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JANUARY'S
NUTRITIONAL GOALS:
FAT
GOAL: = At least 65% of total calories, but more works better - for me! Due
to rising LDL cholesterol, I strive to keep my saturated fat down.
CARB
GOAL: NET = < 30gm but I don't worry if I go up to 40 net occasionally.
PROTEIN
GOAL: 120 gm minimum (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:
*1
Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab
*2
99mg Potassiums
*1
Microhydrin antioxidant
*1
500mg fish oil capsule
*1
EAS Structured EFA
*1
500mg of extra C - a response to "cold and flu season"
Discontinued
the calcium pyruvate for lack of any noticeable effect (at least at the
dosage I was taking, but I have lots left so I may try again with it
sometime later and use more of it.)
Added
*1 500mg Lysine on January 20th, after yet another facial cold sore attack.
Monday,
January 1
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BR:
water water water water water By 1030 I decided to try to eat something, and
had 2 fried eggs, 1 oz. pre-cooked bacon (available from Sam's Club and I
just LOVE it!! soooo easy and quick, 45 seconds in the microwave and none of
the grease to deal with) 1 slice toasted Oroweat Lite bread with butter.
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L:
By 12:30 I improved enough to try some coffee, just half my usual amount
though. And then I ate 1 peanut nirvana.
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D:
Roasted turkey with notstarch gravy and a small salad with tlc ranch
dressing
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FAT:
126 gm total 75% (36 gm saturated fat, 22%)
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CARBS:
20 gm - 4% (6 gm fiber) = 14 NET
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NOTES:
Bit low on protein. Gained a half pound back, somehow, in spite of the
numbers, which look great.
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BR:
Coffee and 1 Atkins mocha crunch bar on the way to see our insurance agent.
We are now officially in business with Flat Tops Elec. and have liability
and worker's comp ins. THAT took forever.
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Shorty
after I got home, the school called and I had to go pick up Matt, sick - so
much for getting back to work uninterrupted and rejoicing about school
starting back up....
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L:
Nachos!! Took 1 bag Lean Protein Chips and added 1/3 cup sharp shredded
cheddar, 1/3 cup leftover taco meat, 2 Tb. salsa and 2 Tb. sour cream.
Mmmmmmmm.
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D:
TLC Green Chilli made with the turkey carcas and some of the leftover meat.
I froze half of that montrously big cooked bird and I still have
a ton of meat to deal with... but since I got the bird free at Thanksgiving
time, I can hardly bitch.
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FAT:
123 gm total 66% (66 gm saturated fat, 32%)
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CARBS:
22 gm - 4% (5 gm fiber) = 17 NET
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NOTES:
Back down the half pound. These numbers are almost PERFECT, and I had hoped
for more, but I don't wanna push my luck with the Murphy Fairy, so I won't
complain out loud.
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BR:
8am Coffee - I intended to eat, I just never got around to it! :(
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L:
1215PM A salad bigger than my head: 2 cups Romaine with 3 slices chopped
cooked bacon, 3 oz. roasted cold turkey, 1 HB egg, red pepper, tomato, red
onion (livin' large today! onion oh my!) and tlc Ranch
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SN:
toasted walnuts and hazelnuts - Mmmm! What 5 minutes at 350 F can DO, WOW!
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D:
A killer wrap (and then another half) made with Mtn oat wraps, lettuce,
avacado, Red Ancho chili paste, bacon, turkey, and cheese. later a huge
serving of instant OIAB II.
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FAT:
233 gm total 76% (87 gm saturated fat, 28%)
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CARBS:
69 gm - 6% (29 gm fiber) = 40 NET
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NOTES:
Down a half pound. I had expected a gain! Hmmmm. Maybe I should try upping
my carbs and fat more often, but if I did it on a regular basis it would
backfire, I'm sure. I think mixing things up regularly may be a good idea
though. My cholesterol can't afford all the OIAB very often anyway... I
wonder what all that fiber is going to do.
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Well,
my day wound up going like this:
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BR:
8AM Coffee w/ cream and then an Atkins mocha crunch bar on the way to the
ortho with the big kid and the dr. with the littler kid.
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L:
didn't happen till 2pm - one Mountain oat wrap filled with homemade turkey
salad
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SN:
nuked some pepperoni chips about 4pm and made instant OIAB
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D:
620PM - another Mtn oat wrap filled w/ plain turkey, half an avacado, TLC
Red Ancho Chili Paste, smothered in TLC green chili with a dollop of sour
cream on top. Oh! And a Miller Lite, of course, with either pseudo or real
Mexican food, I must have a beer. Then while sitting here cruising the
boards I ate half a Carbolite white chocolate bar. I like the dark ones
best, still...
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FAT:
138 gm total 69% (70 gm saturated fat, 35%)
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CARBS:
51 gm - 6% (23 gm fiber) = 28 NET
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NOTES:
Down another half pound! :)
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L:
1230pm - one Mountain oat wrap filled with homemade turkey salad, and 2.5 oz
sliced cheese
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SN:
3 Coconut Dream muffins (a new completely grain and soy free recipe in the
making - no coconut next time) and 3 slices TLC Hearty Brown Bread - still
working on the breads, this one is almost ready!!! and has only 1 carb per
thin slice!
