Carol Sue I didn't do super good tonight either. We tried the other steakhouse and their prices were extravagantly high. DS and BIL paid to thank us for carrying the load with Daddy while she and BIL weren't able to be much help. We got chicken fried steak and the food just wasn't good especially for the price it cost. We will go to TX roadhouse next time or go to the regular restaurant that makes really good country fried steak. It didn't satisfy me and I ended up coming home and eating. I just couldn't get satisfied.
I started reading the Heller's book called The Stress Eating Cure. Rachel talks about how you she got to the place where no matter how much she worked at staying on the CAD plan that had helped her lose 200 lbs and keep it off she got to the place to where she was always hungry.
She talked about show science has revealed the cause of stress-eating is from the power of 2 hormones, cortisol and its sidekick adrenaline which summons 4 other hormones. Those four hormones ae termed the Masters of Metabolism are ghrelin (the hunger hormone), serotonin (the satisfaction hormone), oxytocin ( the hormone of affection, bonding, and sexuality), and leptin ( weight-loss regulator). These Masters of Metabolism combine with insulin, cortisol, and adrenaline, dictate how strongly we will crave food, how much we want to eat, how much weight we put on and where fat will be deposit on our body. They say these hormones respond to how we think, feel and our environment. These attempt to help us deal with stress by sending us commands to seek out food and make it taste so extraordinarily good and then command our body to store the food on our body.
They say sheer willpower will only help for just so long. All this is in the introduction, but they claim they will show how to make these hormones work together. I guess I never paid much attention to this book before because CAD always worked for me. I just bought the book because they wrote it. Now I will have to read it more in depth. I will try to do the best I can with my eating while reading the book and try to start the plan on the March 1.
Going to get up early and go see Daddy. The nurses are requesting the Speech Therapist re-evaluate Daddy in the morning to take him off thick drinks for me. I want to be there tomorrow when she does the test. I want them to let him have regular liquids etc. I think it is ridiculous at this point that he can't have ice cream.
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Trish, I have read about those different hormones, but I don't understand much that I read. I don't feel that I eat from stress. I think I eat because 1) The food is there 2) it's mealtime, 3) DH is eating. Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of not letting myself actually get hungry before eating. And I eat too much, because my body does not recognize "full." If there's still food available, or on my plate, I feel that I should eat it. So my problem is more behavioral.
There were 2 times in my life that I feel I ate from stress, and both had to do with a date gone bad. One time I ate an entire submarine sandwich and the other time a whole pizza. Both were brought to my home by the date, and they left them when I asked them to leave. "Get out of here, but leave the food!!" LOL
I also don't understand why your Dad is not allowed ice cream. It is thick, but maybe it's too thick. Maybe a milkshake.
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Carol Sue I don't understand why Daddy can't have ice cream or milkshakes either. They say it is because it melts to liquid. His aunt was allowed to have them and she aspirated but that was never the reason for Daddy to drink thick liquids. His was to give his throat a chance to heal which it has done. Now they say they have to do an x-ray because they have no records from the hospital telling them that info.
HI Friends: certainly been a busy few days. I got out for a nice walk yesterday and today. weight this am was 179, so that is my starting point.
Since I haven't been able to resist sweets, I made some creme brûlée with stevia and xylitol to sweeten it. If you can't beat em, join em. Have enjoyed that a bit.
Stuck to plan better yesterday and today, without being hungry.
Not sure if that will continue.
Back to work today. I am on call all week, and taking care of the new babies and mamas. I am starting to feel equal to the task again.
Carol: I hope you can get back on track. Its just a treat. But I know that can throw me off for several days or longer, so hope you do better than me.
Trish, keep exercising and walking around to catch up with your DD!
thanks for all your caring words, I really appreciate it.
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Hi Mad. Glad to hear your are getting back on track and back in the swing of things with work.
I'm back on track today. That place just didn't have the food choices that I am now accustomed to. No sense getting upset about it. I just ate it and moved on. I didn't even consider it a treat. I don't understand how I used to eat like that all the time. It certainly wasn't going to call me back.
My DH is very big on sweets, too. I have given them up for Lent and they are not even tempting me. I had some peanut butter on a half banana today and had to decided for myself that I wasn't considering that a "sweet" even though it contains sugar. It's just how I'm accustomed to eating a banana, adding some protein and fat to it.
