Low Carb Archive - Low Carb Daily Chat, week of Oct 17-23

guess everyone took Sunday off! So here's the daily thread for the week-

I'm at work, toiling away...not really ;)

It's a quiet Monday, not much going on. I have been doing OK with the food thing...and am going to DS for supper tonight, to get some away-from-home time. DS will make a roast beast, and promises NO DESSERT except fruit. Maybe a little red wine :devil: The weekend was hectic, errands, chores, you know- same old, same old.

DH is off tonight and will stay home to keep MIL company. She has not been feeling well for the past few days. I'm taking her to the dr today for bloodwork.

L, I got a nice walk in Sunday- felt good!
Kel- how was the baseball game?
Meowna, Krista, Ruth, LindaBC, Sono(I know you're out there), anyone else? Have a great day...start your week off right and do something healthy for yourself today!
dottie

I am here. Went crabbing today, got nada. Not up to much other than that. Weather is wet and cold, ick. Roast beast sounds yummy Dottie! I have one in my freezer, will have to make it soon.
TTFN Yall

Morning,
A rainny wet day here. Older boy has a sore throat, off to see the Dr, strep is going around.

DH is off for a few days. I have a ton of bake sale stuff to make, Wish me luck!

I walked a ton this weekend. I took 2 walkes each day and really enjoyed it. The good news is that I have lost a few ounds and that is enough for me to keep motivated!

off to take the kids to shool. Happy day :wave:
-L

Cloudy and cold here but I think the sun may peek through. I'm now in woodstove mode and am going to try very hard not to ***** about lugging wood!

I wasn't around much over the weekend because I had a two day Church meeting and then the last show at the Mill on Sunday. I was also a bit down because one of Hershey's puppies died after an agonizing three days for Morna who listened to him crying and Hershey giving her fustrated bark when she couldn't comfort him. Poor tiny thing - failing puppy syndrome is terrible.

On a happier note, I went to see the Girls yesterday and had a great visit and even a walk with them. Their puppies are just wonderful! Lucy's litter are at the silly puppy stage and very cute. Hershey's brood are still at the lying there and waiting for the next meal stage! Their eyes are opening so they will be mobile very soon. Both litters look very good - good strong bones are showing well in Lucy's babies. The prize male is adorable and picked up lots of white from Lucy's recessive colour gene and his dad's white one. A picture is attached! He is already sold to a breeder in California and will be shown and then used for stud, providing he passes all the health and personality tests.

Today is a pretty quiet day around here. I will do my walk down for the paper and then some outside chores. I have pea soup simmering and the house smells wonderful! i love that part of Fall!

Crabbing, Meowna? That's something I must get MEW to have me do next time I'm out there.

LindaBC, I hope you are soon able to get back on track with us and, if not yet, pop in and post.

Sono, I hope you read this and check out the puppy picture. There may be some adults available for placement if you are still interested.

L144S, too bad about the sore throat. If it's strep, a trip to the doc is certainly worth it.

Dottie, enjoy your time away. This caregiving thing is very tiring and I'm sure you feel a bit out of place in your own home. I hope MIL improves fast.

Kel, where are you? Did I miss something last week?

Krista, how is the program going for you? I'm back at walking but am still eating too many carbs - GOOD carbs but still carbs!

Harry is whining for breakfast and a trip to the Library so I'm outta here.

Happy Tuesday!

The puppy pic is already posted in this thread over in South Beach.
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48089

I was good when my mom came down- I actually cooked for her and she liked the food- so I was able to stick to my 20 carbs or less. We went out to eat and I had a salad with all my free foods and a baked chicken and a piece of fish- we went to a steakhouse buffet.

This weekend was real nice- the Nascar race at Lowes on Sat night under the lights, and then the zoo Sunday with my mom, FI, his son, and MIL brought subway with us and had a picnic before we went in. My mom went back Monday morning. Next time I'll see her is the week after Christmas (we're doing Christmas with the ILs this year and then the week after with my parents- next year will be Christmas with my parents and the week after with the ILs)

getting harder now- I've always been an emotional eater and there's been some problems lately. My FI and I can't have children and that's been my dream as long as I can remember. We went to a dr yesterday and she said we're looking at least $10,000 for any procedure (which our insurance doesn't cover). I was upset last night when we got back and still am and I ate a little bit more than what I was supposed to (chips and soda) I feel awful about it now- I need to learn how to break that too because once my 6 weeks are up I don't want to put back on all my weight. I wrote to Oprah because she has those shows on all the time- make people's dreams come true. 10k to her is pocket change. If she doesn't write back or answer, we're no better or worse off then what we are now I guess. All we could do is take a chance that she sees something in my letter.

It's weigh in tonight. Naked I weigh 192 now on my home scale- I think it's off a bit though. so I'm hoping for around 196-197 at weigh in. Chris said last night in bed was the first time he saw me look skinnier in my thighs and butt- that's where I carry it most, so it's nice that someone's noticing, even if it's my FI.

Oh, Kandice, I'm sorry about the bad news from the doc. Have you thought about adoption? I know that is having children of your blood lines is important but there are many children out there that need loving, giving parents.

