I eat walnuts from the baking aisle. No salt. I eat 5 a day and have no trouble stopping there. But if I'm sitting in a bar with a bowl of salted nuts in front of me, I will finish them off. I think it's the salt on the nuts that makes them addictive.

Rennie, I would never vacuum or use the washer and dryer until everyone was up. I don't think I was being nice, I just didn't want them to get up and be in my way. I loved my time alone before everyone got up.

SeeMyFeet, I love breakfast. I am such a big egg fan, I could eat just eggs all day, and did that sometimes when I lived alone. I bought some steel cut oats to try them out. I eat 1/4 cup with my eggs in the AM and am testing to see how badly they raise my blood sugar. So far, so good.

HealthyLiving, I love vegetables, but eat them mostly cooked since I prefer hot food. I like salads if I order them in restaurants and someone else makes them for me.

Jacqui, what are "baled beans?" LOL Just kidding. I love baked beans, but can't eat them because of the sauce. Really raises my blood sugar.

Morning all! Yesterday was busy and today will be as well. Just taking a break now before insanity starts :)
Yesterday's menu was . . .

Break - roast beef on sourdough slice w/fried egg
Lunch - more buffalo meatballs, blue cheese dressing, carrot sticks
Snack - cran water
Dinner - roast beef w/provolone on sourdough, spinach salad (no bacon) w/balsamic vinaigrette

Still bloated from phantom period though :( Oh, well....I know it will go away eventually.

Hi Ladies! Jacqui, thank you for the welcome and the laugh. Yeah, those evil azz nuts have been banished.

Had a good on plan day yesterday but still not going to weigh until Sunday.

B: Coffee/HWC/Splenda
L: LC Chili, cheese, jalapenos
D: Pot roast, green beans

Jacqui, Bermuda shorts, no no no no. please no :)
had me laughing tho. being older I don't care about a little saggy and jiggly. luckily it isn't too bad, I can deal. my want for thinner trumps that saggy! funny but I am tired of covering up. I might just let it all hang out and scare the world--boo!

HI everyone!!

not hungry at all. my gosh I don't even want to be near food LOL
out to eat with hubby early, big old bacon cheese omelet. yum, but I could barely eat it. I don't start eating til around 11 at least and this 9am omelet was delish but I had to force it. SO full now it is scary. Not sure about any other food today. maybe 1/2 a ribeye later down the line. but I have no hunger at all and when I am in this zone I just go with the flow and eat accordingly. my appetite will return a few days from now and I will eat up some great steaks then


nothing much doing, this and that. usual daily stuff. waiting on rain clouds to come in.

I hope everyone has a wonderful on plan day!

Hello everyone :wave:

SeeMyFeet, thank goodness my husband doesn't get annoyed either. I'm such a brat :) but hey, at least I know it ;) I hope the headache subsides :hug:

Jacqui, I bought the blue diamond brand of those nuts and I think the kids ate them. I can't find them any where in the kitchen :?: Funny when I got them on the recommendation of you all, the kids said, that's just nasty! But they are gone :) oops too late I had two chocolate chip cookies from BK.

Carol Sue, my family is just use to noise so it doesn't bother them. When I had my oldest she would wake up and holler at the slightest sound. A friends mother told me to put that baby near the kitchen and stop tip toeing she'll get use to it and she did and so did each baby there after, along with hubby. We all pretty much go on with our day when others are sleeping. The only thing that disturbs me is music. I don't want to hear music when I'm sleeping. ... wakes me, I start singing, now the song's in my head and now I'm grumpy :) My husband use to sleep with the radio when we first got together I nipped that quickly ;) Carol Sue, you're funny baled beans ;)

PrairieQueen hope you didn't answer this already and I missed it ... Does buffalo meatballs mean spicy? and do you put a splash of cranberry in your water or is it a flavor packet? thanks

Melissa hope I'm not being an airhead ... what is HWC - hot water cornbread? probably not since this is a low carb thread and I'm just here because I promised I wouldn't disappear and one day I'll get back in the wagon and join you all :)

Love2B LOL! I wish, I freakin' love hot water corn bread. HWC = Heavy Whipping Cream.

LOL I tried my best to figure that out, thank you :) oh how do you make your low carb chili? I use to eat the Texas Pete hot dog chili. it was soy based (high sodium) but so good and they stopped making it. I wish they'd bring it back. I would add it to my beans. :)

I use the Texas Chili recipe from Linda's Low Carb recipe site.

http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/texas_chili.html

:)

That very close to how I make my chili but I have to have my beans! Lately I've been using pinto beans. But I know the beans make it no longer low carb.