Tonight I had grilled calf liver for dinner. One of my favorites, but I only have it a few times a year. DH won't eat it. When the kids were growing up I cooked it for dinner and everyone ate it, but now none of them will eat it. LOL More for me!!
I didn't sleep well last night. I think tonight I'll take something to help out. I was really dragging today.
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Madeleine Glad to see you working with the Mamas and babies again I think that will help your healing process emotionally. I know you love working with them. I will continue praying for you.
Carol Sue I don't think of banana or pb as a sweet. I always think of candy or dessert type foods as sweets. DH and I both love liver and onions but we haven't had it in a while. I think I'll get some next time I go to the store.
I've read a lot from The Stress Eaters Cure book and I am definitely a stress eater. I took the test and I scored 16 which puts me in the low range of 16 -21 for being a high stress eater. I am going to start the plan tomorrow morning by eating a large balanced breakfast. There is a step by step 2 week plan to ease into the plan and a 2 or 3 day Quick start plan. I will have to read some more to decided which one I want to do. Heller's say you can start one plan and switch to the other one. Any way, I'm started with day 1 tomorrow morning. It appears that I'm running on adrenaline right now which makes a lot of sense with all that is going on with my Daddy and DS and her hubby.
I went on the CAD group on FB and asked if anyone was using the stress eaters cure and there is a woman who shared some of the changes she learned from the book. One change is that we can now eat nuts outside of a RM. In fact, in the new book they don't use the words Reward Meal. They also allow some foods they didn't they didn't allow before. I think it is a better plan. She also mentioned that on occasion you might need 2 RM one smaller than the other. However, I haven't read that far in the book yet.
It is so worth trying and if it is as easy to get the cravings under control and lose weight at the same time, I will have finally found a plan that works for me. It is funny but I haven't really been hungry today. It is as if once I knew that I have a eating disorder causing my problem that some of the pressure has been lifted. Rachel said in the introduction that once she realized the stress was her problem she was experiencing was a chemical imbalance that her cravings seemed to level off some. However, it came back until she and her husband did the research to find out what was causing the imbalance and how to treat it. At least, I have the book to start tomorrow with the treatment to keep them from coming back.
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Trish, It's great to find a plan that works for you. I wish you well with this. It's no wonder you have stress with all that's going on with your Dad.
I buy my calf liver in Walmart. It's frozen and has 5 slices in it. The thing I don't like about it is it's all frozen together in one piece and I have to let it thaw a little bit so I can separate the slices to freeze them separately. I have to be careful that I only defrost them enough so I can get them apart, because if they thaw too much then I would have to cook them all. There are 2 restaurants we go to that have liver on the menu, but I rarely order it. It's very easy to cook on my grill pan. Although I like onions, I don't usually eat the liver with onions. I prefer it plain. I remember my mother always made beef liver because it was less expensive, but it was so tough and hard. The calf liver is so tender it can be cut with your fork. All I put on it is salt and pepper. DH will eat chicken liver, but not calf liver.
The reason I was thinking of peanut butter as being a sweet is because it contains sugar, and when I decided to give it up for Lent, I referred to it as "sugar" not "sweets." I meant it as candy, cookies, pie, cake. Especially the candy. That's the hardest for me to resist because it's so easy to just pop a little piece of candy in your mouth and you don't realize the harm in it. There are foods like PB that contain sugar, but an not usually referred to as sweets.
I have also been eating blueberries. I'm not much of a fruit eater, and for years I didn't think I liked blueberries, as in blueberry muffins, or coffeecake like DH buys. One day I was reading how healthy they are, but not in the muffins or cakes, of course. First I bought a bag in the frozen food case, then the next time the store had the fresh ones buy one pint, get 2 free. That was such a deal I bought them and froze them. I recently found them in the freezer and went back to eating them. I only like them frozen so far. I put about 10-20 frozen berries in some plain greek yogurt and I really like them. So now my fruit selections are 1) blueberries 2) half banana 3)Gala Apples when I have them, or 4) half an orange when I have them. I usually don't eat more than 1 serving per day.
I still have the problem of overeating. I usually only have 2 meals a day and they satisfy my actual hunger. Anything I eat beyond that I'm eating out of habit, or boredom, or whatever. I just don't get feelings that I can call hunger. I just don't realize how little food my body really needs to function. So many people who are dieting say they can't stick to it because they get so hungry. Hunger just doesn't happen to me.
