Carol Sue, thank you so much! :hug: Oooo, a crustless pumpkin custard sounds yummy! :T

SeeMyFeet, I have the same issue with the sports grill that I go to with friends on Friday nights--I order a salad every time and for some reason, I always seem to be up in weight the next morning! It's a salad for goodness sakes! :shrug: Oh, and btw, lol, I am not an outlier! :lol: I just happen to have found the diet that works best for me! That's definitely the key! :D

Rennie, you're doing great! Keep avoiding those temptations and it will pay off! You can do it! :cheer:

PrairieQueen, your menu's are looking as good as ever! Keep it up! :yes:

Yay! I get to move my ticker down 1 lb! I love when that happens, lol!

Week 26:
11/1--DNW (forgot before we started eating breakfast)
11/2--DNW (left at 3:45 am for a 12-13 hr drive)
11/3--174
11/4--DNW (too busy with grandbabies!)
11/5--DNW (too busy with grandbabies!)
11/6--DNW (too busy with grandbabies!)
11/7--DNW (too busy with grandbabies!) Carb Day

Week 27:
11/8--DNW (too busy with grandbabies!)
11/9--173.5
11/10--173
11/11--
11/12--
11/13--
11/14--

Today's Meals:
Breakfast:
2 fried eggs
3 slices of bacon
Fage Greek yogurt with Mio
Mio Water

Lunch:
Protein bar
Diet Dr. Pepper

Tea Time:

Dinner:
Pulled pork BBQ
Salad with ranch dressing
Mio water

Today's Exercise:
None

Great news on the babe Jacqui! We're all thinking about you and yours :)

You guys and your pumpkins :rofl:. Is it more like crack or kryptonite?

Hope your li'l pumpkin gets to go home soon, Jaq.

It wasn't the calories in the salad, Jaq....it was the nastiness...Good thing is, I couldn't eat it, didn't have to pay for it, and ended up with a very low calorie dinner. Reminded me of a salad I ordered in a Macalister's when visiting another town. On the side was some kind of Southwestern corn and bean mix. I took one tiny bite and that was absolutely positively the NASTYest thing I ever, ever experienced. Turns out, they use artificial smoke as flavoring and they used WAY WAY WAY too much. Tasted like phenol straight from the bottle. I'm sweating just thinking about it. Bluuuurgh. The salad from last night had a dressing that tasted like mop water. This, ladees, is why I rarely go out to eat.

Looks like today is carb day for me. With the recent VLC days and last night's dinner ordeal, I needed something different, and pigged out with 2C of cheerios this morning. Even added a little sugar. Surprised that I'm only at 75g of carbs so far. Hope this helps break up the mini stall I'm experiencing...

Hope you're keeping up your strength, Jaq...those hospital visits are taxing. The little bunny is getting the care he needs so he will be a strong little man when he goes home!

Sam :congrat: on your weight loss so far. That's great that you did it with just clean eating. :)

Thanks Jacqui :) I have had two not so good eating days, yesterday late afternoon into the evening and today. Hoping tomorrow will be better :crossed: I'm so glad to hear your Grandson's breathing is improving, what a blessing. Sending prayers that he comes home soon :hug: Yum on your menu yesterday :) And GO YOU on the 173 :high:

LOL SeeMyFeet, it is bad when a restaurant messes up a salad :) My Mom doesn't like to eat out for the same reason as you. When she does, she always sends her food back for some reason or another :) LOL SeeMyFeet, I did that once with some liquid smoke flavor. It was awful. I could never get the balance right with that stuff so I threw it out :)

Carol I love pumpkin pie and so do my kids. My husband said he would never eat one and I made a few while he was at work once and told him it was sweet potato and he's been eating them since then :). I've made the crustless pumpkin pie thingees in muffin cups. The kids love them :)

mars missing you :hug:

Today's menu...

Break - McDonald's sausage burrito w/hot sauce and ice tea w/stevia
Lunch - brat w/chili and cheese (no bun)
Dinner - grilled wings and 2 light beers

oh my PrairieQueen I would love to have your lunch :drool:

Thanks PrairieQueen! :hug:

Rennie, thank you and please keep those prayers coming! :yes: Don't worry, those two bad days of eating are behind you now. All that matters is what you do today and you are in control, so make good choices and keep that scale moving down! Get determined! You can do it! :goodscale:

SeeMyFeet, thank you, I can't wait to get my l'il pumpkin home! Yes the hospital visits are taxing. I am truly worn out! I just feel like I haven't had time to recover from the emotional and physical exhaustion I've been feeling for a month. But what can I do? It is what it is! :D Oh my, you did a fantastic job at describing how disgusting those salads were! Yuck! :barf: My Friday night salad may cause me to go up a bit temporarily but at least it is delicious! :hungry:

Looks like I'm holding water this morning. I'm up a lb. I definitely did not drink enough yesterday, and if I'm going to eat BBQ with its sugary sauce like I did last night, I need to be sure to drink enough water to help flush out the excess water weight it's going to cause! :cheers:

Week 26:
11/1--DNW (forgot before we started eating breakfast)
11/2--DNW (left at 3:45 am for a 12-13 hr drive)
11/3--174
11/4--DNW (too busy with grandbabies!)
11/5--DNW (too busy with grandbabies!)
11/6--DNW (too busy with grandbabies!)
11/7--DNW (too busy with grandbabies!) Carb Day

Week 27:
11/8--DNW (too busy with grandbabies!)
11/9--173.5
11/10--173
11/11--174
11/12--
11/13--
11/14--

Today's Meals:
Breakfast:
2 fried eggs
Fage Greek yogurt with Mio
Mio water

Lunch:
Pumpkin seeds
Diet Dr. Pepper

Tea Time:

Dinner: @Subway
Large salad with grilled chicken and ranch dressing
Water

Today's Exercise:
2 miles around the track, 3 sets of 12 reps each on 10 leg, waist, and back machines

Hang in there, Jaq. When life puts you on a roller coaster, you have to hold extra tight to the safety bar. Try your best not to worry, and have faith that he is in good hands.

...not worrying is tough for me to do....whhelll...1900 cals yesterday and over 300 carbs :fr:. Not surprisingly, the scale was weigh up. I'm not so sure about this carb day experiment ladees. I can't be the control and the experiment at the same time--who knows if I would lose wt faster if I had not had a high carb day? Anyway I'm anxious to see how, or if, this will shake things up.

Eggs for breakfast. yuk.

Always on the prayers :hug: Jacqui, And yes I will get determined. I joined a 21 day challenge on here to stay away from all of the c's that I have been enjoying. So far so good today. I'm drinking a shake now. Found out I was off today this morning so scheduled a meeting with a college adviser for my son. I had planned to do a shake day to clean out my system but I have never done that before and being home doesn't make it easy for me to do it. If I'm out and about I can do shakes but not in the house most of the day.

SeeMyFeet yesterday I had 2450 calories 239g carbs, only 90g protein, but I think the 8 hours of sleep and my activity yesterday helped some because I was .3 down today surprisingly. Let's see how I do today. Not much movement since I'm home. I have to go to bed early so I can get up go to church and come home and take a nap before work :) Wednesday's are interesting :) I like eggs with cheese for breakfast just not everyday. :)

I went to Trader Joe's for the first time. I bought some sprouted rye bread that only has 4 net carbs, 0g of sugar and 5g of protein. I thought how great, but then I look and see that it has gluten. I will get to see if this really does have an affect on me (bloating). Today's plan is protein and now a slice of this bread with tuna. I also bought some riced cauliflower. I'm excited to try this. I like that store. If I had more money I would have bought a ton of things to try :)

Thanks SeeMyFeet and Rennie! I just got word my grandson was taken off the nose tube today and may come home tomorrow or Friday! :yay:

SeeMyFeet, Carb Day always makes people who are first trying it nervous, but gaining water weight the next day is perfectly normal and should be expected. It's not gaining after it that is the fluke. I gain water weight almost every single week after Carb Day and I'm still losing overall! It's designed to shake up your metabolism. Just give it a chance. I'm living proof it works, and there's no reason why it shouldn't work for you too! Don't get nervous! :D

Rennie, it will be interesting to see how you do with the rye bread with gluten. I love rye bread, yum, but I haven't had any in a VERY long time.
:T

I finally got back to the gym today. Oh my, am I out of shape. I had to put all the weights back down to my starting numbers. But hey, at least I made it there! It's a start! :lifter:

That's great Jacqui, I'm glad to hear he is coming home soon :hug: I just ate a toasted slice of the rye bread with some tuna. We shall see. I don't like the smell of it. It's really strong, yuk. Didn't taste bad with the tuna or maybe I just couldn't taste it with all of the onion I cut up in it ;) Good job on the gym. I hope to get there one of these days. :) And yes it is a start ... a great start, you did it :)

Hello CS group,

Does anyone here know if there is a JUDDD thread. I can't find one. Do any of you do the JUDDD now or in the past? I'm thinking about it but it's hard to find any information. Thanks for your help.

Evening ladies!

Jacqui that is wonderful news!

I agree with SeeMyFeet. I dint know if I could routinely have a big carb day on purpose. But then, the holidays are fast approaching. If I were to start, it would be then :)

Today's menu....

Break - McD's sausage burrito w/hot sauce and ice tea w/stevia
Lunch - another brat w/mustard and sweet relish
Dinner - chicken fajita w/guacamole
Snack - skinny whiskey sour :) :)

Hi Mossy! Great weight loss so far! I tried JUDDD but the down days were too low calorie for me. Same with 5:2. There's a great group on another forum with lots of information. I don't know if I'm allowed to post a link, but here goes!

http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/forumdisplay.php?f=89

And of course, you're welcome to stay here and post with us!

So overall, would you say it was too difficult to keep up longterm? That's what I'm wondering. It does seem like it might cause you to yo-yo if you lose your grip on the those up days and keep going. WannaBe, your opinion would be appreciated. Any additional thoughts...up and down, it is extreme.