Hi, Ruthie! You could go on and on about those sweet puppies all day for all I care! What a little cutie that white marked male is!!! So sad about Hershey's littlest.

Meowna - I LOVE crab! So are you all settled in with all boxes unpacked yet? How is the little guy adjusting to the new place?

L - Baking? Uh oh - that sounds dangerous. You're doing great with your walking!

Dottie - I hope you enjoyed your visit. That is the kind of stuff you are going to need to fit into your schedule to remain sane, I beleive. Hope MIL is feeling better today. Oh, the baseball game on my birthday was great! Bry hit really well and pitched a couple innings.

Ok - better run. I've got to shoot off a letter to my lawyer since, right on que, SHx is trying to stir things up again (did his best to ruin my birthday weekend). He even called a neighbor and left a rude message since the guy is trying to help me out in the yard. SSDD!

Kel

no adoption- I have a SS (age 11)- from FI's first marriage but it's not the same. I love the kid as my own- the mom signed away parental rights so he's "mine" but I want one of my own, as selfish as it sounds.

we'll find a way- after all the wedding is right at $20k that we never thought we'd be able to come up with- paid all but 3k of it ourselves...

Kandice, it is a process....any news you don't want to hear keepss you looking for more answers. I had a friend that did fetrtility for 12 years (unexplained) and she like you wnated a biological child. long story short, they ended up adopting a girl and a boy from Russia. I can't imaging her not having those 2 kids and for her her family is complete.

No strep for older boy, I think it is just being overscedualed and what is not planned pops up and sleep becomes less important.

Ruth, I want those little black and white pups! Our girls are litterly on their last legs. Hannah is very arthritic although her brain seems to be mostly intact (really hard of hearing, I am glad we taught hand signals when we trained them) she is so sad to look at and getting around gets harder by the day. I hope the snow holds off because that will be what finally makes it impossible for her to go out.

Molly has cancer and although on the outside looks fine, she has cut back on how much she will eat. She passes on meals, I know this can't be good....

I am taking the day off from walking today because of the rain but I plan to get on the eliptical tonight. I am in an obssesive mode about the exercise.

As for baking, I use the term loosly. I make choclate covered pretzles. They take up the whole kitchen but timming isn't everything....

off to deliver a project i finished this morning....
-L

Morning,
Been for my 5 mile walk this morning and caught up on a few things. We spent 3 hours making chocolate coverd pretzles after school. we made just over 100 of them and Not too bad. I only ate 1.

I have library today and the school rummage sale starts organizing too. Campus should be busy.., I have a 4 hour shift tomorrow and then temple duty until 6. it will be a LONG day but I hope to get out and walk again.

So just a pass though on my way out, have a good day and take a little time for yourselves to exercise, meditate or whatever it take to take care of you.
-L

Good advice about time for yourself, L144S. I had a stressful start to the morning with Harry problems but took a whole hour to soak in the tub and wash away my stress.
I'm off to do some financial stuff and will then go play with my darling puppies. We do ship to the States, by the way! tee hee!
Happy Hump Day to all!

Ruth,
I do want one of those little pups, but the timming is not right. Maybe the next litter ok? my "girls" would not take to kindly to an "inturder". The Gerbils did not go over well for them...

I really was kidding, L144S. These two litters are all sold as of today but there will be more. The kennel has more females than just my two!

I wan't kidding!
I hope I can let you know when we will be ready.
-L

Thursday, lunchtime, at work...

It's been a busy morning here with a meeting, a patient needing admission, and a lot of little details, returning phone calls, etc. Why are these things winding up on MY desk? Oh, that's right, They pay me to work, not chat on the internet! :lol:

I let myself get too hungry just now and had that little shakey feeling from low blood sugar- practically swallowed my lunch whole! I get so hungry if I go too long without eating. Fortunately, I rarely miss an opportunity to stuff my face, so it doesn't happen much! But then I eat the wrong things...I'll do better tonight.

Nothing new, just hello to all- Ruth those little ones are adorable. Hi Kandace, Meowna, L, Kel, VaLady(I see you out there!) and everyone else- I know that LindaBC must be around somewhere lurking, and maybe some others?

have a good one,
dottie

first off- I tried Atkins Morning start cereal- berry- YUCK! oh man! I think I may swallow up the carbs and go for 1 cup of my cheerios with strawberries instead! gross! so...
gotta question for everyone...

I'm on phase 2 now (Curves diet), 40- 60 carbs a day, how do you (or do you) not feel guilty about eating all your carbs in one sitting? background: I'm a huge pasta eater (before starting the diet) and now that I'm on phase 2 and can bring back some foods, I bought low carb pasta but it still has 31 carbs in it! I'm eating 6 meals a day, so that means my other 5 meals can't be very heavy in carbs. I love Chocolate too and bought one of the atkins bars to try but that's 14 carbs! man!