Hey Carol: I am aware that most peanut butter has sugar in it. We had to start being careful when DD was a child, she was allergic to corn starch (yes odd, but true) and peanut butter is mostly sweetened with icing sugar, which contains corn starch. SO we switched to sugar free. We don't love the "all-natural" ones that separate and you have to stir up to eat, I stick with the Kraft salt and sugar free that is homogenized and needs no stirring. Its so usual to us, I forget that other peanut butter has sugar etc.
Sadly, weight is up today, even though I did well yesterday, and had digestive issues throughout the day. I assume I am holding water or something. Tomorrow is the CT scan, so I will be fasting a long while.
Trish, good luck trying the new plan. Try to give it the whole two weeks so it has a chance to work, sometime the first days can be hard while you adjust.
Plan to walk today. and maybe yoga later on.
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Mad, for the most part, I will pass on things rather than use a reduced sugar or reduced fat version. With peanut butter, I don't usually eat more than 2 T per day, if that much. What I put on a half banana is a smear, which is no way equal to 2 T. Occasionally I have some of celery, but PB is not something I eat daily, or even weekly. If I was eating a lot of it I would worry. I realize that not watching the little bits here and there could be part of my problem.
Today I realized that I had not tracked my food in MFP for a few days. I got it caught up from memory, and I overate each day. And I could have eaten things that I forgot since time had passed. So it seems it is imperative that I do this daily. I am online daily, and it only takes a few minutes to track. I usually do it after breakfast, so then I can see how many calories I have left for the day. I have to start going back to giving more thought to what I'm eating and get back to eating more salad, etc. I was losing when I did that. I am at the point that I won't get on the scale because I know I have to be up, and I do NOT want to see that 2 again. It is my own fault. I am not eating out of hunger and not watching my nutrients. Bad habits are so hard to break, and good ones are slow to develop.
Madeleine Sending good vibes for your CT scan tomorrow praying it get some answers and that whatever they find will be fixable. I'm sure your gain is temporary.
Carol Sue I don't eat enough peanut butter to worry about the sugar. I don't eat it often, but when I do never more than 2 T. In fact, I usually only use 1 T.
I checked my notifications on FB and there are 2 women who do the SEC (Stress Eaters Cure). One of them recommended that I also read Big Breakfast Diet. I will order it today. I should get it about the time I get through reading SEC. One of the girls that is helping me with this does it with JUDDD and IF.
Funny thing is that I am just switching my RM to breakfast and eating a bigger breakfast than usual. Using CADs idea of eating what you want, I had 2 eggs, a pork chop that I only ate the lean part and a pancake that I made by mixing 1/2 banana, a couple spoons of Greek yogurt, a little milk to stir and liquefy and I ground up a heaping T of oatmeal with a heaping T of Bisquick hear healthy pancake mix. I mixed all the pancake ingredients and cooked half of it for tomorrow. Then I finished off with my favorite ice cream cone. I thought I had probably ruined my day by eating the ice cream cone, but when I read the conversation between the 2 women helping me do this said that the dr who wrote the Big Breakfast Diet said it was important to have the protein and sugar balance at breakfast. They said it is a lot of carbs but it works. So turns out I'm right on plan. Whew!!! Thank goodness. I am encouraged by how much they talked about this having helped them so greatly.
I don't think it will take 12 to 2 weeks for me to get on this since I'm just switching my carby foods to morning and eating less as the day goes by. Knowing I can have cheese sticks or nuts for a snack in between if I need them is also going to be a big help to me. I'm excited about this.
I forgot to mention yesterday that my morning FBS was 170. I just don't understand how that all works because when we got ready to eat later in the day, my blood sugar reading was 115. The lowest it has been in ages especially without meds. This morning it was 172. After reading SEC, I am thinking that my high FBS just may be caused by the adrenaline that is the dominating culprit right now that is probably causing the high readings. Time will tell as I get into this new woe. At least, now I feel like I have some answers.
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I have heard of The Big Breakfast diet. That's what I was thinking of when you first mentioned this Heller plan.
I don't understand FBG either Trish. Mine has dropped so dramatically recently. I thought it was from eating just a big salad at dinner but I haven't been doing that lately and my fasting readings are still so much better than before. You probably remember when I was getting readings around 200 for such a long time. Otherwise, the only thing I'm doing different is the Tumeric, but it didn't happen when I first started taking it. I also increased my D2 to 10 IE 5 days a week, but you take that also don't you? I don't know what's doing it but I'm glad it improved. Mine doesn't go as low as your during the day. It rarely goes below 120 unless I take my regular dose of Glimiperide.
