12:30PM
2 hamburger patties--860 calories
2 slices American cheese--120 calories
2 Tbs mayo--200 calories
1.5 ounces pork rinds--135 calories
5:30PM
2 La Tortilla Factory low-carb wraps--100 calories
4 small slices of fine Wisconsin cheeses (Jalapeno Jack, Colby Jack, Swiss, and Salsa Cheddar)--250 calories
8 turkey deli slices--60 calories
2 Tbs mayo--200 calories
1 small square Flax Z Snax Low-Carb Brownie--100 calories
TOTAL CALORIES: 2025
CURRENT WEIGHT: 253.6
NOTE: I didn't eat breakfast this morning because we went to our car dealership to try to negotiate something with them about our busted transmission on the 2002 Buick LeSabre we just purchased a few months ago from them. The meeting took a LOT longer than we expected and then they said they would need to mull over what they want to do for us (if anything). I told them if they just met me halfway and paid for part of the repair with cash and/or service credits, then I'd be satisfied. Here's hoping!
So by the time we got home from dealing with that, I was pretty hungry and went right for those satisfying hamburgers I enjoy eating so much. They're packed with lots of fat and calories, but that's what makes them so filling for so long. I even added in a few pork rinds today with that meal for some crunch. And I wanted a little something sweet at the end of my supper meal, so I got just a very small portion of those incredible Flax Z Snax brownies. LOVED IT!
A funny thing has happened the past couple of days, too--I have drank a single diet soda. WOO HOO! After my recent "sweet"-free challenge, I'm finding I really don't have a daily desire for one anymore like I used to. It's amazing since I didn't think I'd be able to survive without them. But here I am not only surviving, but THRIVING with no ill effects from removing them most of the time from my low-carb lifestyle. You gotta celebrate success any way it comes and that's exactly what I'm doing.
Monday, November 17, 2008
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Hope you get something sorted out with the car and well done on getting over your diet soda addiction.
Did the trip help Christine?
Warning - the rest might be seen as critical ...but just some comments:
Meat, cheese, mayo, wraps and a brownie doesn't sound great for a day in terms of nutrients.....
No veggies?
Sweet free challenge is well and truly abandoned then........
I'd like to see you back on a regular diet - e.g. October 28 - regular meals, real food and no products.
You are still losing weight, which is good though.
I think my frustration with your menus is that I'm coming at all this from a position of looking for a "healthy" diet, i.e. real food: meat, eggs, veggies, nuts, berries, dairy - as unprocessed as possible. If you are really trying to lose weight I'd hope you would keep your sweet treats to a minimum - not daily.
You are free to eat whatever you want of course.
I must sound like a broken record, but I'd like to see you get a diet sheet from one of the many low carb doctors that you have interviewed. Unless they have a commercial interest in it I do not think they tend to recommend low carb products.
All the best though and I appreciate you being honest about your diet.
LOL! You're hilarious, Chris. I always appreciate your comments because you present them in a respectful manner with my best interests in mind. You can't help but respect that.
Christine is slowly getting a little better with the chelation. Her headaches have subsided somewhat, but she still has the joint pain. The heavy metals in her bones is voluminous, so it may take a while to completely remove them all. The transmission issue really set us back financially so we're hoping to build our budget back up enough to go back for a third round of treatments in December. Wish us luck!
As for my diet, yes I had some wraps because they will go to waste otherwise. I purchased them for my trip and had a few left over. With tight money right now, I can't afford to let food spoil that I already have on hand. That's the reason for the lack of veggies, too. No money. I have a bunch of meats in the freezer from where I've stocked up before and I'll be eating on those until our finances get back in line again. You do what you gotta do to get by sometimes when money is not coming in.
I just received a written diet plan from a respectable low-carb doctor that may sound quite controversial to the naked eye...but I'm willing to give it a try if my weight does not continue to fall consistently like it has been. As I've stated before, Dr. Westman from Duke also previously gave me his diet to be on which is no starch, no sugar...but he does allow diet soda! :) I'm combining a lot of different strategies right now and they're working for me.
THANKS again for your input, Chris!
Jimmy,
So sorry about the car problems, especially while out of town - that's no fun!
Hope the treatments are working well for Christine and that she enjoyed her birthday.
I also hope your weight does not start climbing back up since adding sweets and frankenfoods back into your diet. Do you realize that since breaking your sweet free diet and since saying you were only going to have artificial sweet products once, maybe twice a week - that you are having it every day?
