AW Geee! I'm about to say "what the **l" and succumb but I'm trying a guilt trip to myself first...

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joanie

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TODAY is the start of good eating...Yeeeesirreee! I tossed and turned all night long wishing that when I woke up I would be 30LBS thinner then I wouldn't HAVE to do some thing about it BUT no-way the little dimples just jiggled and bobbled and laughed at me as I wandered to the scale...AH, the scale...I stood on it, moved it a little this way and that, stood on it again, then inched the knob just a little left...ooops, too much, so inched it just a bit the other way and stood on the scale again. DARN, no difference. I still have to DOOO something.

Finally in the kitchen I decide I should have just a boiled egg, very yummy and I turned my back on my husband's toast and dear Mum's bowl of cereal...

Funny, I don't like cereal so why should that bowl look so inviting today?

I have bustled around all morning taking down Christmas decorations, been out in the garden spraying (so I'm not tempted to pick at things) I WANT to be good and really do at least 3 days of low-carb eating.

It's hot so I need a drink and on going inside I go straight to the fridge and open and drink 1/2 a can of diet coke.

OH NO! I was going to be good and just have water for at least the next 3 days.

Quick outside again and see to the chickens.....Finally I couldn't put off the fact that I had to make and eat lunch, after all dear old Mum is inside, prolly starving.

As I walked up to the front door, planing lunch so very carefully, cold meat, tomatoes and boiled eggs, AbSOluTEly NOTHING else I am assailed by such devine smalls wafting out on the breeze.

Is that a bit of banana, (a huge hand of bananas has just ripened and I sorted some into the freezer, some into the fridge yesterday.)

Oh! Goodness do I smell fresh orange?

Darn and darn again, I walk into the kitchen and am met by dear, darling Mum baking up a storm. Her banana bread is absolutely the best I've ever tasted, she has made a double loaf.

Her orange cake is light and scrummy 'specially when she sandwiches it with her special orange icing....

I look at her gruffly and offer lunch.

Yes, cold meat, tomato and egg.

She accepts and asks for her ham sanwich with fresh arugula, I promised her yesterday "and then cake for tea?"

I grab my plate and quickly go out of the house, away from the delightful, decadent aromas of her baking and wolf down my "good" meal.

WHAT am I to do?

I HAVE to say NO!!!NO!!!NO!!! even though I mean oh, YES pleeeeese, not just a wee slice but half the cake and half the other one....

I am now in my study writing this...

I must NOT Succumb, I must not...I really want to do this for 2 weeks...HELP! I really must be strong.....!

I think we must give a good size portion of the loaf to the children, Mum would love that they get some. She will be sad I won't eat any but then I'm sure she will bake again in the next few days.

She is so happy to be here and having the chance to bake for a family again, how can I turn down her yummy goods...

BUT

I must!

Urrrrgh!

 
Joanie, I too am dieting right now, and this has been working for me...

go and find a photograph of yourself when you are at your "ideal" weight, and really take a good look at it. You will find it much easier to push that plate of cake away. I also put a digital scale next to refrigerator, just in case I get an unruly craving for something that I do not want to be eating right now. Those two things are helping me, maybe they can help you too! Another good one is to exercise when you are craving something. Sweating, I mean perspiring, seems to alleviate urges to snack completely, and you feel so good about it.
Good luck and stay strong, you know you can do this, anyone that baked that holiday meal that you did with the flu, can do anything! Dawn

 
I'm struggling to not nibble carby foods too, but they call out to me.

HI Joanni,

I'm working hard to be good on low carb. What I did was to pick up ketone testing pee sticks that turn a lovely shade of purple when you are matabolizing(losing) fat.

They can be found in drugstores. Don't buy the ones made for low carb dieter, get the kind for diabetics. the sticks work exactly the same way with the same reagent. the low carb one are marked up to rip us off. I got 100 stick for $15 compared to 25 strips for $17

There is something so satisfying to know it is working even if the scale isn't moving yet.
Stay strong, you/we are more powerful than a slice of banana bread. Funny coincidence I just made my own banana chocolate chip bread for hubby yesterday. Tempted, but I didn't cave. I'm so sick of this belly and tight pants.

I just had a yummy tuna melt lunch.
Tuna salad microwaved until hot and topped with sharp cheddar, then nuked again to melt cheese. Had it was a pickle and a little lettuce.

Dinner tonight is broiled steak. Yum.

 
Joanie and Dawn.....

You guys aren't ALONE! I even wonder why I come HERE right now! LOL Good grief.

