6 carbs in
just the half!) with butter 1 slice cranberry orange bread
(maintenance style, 10 carbs in one slice!) no butter needed, and one
piece of TLC lemon meringue pie (5 carbs period). That's 21 carbs
eaten in five minutes time. Uh-oh.
DINNER:
6pm 6 oz thinly sliced flank steak flash fried in olive oil
WATER:
only 2.5 liters
EXERCISE:
off day
CALORIES:
1928
FAT:
127 Gm, 64 % (38 saturated fat gm, 19 %)
CARBS:
53 gm (14 fiber) 39 net 9%
PROTEIN:
124 gm, 27%
Morning
after notes: My food must be magic. OK, OK, it's the low glycemic
index, I am sure, but I like the term magic better. I could never eat
40 net carbs of "regular" food without gaining. LOL, not
only was I still down the full 40 this morning, I was down **another**
half pound. I'll be bumping my head on the ceiling all day! A great
way to close out the month!! Wish you could see the ****-eating grin
on my face
SEPTEMBER
2000
MY
NUTRITIONAL GOALS: revised again 9-22-00
FAT
GOAL: = 50% - 65% of total calories, with saturated fat = <40gm
CARBS:
NET = < 40gm
FIBER:
20 gm per day minimum
PROTEIN
= 100 GM daily
CALORIES:
< 1800-2000/day, now that I am restricting fats somewhat due to my
rising LDL cholesterol levels. All others whose main goal is weight
loss should still aim for that 65%+ fat level, in my opinion. I
personally have always had a problem with cholesterol, so my case is
atypical.
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1
Microhydrin antioxidant *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex
**
Your goals may need to be different but these are mine - FOR NOW
**
September
1, 2000 Friday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, 2 fried eggs, 2 slices bacon, 1
slice toasted Rainbo Light Sourdough LC bread, with 1 tsp. butter and
1 Tb. TLC strawberry jam. Mmmm, my reward (for 40 down).
LUNCH:
12pm 1 Oscar Meyer beef frank dipped in TLC catsup, 2/3 cup rainbow
Salad, 1 oz. cream cheese with fr. vanilla davinchi syrup
SNACK:
2pm Tasting! 3 TLC chocolate drop cookies, 1 TLC mint
DINNER:
6pm TLC tuna casserole, ½ cup TLC cold green bean almondine, and 1.5
cheese pots
WATER:
only 2.5 liters
EXERCISE:
just 175 crunches, and 6 minutes on NordicTrack I forgot my
supps yesterday! I can always tell when I try to exercise.. didn't
even try any weights
CALORIES:
2568
FAT:
208 Gm, 75 % (83 saturated fat gm, 30 %)
CARBS:
36 gm (6 fiber) 30 net 5%
PROTEIN:
124 gm, 20%
Morning
after notes: Up one full pound
September
2, 2000 Saturday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, 3 eggs scrambled with 2 slices
am. chz, 1 oz. bacon, 1 slice toasted Rainbo Light Sourdough LC bread,
with 1 tsp. butter
LUNCH:
12pm 1 KetoBar, ½ cup Rainbow salad inside a swiss, taco-shaped, chz
crisp
SNACK:
Percodan and antibiotics after my appointment(s)
DINNER:
sleeping
WATER:
only 2.5 liters
EXERCISE:
did a lot of moaning and crying while the doctor probed my owie and
took off as much of the scab as he could without killing me
CALORIES:
1690
FAT:
134 Gm, 76 % (46 saturated fat gm, 26 %)
CARBS:
26 gm (5 fiber) 21 net 5%
PROTEIN:
77 gm, 19%
Morning
after notes: WEIGHT: Back down the pound
PERSONAL:
The doctor in Eagle who had planned to cut open my leg looked pale
when he saw it this morning, and he said he didn't think it was
possible for him to do it in the office, due to the extent of the
infection around it and that fact that stitching that flesh might not
even work cause it may be too "rotted" to hold stitches. He
said "It would probably be okay - but if you ended up with a 16
inch infection site or I couldn't stop the bleeding and I said
"You're telling me I could LOSE MY LEG FROM THE KNEE DOWN aren't
you? And he said "YES!" Gulp.
So
we made an appointment with a general surgeon/oncologist in Vail who I
know (and trust! more importantly) from 16 years ago. He got me right
in and he took off as much of the main scab as he could (talk about
painful!!) and put me on antibiotic #3. He also gave me some Percodans
for the pain and drew around the infection with a Sharpie marker. Told
Mitch to take care of me!! (I love that doctor) keep me off my leg as
much as possible, make sure I soaked it for an hour at least twice a
day in the tub, to try to pull the rest of the scab off with tweezers
while soft, and to take the antibiotics religiously. He took new
cultures from the bottom, under the scab. He didn't come right out and
say so, but he thinks the other doctor is** NUTS**, I can tell. He
closed his eyes and shook his head when I told him he had planned to
cut it out, and when I said it had staph, he just sort of smiled and
said "everything has staph, that doesn't mean anything".
Anyway, when I left HIS office, I no longer felt like I was apt to
become an amputee, or die. I felt much better. Of course, we don't
know a lot yet, he said he will call mid-week with results from the
new cultures and if the redness travels outside of the line he drew I
should come back immediately. He also gave me permission to drink one
or two beers if I want to, on Monday! (I mentioned when he gave the
new anitibiotics that 'there goes my brew-skis on Monday' and he said
'Nah, have one or two anyway, sounds like you deserve them'. This is
my kind of doctor!! So I am hurting a lot and will continue to, I just
pulled off some more scab when I got up. OUCH. But it looks like I apt
to live, (with TWO legs, no less) Yippee!!
September
3, 2000 Sunday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 fried egg and 1 oz. bacon
LUNCH:
12pm 4 slices deli roast beef, flash fried, then 3 OM beef franks in
TLC catsup
SNACK:
1 TLC mint, 1 TLC chocolate drop cookie, ½ cup pistachios in the
shell, ¼ cup macadamias, and an entire Darrel Lea bar(!!)
DINNER:
T-bone steak, small salad with romaine, tomato, red pepper and TLC
ranch, then a ton of cream cheese with davinchi syrup
WATER:
3.5 liters
EXERCISE:
not likely, I am not even supposed to be on my feet
CALORIES:
3074
FAT:
252 Gm, 76 % (97 saturated fat gm, 29 %)
CARBS:
40 gm (8 fiber) 32 net 5%
PROTEIN:
144 gm, 19%
Morning
after notes: WEIGHT: Up 3.5 pounds - gotta be the meds! (the pain
pills give me awful munchies, so I will try not to eat any more of
those).
September
4, 2000 Monday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 Keto-bar
LUNCH:
12pm 1 cup Romaine with 1 HB egg, tomato, red pepper and TLC ranch
SNACK:
none antibiotic diarrhea has started OUCH! I had forgotten
what hemorrhoids were since I went LC. Let's just say that I have not
missed them and these are as BAD as any I ever experienced -
including right after giving birth. I am afraid to eat or drink
anything! But am keeping up with my water anyway (of course).
DINNER:
forced down an Atkins bar and 1 devilled egg from the birthday girl's
party which 18 girls showed up for! Thank God for Mitch, I spent
most of the time in bed with my leg elevated under a hot compress
(when I wasn't in the bathroom). I did make them a huge batch of
buffalo wings, which went over great. No major disasters, I did find a
pop can ring on my 115 year old dresser which I use for a buffet but I
think I can get it out. I can't walk across the floor without becoming
glued to it, either, but at least they did most of the dishes for me.
2 solid hours cleaning today and I will be back to where I was before
I got laid up with this leg thing. I may wait for her to come home
from school and order her around doing it instead, too! Seems only
fair {I did wait for her. Of course, she did a crappy job - she is a
teen. But it's a start.}
WATER:
about 4 liters
EXERCISE:
did 200 crunches in the morning
CALORIES:
946
FAT:
66 Gm, 70 % (23 saturated fat gm, 24 %)
CARBS:
18 gm (3 fiber) 15 net 7%
PROTEIN:
51 gm, 24%
Morning
after notes: Down 3 pounds of the gain, still up 0.5 lb (surprisingly!
considering)
September
5, 2000 Tuesday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream When that stayed down, I went to
the store and bought some live acidopphilus culture milk and yogurt.