Rennie, when DH and I first got married he had the radio on all night. Drove me nuts. Finally he got a pillow speaker so only he could hear it. Now, because I wake up so often and can't go back to sleep, I also have a pillow speaker and listen to the all night talk shows. Sometimes I wake him up in the middle of the night to have him change the station. LOL

Ha ha ha Hot Water Cornbread!!

Rennie the meatballs are spicy and yummy! My cran water is 4 oz. pure cran juice, 1 stevia packet, 12 oz. seltzer water.

Oh yeah I need beans in my chili too, light red kidney beans and dark red kidney beans both. No baled beans though. I save those for hamburgers, Carol Sue! :rofl:

Rennie, that's right, no disappearing! :hug:

ZCA72, lol! If you saw my lumpy bumpy thighs, you might be begging me to find some Bermuda shorts! :lol:

Melissa, oh, those nuts did a number on me! (I'm sure the pickle didn't help either.) I woke up 1.5 lbs up! Lol! :goodscale: <<<It may look like that little guy is happy, but really he's laughing at me! :D

PrairieQueen, you should have a spring break coming up soon, shouldn't you? :beach: School always seemed so long between Christmas and Spring Break. I do believe we teachers loved the break way more than the kids, lol! And snow days, loved snow days! :lol:

Week 41: High 172.5, Low 168.5
2/23--172.5
2/24--171.5
2/25--170.5
2/26--169
2/27--168.5 Carb Day

Week 42:
2/28--169
2/29--170.5
3/1--168.5
3/2--168.5
3/3--170
3/4--
3/5--

Today's Meals:
Breakfast:
2 fried eggs
2 slices of bacon
Mio water

Lunch:
Protein bar
Mio water

Tea Time:
Hot green tea

Dinner:

Today's Exercise:

melissa, thanks for the recipe. I have never had chili without beans. I'll have to make a small batch. I wonder if my husband will eat it? The kids don't like chili unless it's on a hot dog or some sort of frank.

Carol Sue what's a pillow speaker? I've never heard of that. It may just be the thing to keep my husband from snoring (drives me nuts). and ear plugs don't work nor do those nasal strips.

PrairieQueen I like the sound of your water :)

Jacqui, nope ... sorry for the up but I'm sure it will be down tomorrow, :yes:

well I want chili ... I'm trying to get one of these wonderful young people to brown the beef for me :D

Evening all!

Jacqui the first day of spring break is Good Friday. I'll be flying to FL (again) sometime between Thursday night and Saturday....haven't bought ticket yet. I'm looking forward to some fun in the sun :)

My phantom period still has me retaining water and bloated. It was at its highest yesterday and started to go back down today. I need to look up on my calendar when this happened before and how long it took my body to get back to "normal."

Menu today....
Break - fried egg, roast beef on half a sourdough slice
Lunch - last of the spicy meatballs, blue cheese dressing, carrot sticks
Dinner - cashew/bourbon chicken w/carrots, broc, brown rice

Hubs had his work buddy over for dinner and a couple of games of "Ticket to Ride" that he just got....booooooring. I, on the other hand, played an exciting game called "Clean the Kitchen" followed by a quick round of "Make Breadcrumbs" and "Pack Lunches."

Jacqui, did you feel sorry for the teachers who lived in warmer climates and didn't get snow days? Growing up, we never had snow days because we walked to a little neighborhood school.

Rennie, you could make your chili and take some out for yourself before adding the beans for your family. I do that when DH wants pasta in his chili. There are some men who just eat whatever you put in front of them. I thought all men were like that until I met DH.

On browning the meat. On another forum, a woman said she browns up a big pan of meat then freezes it, then pulls some out when she needs it. Good idea for when you're in a hurry, but DH wouldn't eat it.

A pillow speaker is a small flat speaker a few inches square you put under your pillow so you can hear the radio but others can't hear it. It has a cord that plugs into into the radio. A lot of newer radios don't have the option of a speaker. I don't think it would help with snoring.

PQ, your games don't sound like a lot of fun. Today I have to play "wrap the meat." It's not as much fun as it may sound. I went grocery shopping last night. LOL

Ok Chickies, this is just a drive-by. I am off to the river house. I'll be back tomorrow evening. Today I weigh 167.5. :woohoo: