Jacqui, sorry to hear the little guy is having trouble breathing. Hope he improves soon. It would be hard going home leaving him in the hospital, but in this case she also has to care for the one she's taking home.

SeeMyFeet, Jacqui's results is proof to me that carb cycling works, but it's not for everyone. It's only good if you can stick to it and get right back to low carb after a carb day. Most calorie recycling plans, like 5:2 or JUDDD are too extreme for me. I tried it, but find it too hard to stay at 500 calories on the low calorie days. I googled calorie recycling and what I found is not as extreme. They are saying you do 1200 calories some days and 1500 calories other days. That's a big difference from 500 calories/day. I think any plan will work if you are able to stick with it long term, but each person is different and needs to find what works for them.
Congratulations on the 10 lb loss. I will be following in your footsteps by the end of the year.

Rennie, good for you on skipping the biscuit. I know the challenge with Mars is really spurring you on.

I have to go wake up DH. I want to go grocery shopping before the stores get crowded.

Identical twin boys, Jac?? Baby sweetness...Hoping the boys are quickly reunited, so their reign of terror can begin! (Goodness, the thought of my youngest being a twin!) I know you won't have any peace until the two little peas are in the same pod.

Carol, Jacqui is an outlier...you didn't know that? ;) My cycling is accidental and unplanned, and not usually very dramatic. I don't have the courage to plan out a cycling day, the scale has too much power over my emotions....Weight went up again today. Bouncy bounce bounce....And hubs asked if we should go out to dinner. Ugh. If we do, I'm taking my own salad. I don't care if that's rude, I cannot afford to be sabotaged by hidden calories.

SeeMyFeet, :congrat: on the .5 down and the 10.87lbs GONE Woot Woot! :cheer: I know going to the gym will help me. I just need to do it :)

Thanks Jacqui :), praying always :hug:

Thanks Carol, I did try 5:2 and couldn't stick to it. My calorie cycles were similar to what you found. I was looking for the site that I used but can't find it. It seems all of this stuff is current. Ha I went for a few things yesterday but when you go shopping with my husband he'll say we don't need that. It's fine in a department store but since he don't want to hear what we don't need or have room for :) ... I just sent my son out, I texted him a list ;)

Well not enough sleep and a hot dog right before bed just sitting in my stomach (no bread or condiments) gave me a .2 up. Not bad but I know my weight would have been lower with 8 hours of sleep or maybe my typical 6.5-7 :) Better luck tomorrow :) My SIL and kids stopped by on their way back north and I stayed up until they left. Not a good idea when your alarm goes off at 1:20am :no: but I was happy to see them. My daughter and her husband came by to see them also, that was a pleasant surprise :)

NSV, when my SIL got here my niece wanted waffle house. I love waffles from waffle house but all I had was a cup of coffee. I was so proud of myself :) My SIL said you have to eat something. I kept saying, nope! There was also a Krispy Kreme that I could have walked to, man the temptation all around. Delicious restaurants every where on that road :drool: If I make it until Monday, I think I have this in the bag till mars gets back on the 16th ;)

Jacqui sending positive vibes to babe.

Congrats on the losses ladies!

Yesterday's menu....

Break - McD's sausage w/hot sauce and ice tea w/stevia
Lunch - Amy's org bean/cheese burrito
Dinner - 2 pieces Donatos pizza, several light beers

Rennie, when DH goes shopping with me he walks along throwing all the junk food in the cart. LOL Then he'll disappear and come back with a box of Twinkies.

sooooo, I decided to track other dietary components and I (finally!) got on myfitnesspal. "SeeMyFeet" was already taken. So who are these other SeeMyFeets? Well, one is a foot fetishist, others have big boobs...In case you were wondering, None of those folks are me! really!

Setting up this myfitnesspal is a chore! I'm so used to my spreadsheets.

Yesterday's menu...