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D:
620PM - plain turkey nuked with cheese, topped with half an avacado, salsa,
and dollop of sour cream on top.
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FAT:
152 gm total 71% (59 gm saturated fat, 28%)
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CARBS:
47 gm - 5% (24 gm fiber) = 23 NET
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NOTES:
Up 1.5, no doubt due to all the fiber in those bread items, not too worried
about it. Could also be due to TOM arriving early, the creep.
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BR:
8AM Coffee w/ cream, 2 fried eggs, 1 oz. pre-cooked bacon, 1 slice toasted
Oroweat with butter
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L:
1230pm - plain turkey nuked with cheese, topped with red onion, fresh
cilantro, salsa, and sour cream.
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D:
620PM - Here is where TOM became a factor, I think. (1) 5 oz. chix breast in
George, 1 cup TLC coleslaw. After, the munchies struck! Instant OIAB made
with diet Swiss Miss, followed by 1 slice toasted Hearty TLC Bread with PB,
then a whole Carbolite dark chocolate bar. Oy. 65% of my claories for the
day came after 8PM - not good! But MUCH better than a cheat, I figure.
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FAT:
182 gm total 73% (77 gm saturated fat, 31%)
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CARBS:
44 gm - 6% (12 gm fiber) = 32 NET
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NOTES:
Up another half pound. Oh, well. TOM rules ATM, no sense getting upset about
it.
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BR:
8AM Coffee w/ cream, 2 thin slices of my hearty quick bread, toasted, with
peanut butter
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L:
1230pm - Omelette made with 2 eggs, ham, cheese, onion and gr. pepper
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SN:
Baking for my "high carb" cooking column and my next LC book at
the same time! Chocolate cake for the kids and LC version for us, as
cupcakes, so I could tell the difference - and I really did have trouble
telling them apart. Even the kids said that ours were just as good,
Eureka! So, 1 taste of regular high carb choco cake, and.... SIX, yes,
I said six TLC Deep Dark cupcakes ....yup ....one ......two .......three
......four ........five ........SIX! OMG. At 4 carbs each. I could blame the
pain pills, I guess, at this point I had already taken 4 percodans for the
day, but mostly I just enjoyed them, as they are damn good.
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D:
6PM - 1 small glass white wine and about 5 oz. pan fried venison, a small
salad with TLC ranch. Nothing else, since I passed out before
narcotic-induced munchies could strike again.
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FAT:
181 gm total 71% (34 gm saturated fat, 13%)
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CARBS:
67 gm - 7% (25 gm fiber) = 42 NET
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NOTES:
Up just another half pound. 2.5 altogether since TOM struck, that's about
par, actually. And my numbers aren't really all that bad, and the saturated
fat component is wonderful, in fact. Half as many cupcakes and it would have
been a banner day, LOL.
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BR:
8AM Coffee w/ cream, 1 choco cupcake (she returns to the "scene of the
crime"!! but walks away after ONE, this time.)
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L:
1pm - 3 slices (oz) of ham wrapped around 3 oz cheese, 1 srv. instant OIAB
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D:
6PM - 9 oz. boneless pork chops and 1.5 cups pan-browned sauerkraut. Offered
my son mashed potatoes and HE OPTED FOR SAUERKRAUT instead - OMG! They
really do learn by example and even their tastes have changed
dramatically.... wonders will never cease. Really, it gratifies me to see my
kids making "smarter" choices all on their own. It is not that
they do not eat candy anymore EVER, it is just that gradually they are
leaning toward "my" way of eating more and more these days, and I
know that later in life if they do have to struggle with weight gain, they
WILL know what to do about it. I could die tomorrow and I would have
accomplished that much, at least. And I am really proud of my column that I
wrote today for this week, I printed a lightened up chocolate cake recipe
for "those watching their fat intake" and my chocolate snack cake
recipe "for those watching their carbohydrate intake - including
me!" and I mentioned this AFTER saying that I have lost over 60 pounds
in the last year... trying to walk a fine line between the high carb columns
that I provided as examples when they gave me this job, and the low carb
columns that I now WANT to write ... So far, so good, I got my first check,
for December, with no comments at all, either way.. Just call me the
Ambassador of LC Goodwill in the Rockies! :)
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FAT:
128 gm total 65% (55 gm saturated fat, 28%)
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CARBS:
39 gm - 5% (15 gm fiber) = 24 NET
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NOTES:
No change this time, hurrah! TOM doesn't ALWAYS win....
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BR:
8AM Coffee w/ cream, 1 oz. pre-cooked bacon, 2 fried eggs, 1 slice toasted
ORoweat with butter and strawberry TLC jam
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L:
2pm - a humongous salad with Romaine, grape tomatoes, red peppper, red
onion, feta, shredded cheddar, 2 HB eggs, and TLC ranch
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D:
6PM - 2 chix breasts cooked on George, and 1 cup TLC coleslaw, later a
Carbolite dark chocolate bar
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FAT:
189 gm total 78% (50 gm saturated fat, 21%)
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CARBS:
37 gm - 5% (11 gm fiber) = 26 NET
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BR:
8AM Coffee w/ cream, then on the way to Grand Junction to shop, I ate an
Atkins mocha crunch bar
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L:
1230pm - at the Food Court, Subway - a roasted chicken breast salad, double
meat (still less than 4 oz. total). Had to have it with Ceasar, they only
have lite Ranch and fat free Ranch. "Shame on you! I told them loudly,
don't you know, it's a low carb revolution, and Jared be damned, I've lost
61 pounds eating the FULL FAT Ranch and I'll NEVER go back!"