Then I made a double protein shake with both milk and yogurt. Call the
Doc, he said to stop taking the antibiotics until we find out if they
are helping, so this should be the only high carb fixer upper I need,
I hope.
LUNCH:
12pm 2 oz cheddar made into a chz crisp taco. 1/3 cup Rainbow salad in
the taco
SNACK:
Atkins chocolate mocha crunch bar. Not bad! In fact, one of the best
flavors I've tried.
DINNER:
2 leftover brats dipped in mustard and TLC catsup
WATER:
about 4 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
I forgot!
EXERCISE:
none
CALORIES:
2146
FAT:
162 Gm, 69 % (73 saturated fat gm, 31 %)
CARBS:
41 gm (4 fiber) 37 net 7%
PROTEIN:
124 gm, 24%
Morning
after notes: Up another full pound. But I should be able to eat
normally today, so hopefully I can dump that and the other half lb.
that I put on since I started the meds and inactivity combo.
September
6, 2000 Wednesday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream At 10:30 I sauteed a chicken
breast.
LUNCH:
330 Ate a double serving of TLC Mexicali Quiche (find the Impossible
Pie recipe on the message board and make it with pepper jack cheese
and chorizo sausage instead of spinach and bacon. OMG. Really good.
Really fast. Really easy!) Then I ate a ¼ cup of pistachios.
DINNER:
Ooops. I ate 3 TLC almond biscotti cookies instead of a meal. My
eating habits have really suffered with the whole book process, once I
finish making the last few recipes I will have to concentrate again on
eating balanced meals and plenty of veggies. Meanwhile, oh well.
WATER:
about 3 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
the usual
EXERCISE:
none
CALORIES:
2376
FAT:
192 Gm, 73 % (63 saturated fat gm, 24 %)
CARBS:
47 gm (16 fiber) 31 net 5%
PROTEIN:
126 gm, 21%
Morning
after notes: No change! Yet again it appears that I can overdo the
carbs when they are from my own recipes, without gain.
September
7, 2000 Thursday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 Atkins bar
LUNCH:
2pm Double serving Mexicali Quiche. Even better the next day, nuked. 1
Pnut Nirvana bar. Big difference between this batch (with Ultimate Lo
Carb whey protein shake mix) and the one made with CarboLite shake
mix. Still good but not nearly as much.
SNACK:
none
DINNER:
2 TLC Fish fritters, and some TLC tartar sauce. I also made TLC clam
chowder, which DH has approved (I hate the stuff, New England native
or not! But wanted to include it in the cookbook) So three recipes
today, even though I went in to Vail for the biopsy on my leg. I've
had 4 Percosets since. There won't be any results till Monday, that's
a long time to have to wait for something like that. Of course I am
firmly in denial that it could be cancer. After all, I am invincible.
And it would be just too cruel a joke for me to come down with
something serious now that I have finally cleaned up my act almost
completely! I was more dreading the pain involved with numbing the
area, now that that's over I am SO relieved that I'm not really
freaking about the other yet. I had a cup of coffee fortified
with french vanilla davinchi syrup after dinner too.
WATER:
about 4 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *2
Microhydrin antioxidants *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex
EXERCISE:
no
CALORIES:
1971
FAT:
153 Gm, 72 % (66 saturated fat gm, 31 %)
CARBS:
32 gm (7 fiber) 25 net 5%
PROTEIN:
110 gm, 23%
Morning
after notes: Down half pound again. Up and down, up and down
September
8, 2000 Friday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, the last of the Mexicali Quiche
LUNCH:
12pm 2 fried eggs, 1 piece toast (LC ranibo Lite bread) with butter
and TLC strawberry jam, 4 slices bacon
SNACK:
2 Nirvana bars, some deli torkey rolled up with swiss
DINNER:
2 TLC Fish fritters dipped in TLC Ranch, handful pistachios, 2 glasses
Chardonnay!!
WATER:
about 3 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *2
Microhydrin antioxidants *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex
EXERCISE:
no
CALORIES:
2830
FAT:
203 Gm, 71 % (79 saturated fat gm, 27 %)
CARBS:
50 gm (12 fiber) 38 net 6%
PROTEIN:
152 gm, 24%
Morning
after notes: Down a full pound to match my all-time low, how very
strange, given the numbers
September
9, 2000 Saturday my 16th wedding anniversary
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 Keto-Bar
LUNCH:
12pm?? In the truck, on a road trip: some deli turkey rolled up with
swiss, some peanuts, a Diet Rite cola
SNACK:
several Miller Lites!
DINNER:
Pepper steak (filet mignon in a dark sauce, ingredients unknown) Salad
with Ranch, tomatoes, cukes, stir-fried veggies (zukes, yellow
crooknecks, 2 pea pods, and 1 slice carrot, I ate every single bite!)
Threw back the bread and potato without a qualm. Also had a snifter of
Grand Marnier after dinnner.
WATER:
about 3 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *2
Microhydrin antioxidants *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex
EXERCISE:
no
CALORIES:
2018
FAT:
107 Gm, 60 % (32 saturated fat gm, 18 %)
CARBS:
43 gm (8 fiber) 35 net 9%
PROTEIN:
128 gm, 32%
Morning
after notes: Who knows? No scale in the hotel room, but I have no
regrets, regardless.
September
10, 2000 Sunday GO BRONCOS!!!!!
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 Atkins Bar
LUNCH:
12pm?? In the truck, on the way home: some deli turkey rolled up with
swiss and jalapeno mustard, some pistachios, a Diet Rite cola, 2
Nirvana bars
SNACK:
At halftime: made a LC pizza, cheddar cheese crisp crust, topped with
1 fresh sliced tomato, pepperoni, and mozarella. Not very good, I
think I am cured of the fake pizza urge, there is nothing like the
real thing and until I can afford to occasionally indulge in the real
thing, I am all done with fakes!
DINNER:
Nada, sip, zilch, the biopsy results are due tomorrow and I am getting
increasingly nervous
WATER:
about 3 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *2
Microhydrin antioxidants *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex
EXERCISE:
no
CALORIES:
2537
FAT:
198 Gm, 71 % (95 saturated fat gm, 34 %)
CARBS:
42 gm (12 fiber) 30 net 5%
PROTEIN:
148 gm, 24%
Morning
after notes: I am up 1.5 pounds, total, from either Saturday or
Sunday, I don't know and I don't much care, to tell you the truth! I
was very good, overall, and whatever happens, happens. Besides, I
hardly slept last night and we all know that can affect ketosis
adversely. Praying for good news from the doctor is all I can think
about ATM.
September
11, 2000 Monday
BREAKFAST:
7am Coffee with half and half cream
BRUNCH:
1030 3 fried eggs with 1 oz. cooked wt. bacon, 1 slice Oroweat Lite
wheat bread, toasted with 1 tsp butter
SNACK:
4pm 90 grams (5 good bites) of Cantaloupe and ½ slice of TLC jerky
DINNER:
630pm 2 cheeseburgers made from ground round and deluxe Am chz,
plus a piece of cheese I ate almost unconsciously as I was waiting for
the patties to cook on Georgedipped them in TLC catsup and mustard,
also had a salad with Romaine, MY OWN vine-vipened KILLER cherry
tomatoes and 1 ring red pepper, TLC ranch.
WATER:
not as much as usual, she realized, heading for the fridge!
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *2
Microhydrin antioxidants *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex PM *1 Twin
Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex
EXERCISE:
none. Again. I am really depressed about this leg thing, and I seem to
have no uuumpf to do my abs and arms even, I just sit and around and
wallow in self-pity because I can't go for nice long walks in the
beautiful fall weather to start my workouts. It's PATHETIC and I am
not going to do it anymore. The infection is improving steadily and
starting tomorrow I am walking again daily, with my new ankle weights,
damnit!! And resuming my abs and arm weights too. If my leg infection
gets worse, then I will discontinue the leg work. But this is
ridiculous. Really. And I was supposed to get word on the biopsy today
but after jumping 6 feet everytime the phone DID ring, it turned into
evening with no call from the Doc. So the party line around here
tonight is "No news is good news". From this internet to
God's ear!!
