I will look next time I'm at the store...willing to try anything once! Yeah, I am not pooping enough either. It's driving me crazy bc I used to be very regular. Gas kind of comes and goes. Sometimes I seem to have less than I used to but other times it seems increased. I still recommend probiotics. They have considerably improved my gassiness.

I had my first "low" last night with the Amaryl. I checked my BS before going to bed and it was 64. I did NOT have any symptoms, which was the scary part. What if I hadn't checked? I ate a few fiber crackers with a piece of cheese. That's what they used to give me in the hospital. Waited 10 min and BS was at 74, so I went to bed. This morning it was at 117. I'm so afraid of having a low while sleeping and not knowing it. I just have to control my eating a little better so I don't have to rely on the Amaryl.

Rennie, do you eat yogurt? I think probiotics are good for gas problems. They are in yogurt, or you can get them in pill form in the vitamin aisle. I don't think my gas is excessive, but I guess I should ask my husband. LOL

I love tuna and could eat it more often. I just put some chopped celery and mayo in it. I also like to add it to my salad since making a sandwich with it is a no no, unless I do a wrap with a lettuce leaf. I never think of that. I had baked fish 3 nights in a row last week and decided I'd better not do that because of the mercury.

What are you going to use the powdered egg whites for?

Shannon, I finished Wheat Belly last night. It strengthened my resolve to stop eating bread, but didn't really tell me anything I didn't know before. One thing it said was that sat fat is not bad for you unless it is paired with carbs. I had heard that before, and I wonder how true it is. It was some study where a group of people ate a diet high in sat fat and carbs and the other group ate sat fat with no carbs. At the end of the study the carb group had high cholesterol but the no carb group did not. No matter what, the cardiologist tells me to avoid sat fat.

I have never had a flat abdomen. I had belly fat before but now it's terrible. My waist measures more than my hips. I do not care for vanity reasons because I'm too old to worry about that, but I sure would like to be able to wear those pants I bought! When I had my bowel surgery I asked the doctor if he could do a tummy tuck while he had me open but he said no. I would really love to get one, have them fix up my ab muscle that they destroyed. But like you, Rennie, that is out of the question. I will just have to wear Spanx. It has been said that low carb gets rid of belly fat. I want to see the results!

Well, I've been low carbing and I sure seem to have all my belly fat! My new size 14's are pretty snug but that they'll be OK by mid-month when I go on a four day break with some friends in Philadelphia.

BGL has been fine and weight is actually down ten pounds from my April 1 shock! I've been sticking pretty much to pure Atkins induction but am going to add a few more veggie carbs this week. (Gotta get back to eating more carbs before strawberry season!)

Sorry I've not been in here more often but MOD and ADMIN duties seem to take a big hunk of my time. The Mill is also a time sucker these days as we interview and prepare to open May 17.

"This too shall pass."

Shannon and Carol Sue I do eat yogurt but only the carbmaster yogurt from Kroger. I keep forgetting to look for the probiotic in the vitamin aisle when I have the money for it because it cost more than what I thought it would. I think it was like $15.

Carol Sue I love fish, baked or fried. My son has started to deep fry it in a little flower not corn meal and it is quite good without all of the bread that we don't need any way I found a biscuit recipe that called for the powdered eggs, flour and gluten free I think it said on a low carb site. On the belly, I look fine as long as I am dressed I so want to buy an actual spanx body item but again more than I want to pay. I saw that Target has one that somebody on 3FC had recommended when I was searching through the new post. It was only $18 ... things will come together for us financially and I will be able to get a few things for myself

Ruth good job on the 10lbs for the month

well fbs was back up and I am not sure why but the scale was down. I weighed in at 161.6 down .4 from yesterday ... it's a happy day

Rennie, what I have is not actually Spanx brand. I ordered some online because I wanted the ones that go from right under the bra line down below the belly. It's hard to find them that don't include the bra or pants. They came 2 in a pkg and were cheap. I wear them when I am dressed up. They smooth things over but they still don't help me fit into my old pants.

A friend of mine was having really bad gas issues. She talked to a chiropractor who comes into the hair salon where she works and he said he could fix her up. She has been going to him and her gas has improved, but she is spending so much money. He is giving her a discount on the office visits but she is buying so many supplements from him, and they are very expensive. I would have tried a lot of other things before I got involved with that. She has spent hundreds of dollars.

I am so amazed that your FBG goes up when your weight comes down! But good job on the weight loss!

Congratulations Ruthie, on a job well done! You make me want to go on induction in spite of the fact that I have tried so many times and cannot sustain it even for the 2 weeks. I think if I lived alone I could do it but there are too many compromises that have to be made.

EDIT: I tried to find those body shapers online again. They were from Dream Products, but it looks like they don't have them anymore. I will have to find somewhere else to buy they when I need more.