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SN:
On the way home, 3 oz. Maui onion macs and another Atkins bar - I am
starving today! Then when I got home, a half cup of pistachios in the shell
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D:
6PM - a Mountain wrap with 1 leftover chicken breast, shredded cheddar,
green tobasco, and sour cream, and one and a half "Perfect
Margaritas" (I always buy limes at Sam's Club, where they are cheap)
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FAT:
205 gm total 72% (61 gm saturated fat, 22%)
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CARBS:
66 gm - 7% (21 gm fiber) = 45 NET
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NOTES:
Down a full pound, and in spite of this menu! - TOM is leaving the building
- yahoo! Now if it would just SNOW so I could go skiing, I would be happy. I
drove 150 miles 1 way down there to go to Sam's through crappy slushy snow,
yet it never reached Vail, apparently! Darn it. On the way home I had to
deal with TWO jerk offs who thought their hurry was important enough to risk
MY life, Gawd, I hate that, it is not like I was not already speeding and
stuck behind other slow pokes, what do they A-Holes gain by passing me and
then forcing their way in front of me - they were still behind the slow
poke, and all they accomplished was to piss me off so bad that I actually
tailgated one of them with my lights flashing (and in the "double
bird" position) and my horn blaring for almost a mile. That CAN'T be
good for a person's blood pressure, OR their karma! Then my windshiled
washer fluid ran out and I had to start reaching around out the window and
throwing my drinking water on the windshield just so I could make it home.
Yeech! Glad I spent all of my money and won't have to do this again anytime
soon! Meanwhile, we are STOCKED UP with all our favorite LC goodies. And 5
pounds of shredded cheese that I must give away - 9 carbs per 1/4 cup thanks
to the fact that they added "CELLULOSE to prevent caking" - they
say there are 6 g fiber in the 9 carbs, but I will not eat it, anyway.
ALWAYS read labels, is the lesson, I thought I had already read all the Sams
labels but then again, they are always getting in different stuff, never
assume just because it is "shredded mild cheddar" that it is OK to
eat! In this case,
it
was NOT.
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BR:
8AM Coffee w/ cream, 1 Keto-Bar - been along time since I had these, and I
still like them a lot
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L:
1230pm - 4 sausage patties, 2 fried eggs, 1 ASpen Ice Cream LC bagel with PB
- and I ate both halves for the first time! So let's see what the scale
does...
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SN:
430PM - 1 oz. pistachios in the shell
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D:
6PM -- New York strip steak, 1.25 cups steamed fresh cauliflower with a
little bit of butter and sour cream, later some instant OIAB
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FAT:
169 gm total 68% (74 gm saturated fat, 30%)
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CARBS:
36 gm - 5% (7 gm fiber) = 29 NET
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NOTES:
Down a half pound, just 1 up from pre-TOM, hopefully that will go today!
Unfortunately I cannot exercise, as I have somehow hurt my lower back :( and
spent most of yesterday lying down. It is a bit better today but still
pretty painful. Just my luck, it will probably dump 6 inches of snow on the
mountain today... and if it does I will find a way to ski even with the
pain!!! Come on... SNOW .......SNOW .......SNOW.......SNOW! (chanting)
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BR:
8AM Coffee w/ cream, Keto Crisp cereal with Keto Milk - thumbs up on the
milk, but the cereal has that NASTY soy taste, I'll have to use it up in
chocolate crunch bars! Yeech, and way expensive, too. But the milk, now -
very expensive and at least worth the $, it's pretty great after a year
using only watered down heavy cream. If you miss cereal, get the Nutlette
cereal from netrition and the Keto-milk to go over it from life services and
you'll be all set!
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L:
1230pm - 2 sausage patties, with a slice of cheese melted over top, and an
Atkins shake doctored up with DaVinci syrups and heavy cream
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D:
6PM -- Mexican food! Seasoned ground beef with my Red Ancho chili sauce, in
a Mountain wheat (wholemeal) wrap with TLC picante, shredded cheese, sour
cream, then nachos: a bag of lean portein chips with the same toppings. I
guess this answers the wheat mountain wrap questions, we were questioning
the labels since the old ones read 15 g carb per and only 1 g fiber but the
company says they net out to 6. I will count them as 6, no way they are 15
and I still lost..... Afterwards I made a HUGE bowl of instant OIAB.
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FAT:
159 gm total 64% (82 gm saturated fat, 33%, gotta stop eating the cream chz)
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CARBS:
38 gm - 5% (9 gm fiber) = 29 NET
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NOTES:
IT SNOWED!!!!!! And I am down a whole pound, back to my all-time low and
ready to lose some new. Ya-Hoooo! Too bad I hurt my back - but I think I may
ski anyway, it has been three weeks since we went! (The ski report just
played on the radio, only 1 inch new snow, that';s not enough to take my
hurt back up there. But more is forecast, so I will start my chant
again....... SNOW .......SNOW .......SNOW.......SNOW!
