Day #218 - Monday
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Starting weight: 285.2
Weight Last Entry: 234.4 Weight Today: 234.6 bmi: 44.33
Change today:: +0.2 lbs. Loss-so-far: -50.6 lbs.
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I went up again over the weekend and then back down again this morning to land just two-tenths of a pound from where I was on Friday. It’s amazing that I lost weight overnight, though, because I ate mass quantities of food last night, ate until I was stuffed to the gills - and oh-my-God-it-was-so-gooooood!!
Do I feel guilty? Nahhhh. Though I ate a LOT, it was all good, low-carb yummy food, courtesy of TGI Friday’s. I love that restaurant! Here’s what I ate there:
I started out with those delicious deep-fried green bean thingies, for which I asked them to substitute sour cream for the funky green dip stuff that usually comes with it. My husband laughed at me again (he laughed last time I did this too) when I started eating them because I stripped the deep-fried breading off (or at least most of it) and ate the naked slightly-oily-very-tasty green beans inside.
My hubby is always raving about their cheeseburgers and I’ve never tried one, so I ordered one last night - without the bun and without the fries. With it I had a lovely side dish of broccoli - and I asked the handsome server-guy to bring me a little side-dish of alfredo sauce, which I poured over my broccoli to make it the most delicious broccoli side-dish ever. I ate my burger (and onions and pickles) with knife and fork and hubby was right, it was very tasty.
When the server-guy came to get our plates, he said to me, “Looks like you’re gonna need a box for leftovers?” I looked down, puzzled, because I had pretty much cleaned my plate - and saw the pile of empty-green-bean-breading-crusty things! I laughed and confessed to him that I’d eaten the beans but not the breading. “I’m on a low-carb diet,” I said. He smiled and said, “Ahhhh, no bun, no fries, no breading, I get it!”
So the point of this trip down dining-memory-lane? Besides the pleasure I’m having re-living it? The point is, of course, that this low-carb diet ROCKS! I can eat VERY cool stuff in generous quantities and still be on-plan! I love that!
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I cooked again today! We went grocery shopping last night and I bought more broccoli to make another pan of broccoli-cheese-bacon casserole, and then I decided to make low-carb Cheddar Bay biscuits to go with it. Lunch today was a big ol’ salad with feta dressing and pine nuts, a slab of casserole and two biscuits.
Okay the recipe for the cream cheese clouds I made the other day is from Linda’s Low-Carb Recipe site: http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/recipes.html
CREAM CHEESE CLOUDS
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup granular Splenda or equivalent liquid Splenda
1/2 teaspoon vanilla or other flavoring
Beat everything with an electric mixer until fluffy. Drop by bite-size spoonfuls onto a wax paper-lined baking sheet. Freeze until firm, at least 1 hour. Store in the freezer and eat frozen.
Makes 24 clouds
Made with liquid Splenda, here is the nutrition info:
Per 2 Clouds: 134 Calories; 14g Fat; 2g Protein; .5g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; .5g Net Carbs
Half a carb gram! I still can’t get over that! Next time I’m gonna make ‘em with pecans which will bring ‘em up to maybe one whole carb each, lol!
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Thanks for the input and advice about the weightlifting thing! I still can’t really call what I’m doing “weight” lifting since it’s only 20 lbs. total, but hey, it’s a place to start. I went to www.bodybuilding.com and it took me a while to find it, but they have a neat search engine that I put in “dumbbells only” and it came back with a list of exercises to try. Cool! So here are the ones I’m gonna start with:
The links are to Windows Media files (little videos).
Concentration Curls
Cuban Press
Dumbbell Lunges
Dumbbell Raise
Dumbbell Squat
Front Dumbbell Raise
Hammer Curl
Iron Cross
See Saw Press
There’s a bunch more but these are most of the ones that can be done without a bench or other equipment. Oh and getupnow … I’m still gonna repeat each exercise until each arm feels bloodless and weak. Isn’t that what yer supposedta do? =D LOL!
Edited later to add:
10:57 pm I just finished 30 minutes on the elliptical followed by 20 minutes of lifting and OMG I am now officially a wet noodle - sweaty and pretty much bloodless and weak everywhere! But I feel GREAT! I did all the lifts I got from the website (they were all good but the Iron Cross - man! - even with just 10 lb. weights, that one kicked my ass!!!!!) plus a few of my own making. It was good. =D
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Oh cool, how timely! I was just asking a baker friend to make me those clouds. She wasn’t enthusiastic about using Spenda, so I can do it my own self now!
I use bodybuilding.com all of the time to find great exercises and information. On their forums they have a whole section devoted to ‘keto’, low carb diets. It’s a wonderful resource, altho the forums are a little rough and tumble. lol!
Try, with the exercises, after your arms become ‘weak and bloodless’ to rest for a minute and then do it all over again 2 more times. It’s great for results. You can rest anywhere from 30 seconds to 3 minutes and be able to do it allllllll over again. Fun, right?
Congrats on moving to weights! That’s always exciting, to have someone to talk to and whine over it. Yeah! Are you sore much?
Yay, I’m glad you checked it out and found something that is going to work for you! You are gonna be one buff green bean eater! haha Thanks for the cloud recipe… I’m gonna try it!!
My trainer told me that if you can do more than 12-15 curls or whatever on a certain weight and not feel like you are weak or struggling with the last one- then it’s too light
I always go up in weight if I feel that I can easily 12 reps, increase slowly though!
Love your blog btw.
Oh cripes, that Iron Cross looks tough! You rock! Don’t you just love some of the names for these? My personal favorite is the Skullcrusher, lol.
Hey there chicky. Yes, the 30-Day Shred did indeed kick my butt. I was so sore on Sunday, I could hardly move. I mean, I did have the flu, too, but I still couldn’t move my arms.
Your blog had me drooling over fried green beans and brocolli with alfredo. It’s only 9a in the morning, and I can’t breath through my nose, but I can taste everything you bragged about. You’re mean, you know that?
And I really want to know: Just HOW do you make cheddar biscuits low-carb? This is witchcraft!
So happy for you that your diet is working, and that you’re doing so well! Keep it up!
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hmm thanks for the interesting post. Maybe I should think about getting some dumbells and doing some of this at home sometimes.
p.s. thanks for the movie review. Glad to hear everyone liked it. I think I was being too critical of it and worried what others’ would think. Of course the book is always better. But I’ll have to rent it when it comes out and give it another try. Also I had trouble understanding the accents, so I need the closed captioning here at home.