Thank you both for your answers, and good luck with your plan petra65! I hope it works out for you. And yes, feedback is why I'm posting here as well.
Okay, I'm up to a 30 net grams carbs allowed now.
Total net grams carbs for yesterday: Exactly 30, woohoo!
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Vitamins:
Mx, E, C, Bx, Met, GTx
Breakfast: 9 gram carbs
1 cup of coffee with splenda/half & half
chef salad w/1 tblsp buttermilk ranch dressing
16 oz. water
Exercise:
16 oz. water
Lunch: 7 grams carbs
24 oz. water
homemade stew
Snack: 5 grams carb
pepper snack cheese (japanese brand)
1 serving mixed nuts
16 oz. water
Dinner: 9 grams carbs
small salad w/1 tsp italian dressing
10 oz. tenderloin sirloin
very small side of wild rice (and this is where almost all the flipping carbs came from anyway!)
unsweetened tea
16 oz. water
Okay spending 4 hours driving today in bad weather...2 hours to the aquarium and 2 hours back (for our 5 yr old daughter) meant I sucked down fast food (again!) for lunch and dinner.
My total net carbs for today: 22
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Vitamins:
Mx, E, C, Bx, Met, GTx
Breakfast: 8 grams carbs
2 cups of coffee with splenda/half & half
6 cherries
3 slices bacon
2 pieces cheddar snack cheese
16 oz. water
Lunch: 6 grams carbs
16 oz. iced tea w/splenda
2 fried chicken thighs, skin and batter removed
1 fried chicken wing, skin and batter removed
Dinner: 8 grams carbs
16 oz. water
taco bell taco salad without shell or beans
Snack: 0 grams carbs
16 oz. water
1 serving fried pork skins
B: 2 slices whole wheat french toast made with one egg, sugar free syrup, sugar free latte
L: chef salad with blue cheese dressing
D: 3 small cheese quesadillas made with low carb tortillas with refried beans and reduced fat sour cream
S: 1 slice watermelon
Breakfast: 13 grams carbs
1 cup of coffee w/splenda and heavy cream
16 oz. water
1/2 sandwich w/no sugar added peanut butter and splenda-sweetened raspberry jam
Exercise:
32 oz. water
Lunch: 8 grams carbs
16 oz. water
2 slices pepper jack cheese (good deli kind, not processed kraft cheese food)
2 slices sara lee roast turkey breast (from deli)
6 cherries
Snack: 4 grams carbs
taco bell beef taco without shell
16 oz. water
Dinner: 2 grams carbs
16 oz. water
homemade stir-fry beef and vegetables (no rice or noodles)
After-dinner: 5 grams carbs
2 glasses of red wine
Last edited by snapless; 06-15-2008 at 10:19 PM.
Reason: added wine
Man, I overate yesterday. All "legal" food but way too much. Must have been from being so hungry from Saturday. Hopefully, I'll get back on track today. Having a smoothie for breakfast so I'm off to a good start and I'm packing my lunch for work.
Breakfast: 13 grams carbs
1 cup of coffee w/splenda and heavy cream
16 oz. water
1/2 sandwich w/no sugar added peanut butter and splenda-sweetened raspberry jam
Exercise:
32 oz. water
Lunch: 0 grams
Japanese wasabi snack white cheddar cheese
3 slices roast beef
16 oz. water
Snack: 2 grams carbs
12 oz. Diet Coke (the kind with splenda...yes, still bad for me but not -as- bad)
1 serving mixed nuts
Dinner: 3 grams carbs
16 oz. water
1 pkg tyson hot wings
1 serving ranch dip
EDIT: I just deleted the cherries from my dinner because I never actually ate them.
Last edited by snapless; 06-18-2008 at 09:30 AM.