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BR:
10AM Coffee w/ cream, Omelette made with steak, onion, shredded colby-jack,
and topped with TLC picante
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L:
230pm - Wrap made with leftover seasoned meat, cheese, topped with sour
cream and TLC picante
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SN:
4 PM - 1 oz. pistachios and another pot of coffee - feeling AWFUL, struck
down with major sinus problems all of a sudden
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D:
6PM -- 1 pan-fried cheeseburger
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FAT:
138 gm total 66% (68 gm saturated fat, 33%)
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CARBS:
44 gm - 7% (13 gm fiber) = 21 NET
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NOTES:
A NEW WORLD RECORD FOR SWOOSHES!!!!!!
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(for
me) I am down FOUR AND A HALF POUNDS, all of it new loss!!!! I can hardly
believe it - I mean, I didn't have the stomach flu, I ate more calories than
"they" recommend for any diet, and yet - 4.5 down!! I did take a
total of 4 Microhydrin yesterday and drink an extra pot of coffee. And went
through most of a box of tissue blowing my nose, BUT....... methinks I will
drink lots of coffee and take lots of Microhydrin again today and see what
happens.... DH thinks I shouldn't post all my loss since I will be
disappointed if any comes back, but THIS IS HISTORY and I am posting it all,
like I always do. Now on the countdown to the ONE's..................
WOW!!!!
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Official
stats are now: 271 size 24/ 205.5 size 14!/ 180 size 10?12? (Since they
changed the sizes while I was fat and I am already in a 14, I will get down
to at least a 12, if not a 10. WOWEE.)
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BR:
10AM Coffee w/ cream, 1 Keto Bar
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L:
230pm -1 slice toasted Oroweat with TLC strawberry jam, an hour later I
scrambled some cheesey eggs and made more coffee, drank with lots of cream
and some Amaretto DaVinci syrup
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D:
6PM -- another Keto-Bar and an Atkins bar, I am too weak to cook anything -
and if you think my family cares enough to wait on me (or even check on me)
you'D BE SO WRONG!!!!!
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Lots
and lots and LOTS of water, and a total of 3 Microhydrins today
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FAT:
106 gm total 67% (54 gm saturated fat, 34%)
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CARBS:
35 gm - 8% (7 gm fiber) = 28 NET
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NOTES:
No change, but I'm still down the 4.5. so it was real loss,
which
makes me happy. Vail Mtn has TWELVE inches of powder and I can't go skiing,
DAMN!!!!!! That makes me VERY UNHAPPY and doesn't make the kids very happy,
either, since there is no school here today. ARRRRRGH, The timing of this
virus SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS.
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OK,
I am done whining now, sorry. (Have to whine somewhere, since my family
doesn't listen to me........ ) ;^)
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On
the up side, I noticed that my big toenails, which were starting to resemble
my father's at this time last year (thick and yellow, ugh) are now thin and
clear again, like they were when I was a teen. Either LC or all the jacuzzis
when I was treating my leg infection, caused them to clear up... whatever it
was, I am very happy about it, I am WAY too young to have old man
toenails!!! Ya=Hooo. (Can you tell I am trying to focus on something,
anything, positive, now that I have
"vented"? ~
Attitude is everything, we must all strive to choose a good one!)
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L:
230pm -Made 2/3 of a LC bagel and put a tiny bit of butter and SF PB on it
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D:
6PM -- 1.5 cups chicken broth with 1 egg in it, the other 1/3 of the bagel,
1 Atkins bar
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FAT:
52 gm total 68% (28 gm saturated fat, 36%)
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CARBS:
21 gm - 10% (3 gm fiber) = 18 NET
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NOTES:
Not much water today and no food at all till 230 in the afternoon. You
wouldn't think these very minimal calories could possibly cause a gain.....
but YEP! I am up a full pound. What a bunch of BS. Has to be water being
retained. Today I will make more of an effort to both eat normally,
regardless of how I feel, and
to
drink drink drink my water!!!! Only 1 add'l Microhydrin today, too....
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BR:
Skipped my coffee! Can you even believe it? No appetite at all - I did make
a 3 egg omelete with leftover cauliflower, 4 crumbled sausage patties, and
some cheese - ate half of it with maybe 2 Tb. picante over the top. Also
drank an entire 32 oz. grapefruit flavored sparkling water with 4 carbs
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L:
230pm - Made a salad with romaine, grape tomatoes and ranch, heated up rest
of omelette, ate maybe half of each thing, threw rest away. Then toasted one
slice of Oroweat bread and put both butter and regular peanut butter on it -
managed to eat all of that with half of a diet ice botanical. I want juice!
Have a gallon of OJ in the fridge for the kids but so far I have managed to
ignore it.
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D:
6PM -- Crock pot pot roast with Lc gravy and mashed turnips - found
appetite! Ate 5-6 oz. meat, scant half cup turnips, maybe 1/2 cup gravy.
After, made TLC vanilla ice cream, then ate an Atkins mocha crunch bar too.