CALORIES:
1711
FAT:
121 Gm, 67 % (45 saturated fat gm, 25 %)
CARBS:
38 gm (8 fiber) 30 net 5%
PROTEIN:
106 gm, 26%
Morning
after notes: Down one pound of the gain, and only ½ pound above my
all-time low.
September
12 Tuesday
I
DON'T HAVE CANCER.
THANK
GOD!
540pm
Today was difficult, to say the least. At 10 am I broke down and
phoned the doctor's office and the stupid little girl who answers the
phone told me 'yes I think your results are in but I can't seem to
find your file and the doctor's in his other office today" so
from that moment on my imagination decided that he must be waiting to
break bad news to me in person at my appt. tomorrow, on Wednesday. But
he just called me and he just got the results now and they are GOOD.
For some reason all I can do is cry How do you spell RELIEF?
N*E*G*A*T*I*V*E***B*I*O*P*S*Y* that's how!
LIFE
IS GOOD. DON'T ANY OF YOU FORGET TO LIVE IT.
TODAY
MAY BE ALL WE HAVE AND WE MUST ALWAYS MAKE IT COUNT!
BREAKFAST:
½ pot (3 mugs) real coffee with 1.5 Tb. heavy cream, altogether
BRUNCH:1235pm
One hour after completing workout, for maximum fat burning: One cup
Romaine lettuce, 30gm cherry tomatoes, 2 Tb. TLC Ranch, 90gm
cantaloupe, 2 Hebrew Nat'l 1-carb beef dogs dipped in jalapeno mustard
SNACK:
3pm 1 slice TLC jerky
DINNER:
2 Miller Lites, HERE'S TO LIFE!! 2 boneless chix breast cooked on
George, later: ½ Darrel Lea bar
WATER:
only 2 liters, max
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *2
Microhydrin antioxidants *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex
EXERCISE:
3 mile power walk with 3 lb. wrist and 5 lb. ankle weights, 220 ab
crunches and 20 minutes dumbbell work for pecs, shoulders, arms
CALORIES:
1666
FAT:
106 Gm, 66 % (41 saturated fat gm, 26 %)
CARBS:
25 gm (2 fiber) 23 net 6%
PROTEIN:
99 gm, 27%
Morning
after notes: I am down 2 lbs. from yesterday, 1.5 of that new loss,
for a grand total of 42 pounds gone! Looking at this menu I find it
hard to believe that I had too much fat, according to the dietician I
saw when attempting to control my cholesterol through lowfat. If you
ask me, it was a banner day no matter WHAT your diet planyet they
think anything over 70g/day is too much. WHAT A JOKE. I didn't even
have any cheese or butter, and I went way over thatI WAS hungry in the
afternoon, but I ignored it due to stress and wanting to LOSE
something. I've had so much yuk in my life the last ten days I really
needed a boost and this did it. Changing that flasher on my home page
makes me REALLY HAPPY!!! Not as happy as a negative biopsy, of course,
but STILL happy!
September
13, Wednesday
BREAKFAST:
½ pot (3 mugs) real coffee with 2 Tb. heavy cream, also 2.5 scrambled
eggs with 1 slice Am. Cheese melted in (OK I made 5 eggs with 2 slices
and split it with my kid, so..)
SNACK:
1030 on the way to the doctor I ate a Keto Bar
LUNCH:
2pm after shopping Salad: 1 cup Romaine with 30g cherry
tomatoes, 1 oz. shredded cheddar, 4.5 oz. chicken breast and 1.5 Tb.
TLC Ranch, also ate 100gm. fresh raspberries (about 20 berries) and
stopping was VERY HARD. Then I went and ate 1.5 TLC cheese crackers
which are still good 5 weeks? after making them.
DINNER:
600pm 1 bowl TLC beef stew I am back to finishing up the last
few recipes for the book! (Now that I can concentrate again)
WATER:
only 2 liters, need to work on this again
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *2
Microhydrin antioxidants *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex *1/2 a
Citrical plus D PM Percoset
EXERCISE:
The doctor released me to exercise again, so I guess I didn't hurt
anything by doing so yesterday! At least it beat an eating or drinking
binge, I HAD to do SOMETHING to take my mind off of waiting, after
all. So tomorrow I will do it all again.
CALORIES:
1551
FAT:
96 Gm, 60 % (38 saturated fat gm, 24 %)
CARBS:
36 gm (10 fiber) 26 net 7%
PROTEIN:
117 gm, 33%
Morning
after notes: Down another full pound!!! I had a hard time not eating
something after dinner but I managed, and I was rewarded.
September
14, Thursday
BREAKFAST:
2 mugs real coffee with 1 Tb. heavy cream altogether, also 3 fried
eggs with 1/3 oz. (cooked wt). bacon
LUNCH:
¼ cup sunflower kernels
DINNER:
600pm several (more like 6!) slices of TLC World's Best Beef Briskit,
which I decided to add to the book today. It's a pretty easy recipe
but if you don't know how or have never done one this way. Well, let's
just say I decided it couldn't hurt to include it. TLC garlic herb
mashed Faux-tatoes and then TLC peach ice cream, with fresh
Palisade peaches (Palisade Colorado is where there are lots of
vineyards, orchards, and wineries, and their peaches are fairly famous
in the state.) this is the best flavor ice cream yet and I left
it to last thinking just the opposite!
WATER:
4 liters today
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *2
Microhydrin antioxidants *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra
C PM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *1 Essential Fatty Acid
Complex *500mg C
EXERCISE:
5 minutes on the Nordictrack, till the blister caught up with me from
walking in weights the other day I can walk mile after mile
without them, usually, but the 5 lb. wt. rubbed a blister into the
back of one heel in just 3 miles, so if you decide to try that,
beware! Then 200 ab crunches (with the aid of an Ab Roller), THEN 4
marine-style "real" crunches with the aid of nothing, not
even holding down my feet and that after the others, impressed
me a LOT! Did 30 minutes of weights, including leg lifts while wearing
the infamous ankle weights.
CALORIES:
1944
FAT:
147 Gm, 69 % (64 saturated fat gm, 30 %)
CARBS:
28 gm (8 fiber) 20 net 4%
PROTEIN:
126 gm, 26%
Morning
after notes: Another half pounds bites the dust!
September
15, Friday
BREAKFAST:
3 mugs real coffee with 1.5 Tb. heavy cream altogether, 3 oz. cold
brisket, AND 1 cup puffed rice with ¼ cup skim milk and splash of
vanilla Davnichi. YUMMMM. Thought I would try a higher carb lower
calorie experiment.
LUNCH:
2 string cheeses and 3 oz. cold brisket
DINNER:
2 wraps made with Chorizo sausage, some Hebrew National beef dogs that
needed to be eaten, and cheese, in the garlic variation of latortillas.
2 TLC mints after dinner. Then the BIG NO-NO: 2 TLC almond biscotti at
10 pm.
WATER:
4 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *2
Microhydrin antioxidants *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra
C PM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *1 Essential Fatty Acid
Complex *500mg C
EXERCISE:
Off day just 125 crunches
CALORIES:
2397
FAT:
174 Gm, 66% (69 saturated fat gm, 26 %)
CARBS:
68 gm (25 fiber) 48 net 7%
PROTEIN:
157 gm, 26%
Morning
after notes: Up one pound. Oh, well. Biscotti at 10 pm will do that!
So much for the lower calorie part of my experiment if I hadn't gotten
too busy to plan a dinner, I might have succeeded, but then I threw
together a high fat high calorie wrap filling and then compounded the
error by eating dessert at 10pm. Oh, well. One pound is no big deal,
it will be gone soon!
