I ate a lot yesterday... stayed under my carb count but snarfed 2,000 calories. Trying not to feel like I did something "bad" since we are not supposed to worry about calories this early on Induction. I was just hungry often...
Breakfast: 2 eggs, 2 oz crumbled sausage (1.3); coffee w/cream (0.5)
Lunch: 6oz chicken, 1 slice bacon, a bit of shredded swiss (0.5); zucchini casserole (1.7)
Dinner: White Castle Hamburger Pie recipe from linda's site (3.4) with mushrooms in butter and salad with blue cheese dressing, a T of sour cream (4.3)
Snacks: 1oz cheese (0.7), hardboiled egg (0.6), stalk celery with cream cheese (2.6)
=16.6 total carbs, 13.8 net carbs. 2,150 calories.
Today is planned out now, it also looks like a 2,000 calorie day. Yeesh. My first couple days were 1,500 but that hamburger pie I made is incredibly caloric! Trying not to worry, trying not to worry.....
B: coffee w/heavy cream; 1/2 slice hamburger pie, 1 sausage patty
L: leftovers: 1/2 chicken breast with bacon and swiss, slice hamburger pie, small salad
D: salmon with garlic butter, mashed cauliflower
S: egg salad with zucchini; celery with cream cheese
tomorrow:
almond flour pancake (4.5)
1 cup broccoli w/ butter, egg salad (6)
stuffed bell pepper (3)
crystal light (2)
64oz water
total: 15.5
EDIT: Well, I was greeted by a lovely splitting headache and wasn't hungry today. So this was what I ate instead:
breakfast: almond flour pancake (4)
dinner: lc tortilla with a couple oz cheese, 15 almonds and crystal light (7.7)
snack later: 15 almonds (2.7)
total: 14.4
Have managed to stick to plan but weight loss stalled now that I have gotten back to ticker weight. I think I am getting too much dairy. When I was totalling my carbs last night, realized the only meal with no dairy was my bedtime "snack" of a glass of non sweet soymilk. (4 g carbs, ) so today, started off with no dairy at breakfast, since lunch will consist of yesterdays left over crustless quiche, with plenty of dairy. Will ensure no dairy for supper.
The extra water was helping too, and I didn't get that the last two days. so, onward. watch the dairy, get the water.
I just realized the other day that cream cheese has become my BFF and I should probably scale that back a bit... No idea if it was or would have affected weight loss but probably best not to overdo any one thing.
Today's plan:
B: 2 eggs, 2 sausage patties, coffee w cream
L: buffalo chicken dip with celery and pork rinds for scooping, zucchini in EVOO with a bit of parm on top
D: chicken and garlic sausages with bell pepper and onions fried up a bit
S: 3 homemade meatballs, 1 egg's worth of egg salad, a babybel cheese if needed
I haven't entered dinner into fitday yet so I don't have all the carb counts but I know it's plenty under 20.
crystal light (2)
15 almonds (2.7)
cheese omelet (1)
sausage patties (2)
beef stick (1)
roast (2)
turkey (1)
total: 11.7
I need to start eating more veggies again. I haven't been hungry for days. Tomorrow I'm going to make a cheesy green bean dish with leftover roast for dinner, yum.
tomorrow:
roast (2)
lc wrap w/ turkey, lettuce, dijon mustard and 1oz cheese (5)
tea w/ a splash of Torani sugar-free vanilla (0.5)
green beans w/ butter (5)
beef stick (1)
total: 11.5
Yesterday was a very hungry day... I am not sure why that happened. All I can see is that I had a lot of carbs early on, and I am wondering if that set me up to want carbs for the rest of the day?
B: leftover stuffed bell pepper with ground beef, onion, tomato, cheese; topped with an egg; coffee w 1T cream (7.4 total)
L: taco salad - 2c romaine, 3oz ground beef, tbsp cheese, tbsp sour cream, slice of tomato, 1/4 avocado (8.4 total)
D: 6oz salmon, 1c brussels sprouts sauteed in butter (7.9 total)
S: 3 leftover chicken wing peices, 1 oz cheese, 1 egg w/ 1T mayo (1.5 total)
= 30.3 total carbs; 18.9 net carbs. about 2000 calories
"The carbs make me want more carbs" is why Atkins is such a good way of eating for many of us. The Atkins books (2002 and earlier) do a great job of explaining why we react differently to carbs. People who aren't carb sensitive eat carbs, feel satisfied and go on with their days; we eat carbs, and in an hour or two, we're hungry again and want more carbs. It's how I gained 80 pounds!
Yeah, that is what made me think of it. But if that's the case with what happened yesterday, I am so sensitive as to be set off by 8g total carbs? (fewer net, I forget what the net was for that meal) I am going back to a lower-carb breakfast as I usually have and will see if I have the same troubles again.
I'm reasonably sure that for the rest of my life white flour and sugar will set me off - regardless of my weight or way of eating. I also believe my body reads artificial sweeteners in relatively large amounts (as in Atkins desserts) and fillers (as in low carb bars and candies) as "sugar" and will respond with an insulin spike and create "hungry for more."
It's not a happy thought, but it's one I strongly suspect is true. Atkins induction works for many of us with out-of-whack metabolisms because the small amounts of carbs in the allowed vegetables don't trigger the fast insulin spikes. But that's just what I think.