Guess the old appetite is cured!
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FAT:
119 gm total 67% (59 gm saturated fat, 33%)
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CARBS:
31 gm - 6% (9 gm fiber) = 22 NET
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NOTES:
Drank enough water today. Took no additional supplements. Did take a muscle
relaxer at bedtime. Gained another half pound, even with these low calories
and carbs! Just goes to reinforce what this diet has taught me about NOT
EATING ENOUGH - for me, it spells disaster. If ever I am in a famine, I will
have one hell of an advantage over the "normal" person, that much
I am sure about. :) Probably didn't help that I ate all this stuff mostly in
the evening.... Now that my appetite is back, I will lose this gain, I am
sure. I am craving orange juice and I am thinking about eating an entire
orange for breakfast instead, and see what happens. Half an orange would be
allowable in my normal carb counts, so I may stop there. Depends on the
degree of rapture that comes from eating the first half, I haven't had one
in a whole year!!
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BR:
Coffee only till 11AM, when I peeled and began eating my orange. Ten seconds
later, I realized the entire orange was GONE. Mmmmmmmm. I miss oranges! Now
I'm scared though.
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L:
2pm - 1 latortilla with 2 oz. smoked turkey and 1 oz cheese with a squirt of
TLC jalapeno mustard, nuked
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SN:
4PM - 3 TLC Lemon Poppyseed muffins (new recipe, just 2 c ea)
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D:
6PM -- 2 1/4-lb. burgers with cheese and 1 cup TLC coleslaw. Afterwards, I
made OIAB II.
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FAT:
174 gm total 71% (87 gm saturated fat, 35%)
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CARBS:
63 gm - 9% (15 gm fiber) = 48 NET
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NOTES:
Okay, I am really pissed. Up 2 full pounds, I have managed to put back on
all but 1 pound of my record whoosh! Probably all my own fault, I did not
eat breakfast for three days running, and how many times have I said/written
that that always makes me gain?! DUH!!! And I do not think eating the whole
orange was good. I ate it alone, and ate nothing else for almost 2 hours, I
do believe that is the sugarbuster rule, but it didn't seem to help ME! I
haven't been able to work out for a long time, between my back and my cold,
but I think I am about over it so I will at least do my crunches today. You
can bet that I ate breakfast! before 8AM, even.
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BR:
Coffee and 2 lemon poppyseed muffins
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L:
1 leftover dried out burger and a scant half cup of TLC coleslaw, not ery
hungry. Did eat 1 serving OIAB II anyway
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SN:
5PM - 1 oz. Maui Onion macs
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D:
6PM - Roasted chicken, lots of it! Mmm, it was good, I injected it with Baja
Bob's sweet and sour mix, thinking it would have a light lemony flavor but
it was just plain moist and good. I should have eaten more though because
after dinner I had a bowl of OIAB II and then it was like I couldn't stop. I
ate 3 more servings. I know that down deep though, i was just pissed about
gaining for no reason and also there have been times that when I overate a
lot, an then I lost a few too... but at least if I gained after THAT, I
could hardly be upset, right?
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EXERCISE:
full workout, plus 400 ab crunches with wts, fetal position
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FAT:
264 gm total 77% (132
gm
saturated fat, 39%)
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CARBS:
46 gm - 5% (8 gm fiber) = 38 NET
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NOTES:
Up one pound, so now I have officially gained back every ounce of my record
whoosh. Oh, well. I will lose it all again, too..... sooner or later!!!
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BR:
Coffee and 2 lemon poppyseed muffins
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L:
Skiing with 2 kids (no school today) a la tortilla with 3 oz ham in it, then
1 oz pepperoni and 3 oz chz
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D:
6PM - Cocktail: homemade lemon lime soda with my new Isi soda maker and
fresh citrus juices, a lil liquid Splenda and some vodka - Mmmmm. The soda
machine is even cooler than the whip cream machine. A salad and 2 pork
chops, then 1 normal serving instant OIAB.
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EXERCISE:
Skiing at Beaver Creek, with 2 kids, so not as strenuous as usual, but 5
straight hours nevertheless
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FAT:
145 gm total 72% (70 gm saturated fat, 34%)
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CARBS:
35 gm - 5% (12 gm fiber) = 23 NET
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NOTES:
Okay, I am REALLY pissed. I am up a pound and a half from yesterday. WHAT
GIVES????? I eat too little and I gain weight. So I eat way too much - and I
gain weight. So I eat normally and I STILL GAIN WEIGHT. I skiied all day -
according to Lifeform 5 hrs downhill skiiing equals almost 1400 extra
calories burned. Arrrrrrrrrgh! Seems like these things come in waves - first
I was losing like crazy no matter what I did. Now the tide has reversed and
no matter WHAT I do, I gain... At this rate I don't know WHAT will happen in
a week's time.... OK. No more OIAB for a while. No more sodas, in fact no
DaVinci syrup and nothing sweet tasting AT ALL. I am supposed to go skiing
with my girlfriend today so I will work twice as hard as yesterday at least.