September
16, Saturday
BREAKFAST:
2 mugs real coffee with 1Tb. heavy cream altogether, 3 oz. cold
brisket, 3 fried eggs
LUNCH:
I actually got on my motorcycle!! I strapped a hard rollerblading knee
pad over my owie and that worked well to protect it from flying
gravel, etc. We had Chicken Ceasar salads with ranch dressing and no
croutons in a restaurant in Glenwood Springs. Also drank a Miller Lite
at the restaurant and then when I got home I had 1 Dacquiri with my
girlfriend who was here playing with the kids and waiting for us when
we got back. (Dacquiri ice, vodka, fresh raspberries, titch
splenda, and Davinchi strawberry syrup in the blender with a dash of
heavy cream. YUMMMMM.)
DINNER:
DH cooked for me I got really faint in the jacuzzi I need
to drink WAY more water while I am in there, and no more drinks first!
Sheesh, I was so faint I could hardly get out of the tub safely and I
spent the rest of the day in bed, first reading then watching the
Olympics all evening. Anyway, he fixed grilled boneless chix breast
with TLC BBQ sauce and steamed garden zucchini with butter. Very good,
think I'll let him cook more often. My LEG looks a little worse all
day today, I am wondering all this exercising might not be good for it
after all. L And it hurts again, bad, in the tub and afterwards.
WATER:
6 liters like I said, I was WAY dehydrated when I got out of the
jacuzzi and drank 1.5 liters in one big long swallow!
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *2
Microhydrin antioxidants *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra
C PM Percosets now that I am not hoarding them "in case of
the worst" I can take them for pain relief. Withering away in a
hospital bed full of pain would not be my preferred method of checking
out and I had 66 percosets hoarded up to make sure that would not be
case, if the biopsy results were bad. I told my friend this and she
got angry, but you know, I wouldn't have checked out until my life was
no longer worth living. At least this shows that I was facing facts,
as far as I am concerned. A long slow death is just not my style! I
continue to thank God daily that I will not have to face that kind if
an end, at least not any time soon.
EXERCISE:
Walked to my kid's soccer game, about 1.4 miles, came home and lifted
weights, plus did 170 crunches.
CALORIES:
1631
FAT:
93 Gm, 56% (28 saturated fat gm, 17 %)
CARBS:
22 gm (4 fiber) 18 net 5%
PROTEIN:
147 gm, 39%
Morning
after notes: Back down the pound I gained the day before, at least.
September
17, Sunday
BREAKFAST:
7am 3 mugs real coffee with 1.5 Tb. heavy cream altogether, 10am 1.5
oz. bacon, 3 eggs scrambled with 1 slice Am. Cheese, 1 slice toasted
LC bread with butter
LUNCH:
None, really, still full from big breakfast. I did have 2 chocolate
nirvana bars at 2pm when they were finished. They're not as good as
the PB ones, IMO, but for anyone who doesn't like PB (they do exist I
guess) or is allergic to nuts, they'll be great. Then I nibbled on 2
thin slices of deli turkey and ate 1 cheddar flavor string cheese.
DINNER:
645p Ate 1 cup leftover garlic herbed mashed fauxtatoes with .33 oz.
Crumbled cooked bacon and ¼ cup shredded cheddar melted over the top,
and two bites of fresh peaches while I prepared them for the kids
WATER:
4 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *2
Microhydrin antioxidants *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra
C PM Percoset
EXERCISE:
Not even my crunches
CALORIES:
1843
FAT:
152 Gm, 74% (70 saturated fat gm, 34 %)
CARBS:
33 gm (6 fiber) 27 net 6%
PROTEIN:
92 gm, 20%
Morning
after notes: Back up the full damn pound, for no reason that I can
see. Grrrrrrrrr. TOM is supposed to be a week away, I ate very little
and hit my percentages almost perfectly. Calories low enough to not
gain, I THOUGHT - so what's going on?
September
18, Monday
BREAKFAST:
7am 2 mugs real coffee with 1 Tb. heavy cream, 1 Atkins chocolate
raspberry protein bar
LUNCH:
130p last 2 oz. of leftover brisket, 1 chocolate nirvana bar
SNACK:
4pm 1 oz. salted peanuts
DINNER:
6p 1 servings (1.5 cups) TLC Red Chili WITH BEANS even! just
6c/cup, 1 Chocolate Nirvana bar
WATER:
4 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *2
Microhydrin antioxidants *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra
C PM 4pm 1 Percoset 10PM - *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *1
Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab
EXERCISE:
Not even my crunches again! I vow to do better.
CALORIES:
1619
FAT:
114 Gm, 66% (46 saturated fat gm, 26 %)
CARBS:
29 gm (9 fiber) 20 net 5%
PROTEIN:
114, 29%
Morning
after notes: Back down a pound and a half!
September
19, Tuesday
BREAKFAST:
10am 3 mugs real coffee with 1.5 Tb. heavy cream, 3 eggs fried in
butter and 1 slice toasted Oroweat light bread
LUNCH:
130p 1.5 cups iceberg lettuce with 23g (3) cherry tomatoes and 1 ring
(23g!! too how funny) red pepper, 1 HB egg and 2 Tb. TLC ranch I
have been measuring my dressing lately, and 2 Tb is a tad too much! I
guess I was using LESS than I thought, how 'bout that?
SNACK:
2 new almond drop cookies, 1 almond biscotti from freezer. Originals
are better. Gotta stop messing around with recipes that are finished
and adequate already and work more on the manuscript. I keep trying to
improve and add things. I vow to work on typing the ones I have
already completed, instead. I expect a week more to finish the rough
draft in its entirety, then another week to polish it and look for
errors. I need to send out an update letting everyone on the list know
that my leg delayed everything. My face has erupted in cold cores from
feeling stressed about this how come I NEVER get them on my
lips??!! I am so weird. But that let me know that I need to deal with
it. Heading to the doctor this morning am typing this without
benefit of coffee, as he's doing a new fasting cholesterol check as
well as checking my leg today. Which has been hurting like hell but
seems to look better, again. I hope he thinks so!
DINNER:
615pm 1 huge (10 oz after waste) New York strip steak and 1 serving
Vegetable Casserole (a take off on my favorite green bean casserole
with the mushroom soup and Durkee Onions on top my version needs
less of the substitute sauce I made but was pretty good!), then 2
Chocolate Nirvana bars
WATER:
2.5 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
AM *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *2
Microhydrin antioxidants *1 Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra
C PM none
EXERCISE:
None, again!
CALORIES:
2481
FAT:
184 Gm, 69% (61 saturated fat gm, 23 %)
CARBS:
49 gm (18 fiber) 31 net 5%
PROTEIN:
154, 26%
Morning
after notes: A full new pound of loss even thought TOM showed up
2 days early and I ate more calories yesterday than I have in a while.
I gained weight the other day when I ate 600 calories LESS than this
I just don't get it. But today, I like it. And I am retaining a bunch
of water, my fingers look like sausages, so as soon as TOM goes away I
should drop some more. Should. AS OF TODAY, DH and I have
lost an even 100 pounds to together!!
September
20, Wednesday
BREAKFAST
None fasting due to another cholesterol test
LUNCH:
12pm 3 eggs, 1.5oz. bacon, 8 oz. coffee with ½ Tb. cream
SNACK:
2pm 1 oz. peanuts
DINNER:
615pm Keto Pasta with TLC marinara sauce
WATER:
2.5 liters
SUPPLEMENTS:
Forgot completely!
EXERCISE:
None, again!
CALORIES:
1135
FAT:
80 Gm, 64% (20 saturated fat gm, 16 %)
CARBS:
21 gm (6 fiber) 15 net 6%
PROTEIN:
86, 30%
Morning
after notes: Up one pound total, all due to TOM water retention I am
sure how could it be otherwise with those calories?!