It's tortureous to read all Andrea's yummy pasta recipes!!!

If y'all don't see me for a few weeks, you'll know WHY!

Last time I was doing good, had lost 40 lbs (YIPPPEEEE!!!) I started back to Gail's and blew it! ha

Blessings and sympathy pains from SW Missouri!

Gayle

 
Sharing a diet idea- not low carb but very successful

I got myself in a habit of eating a salad of these things every other night. I find I actually crave it-

cut into pieces about the same size and mix:
zuke
cuke
carrots
broccoli or cauliflower
red cabbage
tomato
fruit- pick one-apple, grapes, mandarin oranges, strawberries, etc

then add either canned kidney beans or garbanzo beans (drained), some Feta cheese, toasted soy nuts, sunflower seeds, raisins and top it all off with a vinaigrette made from whatever kind of vinager you like (I use mostly homemade raspberry), a bit of honey and olive oil.

You can cut up all the veggies and fruit and keep them in the fridge for a few days so you don't have to make it from scratch each time- then add the rest of the stuff right before eating.

This is not like eating a wimpy green lettuce salad that does not fill you up- this is a really substantial salad that will make you very full and satisfied. Oh yeah, it's really good for you too!

 
Good Grief is right! It can be torture to come here and read all the yummy

recipes(the carrot cake thread for instance!). And why do we watch FoodTV as well?? We call it "Pudge Porn" in one of my groups, and this site could qualify as well. good luck all. I'm in the boat with you.

 
My fave low carb cookbook author + Rec. Chicken with bacon and cream

I need to buy Karen Barnaby's cookbook. I took it out of my library and made a number of recipes from it. They were very straightforward and simple to follow, some with a nice little gourmet twist, like in this one the thyme. Not sure if I can get fresh thyme that costs less than $5, but there's always dry.

Here's one I haven't made, but all ingrediants have been added to my shopping list.

Here's a link to a site with lots of her recipes

By Karen Barnaby
Chicken With Bacon, Cream And Thyme
Serves 4

4 boneless 6 oz. chicken breasts, with skin
1 Tbsp. vegetable oil
1 clove garlic, minced
8 slices bacon
8 small sprigs fresh thyme
1/2 cup chicken stock or water
1 cup whipping cream
salt and pepper to taste
Preheat the oven to 350° F. Lightly salt and pepper the chicken breasts. Wrap two pieces of bacon around each chicken breast, forming an X in the middle of the skin side of each breast. Tuck two sprigs of thyme behind the bacon.

Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan that can go into the oven over medium high heat. Place the chicken breasts, bacon side down in the pan and cook until the bacon and chicken skin is browned. Turn over and cook until the other side is browned. Drain off the fat and add the stock or water, cream and garlic. Bring to a boil and place in the oven. Bake uncovered for 15-20 minutes until the cream has thickened. Remove from the oven and season with salt and pepper. Let rest a few minutes before serving.

Total Carbohydrates: 7.592
Total Carbohydrates Minus Fiber: 7.529
Carbohydrates per Serving: 1.89
Carbohydrates per Serving minus Fiber: 1.88

 
Cathy...looks wonderful!

Thanks for the example - made my stomach growl just reading it! smileys/smile.gif

We LOVE salad at my house! I throw anything in that is available and in the summer when our garden is growing like wild it gets pretty colorful! The only time I buy iceburg lettuce is if I'm doing tacos.


Thx

 
You folk are fantastic...Well,....

supper was seared tuna, shrimp, cuce slices and arugala. BUT I had to make a carb for them and so did Isreali cous cous...first I softened onion slices and then spread the cous cous on top then keeping the flame medium sprinkled a mix of Nuoc Mam, rice wine vinegar, and sesame oil over it all...just a weeny bit, less than a TBL all told. Then rested steamed asparagus over that and let it set with an almost crispy base. Both my Mum and DH raved and I (well, I had a wee dessertspoon of it, admittedly)kind of fell along the wayside BUT I did not have the orange cake nor the peppermint bark they had after dinner...both of them (all my family too) are slender...why can't I be like them too?
Tomorrow I'll do it again and not cheat at all, fingers crossed.

 
This is yummy sounding, like the salads in the Super Foods book....

I love this sort of salad, just don't put it all together like my DD does. She makes the most fantastic salads like this and has lost weight and become healthier. (Not that she was ever chubby! like me! but she had some health problems that prompted her to follow the Super Foods way of eating) She wants me to go this way too. I just don't seem to get it together to do this everyday.

 
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