Then I promised to take the kids again tomorrow. 3 days in a row ought to do
something good, one would hope. It will hard not to decide to get drunk
tonight, so far that seems to be the one thing that removes a couple pounds
every time. Trying to remember how very bad I felt New Year's, I think I
said it wasn't worth it!! But I have gained 6 pounds in 6 days and it just
doesn't seem fair! NO FAIR NO FAIR NO FAIR.
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Here
is what I wrote to a friend the other day, I think I need to read it myself:
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There's
not a darn thing that has been predictable about ANY of my losses and they
have been SLOOOOOOOW compared to a lot of people's. I have fought tooth and
nail for every %&*$( ounce!!
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I
am approaching my one year anniversary and am actually far from goal, size
14 or no ... I have gained back all but ONE pound of my record whoosh and
the numbers ARE NO DIFFERENT than before I suddenly lost it - and it stayed
gone for several days, so it wasn't some flukey dehydration thing.
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I
know one thing. I have only made it this far because the worst cheat I have
done in 11 and a half months was ONE DARN ORANGE yesterday!! You have to
really want this bad enough to tough it out. Believe that you are more
stubborn than either genetics or metabolism. Give the Murphy Fairy a great
big raspberry and just keep on keepin on.
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You
might not lose another ounce for a whole month. I didn't!! But if you are
ornery enough to persevere through a very efficient body's sabotage, YOU
WILL TRIUMPH.
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If
you keep doing what you are supposed to be doing, EVENTUALLY it will work. I
promise. But the yo-yo thing has got to stop. You owe it to yourself not to
do that to yourself. Especially if you are like me and have that body that
gains weight when you restrict and fights losing anything as hard as it can.
We'll be the last ones standing in any famine, but of course that's small
consolation when you are frustrated, as I am today, too.
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My
answer to date has been to get really really pissed off and vent that anger
through exercise. I did my full workout today plus 400 crunches with leg
weights on, fetal position, and I am still ready to tear someone's head off
and crap in their neck.
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BUT
- eating carbs is not going to help the situation, it will only make it
worse. You KNOW THAT, so hang tough with me, girl. We can do it. No one ever
said life would be easy. Getting to your goals is never easy. It is hard.
Damn hard. But it is always worth the effort and things that come too easy
are sometimes not appreciated. Many many of the people who apparently lost
so easily, even when they cheated, and who started at the same time as I
did, are no longer around. Many of them have come back to say that they have
gained everything back and then some. I will be damned if I ever gain this
weight back. We have the tools now. We know how to lose weight and not be
hungry. Why would you want to eat carbs, feel like crap, and gain weight?
JUST SAY NO!!!
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God,
I am annoying!! But it is all true, so I'll try to keep keepin' on
anyway.....
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BR:
Coffee and 2 lemon poppyseed muffins
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L:
2 la tortillas with 2oz ham, 1 oz pepperoni,2 oz chz, and 2 tsp.
jalapeno mustard
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D:
5PM - apres ski! Vodka martini and buffalo wings. When I got home, coffee
and 1/2 srv. OIAB II, forgot my vow for a minute.
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EXERCISE:
Skiing Vail - HARD! I skiied the powder, I skiied the bumps, I skiied the
trees, I skiied the bumps covered with powder IN THE TREES!!!!! LOL, a great
day!!
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FAT:
162 gm total 69% (67 gm saturated fat, 29%)
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CARBS:
64 gm - 7% (26 gm fiber) = 38 NET
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NOTES:
No change. Grrrrrrrrrrr. How can that be, since I burned 2600 calories for
the day, according to Lifeform?!!!!
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BR:
Coffee, 3 fried eggs, 6 slices pre-cooked Hormel bacon, and 2 slices Oroweat
lite bread, toasted, with butter.
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L:
SALAD: 1.5 cups romaine with jalapeno mustard vinaigrette, 2 oz. chopped up
0-carb sliced ham and 2 oz. diced cheese. 1 Swiss Miss Diet cocoa and 2 oz.
salted peanuts
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D:
made 2 homemade vanilla sodas when I got home. Dinner was 5 oz. Georged
boneless pork chops with 1 cup steamed cauliflower and jalapeno cheese sauce
(homemade, w/ just 1 carb). Afterwards, I ate a half serving (the last one!)
of OIAB II.
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EXERCISE:
Skiing
Beaver
Creek all day with 3 kids in the very cold weather. That's 3 days in a row,
and I could (and DID!) still run up the stairs at the end of the day.
All 3 kids were moaning and groaning and I am just FINE. HA!!!! (The kids
did not go the day before.)
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FAT:
159 gm total 69% (64 gm saturated fat, 28%)
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CARBS:
54 gm - 7% (19 gm fiber) = 35 NET
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NOTES:
No change. AGAIN. Damnit. What the heck is up with THAT??? Those 6 pounds
came back for no apparent reason and they do not seem inclined to go away
again, for anything. *shaking my head in disgust*.
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And
thanks to all the skiing, even though I was religious about sunblock and
kept my face covered with a bandana most of the time, I have a lovely patch
of cold sores (I will always be vulnerable to this from sun poisoning 19
years ago) on my chin/cheek, just in time for family portraits on Wednesday,
when it should be nice and scabby and dark instead of bubbly, tingly, and
swollen! LOVELY. Hate my new haircut and have a monster face, that'll be
really nice for our first pictures as a family in 8 years! I have already
postponed it once, maybe I should just cancel it this time. FOR GOOD!!!