September
21, Thursday
BREAKFAST
7am Coffee 3 mugs with 1.5 Tb. cream total, 1 piece Impossible
pie from freezer
LUNCH:
12pm 1 oz. macadamia nuts and 1 Chocolate Nirvana bar
SNACK:
None
DINNER:
5pm 3 Tyson pre-cooked mesquite flavor chix brests, sliced and
put into 2 laTortillas with 1 oz. shredded coly-jack and 2 tsp. TLC
Jalapeno mustard sauce, then ½ a Darrel lea bar.
WATER:
3 liters
EXERCISE:
None, again!
CALORIES:
1625
FAT:
122 Gm, 69% (42 saturated fat gm, 24 %)
CARBS:
49 gm (26 fiber) 23 net 6%
PROTEIN:
100, 25%
Morning
after notes: Scale shows a half pound drop but my fingers are still
sausagesso when TOM moves on, maybe I will FINALLY get one of those
whooshes everyone talks about!
Got
my cholesterol test results back. Bad news. My triglycerides, which
were once my problem, continue to drop and are now only 106. However
my LDLs have been climbing steadily and are now at 186. HDL @ 45,
giving me a total of 268. While these numbers are admittedly FAR far
better than what Lipitor / lowfat was able to do for me, they are not
what I want to see. I will changing my goals to include a cap for
saturated fat of under 50g per day, and I will restrict eggs. I
already backed off on cream, cheese, and red meat, I guess I will have
to restrict them still further. CRAP-OLA! Breakfast just got tougher.
I have to order more bars and now I need a new hiding place for my
half of them. What a royal PAIN.
September
22, Friday
BREAKFAST
7am Coffee 3 mugs with 1.5 Tb. cream total, 1 Keto Bar
LUNCH:
12pm A SANDWICH with 2 slices of Oroweat 9 Grain Lite bread (13c
total), 3 slices Louis Rich turkey, and TLC jalapeno mustard sauce, No
cheese, no mayo.. my lower fat regimen starts today, in an effort to
bring my LDL cholesterol back under control.
SNACK:
about 2 Tb. of heavy cream my new whip cream machine with the
co2 cartridges arrived today of course, the day I pretty much
gave it up! so, I just had to try it. Mixed some cream with
Davinchi vanilla syrup and a touch of Splenda, and it tastes great!
How easy is that. Then I ate 25 g of cherry tomatoes out of my garden.
OMG. Just likje candy, I can really believe tomatoes are a fruit, now.
DINNER:
5pm Big pile of garden zucchini nuked with a little butter,
olive oil, garlic, parmesan and salt and pepper. Smoked turkey breast
with TLC BBQ sauce. Then 2 sq. of Darrel Lea chocolate bar.
WATER:
3 liters
EXERCISE:
Nope.
CALORIES:
1177
FAT:
66 Gm, 54% (27 saturated fat gm, 22 %)
CARBS:
41 gm (12 fiber) 29 net 6%
PROTEIN:
91, 34%
Morning
after notes: Lost a full pound in spite of TOM. Hardly surprising
considering how low calories were. Looks like I overdid the
low"er" fat thing, I came in way under my new goals I was
not miserably hungry, in fact I didn't even end up eating any extra
carbs. Of course I did not make my fiber goal either .. All in all, a
good start though.
September
23, Saturday
BREAKFAST
7am Coffee 3 mugs with 3 Tb. powdered creamer total, Atkins
mocha crunch bar. Plus 1 bite of a Premier 8 choco pnut butter flavor
bar I found it at the local grocery store and I keep reading
about people who think they taste like candy, so I bought two. DH and
I both look at each other and say "You can have the rest of
mine!" as we run to the garbage to spit out the bite we took
BLECH! YUK! PUKE! My original assessment stands. These bars suck!
SNACK:
1030am 2 Branacrisps spread with 4 tsp. natural p-nut butter
LUNCH:
1230pm Salad with 1.5 cups garden romaine, 40 gm cherry tomatoes, 2
oz. turkey, 1 Tb. feta, 1 tsp. jalapeno mustard, 1 Tb. TLC ranch, 1
slice Oroweat 9 grain bread spread with 2 tsp. Adam's natural pnut
butter
DINNER:
5pm at the bowling alley where we took Matt and friends for his
party 1 oz. peanuts, 1 string cheese, then 7 chicken wings in
ranch and 3 pieces celery. No cake or ice cream, naturally. But I
found myself actually tempted, again.
WATER:
3 liters
EXERCISE:
I scrubbed the kitchen as only an infuriated woman, on the rag, can.
Apparently DH decided that even though the boy was having an expensive
birthday party out, he was going to invite a bunch of other people to
eat with us on Sunday, without my knowledge. So I get to spend THREE
days making birthday fun, in a row, when I should be working on the
book, and now I have all these people coming to my dirty house (if you
think the family has been any less piggy since I stopped cleaning as
hard, you'd be wrong! In fact, I think they are even worse when I am
not right at their elbows bitching the while time.) This leg thing has
me really screwed when it comes to scrubbing floors and lower
appliance and cupboard doors, etc., cause kneeling is an exercise in
pain. But exercise it is what I did, anyway, for about three hours
straight in the morning. Think I made up a few new curse words ...
OUCH. My parents are on their way here now, too, so that's more time
that I will not able to work on the book. I may have to work all night
long, all week next week to make up for this week/weekend! I don't how
I will make up for the time I take off when my parents are here
I probably won't be able to. I can feel the stress-induced cold sore
on my chin pulsate and spread, just thinking about it!!
CALORIES:
2047
FAT:
142 Gm, 70% (43 saturated fat gm, 21 %)
CARBS:
51 gm (18 fiber) 33 net 7%
PROTEIN:
102, 22%
Morning
after notes: Sort of forgot about my new vow when I ordered chicken
wings at the bowling alley. BUT up a whole pound! Hardly seems rightMy
saturated fat isn't even very high. Didn't enjoy the powdered creamer
in my coffee, it tasted sort of sweet, in a fakey way. I think I will
go back to cream till it is gone and then start with half and half.
That creamer crap is made of corn syrup solids and I do not do well
with that sort of stuff, historicallybut I have it in the house now if
I need it for a trip or something I guessperhaps that explains the
gain, and if so, I am surprised it is not more. Once in the past I
used evaporated milk in a recipe (mockaroni) cuz I was out of cream
and just one serving was good for FOUR pounds gain! So I guess I got
off easy this time, actually.
September
24, Sunday
BREAKFAST
7am Coffee 3 mugs with 3 Tb. cream total, two slices toasted
Oroweat bread, spread with 2 tsp. natural p-nut butter and 1.5 Tb. TLC
strawberry jam
LUNCH:
1230pm 1 cup rainbow salad, 1oz. nuked pepperoni chips and 1 glass
white wine
SNACK:
2pm more wine and several pieces of TLC P-nut Nirvana bars
lots of wine before the day was done, probably 5 or 6 glasses
altogether!
DINNER:
about 5 oz. ham off the smoker, 2/3 cup rainbow salad, 2 oz. sliced
cheddar cheese
WATER:
3 liters
EXERCISE:
None, instead I partied and drank.
CALORIES:
3928?? Best estimate available after inputting all my guesses into
Lifeform
FAT:
300 Gm, 80% (92 saturated fat gm, 25 %) Talk about overdoing it
yikes!
CARBS:
71 gm (18 fiber) 53 net 5%
PROTEIN:
106, 13%
Morning
after notes: Blew it in the worst way! And gained 3 pounds, too.
Including the one from the day before, I am up 4 pounds for the
weekend. Oh well. I guess everybody deserves on occasional break? I
didn't eat anything really BAD just ate way too much of the allowable
stuff. I am sure that is due to all the wine but I was in a FOUL mood,
and expecting friends over with whom I wanted to have fun, and I guess
I overcompensated! Not to mention that my team blew it and lost
to KC, of all teams. This was NOT a good day on ANY front.
September
25, Monday
BREAKFAST
7am Coffee 3 mugs with 3 Tb. cream total, 1 Keto Bar
LUNCH:
1230pm 1slice Louis Rich turkey, 1 oz. sliced cheddar
SNACK:
none!