The taste of sweet is just as addictive as alcohol, nicotine and caffeine. Please be careful! You've come so far and this sweet free challenge has started giving you the results that you've been looking for. It's not easy, but you've shown it can be done!
I'm intrigued by the comments that assert that going "sweet free" was what kicked your weight loss into gear. Maybe it is... or maybe it's the Metformin, or maybe it's the calorie counting (i.e. just being aware of not only how much you are consuming but ensuring that you're getting enough to fuel your body and fat loss, a factor that is often mentioned on The Biggest Loser), or maybe a combination of these efforts. I don't think total avoidance of sweet is necessarily a virtuous thing. It's very important to be satisfied with a WOE in order to stay with it for a lifetime. As Kat James advises, find an "upgrade" that will "scratch the itch" that you desire or crave. There are healthier options, and I think Jimmy has found some. For all of you hardline purists, next time you have an itch, maybe in the middle of your back, resist as best you can and don't scratch it and see how long you can stand it. True, we don't "need" a diet Coke, or sugar-free chocolate, or whatever, but we truly don't "need" anything other than water and some protein, right? Do people "need" apples? Do we "need" spices? Do we only eat what we "need," regardless of how it tastes?
You *can* survive without diet sodas. I was a diet pepsi addict but gave them up months ago because I was no longer desirous of putting chemicals and poisons into my body several times a day.
I also got my 18 year old son off them and he no longer suffers from the headaches he was having while drinking them.
I feel TONS better myself now that I only drink water and tea.
It *can* be done....you simply want to have to do it.
Jimmy, I'm going to predict that with wraps, brownies and sodas, your weight is going to start inching back upwards. The carbs in the wraps and brownies may have a lower glycemic index than in "regular" food, but they are still carbs.
Jenny Ruhl over at Dr. Eades' site commented that a “low carb diet” that includes the so-called “low carb diet foods” is not a low carb diet. Sorry folks, but my blood sugar meter has been telling me that for a decade. If you are eating maltitol or glycerin/glycerol and the modified starches, you are not eating a low carb diet. Those substances raise your insulin after they are digested. They digest more slowly than other carbs do, but when they finally digest you use insulin to remove them from the blood stream and that works against weight loss. I don’t make insulin after eating, so I get to see what these supposed “low carb” foods do to blood sugar, and trust me, it isn’t pretty.
May the Force be with you. :-)
You have a point here Didirina:
I'm intrigued by the comments that assert that going "sweet free" was what kicked your weight loss into gear. Maybe it is... or maybe it's the Metformin, or maybe it's the calorie counting (i.e. just being aware of not only how much you are consuming but ensuring that you're getting enough to fuel your body and fat loss, a factor that is often mentioned on The Biggest Loser), or maybe a combination of these efforts.
**But that is about where it stops. Jimmy's loss is very likely resulting from a number of those variables. But the rest of your post goes downhill.
Didirina said: "I don't think total avoidance of sweet is necessarily a virtuous thing. It's very important to be satisfied with a WOE in order to stay with it for a lifetime. As Kat James advises, find an "upgrade" that will "scratch the itch" that you desire or crave. There are healthier options, and I think Jimmy has found some. For all of you hardline purists, next time you have an itch, maybe in the middle of your back, resist as best you can and don't scratch it and see how long you can stand it. True, we don't "need" a diet Coke, or sugar-free chocolate, or whatever, but we truly don't "need" anything other than water and some protein, right? Do people "need" apples? Do we "need" spices? Do we only eat what we "need," regardless of how it tastes?"
**But the thing is...Jimmy's older way of eating DIDN'T HAVE BALANCE. Every meal had crap in it. I shudder to think of the numbers of grams of transfats he ate while downing lots of chemicals and fake sugar. He may have been eating "below 20carbs" per day but I doubt it. Just his salads alone were darn near 20 if not more when you think about the craisins, sunflower seeds, prepared Ranch Dressing...etc! If you have any metabolic disturbance at all, you can't help but react to all of the artificial nonsense entering your body. And let's not forget, we're not talking about "a diet coke a day"...he reports to drinking somewhere around 10 or more per day!!!!!! *shudder*.
I agree that an occasional "treat" is just fine and hopefully scratches an itch for you that allows you to move onward through the fog...but the kind of diet Jimmy was eating prior to starting on his "30 day sweet-free challeng", which he quit somewhere around the 21 day mark,was full of junk nutrition and clearly not nourishing his body with healthy supplies of vitamins, minerals, proteins and fats.
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