This morning when I got up around 7:30 I was really achy. My elbow hurt, my foot and knee, and when I bent over to hook the dog up outside my back hurt. I was feeling so sorry for myself. After I was up for a while, had a cup of coffee, I started feeling much better. Now I don't have more than my normal achyness, and without any pain meds. I have felt pretty good, done a few loads of clothes, cleaned up the kitchen. So I think I should just lighten up and realize there are a lot of people with more serious problems than this. All I really need to do is give myself a little time in the morning to loosen up.
The weather has improved. No rain for 2 days now and the temps are good. Hi 50s. This morning the weather man said we are not predicted to get much snow the rest of the season. So spring is just around the corner!!
A quick flyby as DH is getting ready to leave. I just wanted to say that I just read in the SEC book that adrenaline is a bully. It acts like the bully that wants all the food in the lunchroom for himself and blocks the door to keep the other kids from going into the classrooms the want to go to.
Carol SueSeeking the rule on 3fc for when I get back home. I would like to share a portion of this info from the book. I think I'm allowed to share it as long as I give the names of the book, authors and page #. Is that correct? I think it would help those of us that want to understand the FBS better.
Oh Carol, its not reduced sugar, just no added sugar. There are no sugar substitutes in it. I don't like the taste of peanut butter with added stuff now, mine is just "peanut-ty" with nothing else.
I am going to make a treat tonight, chicken korma, and raita which is yoghurt with shredded cucumbers and salt.
Today I am much hungrier than yesterday, even though I have eaten similarly. Had my walk earlier in the day though.
Glad your sugars are better.
Trish, I'm not sure about you and big breakfast diet, you were never a breakfast eater before! hope things go well.
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Mad, I didn't notice that you had said the peanut butter is Kraft. I googled, and it is only available in Canada. It can be ordered from Amazon, but it is shipped from Canada and costs $12.99 a jar. LOL I don't think we have anything similar here.
We went to Bob Evans tonight. I had the boneless fried chicken breast with broccoli and carrots. I brought leftovers home for lunch tomorrow. I didn't get bread or a roll. I got banana bread and brought it home for DH. He will eat that tomorrow with his morning coffee. Tonight I will have some sugar free jello. I've been making that for myself lately. One box lasts me 3 days. I tried the premade but it didn't taste good to me. It had a taste of preservatives and was really rubbery.
I read some out of the Big Breakfast Diet book on the way to see Daddy and back. I even read some of it to DH. He is even interested in changing some of his eating to fit into it with me. Eating the big breakfast this morning worked great. I wasn't hungry all day and it was after 5 pm before we ate. Another thing that I noticed, I usually get sleepy about the time I am supposed to cook our main meal. I didn't have that today.
The author of The Big Breakfast Diet is an endocrinologist Dr. Jakubowicz. She has used her studies of endocrinology to create the diet to work around the natural rhythms called circadian rhythms which influence the metabolism, body weight, hunger and cravings. According to her these rhythms dictate the body's hormonal environments and she says some hormones rule the body during the day while others rule the night. Supposedly these hormones influence how the body uses carbohydrates and proteins for fuel and how efficiently our bodies burn body fat. Therefore she says it makes sense to eat the right foods at the right times so that we can diminish hunger and cravings for carbohydrates.
She did her own study of 2 groups. One group was on Low Carb diet and the other on the Big Breakfast diet. While both groups lost weight and made it to maintenance, most of the BB group were able to lose the weight without craving sweets and hunger and found it easy to stay in maintenance abd even continued to lose weight while most of the low carbers always had cravings for sweets and not as many were able to stay on maintenance and gained weight. Some of the patients who follow her plan even lose up to 25 lbs within 30 days, but then she doesn't promise that will happen with everyone because all bodies do not work the same.
I remember reading about the circadian rhythm years ago and was convinced that if I knew how that I could change the way I lose weight etc. She also has a chapter on how to exercise that works with the natural rhythms. I'm very impressed and will be doing this. This is really geared to Insulin Resistance and PCOS as well as diabetes etc. It is just worth taking the time to do it.