DINNER:
1 and a half burgers from ground chuck, ½ cup rainbow salad, 2 oz.
pepper jack cheese melted on burgers, 1 peanut Nirvana bar
WATER:
3 liters
EXERCISE:
NO
CALORIES:
1958
FAT:
154 Gm, 73% (53 saturated fat gm, 28 %) a little better but not great
yet
CARBS:
23gm (4 fiber) 19 net 4% NOT ENOUGH FIBER
PROTEIN:
107, 23%
Morning
after notes: Down 2 of what I gained, with 2 to go
September
26, Tuesday
BREAKFAST
7am Coffee 2 mugs with 2 Tb. cream total, 1 Keto Bar
LUNCH:
One leftover hamburger cut up and put in a garlic latortilla along
with jalapeno mustard. Small salad with mixed romaine and iceberg
lettuce, garden tomatoes and 1 Tb. TLC ranch.
SNACK:
1 Nirvana bar
DINNER:
2 Tyson Mesquite flavor pre-cooked chicken breast pieces (1 oz each)
and a pile of baby zucchini I rescued from my frozen garden (My
tomatoes and lettuce are under plastic and it hasn't frozen hard
enough to kill them yet). Added olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt,
pepper, minced garlic and dried lemon peel to the zucchini, along with
a tiny bit of onion and a sprinkle of Splenda, and nuked it all for
ten minutes. Mmmmm. Even Matt loved it. After dinner I mixed some Fr.
Vanilla Davinchi syrup with fat free cream cheese and a smidgen of
whipped cream, for dessert. Before bed I had some Orange Mandarin
Spice tea, no cream. Wonder if that had carbs, I didn't even consider
it at the time?
WATER:
4 liters
EXERCISE:
YES! A new record THREE HUNDRED crunches! And the last 75 I did
in the advanced position, and wearing five pound leg weights! Yee-hah.
Then 4 sets of 50 leg lifts with the aforementioned weights in place,
1 set of 50 butterflies, and 2 sets of double armed (120 total) french
curls for my triceps (arm wattles, bat flaps, whatever you prefer to
call those flabby things under my upper arms!) If I had time, I would
walk the post office and bank now. And you know what I am going
to put on a tee shirt and my tennies and GO ANYWAY. One more hour
won't kill the book it is already 1:00 o clock! by the time I
get caught up with the web site, soak in the jacuzzi as instructed for
one full hour, and do an hour's worth of gardening, housework, and
then work out heck, I have not even had lunch yet. I will have to
start staying up and working at night after everyone goes to bed, I
can see that now. By the time I return from my walk the children will
be home and any chance of concentrating will be gone until they are
once again asleep. And quiet. Such is my life at the moment. Damned if
I will continue to neglect my exercise. As long as the fall weather is
this nice THESE SNEAKS ARE MADE FOR WALKIN'. And that's just I'll do!
One of these days these sneaks are gonna Not walk all over you,
how about: walk my butt in two! (as in Half the size!) *I took the
most circuitous route I could think of and turned my usual 1.5 mile
round trip into 2.6 miles instead.
CALORIES:
1600
FAT:
106 Gm, 63% (42 saturated fat gm, 25 %) MUCH BETTER
CARBS:
39 gm (14 fiber) 25 net 7% NOT QUITE ENOUGH FIBER - but better!
PROTEIN:
116, 31%
Morning
after notes: Down just one more pound. (Still up one pound from the
weekend). Considering how hard I worked out and how comparatively low
I kept my calories and fat, I find that quite disappointing. Oh well.
I'll be good today and maybe my worked out worn out muscles will
release some extra water they may be holding And I must remember
that I do not lose as well with lower fat percentages, as sad as that
may be.
September
27, Wednesday
BREAKFAST
7am Coffee 3 mugs with 3 tsp. heavy cream and 3 tsp. powdered
creamer total, 1 Atkins mocha crunch bar
LUNCH:
4 oz. leftover mesquite chicken breast, cut up and put in 2
latortillas
SNACK:
1"x1" bite of a Nirvana bar
DINNER:
2 servings reduced fat mockaroni and cheese. Had a very different
texture and was drier and not nearly as good. Duh! What did I expect,
I wonder? LOL, Been here. Done that. Ate the second serving because I
was not satisfied with the first, and then felt uncomfortably full
afterwards, for the first time in months. (Didn't get the sleepy
feeling I remember that usually accompanied that feeling, however).
Also ate half of a grilled rib eye steak, probably 5 oz. after
removing and discarding all the fat, including the crispy parts that I
just learned how to enjoy again for the first time since childhood.
WATER:
made my 4 liters
CALORIES:
1751
FAT:
99 Gm, 53% (42 saturated fat gm, 22 %) YIPPEE
CARBS:
54 gm (27 fiber) 27 net 6% GOT ENOUGH FIBER FINALLY
PROTEIN:
172, 41%
Morning
after notes: Not an ounce of change. Except when I rocked back on my
heels to try to trick it and it promptly read a half pound
HIGHER - as if to put me in my place! Tanita scales cannot be fooled.
I am trying to convince myself it is all the excess protein, which CAN
be converted to glucose, OR all the fiber, which tends to hold water
all the way through, but as I am still up an entire pound from my
weekend wine indulgence, it does seem as if that one should have slunk
away by now at least. I feel like I have been eating practically
NOTHING and it is hard not to feel pessimistic and depressed. Here I
am, going back on everything I said, I am counting my freaking
calories again and buying unsatisfying fat free foods! And since I
gained weight when lowering my fat on vacation, and had to increase
the usual fat percentages to even lose at all early on, it is like
reliving a bad dream to be this "good" for three days in a
row for nothing. I must try it, for two months, though, till I
get the cholesterol re-tested. If it is significantly better, this
will all have been worth it. If not, I can abandon this CRAP forever
with a clear conscience, keep an eye on my LDL, and decide how to
treat it when I reach goalIn a perfect world, I could do this,
continue to lose, AND improve my cholesterol again but I have
never lived in that fantasy place and sometimes I think it does not
exist. Surely those people who SEEM to have it "made" have
lots of warts under the surface. And lots of people have worse
problems than this. Hell, my leg is a bigger problem than this. But
this weight thing is HUGE and has the power to completely overshadow
the more important things for some reason. I never felt this anxious
about it (on low carb) until now. This does not bode well. I am
afraid. This is too reminiscent of other times to which I wanted never
to return. I hope I can do better in the coming days because if not, I
will give up the lowered fat goal. Better to give up that goal than
all of them!!
September
28, Thursday
BREAKFAST
7am Coffee 3 mugs with 3 Tb. CoffeeMate Lite liquid creamer
total, 1 LC bagel with fat free cream cheese and TLC strawberry jam.
And I ate both halves, cause I was testing the bagels. According to
Lifeform, if AIC's nutritional claims on their website are right, then
my breakfast alone was 20 carbs - yet only 164 calories and 2 gm fat.
LUNCH:
1 serving leftover mockaroni, 1 plain (warmed) garlic latortilla
SNACK:
an entire CarboLite dark chocolate bar over the course of the
afternoon, one delicious square at a time (I re-stocked and I
threatened DH when I gave him his half of the goodies. I don't THINK
he'll be getting in my drawers to steal my chocolate again anytime
soon
DINNER:
6 oz. braised pork loin and 2 cups pan-browned sauerkraut
WATER:
made my 4 liters
CALORIES:
1269
FAT:
68 Gm, 57% (30 saturated fat gm, 25 %)
CARBS:
51 gm (24 fiber) 27 net 10%
PROTEIN:
89, 33%
Morning
after notes: Down 1.5 pounds - Am finally below my published weight,
by just half a pound but that's all, no :real: loss after four days of
very very low calories and much lower fat. Odd, but my fingers are
still like sausages and TOM slunk away 3 days ago now. I wonder if I
am retaining water due to my higher fiber intake? But in my
FINGERS???? Weird. At least I have shown myself that I can lose weight
this way, I was pretty worried about that. Now let's just hope my body
doesn't adjust too quickly and go into starvation mode. These calories
are WAY low! Seems like I should be at goal already, LOL.