Grrrrrrrr!!!
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BR:
8am Coffee, 1 Keto-Bar
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L:
230pm - breakfast sandwich made with 2/3 a LC bagel, toasted, 1 Tb. mayo, 3
slices pre-cooked bacon, 1 fried egg and 1 oz. cheese
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D:
7pm - Chicken ceasar salad made with TLC ranch, and the other 1/3 bagel,
warmed with garlic butter. Afterwards I made a homemade root beer soda.
Mmmmm. I always liked an occasional root beer but I haven't had one in a
whole year. I LOVE that ISI soda siphon!!
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EXERCISE:
No way. 3 days of skiing in a row did nothing for me, I definitely needed a
day off.
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FAT:
102 gm total 71% (40 gm saturated fat, 28%)
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CARBS:
24 gm - 7% (2 gm fiber) = 22 NET
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NOTES:
Finally dropped one lousy pound of the gain back. Sheesh! These are
starvation numbers.... and I am woefully low in protein....how sad. I must
cancel the photo shoot today for sure, I can hardly talk or open my mouth or
even sip the coffe I am drinking at this moment (which does make it easier
to stick to starvation calories, I must say) and there is no way to touch up
disfigurement, which is what this is...YEEECH! MURPHY, go AWAY!
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BR:
8am Coffee, 11am 2/3 LC bagel with 2 Tb. PB
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L:
1pm - salad with romaine, tomato, red pepper, 3 oz ham, 1 HB egg and tlc
ranch, a cherry-chocolate soda
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D:
7pm - New York strip steak, 1 cup cauliflower w/ TLC jalapeno cheese sauce,
and 2 cocktails (Absolut, fresh lemon and lime, Splenda, and homemade soda
water - celebrating)
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FAT:
116 gm total 63% (40 gm saturated fat, 22%)
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CARBS:
45 gm - 9% (7 gm fiber) = 38 NET (that fresh juice packs a wallop of carbs)
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NOTES:
Down another half pound, which isn't much but it pleases me to no end, as it
appears that my upward trend has turned into a downward trend again, yahoo!
And now for why I am celebrating: I have my horoscope set up on my home
page, and I get a different one emailed to me daily -- just for fun. Today
they both said it was my lucky day. Looks like they were right!
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The
Vail Daily, our biggest local newspaper, is printing my story tomorrow,
complete with pictures! The new editor called me personally!!! Just when I
had give up on the press release going anywhere! I got a chance to talk to
the editor about my high country cooking column, while we were talking
- so maybe they will pick up my column, too - wouldn't that be nice!!!
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Then
the webmaster of Low Carb Luxury emailed me to request a copy of my cookbook
for review - this could be IT!!!! She said she loves my "kicky"
site and is linking to me right away. Apparently she got a bunch of emails
from different people requesting a review!!! No guarantees on the review, it
will be impartial, but I am confident that it will be good. Whoo Hoooooooo!!!
I am really on my way now....
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BR:
8am Coffee, 2 TLC amaretto cuppuccino muffins, less than 1 carb each
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SN:
on the road, ate an Atkins bar and 1 oz. peanuts
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L:
130pm - 1 wasa cracker piled high with egg salad made from 2 eggs and 1 Tb
mayo, then big serving of OIAB and one more muffin with a squirt
of
whipped cream from the whip cream machine
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D:
7pm - dinner of champions - 2 pc. hazelnut nirvana - yeah well, it doesn't
happen very often! I wasn't really hungry but it is hard to make weird
gaining patterns sometimes,that stuff without eating some.
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FAT:
164 gm total 77% (68 gm saturated fat, 32%)
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CARBS:
33 gm - 5% (9 gm fiber) = 24 NET
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NOTES:
Down 2 more pounds!!! And with "normal" eating, too.
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BR:
8am Coffee with half/half, 1 TLC amaretto cuppuccino muffin, 1 slice toasted
Oroweat lite w/ butter
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SN:
on the road, ate 1 oz. peanuts, 1 oz. maui onion macs - I drove 100 miles
one way through a terrible blizzard to go to my 15 y.o.'s basketball game. I
must be NUTS!!! The drive home was even worse, in the dark. Anyway,
throughout the course of the afternoon and evening, I ate 2 latortillas
filled with romaine and 2 oz. tuna and 1 Tb. mayo in each one, 1.5 oz. extra
sharp cheddar, 1.5 oz. pepperoni, and 5 pc. hazelnut nirvana
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FAT:
163 gm total 72% (45 gm saturated fat, 20%)
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CARBS:
58 gm - 6% (29 gm fiber) = 29 NET
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NOTES:
Down a half pound! :~)
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BR:
8am Coffee with half/half, 1 Atkins bar
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L:
1 wasa cracker with 2 ox. tuna and 1 Tb. mayo, 1 lemon lime soda (homemade
with fresh juice), then homemade cappuccino with Eng. Toffee DaVinci and
forthed half/half.
