Low carb menu

What I ate:

-15 oz sour cream

-1 oz mayo

-1.5 eggs

Current weight: 189.7.

Experience means experiment.

Messed up last night, pretty bad.  I woke up and for some reason, I use the habit-breaking excuse of being "so good" for so long, that I "deserved" it?  Not sure. 

In any event, live and learn, I suppose.  I heard that in some other language that I cannot recall, the word experience is synonymous with experiment.  Or, maybe experiment IS the word that we call experience. 

To be frank, I messed up.  The two protein shakes along with 10 oz (or a little less) of sharp cheddar cheese showed on the scale. 

Weigh in: 159.4. 

- 11 eggs
- Two French vanilla Atkins shakes
- 20 oz mushrooms
- One can of pumpkin with cinnamon, ez sweetz and pumkin pie spice
- 10 oz cheese
- Mustard, LC ketchup

I guess the whole point of going back to logging what I eat (which I had not been doing for quite some time) along with daily weigh-ins (which I have kept up with) is to investigate to determine what works with what does not. 

Onward and downward on the scale. 

In case you were wondering why my goal weight is 153....  Well, I'm 5'10" (almost) and that was the weight that I was at when I lost my mom about 15 months ago.  I gained some after that, was on too much progesterone which did not help with waking up hungry most nights.  I was doing well until I lost my Daisy dog a few months ago.  I got up to 175 lbs at one point and with seeing a new NP for my hormones and eating the right things at the right times, I've been able to get back to the 150ss. 

The body keeps score.

For me, success with food has always been the number on the scale going down.  I'm almost to my "goal weight" which is 153 and I have to say, I'm fighting a much bigger fight that simply what shows up on the scale.  

I'm working to be more hormonally sound, which has everything to do with the adrenals, free T3 and the like.  Feeling lower-than-normal energy has put my diet in question (to me, not to my doctors).  Very low carb turns the body into a seemingly starvation state (which is awesome for fat loss, but no so great for other bodily functions).  

So much has has changed since I've written here, but it feels good to be slapping something up, if anybody is even still around.

My meals have been in bursts and fits, so I am only logging the totals of the day.  You do not need to know how many times I woke up in the night for the glorious strawberries!

- 2.3 lbs of strawberries

- 11 eggs 

- A can of pumpkin

- 16 oz mushrooms

- Olive oil

- 1 oz cheddar cheese

- LC ketchup and mustard, cinnamon, home made pumpkin pie spice 

- French vanilla Atkins shake

Scale stayed the same.  154.8.  I was expecting a jump due to the large amount of strawberries.  

For me, adding in carbs is risky business, but I did find a cool way to make an easy pumpkin pie type thing in the microwave.  Necessity is the mother of invention?  Is that how it goes?

Low carb menu

Still eating low carb!

Adding in some more "healthy" carbs for a couple reasons, namely hormonal.

Yesterday's weigh-in: 155.2.
Today's weigh-in: 154.8.

11 eggs total
1 oz cheese
1 can of pumpkin
3 cans of mushrooms
some olive oil
cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice
15-20 strawberries
Atkins French Vanilla shake
mustard and low carb ketchup

So, this is wayyy more carbs than I usually am comfortable eating, but the scale liked it, nevertheless.  Shocked!

I ate the steak from the icebox

~Thursday~
- Five and a half eggs, fried in butter
- Two servings sausage
- Lettuce

~Friday~
-Six point five eggs (I think)
- Two servings of sausage
- Two heads of lettuce
- 1/3 of a t-bone steak

Low carb menu

- Six eggs, fried in eggs
- Lots of lettuce
- Bacon ranch dressing (Walden Farms) and mustard

Low carb menu

- Seven eggs, fried in eggs
- Lots of lettuce
- Bacon ranch dressing (Walden Farms) and mustard

Low carb menu

- Eight eggs
- One oz spinach
- Two bratwurst
- Half a steak

Low carb menu

- 11 eggs 
- 3 oz spinach
- Lettuce

Low carb menu

- Sixteen eggs
- 13 oz spinach
- A little lettuce

Low carb menu

- Seven eggs, fried in butter
- Two servings sausage
- 1/3 cup of shredded cheese
- About 1.5 c of lettuce

Low carb menu

- Eight eggs, fried in butter
- Six small sausage patties (which is about three servings of sausage)
- 1.5 heads of lettuce
- Mustard and Walden Farms ranch dressing

Low carb menu

- Seven eggs, fried in butter
- Two little sausage patties (1 carb's worth / 150 cals, nukeable)
- Two heads of lettuce
- Walden farms pancake syrup

Low carb menu

- Seven eggs, fried in butter
- 1.5 heads of lettuce with zero carb condiments
- Pork butt - quite a bit of it with low carb bbq sauce

Back to school today.  Still have one drain in my tummy.... Not feeling all the way better, but I think school will be good for me.  Plus, I adore the professor, so that is a plus. :)

Low carb menu

- A head of lettuce
- 10 oz spinach
- 16 eggs
- Zero carb/zero cal condiments

Low carb menu

- One egg, fried in butter
- Half a head of lettuce
- 2/3 of a T-bone steak
- Two small sausage patties, two fried eggs and two pieces of spinach bread

Eight inches baby

- One egg
- Small piece of pork tenderloin with a few mushrooms
- Four eggs with half a head of lettuce, mustard and Walden's bacon ranch
- Four pieces of spinach bread with Walden Farms pb & j

11 days out from Plastics and I'm still ouchie but progressing quite well, I think.  Sleeping proves to be the hardest part.  I was on my hands and knees cleaning my own bathroom today, though, so it's not like I'm letting any grass grow underneath me. 

My surgeon said that the bulk was not impressive as far as what he cut off as much as the length, top-to-bottom-wise, as far as my tummy goes.  I think it was about eight inches that he showed me with his hands, but it could have been as much as ten. 

My dad stayed the first three nights / four days with me and was really my knight in shining armor throughout this process.  We also bonded.  With boyfriend having his orientation that same week, it just worked out perfectly that he was here to help me.  Winning all round!

Low carb menu

- Nine eggs, fried in butter (maybe 11, trying to remember)
- A head of lettuce with about 4 oz ranch dressing
- 7 strawberries
- A handful of blueberries
- 7 oz pork butt

Love low carb

- Six eggs, fried in butter
- A few stalks of celery with Walden Farm's whipped peanut butter
- SF jello with heavy cream (super yum)

Low carb menu and the evils of Prednisone

- Seven eggs, fried in butter with mustard and Walden's bacon salad dressing
- Walden farms jelly & whipped peanut butter
 - SF jello with heavy cream

The other day, I ate quite a bit of celery with low carb peanut butter, which was a lil scary with my Crohn's, but it was actually pretty good, even though I'm not on steroids.

Three days off the pred and the energy is low, the mood swings are high, irritability is high, but I'm not going back and I'm happy for it.