I want to get out and eat "normal" foods and not lettuce or green peppers, radishes, cheese, all the time! I found some wheat wraps that were 10 carbs per wrap so I made myself a turkey and lettuce sandwich for lunch (meal #3 today) yummm sandwiches! and Dannon carb Control yogurt for meal #4, FI is making me jello for snacks for tonight- sugar free 0 carbs and I got some popsicals too - 3 carbs- for my night time snack

and one more- what motivates everyone? is it just the scale- seeing it go down and down? I know I'm going to plateau sometime (and probably soon- I've lost 7 lbs in 2 weeks and then this week I've lost another 5 lbs so far) what can I think of to make me keep on even when I'm not showing improvement? My big thing is that I wanted to take off the weight for so long- to get the clothes fitting good and in style- but the big push was the wedding- who doesn't want to look good for their wedding pics and honeymoon bathing suits.... any advice to keep at it after I plateau?

Kandice, You subtract the fiber from the total carbs to get the net carbs so things may not be as high as you thing.

Some of the low carb sweet stuff contains Malatol. This stuff does not like me!
There are some good low carb tortillas with 11 grams of fiber...
and some good chocolate bars called Zcarb that have 8 grams of fiber and no malatol...

Low carb is much easier than it use to be because of nutition lables. The other thing I have noticed lately is that no matter low carb/high fiber (which is what I do) they seem to come down to the more natural the food the better the chioce. (but a girl does need chocolat! Go for dark over milk, less sugar, nore coco and satisfies the craving faster)
Done rambeling, have a good noght girls.
-L
Also high fiber cerials are not that bad. DH likes the new low carb special K

Thanks L- the Curves diet manager though- the one monitoring all of us, told us not to subtract. Some of the ladies had done low carb before and were saying that and the diet manager said no- that way you overestimate the amount of carbs.

special K someone else told me that too- I'll have to try that next. I really don't like the morning start cereal.

Hello Hello, I am here, being bad...........eating chocolate............not sure what is up with the cravings! Today is choc free day in my house!! All it does is upset my stomach, for the few mins of pleasure I pay for it for hours, how silly is that. Yes we are getting settled in, unpacked. Now starts the organizing, which I have had problems with for the last year. Since the demise of my marriage I have gone through alot of changes, my outlook, attitude, not all of them for the better, am working on it though, really don't want to be bitter. I see my ex almost daily as it is a small town, and the girl he is going to marry, ( we have known her and her family for the last 6 yrs)Nice. I could do without the smile and wave from her. Rude little girl, she has no idea what she is in for. Other than that silliness we are ok. Working on potty training here, oh joy of joys. No luck yet! Ha. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, I hope to go crabbing again this weekend.

Happy Saturday afternoon.
We will be watching the sox tonight.

t had been a dull overcast day, i need the sun! Little man and I met my old sitter for a cup of coffee while olde boy went to services...I should have gone with him but I just couldn't muster the energy to sit in services. i have to be at the temple tomorrow andyway....

I did get out for a really long walk. My tush hurts! I hope I can recover enough to get in another long one tomorrow. I like the unlimited time on the weekend to get out.

So what are you all up to for the weekend?

Opps kids calling...
-L

I read yesterday, but didn't post- I wasn't logged in for some reason and it seemed like too much trouble to do it! You know you're tired when you cant type in 6 letters!

It was sort of a bad day yesterday- I got upset at DH for not wanting to do the stair replacement I want to do, (money). the stupid guy that came to give the estimate (and take measurements) said we could repair ours by going underneath and putting wedges in to stop the noise and just paint the risers. Well, I don't want to paint the risers. Guess whose little job that will be? Bingo! ME! i know the real issue is how overwhelmed I feel about MIL being here, and I was doing the stairs to feel like my life isn't completely paralyzed for a year due to her. I had a huge whining session with DS and felt a lttle better, but I can't really talk to DH cause it's his mother and he feels bad already. I will get over it, but tonight I will have some wine with my WHINE< and I am taking the day off and going for a drive.

However, strangely enough, my eating is improving. I guess I have had enough of having to compromise on food things- there is so much junk in this house it is unbelievable. (for MIL) Well, I got the new Schwarzbein book out of the library and it got me going. It is impossible to read(why your adrenal glands dont' work) but I did feel motivated to get my diet better. I had really dropped the amount of protein I have been eating, as an accomodation for MIL/DH, and so I don't have to make THREE different breakfasts/dinners/ snacks. Well, that is over. I made a swiss and aspargus omelette yesterday, tuna salad, pancakes my way(with ricotta and extra egg) today, and this afternoon I am making a crustless asparagus quiche for me for dinner. they can eat take out or leftovers.

Well, I could whine on for hours, but I realize that it is not such compelling reading for you as it is for me going through it. So off to the shower, then grocery shopping, then I'm going for a drive to see some of the leaves changing...

L, your walks are motivating me! I did a short one to shake my anger yesterday and it really helped. I then lifted some weight- it was fun, sort of.

dottie

meowna- every time you see her in town, just tell yourself, been there done that. and chuckle to yourself. she'll find out for herself and when she does you can say a "told ya so" in your head. I'm sure you're a lot better off now.

dottie- how do you make pancakes? that's another food I'm missing