Carol Sue what brand are yours? Do they roll up? That's my issue sometimes and that hurts. I have the gas tablets I bought at Walmart and I take them when I remember It's amazing to me also that my FBS goes up when my weight goes down.

I am feeling blah today. I think I went up to the mountaintop of weight loss joy and am now in the valley of stuck scale. I have been hovering around 194 since early last week. I usually have a whoosh on Tuesdays. No clue why, it just has been a trend. I was happy I still had a loss for the week when I weighed yesterday but since I weigh daily I knew I was actually up from where I had been. I was really expecting my usual whoosh today but instead it went up. I knew the success I was having would not last forever but truthfully I was expecting it to last another 6-8 lbs. I guess I should be thankful I've had continual losses each week. I know some folks do not. Blah.

Shannon It's all of that good cooking that you do The scale will move

Hey guys, not feeling educated enough to comment much, and sort of overwhelmed so I know I probably come off self centered at the moment.


Thanks for being so supportive though, yesterday I didn't get a workout in, dissapointing! So there was only the 10 minute walk to work, (got a ride home), 10 minute walk back to work after lunch, the 15 minute (its uphill yo!) walk home and then a short walk to my volonteer activity where I didn't workout, I was standing the whole time but not really active. It was sedentary standing. So a fail on activity. And I ate a lot when I got home. And was tired, I just don't find working a full day, and then an evening volonteer activity leaves me time to workout at night. But in general I like to workout in the evenings this is... a conundrum. :-| Maybe I need to add in lunch workouts on those days. :-|


So trying again today I am eating breakfast as of today its just peanut butter and toast. and Half a apple,... or a a whole smaller fruit. I had the rest of the apple with 12 almonds for a snack lunch was a peice of toast with tuna salad on it and spinach salad with strawberries and balsamic vinegar. I keep feeling like I am eating SO much.. It's wierding me out.

I;ve been weighing in pretty consistently in the 290's for afew days now. this is the smallest I've been in about 5 years I think. It's a very odd feeling, 60lbs down from my highest weight and honestly I feel the same. I guess... morbid obesity is still... morbid obesity.

I'm scared my body is going to stall, it likes to do that, I see other people my side dropping weight regularily and I'll admit I'm a little jealous. I "Should" be able to lose 1% body weight, which is around 3lbs a week but nope not me. I will probably "hang out" in the 290's for a while. Which scares me, I want to have good numbers for my doctor. I want to show I'm "trying". :-|

Hang in there SilentArtic!

silentartic, not self centered at all ... there are people on the threads that never do personals or only talk/type/chat with who they want to so no worries. And like I told Shannon, not sure if it was on this thread or another. The scale will move ... it just never moves like we want it to/when we want it to

I've been super hungry all day but my TOM is coming soon so I hope that is the reason. All my food today was on plan food but I overate at dinner. I did not have anything else afterwards though and it's bedtime and my BS is 107 so I feel good about that.

Tonight I have been folding clothes. How on earth do the clothes and towels pile up like this? I do laundry every day!! We don't even own that many clothes. I seriously alternate a few shirts and a couple pants. It just amazes me. 3 hours of folding. I was hoping to make a batch of my wheat free, sugar free cookies tonight since I've been having some cravings lately. I like having on plan treats for when the cravings strike so that I don't think too much about all the other treats laying around that my husband "needs".

Tonight I reheated the pulled pork I cooked up in the crockpot yesterday and I made a really yummy crunchy napa cabbage slaw that I found on a low carb blog and I roasted okra for the first time. If you love fried okra and are not eating it because of the breading, I think you'll love the roasted okra as much as I did. I might have eaten the entire batch myself actually. Gulp! Hubby and daughter did not like it. It isn't slimy like regularly cooked okra. Mmm, I'm already dreaming of farmer's market this summer! LOL!

The weather station has warnings out for storms, flooding and tornados in our state today, overnight and tomorrow. I sent the hubby out for a weather radio tonight after dinner because I want it on overnight. My brother's area had major flooding today and he said there were 3 tornados in his area. There are pictures on the local news website of tons of funnel clouds and some damage - like entire trees uprooted from the ground, big trees! Storms scare me! They never did before but since having my daughter I'm alot more aware of how fleeting life can be.

Shannon, on the laundry, there are 6 of us and laundry has to be done daily. and with going to the gym and my son and football practice it's just crazy I hope you get some rest tonight, I can hear in your post how uneasy you are about the storms. Say your prayers and rest my friend

I just checked my stats from January 1, 2013 till now ...

In 2013 I loss 19.4lbs

So far this year I have loss 18.2lbs ... this is very encouraging. If I can lose 2lbs a month for the next 8 months I will weigh 144.8lbs by December 31st ... now tell me that's not exciting

on the note of fbs ... I have got to do something. I am up again today and the scale is down .8

Wow! You are doing great this year!!