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SN:
1 PM still hungry, I made 2/3 of a cinnamon raisin Better Bagel and spread
it with 1 Tb. lite cream cheese (that's just what was handy)
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D:
Italian food!! Homemade marinara sauce + burger, over 1 cup Keto pasta. Side
salad with romaine, red papper, and Casear dressing. 8 oz. Chardonnay. I
laughed to DH as I was doing dishes that in the "old days" I could
never have leapt up and started cleaning up right away, I would have been
too full. (From all the garlic bread, was his comeback, but no, from the
heavy pasta mostly, I think.)
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EXERCISE:
a full workout with weights plus 400 ab crunches, 150 of them w/ weights in
fetal position, "50 regular", and 200 oblique. My full workout
consists of: (using 5 pound weights) 100 inner thigh lifts, each leg, 50
butterfly lifts (ouch), 2 sets of 50 french presses (overhead arm extensions
for the old arm wattles) and 50 regular curls, each arm. This works on all
my problem areas and is a complement to the power-walking I should be doing
(and will be doing, because I am going after my treadmill next week! Even
though sales are still somewhat slower than I expected, I am taking my first
paycheck and spending it on myself, like I vowed! :) IT IS TIME. My one year
anniversary fast approaches and my Bday too, and I DESERVE THIS.)
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FAT:
81 gm total 56% (27 gm saturated fat, 19%)
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CARBS:
48 gm - 11% (11 gm fiber) = 37 NET
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NOTES:
Down another whole pound! :~) Just 1.5 to go and I will have lost all that
mysterious gain back and my flasher will even be true once again. Now, if my
face would just heal up.... I did find something interesting - if you suffer
from cold sores, listen up. If not, move on! At WalMart I found a tiny
little bitty tube of something called Abreve (docosonol). It was almost $15
and so small you could blink and lose it, but it sems to have actually
stopped the additional spreading area in its' tracks. It isn't helping the
huge patch of full-fledged scabs, but if you get this stuff on before it
actually swells, while still at the tingle, it seems to really help and be
worth the $. This coming from the world's cheapest cold sore sufferer....
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BR:
8am Coffee with half/half, 1/3 of a cinnamon raisin Better Bagel with butter
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L:
5 oz. grilled chicken strips covered with TLC marinara w/ ground beef sauce,
and fresh Parmasan cheese. YUM.
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SN:
Made a whole better bagel and that was a BIG mistake, it gave me incredible
MUNCHIES (I froze the rest, no more for me for a WHILE, if ever!) After, I
ate 2 pc. hazelnut nirvana and a bowl of whipped cream whipped with diet
swiss miss cocoa! Then I made a new banana muffin recipe, just 1 carb, 64
calories each - and ate 3 of them! Sheesh.
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D:
Mexican food. 1 wrap with a latortilla and Red Ancho chili paste-seasoned
ground beef, cheese, sour cream, salsa, lettuce. Then a taco salad with the
same toppings over romaine. Plus 2 Miller Lites.
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FAT:
135 gm total 59% (60 gm saturated fat, 27%)
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CARBS:
80 gm - 11% (23 gm fiber) = 57 NET - OUCH!
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NOTES:Right
back up the full 2 pounds, which is hardly surprising! I will consider it a
lesson learned. No more Better Bagels for me, they do taste good, maybe too
good, but so do the ones from aspen ice cream and They NEVER GAVE ME THIS
KIND OF CRAVINGS. I am not too upset, given the numbers it is easy to see
how I could gain ... the timing sort of sucks since I STILL plan to eat well
and make margaritas for the big game later on... GO RAVENS. (I still haven't
(and never will) forgive the Giants for that horrible drubbing they gave my
Broncos in the Superbowl back in the 80s!! )
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Sunday,
January 28th
- Super Bowl Sunday, GO RAVENS!
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BR:
8am Coffee with half/half, 3 TLC banana muffins
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L:
3 fried eggs with 1 oz cooked bacon and 1 slice toasted LC bread with butter
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SN:
Nachos made with lean protein chips, then instant OIAB
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D:
Roasted turkey and pork, maybe 3 oz of each, also a small salad with TLC
ranch
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FAT:
178 gm total 69% (73 gm saturated fat, 28%)
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CARBS:
35 gm - 5% (8 gm fiber) = 27 NET
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NOTES:
Up another 2 pounds. I did skip the margaritas, and didn't even drink a
beer...
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BR:
8am Coffee with half/half, 2 TLC banana muffins
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L:
2 fried eggs with 2/3 oz cooked bacon and 2/3 toasted LC bagel with lite
cream cheese
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D:
turkey and pork, maybe 3 oz of each, also a small salad with caesar dressing
and 2/3 cup broccoli with butter
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FAT:
82 gm total 61% (26 gm saturated fat, 19%)
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CARBS:
31 gm - 7% (9 gm fiber) = 22 NET
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NOTES:
Down 2 pounds ... it's a start!
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BR:
8am Coffee with half/half, 2 TLC banana muffins
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L:
huge salad with romaine, 3 oz turkey, .6 oz pepperoni, 2 HB eggs, and
vinaigrette made with jalapeno mustard, seasoned vinegar and liquid splenda
(mmmmm!) 1/2 LC bagel with garlic butter
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