Midwife, you are right, the reason we eat matzoh is because there was no time to let the bread (which was probably like pita bread) rise before fleeing Egypt. There are about a million other Passover special-meaning foods too, but the rules about what you CAN'T eat are stricter than the ones about what you can! It is all about the leavening, and any product that could cause leavening, and depending on your tradition, possibly other products that could easily be confused with one that could cause leavening.
The whole thing is pretty crazy. This webpage has a big long description. For our family, we basically don't eat any grains except for matzoh (grains includes corn), but that's about it. DH and I agreed that it was too much of a pain to try to avoid corn syrup altogether so we are also allowing condiments that have corn syrup in them. I was laughing this morning when I looked at my bottle of Log Cabin Lite maple syrup and it had a big label on the front saying "No High Fructose Corn Syrup!" but then I looked at the label and corn syrup is still on the ingredients, it's just not the high-fructose kind.
Becky, welcome back!
Kitty, yes, we are going bread-free! And rice-free, and pasta-free, and cereal-free, and that cuts out about 80% of my usual diet so it's tough for me!
So I ate too much again at last night's seder and the scale is back up to my red line (140). Fingers crossed that it's just water.
Thanks for the link, Jessica. Sounds kind of....paleo! Interesting! That's funny about the syrup....as long as it's not high fructose, then it must be ok, right?? I mean, that's practically a vegetable! It's always funny what companies try to get away with on labels.
Jessica, you could pretend you are Sephardic, then you can have rice . When I was growing up we followed the rules closely but we also spent the holiday with Persians/Iranians who do not stop eating rice for nothin!
Now I am about the spirit of the law more than the letter of the law. I figure my kids have an understanding and I am not seriously inconvenienced by the holiday. Although I could buy kosher for passover cereal it is outrageously expensive and we are not kosher any other time of the year so I do not feel the need. Re condiments, those time limited illegal ingredients do have a way of popping up!
3 days back under calorie limits, and 4 pounds are back off. Think those were the sqwushy waterfluff ones, and now it's going to be back to the well-established fat layers. No more screwing around this time - it's time to make goal. Birthday is May 17, and I don't want to greet 43 with anything less than total resolution.
Right at maintenance level yesterday. That is three days at or below my calorie line. 1.4 pounds less today than yesterday. Like, Becky, I think it was water, but I'm okay with it.
Becky - my birthday is May 15. I am looking to hit my birthday at a good point, too.
Shannon - fellow Taurus! It's 6 weeks out - perfect timeline for not too close and not too far.
Buying my tickets for Atlanta ... but won't register for the meet until I swim at the Michigan championships later this month. I have to get a new suit by then - I have been practicing (and competing) in a suit from 25 pounds ago, and it's a veritable parachute. Part of it's deliberate, but it's time to bite the bullet and get something that fits. Maybe I'll burn the old one in a ritualistic casting-out of my fat history.
4 days under 1500, and 5lbs are off. I do not miss them.
Oh, I had a baaaaaad long weekend. I stumbled. I fell. I faceplanted and took a few days to pull myself up. I ate so much crap. Right now I'm scared of the scale (if several weeks at 1500 couldn't make me lose anything, I'm sure I've gained a bunch at the calorie level I'm eating at!). Not exactly sure why I could hold it together for 3 weeks of "boot camp" and then just lost it. I was really, really frustrated I wasn't making any headway on the scale or measuring tape/pants-o-meter and bam.
Sooo... getting back OP... not on boot camp plan, but I'm trying to keep my calories low and resume some HIIT training etc.
Megan, my last week was, wow, I can eat way more calories than I thought.... and then proved to myself that nope, I cannot. Ultimately those calories caught up to me and my scale.
nothing to do but pull overselves on up by our bootstraps and jump back onto the wagon!
Chicks, I have a question that I'd like some feedback on, if you don't mind. I know this is not your profession.....
Here's the sitch- I am having tummy tuck and related lipo. In my 4 pound range my "flank fat" ie. lovehandle/backfat bulge is much more evident at the top of the range, no duh. My concern is that the surgeon will not take out *all* or *as much* of my fat if it is not as evident in lower range scale zone. (and of course I want it gone gone gone) The surgical general advice is to get to the very bottom of your range but I am wondering about that.
I asked him at what point he would (TMI right here) "stop sucking" meaning when allthe fat was gone or ... and he said when he thought the proportions were correct and that it "looked good" to him.
Before you question whether this might be the doctor for me, I will say I have chosen after talking to several plastic surgeons and I chose this guy because he explained the many layers of closing that he does that another might not.
I definitely did impress upon him just how imporatnt this issue is to me so I know he knows what I want.
At this moment I am thinking, smack in the middle of my range, 125 vs.123. Thoughts??
Er, no, not that last one. How did that get in here? 