Reason: Fixed to proper amounts
Lunch: 0 grams carbs
16 oz. water
3 slices ham
3 slices provolone
Snack: 2 grams carbs
16 oz. water
1 serving mixed nuts
Dinner: 6 grams carbs
16 oz. water
12 oz. splenda diet coke
roast beef & provolone wrap with lettuce, dijon mayo and multigrain wrap
The following is today's journal entry:
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How I feel:
I had a bad day. I forgot to take most of my vitamins. I didn't exercise because my back was hurting too bad from the injury I gave myself yesterday. I forgot to eat breakfast and by the time I felt hungry, it was an hour until lunch...so I just waited. I didn't drink enough water. Overall I feel like doodoo even though I stayed well below my carb limit (30) today. MUST DRINK MORE WATER!
Dinner: 14 grams
8 oz. club soda w/splenda & splash of lemon juice
roasted turkey breast with gravy
1 serving steamed green beans
1 slice whole wheat toast w/butter
Snapless-good for you for keeping up your posting even when no one else has been here. I will endeavor to do better.
I'm not trying to be mean here, I'm just a very blunt person...but I'm doing this for me. If someone else gets something positive out of my experience, I'll be ecstatic for them, but my only goal is me.
I made a decision to take back over my body - and the best way for me to make that decision happen is to keep throwing my daily efforts (or lack of) in that direction in my own face (which is why my journal says, "being blunt and honest with myself"). What better way to do that than advertise it to other people?
Yesterday's total carbs: 16 grams
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Vitamins:
Mx, E, C, Bx, Met, GTx
Breakfast: 2 grams
16 oz. water
3 cups coffee w/splenda & heavy cream
2 sausage patties
2 scrambled eggs cooked in sausage grease
Exercise:
16 oz. water
Lunch: 5 grams carbs
16 oz. water
1/2 serving roasted turkey breast with gravy
1 serving steamed green beans
1 serving steamed spinach
Snack:
None today
Dinner: 6 grams
16 oz. water
roast beef, swiss and lettuce wrap
After Dinner: 3 grams
3 glasses pinot noir
16 oz. water
How I feel:
I’m in a really rotten mood.
This morning I wanted cereal and milk and instead dutifully ate my eggs and sausage while watching my child eat some cocoa puffs.
This afternoon I wanted a cream cheese & cinnamon raisin bagel afterwards…and instead I did my exercises watching my child enjoy some honey mustard pretzels with her otherwise healthy lunch.
This evening I wanted to bake some fresh, hot and gooey chocolate chip or peanut butter cookies and eat a few with some cold milk, and I watched my husband snacking on cheetohs while I ate my roast beef wrap and drank my water.
I snapped at my husband. I really didn’t mean to…it isn’t -his- fault that I got as large and out of shape as I did…so I apologized, but explained why I was feeling so wretched. I did withstand the temptations though. I can just taste those cookies dangit.
I think I’ll have a glass of red wine or two…maybe that will pull me out of my funk. I swear some days are easier than others.
Next day note: the wine definitely helped my mood. And today? I don't feel any cravings at all.
You are right-the most important thing is to do this for yourself. I know from past experience it gets boring talking to yourself.
There are low carb peanut butter cookie recipes if that is something that interests you. Depends on your ability to get some unusual ingredients and how you feel about sugar alcohols, etc. I could post some if you are interested.
This was certainly not a perfect food day for me but I am going to post what I ate anyway. I did my best with estimating calories-it's probably not perfect but not far off. I think I have also decided that next month I'm going to move to the sugar shakers forum because I'm just too confusing to newcomers here.
B: smoothie made with 1 cup lowfat plain yogurt, 1/2 cup 1% milk, 1 cup mixed frozen berries, 1/2 cup frozen peaches, 1 scoop strawberry whey protein powder and some davinci syrup, sugar free latte with 1% milk
L: 6" italian sub (similar to subway bmt) on whole wheat roll, 1 package potato chips
D: 3 oz. pork roast with bbq sauce, small sweet potato with 1/2 tbsp butter, 1 small tomato with fresh mozzarella (capriese salad).
Calories: 1878
I got some low calorie bbq sauce and couldn't get the bottle open! I had to use some other sauce I had in the house which isn't bad but not as low cal as the one I bought.
The recipe I used for the pork roast is actually a Paula Deen recipe. It worked surprisingly well and had no sugar in it.