Break - a piece of leftover pizza and 1/4 of ham sandwich
Lunch - 1/2 of largish ham sandwich w/mustard and dill relish
Snack - skinny popcorn
Dinner - Swiss cheeseburgers, a few sprouts, and butter fried taters
Pub - 3 light beers

LOL Carol :)

LOL SeeMyFeet :) What did you set your user name as? I'm love2b136 :)

PrairieQueen your menu made me hungry, well maybe not hungry I just want to eat all of that :D

up another .2. I've got to get a grip on the eating before bed unless it has absolutely no sodium ;)

Hello Everyone!

New to this thread, but posted a question about carb cycling and Carol was so sweet to respond and tell me about this place!

I have lost close to 135 pounds so far eating a strictly clean diet. I didn't really watch my calories or anything like that for a good while until I started to finally plateau. I started doing other things to change up my diet and one of them was going low carb. That helped get some of the weight off over the course of a couple of months but then I became lethargic and it wasn't helping me lose weight. I then stumbled upon carb cycling. I'm going into my 3rd week with it and I've lost 5 pounds so far. I know there's a lot of math involved in it to get your amount of calories and things like that. I haven't gotten that far with it because I don't have body fat calipers but I have just been switching out my days just with what I'm used to eating and so far so good until I can get the details worked out.

I just wanted to talk to anyone who has done this and had success with it to see if there's any pointers you can give me, or any place to get good information with it? I follow MorelliFit online and that's where I got most of my info from, also from Chris Powell through facebook and on pinterest but there's only so much info out there from him unless you sign up to work with him or buy one of his books. I've thought about reading his book just to see how that is, but another thing added to the to do book list lol...

Thanks in advance for your help! Look forward to talking with new people! :)

Yesterday's menu:

Break - 2 slices goetta and 1 egg cooked in butter, 1/2 slice sourdough toast
Lunch - small portion chicken/macadamia nut pesto on pasta
Dinner - sausage casserole (one brat w/orange peppers, onions and mushrooms), mashed potatoes

:welcome: to the thread Sam :) it's my bedtime but I wanted to welcome you. I have calorie cycled before and it did work. I just can't do it for long. I will talk to you more tomorrow :)

Good night everyone :)

Welcome SamIAm86! Congrats on your success.

Today's menu....

Break - McD's sausage burrito w/hot sauce
Morning - ice tea w/stevia
Lunch - brat w/kraut and mustard (no bun)
Dinner - Cinci chili spaghetti 4-way w/onion

Welcome SamIAm86! :congrat: on your amazing weight loss, and woohoo on the carb cycling working for you! :cp: Glad to have you join us!

Update: My grandson who is still in the hospital is continuing to improve! At one point, they were supplementing his breathing with 68% oxygen and were about to put him on a ventilator. Now he is down to using only a nose tube and is being supplemented with only 20% oxygen! :carrot: Thank you all so much for the well wishes and prayers! :grouphug:

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--
11/11--
11/12--
11/13--
11/14--

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

Lunch:
Polish sausage and black beans
Diet Dr. Pepper

Tea Time:
Hot green tea

Dinner:
Loaded cheeseburger salad
Mio water

Today's Exercise:
None (I'm exhausted!)

OMG...I will NEVER go to Applebees again...

Or Macalister's...but that's another, very very VERY awful story..

...lotta skill required to mess up a salad that bad.... :barf:

Yesterday I made a pumpkin pie for DH. I did eat 1 bite of it. I want to make a crustless pumpkin custard for myself one of these days. I will either make it sugarless or use a bit of artificial sweetener in it. I like pumpkin savory, but not the sweet taste of the pie. I usually eat some of the pumpkin right out of the can while I'm making the pie.

Hi SamIAm, glad to see you stopped in. I do not do carb cycling, but Jacqui does and the first post in the thread gives information regarding what she has done for her success with it.

Jacqui, I'm glad to hear the grandbaby is improving. Still praying for his release from the hospital so he can join his brother at home.