At
2:38am I finished the rough draft of the book! Since my parents are
due here sometime today, the timing is not an accident. I had to skip
my workout, the Olympics, and both of my soaks to do it, but do it I
did, anyway. Now it is graphic design, proofreading, adding/checking
uniform metric and weight conversions, and pulling it all together
with some page filling kitchen tips and low carb tidbits. Even with my
parents here, two weeks MAX will do it. You do not know how happy this
makes me, I see freedom in the wings. Freedom to DO what I please, and
freedom to EAT what I please (LC of course, but still, I won't have to
cook clam chowder in spite of the fact that I HATE it, etc.)
September
29, Friday
BREAKFAST
7am Coffee 3 mugs with 3 Tb. CoffeeMate Lite liquid creamer
total, 4 egg beaters scrambled with 1 slice cheese and 1.5 oz. smoked
ham
LUNCH:
None - folks showed up and I got busy and never had any
SNACK:
None!
DINNER:
1 BBQ chicken breast and 1 cup TLC slaw
WATER:
made my 4 liters
EXERCISE:
175 crunches
CALORIES:
843
FAT:
35 Gm, 42% (11 saturated fat gm, 13 %)
CARBS:
34 gm (11 fiber) 23 net 10%
PROTEIN:
87, 46 %
Morning
after notes: Down 1 pound more (seems like it should be more with
these low calories but I'll take it I guess!) And I must eat MORE,
regardless of consequences, else I will go into starvation mode and
never lose anything again!
September
30, Saturday
BREAKFAST
7am Coffee 3 mugs with 1 Tb. CoffeeMate Lite liquid creamer and
1 Tb. heavy cream, total, 1 atkins bar
LUNCH:
1 leftover chicken breast and ½ serving Mockaroni (reduced fat
version)
SNACK:
None!
DINNER:
1 cheeseburger and a salad with iceberg lettuce, cherry tomatoes,
fresh cilantro, and TLC reduced fat ranch, 7 oz. white wine
WATER:
3.25 liters
CALORIES:
1419
FAT:
72 Gm, 53% (30 saturated fat gm, 22 %)
CARBS:
20 gm (4 fiber) 16 net 5% NO FIBER, oops
PROTEIN:
130gm, 42%
Morning
after notes: Down another 1.5 lbs, 48 pounds gone now, YIPPEE. I
notice I lost better with a little more fat (NO BIG SURPRISE THERE)
and less fiber, but for the sake of my cholesterol I will continue to
attempt the lower fat and higher fiber, anyway. At least until the 2
months are up and I have new results to compare.
October
1, 2000 Sunday
BREAKFAST
7am Coffee 3 mugs with 1 Tb. CoffeeMate Lite liquid creamer and
1 Tb. heavy cream, total, 2 scrambled eggs and 1 oz. cooked wt. bacon,
1 slice toasted Oroweat 9 grain Lite bread with 2 tsp. butter and 2
tsp. TLC strawberry jam
LUNCH:
2 garlic laTortillas with 2 oz. pepper jack cheese
SNACK:
None!
DINNER:
1.5 venison brats, 4 cups cherry tomatoes and and 1 cup steamed
zuchinni squash with olive oil and garlic
WATER:
3.5 liters
EXERCISE:
None
CALORIES:
1555
FAT:
119 Gm, 71% (43 saturated fat gm, 26 %)
CARBS:
55 gm (23 fiber) 32 net 8%
PROTEIN:
76 gm, 20% woefully short of protein
Morning
after notes: Down 1.5 pounds! Ya-hooo!
October
2, 2000 Monday
BREAKFAST
7am Coffee 3 mugs with 1 Tb. CoffeeMate Lite liquid creamer and
1 Tb. heavy cream, total, 1 Atkins bar
LUNCH:
1 pork loin chop grilled on George and a salad of mixed spinach and
romaine with red pepper, cuke, TLC ranch
SNACK:
None!
DINNER:
half rack baby back ribs with TLC BBQ, 2/3 cup reduced fat Rainbow
salad, homebrewed cappuccino and chocolate cheesecake cup (made it
crustless in foil liners)
WATER:
3.5 liters
CALORIES:
1829
FAT:
134 Gm, 69% (56 saturated fat gm, 29 %)
CARBS:
37 gm (7 fiber) 30 net 7%
PROTEIN:
107 gm, 24%
Morning
after notes: Down half pound
October
3, 2000 Tuesday
BREAKFAST
7am Coffee 3 mugs with 1 Tb. CoffeeMate Lite liquid creamer and
1 Tb. heavy cream, total, ½ LC bagel with tiny bit butter and pnut
butter
LUNCH:
Leftovers: reduced fat Mock-aroni, 1 venison brat, 1 Pnut Nirvana bar,
AND THEN some fat free cream cheese mixed with davinchi syrup and 1
squirt of whip cream, too
DINNER:
1 bag lean protein chips, 1 latortilla with 1 oz. pepper jack cheese,
½ LC bagel, more coffee too tired to keep working without it!
WATER:
3.5 liters
EXERCISE:
NO TIME - Sat here working on book editing from 730am to 1130pm!
CALORIES:
1645
FAT:
113 Gm, 63% (52 saturated fat gm, 29 %) OOOPS
CARBS:
50 gm (14 fiber) 36 net 9%
PROTEIN:
114 gm, 28% woefully short of protein
Morning
after notes: No change from yesterday
October
4, 2000 Wednesday
BREAKFAST
8am Coffee 3 mugs with 1 Tb. CoffeeMate Lite liquid creamer and
2 Tb. heavy cream, total, at 930am 1 Atkins bar
LUNCH:
not till 315 after doctor and shopping - 2 garlic laTortillas
with 1 oz. pepper jack cheese and 3 oz. sliced turkey meat, 1 Nirvana
bar
SNACK:
None!
DINNER:
2 small pork chops and a scant cup sauerkraut
WATER:
3 liters
CALORIES:
1222
FAT:
65 Gm, 52% (29 saturated fat gm, 23 %)
CARBS:
40 gm (24 fiber) 16 net 6%
PROTEIN:
121 gm, 43%
Morning
after notes: Up 1.5 pounds?? this is one of those mornings that
requires real strength of faith what the heck happened???? Have
I entered starvation mode? I AM really hungry, already I am going to
pretend this morning didn't happen and keep right on with my goals as
stated and see what happens. I just don't have time to worry about
this nowsurely it is a fluke. Has to be, doesn't it? Doesn't it?
October
5, 2000 Thursday
BREAKFAST
8am Coffee 3 mugs with 1 Tb. CoffeeMate Lite liquid creamer and
2 Tb. heavy cream, total, 2 eggs and ½ cup egg beaters scrambeled
with 1 slice am. Chz and 1 slice toasted lightly buttered Oroweat Lite
LUNCH:
¾ cup All Bran with some watered down heavy cream
SNACK:
½ a carbolite dark choc bar
DINNER:
Smoky beef brisket, salad with iceberg tomato red pepper and tlc
ranch, 1 peanut nirvana bar
WATER:
3 liters
CALORIES:
1687
FAT:
97 Gm, 59% (40 saturated fat gm, 24 %)
CARBS:
58 gm (30 fiber) 28 net 8%
PROTEIN:
121 gm, 33%
Morning
after notes: Down a half pound of the gain, with these higher fat and
calories. HOW WEIRD. Methinks that since I am the original Up the Fat
partisan that perhaps the latest lower the fat is backfiring
will have to see what happens over the next week or so. Today I hit my
goals right on and saw a small loss, so
October
6, 2000 Friday
BREAKFAST
8am Coffee ½ a mug with 1 Tb. half and half cream - by the time
I realized my cup was stone cold and only half gone, I also realized
it was already after 11AM. How time flies when you are feverishly
editing from 630am on
BRUNCH:
1 LC onion bagel sandwich!! With turkey and 1 slice cheese, dry, and 2
TLC cheesecake-cups, after
SNACK:
None!
