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Good morning botts:
I was too busy yesterday to post my food. I am using the Mayo clinic pyramid check off sheet. I realized when it is filled in it is about 2000 calories. I knew I was too comfortable and I have not eaten everything. I think it is for a maintaining man. I will just cross out half of the starchy carbs (there are 8 of them on the sheet). I also don't need 4 fruits. I am able to get to the gym again today for a swim. The steam room and the shower room make it relaxing. It is nice to have a way to de-stress. I hope you all have a great day. Tri
B: Jimmy Dean Delight
S: apple and plain Greek yogurt
L: Santa Fe tortilla, chicken and rf cheese
D: turkey and grass fed beef stuffed pepper and chili
S: ff/nsa cheesecake, ff/nsa ambrosia salad and baked sugar snap peas
I leave for vacation in little over a week! Super excited and yet nervous. Eating while away is difficult enough for me, but while on vacation has me extra concerned! I have always had issues with being a "all or nothing" type person. I'm afraid once I give in to a carb while on vacation getting completely back on track will be too difficult for me when I get home! My "plan" is to try to stick to eating as close to how I am now. I also expect to gain some weight just due to the fact that I have basically not eaten carbs in 2 months, not to mention what a drink or two of alcohol will do!! I don't want this vacation to take me back to were I have worked SO HARD to get away from!! Ugh. Almost wishing I could post pone my vacation until I felt I had a little more self control-ALMOST ;)
I LOVE this idea and honestly did wonder if something like this would work. But my BIG fear is, once I have that "small" taste of a carb meal will I be able to keep from going over board or off the wagon again? For me, it is not worth the risk just Yet anyways. Maybe just upping my calories in general for a day might jump start my body. Fingers crossed :)
Well... What I do - I increase carbs for one to 2 days... I call that carbs - leptin reset.. My weighty go up initially.. (carbs retain water) then I resume low carb high fat diet and start losing again.
Don't tell anyone I said that... Lol.. But a small pack of penut M&M... Is a very tasty carb reset diet... 
If you want to be "healthy" - big bowl of fruit salad with some yummy whiped cream.. . or chips and salsa with avocado..
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
Good morning botts:
I have been so busy the past week I haven't posted. I am following the Mayo Clinic food pyramid check list. This weekend was difficult because I ate out many meals. I got to the gym to swim a couple of times. Good luck to us this week. Tri
My food plan:
B: Jimmy Dean delight 250
S: blackberries and Greek yogurt 150
L: salad, quinoa, turkey and grassfed beef stuffed pepper 500
S: Greek yogurt and frozen fruit smoothie 200
D veggie soup, stuffed pepper, quinoa 400
S: Metamucil and nut crunch protein bar 200
1700 calories
I eat at least double of what you eat. I lose about a 1/4 lb. a week and sometimes gain back if I go off track. I think you are incredible to be able to control your intake. Best of luck to us. Tri
Nothing worse (besides gaining) than knowing you are doing everything right and having a stall in weight loss :( I try to play mind games with myself and say things like, "soon as this passes I will see a huge loss" and things like that to help get myself through them. I know I could and should increase exercise to help get the pounds dropping off again, but I get upset thinking they should come off with what I am doing already at this point! Little to no carbs and calories between 800-900 per day should be enough. Not even a pound a week? What type of idea's do you have to help get through stalls? Guess as long as I don't "fall off the wagon" and give up and give in to temptations I know in time, I will start to lose again! Best of luck to us all.
Thank you for sharing this post. I find it very helpful. I'm just getting my act together again and this will certainly help.
Thanks again!
Kym :)
Thanks. Ouch... The doc who is doing the surgery is an ophthalmologist. I have dropping eyelids..that makes my night vision not that good. He is not a plastic suurgeon and he is suppose to very experienced with doing that correctly. When I went for consultation with my plastic surgeon - he took one look and hold me to get my eyelids medically fixed (muscles and skin) then come back to him. I hope insurance pays for my eyelids. My doc was confident that they will.
I always had "droopy eyelids" one worse than the other... End since I got older and lost the weight - they got worse...
My doc does that surgery on twilight - so he can adjust the muscle pull and not get the "Kenny Rogers" effect... And makes sure both eyes are "rather even". Wil see...
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
Hala
When I had my eyelid lift surgery the surgeon also did a eyebrow lift. She drilled 4 holes in my head and put in dissolving plastic hooks above and to the side of each eye. She laperascopically pulled my eyelids up and to the side with strings and attached them to the hooks. The hooks dissolved over time. Then she tightened my eyelids. I have no forehead wrinkles or crows feet. Unfortunately she made the eyelid incisions about an 8th of an inch too high so I have visible scars. She also pulled one eye and eyebrow higher than the other. She was a new surgeon without much experience. The idea however was good and I would have looked great if it were done properly. Insurance paid for the whole procedure because my eyebrows were causing a lot of my sagging eyelids. I also wish I had had her do the lower face lift at that time to save money in the long run. Best of luck to you, Tri
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