DINNER:
1 laTortilla wrapped around 2 oz. deli roast beef and 1 slice cheese,
a few pork rinds, THREE Miller Lites, and 1 peanut nirvana
WATER:
barely 2 liters today
CALORIES:
1358
FAT:
72 Gm, 61% (36 saturated fat gm, 31 %)
CARBS:
46 gm (12 fiber) 36 net 13%
PROTEIN:
69 gm, 26%
Morning
after notes: Up the half pound again at least this is what I
call "justifiable gain", after the 3 celebratory beers
I am now sure that I can get this book off to the printer early next
week. Boy, I can't wait. What will I do with myself??? (Clean my house
enough to make up for the last few months, that's what!)
October
7, 2000 Saturday
BREAKFAST
Coffee with lite creamer, 1 mocha crunch Atkins bar
LUNCH:
Huge salad with iceberg, spinach, little red pepper and cuke, feta,
TLC Ranch, then cheesecake with ship cream! I am trying to up my fat a
little and see if I can stop the great Karen Gain-Back
SNACK:
1/2 a dark Carbolite bar
DINNER:
2 laTortillas wrapped around 4 oz. deli turkey and 2 slices cheese, 1
peanut nirvana
WATER:
barely 2 liters today
CALORIES:
2108
FAT:
139 Gm, 65% (610 saturated fat gm, 29 %)
CARBS:
60 gm (27 fiber) 33 net 7%
PROTEIN:
137 gm, 28%
Morning
after notes: Up an entire pound. What the %^$&($^% - it's GOTTA be
all the fiber. I am so tired of being good, and gaining Maybe once I
start exercising againBut today I plan on drinking some bloody marys
with my girlfriend who is coming to proof read for me. And I have a
whole filet mignon thawed out to roast for dinner .. so today, I will
take a vacation from being good. Whatever happens, happens. Being good
hasn't helped, so it's time to be semi-bad, methinks!!
October
8, 2000 Sunday REVISED on Tuesday AM!!! I had two meals with the wrong
date on them and I am changing my totals to reflect the
"truth". Ooops. Must admit had I seen the correct totals
before now I might have had a heart attack so perhaps it was all for
the BEST, LOL!
BREAKFAST
Coffee with heavy cream (living large today!), egg beaters (not that
large) scrambled with 1 oz. of shredded cheese, 1 slice toasted
Oroweat Lite w/ butter
LUNCH:
1 left over chicken breast, then 2 pieces of Peanut Nirvana.
SNACK:
During the Broncos game (which was pathetic, win or not, should have
been a ROUT), I ate two handfuls of peanuts in the shell and drank
THREE bloody marys!!!! AT 8 carbs each for just the mixer!!! Mmmmmmmmm.
DINNER:
Grilled filet mignon, salad with creamy italian parmesan, red pepper,
& garden tomatoes. With dinner, two glasses wine!! After dinner,
homemade cappuccino with frothed watered-down half and half and
Davinci vanilla syrup.
WATER:
barely 2 liters today bad girl!
SUPPLEMENTS:
y6
EXERCISE:
Does jumping for joy count? (See below).
CALORIES:
3147
FAT:
160 Gm, 61% (51 saturated fat gm, 19 %) Saturated count is okay, at
least.
CARBS:
77 gm (13 fiber) 64 net 11%
PROTEIN:
172 gm, 29%
Morning
after notes: Up an entire pound. Again, But this time I feel like I
"earned" it, anyway. And after all this work, I deserved it,
too.. BECAUSE
THE
BOOK IS DONE! I am having a local newspaper editor proof it for me
today one last time, then the final copy will go out via Fedex
tomorrow. I will call the publisher later today to check on production
time. Crossing my fingers that it will be quick. And hardly
comprehending that is time to switch gears and get busy setting up my
legal corporation in the time it takes to publish so many
details no rest for the wicked, isn't that what they say! Though
I haven't been wicked for a long time.
October
9, 2000 Monday
BREAKFAST
8am Coffee with HEAVY CREAM. No more lite crap for me! 1 Atkins bar
BRUNCH:
salad with leftover chicken breast, tomato, cheese, red pepper, cuke,
creamy italian parmesan made with romano instead.
SNACK:
1 peanut nirvana bar
DINNER:
2 HUGE slices of Mexiali Quiche, probably 3 servings! I love that
stuff
WATER:
barely 2 liters today again. What is wrong with me?
CALORIES:
1928
FAT:
145 Gm, 69% (60 saturated fat gm, 29 %)
CARBS:
25 gm (3 fiber) 22 net 5%
PROTEIN:
123 gm, 26%
Morning
after notes: Down THREE pounds! Within a half pound of my all-time low
no more reduced fat for me, I decided! Once I reach my goal weight, I
will work on my cholesterol, meanwhile losing weight is good for my
cholesterol, too. I wonder about all that fiber, maybe the 2 tortillas
most days was not a good idea! I do okay with one per day, but I will
back off on the fiber consumption for a while and see what happens
can't take gaining on 1222 calories when I can eat 2000 and LOSE
weight!
October
10, 2000 Tuesday
BREAKFAST
8am Coffee with HEAVY CREAM. No more lite crap for me!
BRUNCH:
Mexicali Quiche
SNACK:
1 peanut nirvana bar
DINNER:
flash fried filet mignon in olive oil, probably 8 oz!
WATER:
little more than 3 liters
CALORIES:
1764
FAT:
132 Gm, 68% (57 saturated fat gm, 29 %)
CARBS:
20 gm (2 fiber) 18 net 4%
PROTEIN:
120 gm, 28%
Morning
after notes: Down two and a half pounds! I HAVE LOST FIFTY (and a
half) pounds!!!!! To hell with the LF/LC combo, if I lost weight doing
it I would, but first things first, I have decided weight loss
first, fine tuning for cholesterol with maintenance! Gosh, I am happy.
The Big Five Oh, I have waited a long time for this day.
October
11, 2000 Wednesday
BREAKFAST
8am Coffee with heavy cream, 3 fried eggs, 1 slice toasted buttered
Oroweat Lite wheat
LUNCH:
12p Mexicali Quiche
SNACK:
330p 1 Pure Protein white choco mousse bar I found at Wal-Mart
10 gm carb, but it didn't make me want to hurl, at least.
DINNER:
630 "Georged" chicken breasts and sliced tomato ½ of
a large one, 1 peanut nirvana bar
WATER:
about 3 liters
CALORIES:
1922
FAT:
126 Gm, 61% (53 saturated fat gm, 26 %)
CARBS:
41 gm (6 fiber) 35 net 8%
PROTEIN:
147 gm, 31%
Morning
after notes: Down another pound! Viva la fat!
Rough
time at the doctor yesterday, think I should find a new one. My wound
is a little worse than last week, I admit I skipped two jacuzzis, but
only two, last weekend when I was finishing the book. It immediately
got worse again. Anyway, every week when I go in, he pulls the scab
off with tweezers, and I am supposed to do it at home twice a day
myself after spending an hour with it shoved right in front of the jet
in the jacuzzi (ouch). I have been unable to get it all the way off
since the weekend. But what I describe next has been occurring every
time I go in: He starts to pull and tug on it, and I hold it in as
long as I can but after only about thirty seconds, this time, a sharp
intake of breath, almost a gasp, from me. He stops what he is doing,
throws the tweezers down on the metal tray and declares "I can't
take this. I don't even TOUCH it and you start moaning and
groaning". THIS week, I finally got angry about this behavior, he
acts as though I am being a big baby and it is totally uncalled for.
SO, I tell him "Look, I am NOT a weenie person, I never ask you
to STOP what you are doing, I never "moaned" either, I
hardly made a sound, how dare you put all this additional pressure on
me
|
|
TERMS
OF USE:
I am a food writer and dedicated low-carber myself,
but I am NOT a doctor OR any other type of medical
professional. The material on this site is made up almost
exclusively of my opinions, so none of the material on
this site should be considered medical advice of any
kind!! Individuals desirous of weight loss or medical
treatment should always consult qualified medical
professionals. Users of this site agree to assume any and
all potential risks associated with their use of
information that may be found on this site.