tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963286385971006972009-11-09T18:32:42.634-05:00Chrissy Rey-Drapeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09755106556067168169noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396328638597100697.post-78124242098542311502009-05-14T13:05:00.002-04:002009-05-14T13:08:29.846-04:00

It's been quite some time since I posted. Life happened, and I stopped eating low carb. My body has paid the price for that. I'm back up to just about where I started last time, and was even higher than that not too long ago. Anyhow I'm trying to get back into the low carb way of life, but it's been hard.I've said it before, and I'll say it again, "I'm a carb addict!" Now I have to break that

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The past week has been rather chaotic. We got back from Florida, and I slept pretty much all of the following day. Then we had some family drama for the rest of the week. But I was good all week. The only thing I did wrong was skip a couple of meals because I woke up too late or fell asleep.Then we had a Super Bowl party on Sunday, and I not only did I have some carby stuff (cookies, a piece of

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I'm going to stop using days as the title of these posts. Somewhere along the way I must have skipped a day or two, because it's now the 26th, and I've been doing this since the 1st, and somehow my post yesterday was for day 24? Maybe I'm just that bad at math!Anyhow, we left Orlando at about 3:30, so we're hoping to get home around 5am, unless we decide to stop for a few hours to sleep. Claire

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OWWIE my head hurts!! I was a dummy yesterday. For some reason, I thought it would be OK to have some pizza, fries, and carrot cake for lunch. I really don't know what I was thinking, except for maybe I had been at Sea World and Disney World every day of the week. Anyhow about 2 hours after eating the junk, I started feeling lethargic. Then this morning I felt like crap and had trouble waking up.

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I'm not bothering with FitDay today. Just too pooped from yet another day at Sea World. I wasn't too bad today; had a good breakfast of three eggs and some bacon, lunch was beef brisket, and dinner was a sirloin steak with some cheese, black olives, hardboiled egg, and bleu cheese dressing. I also had a few bites of Claire's cheese for a snack (probably about an ounce, she had like 3 pieces!). We

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Today is three weeks! And I have no scale to see how well I'm doing...Today was difficult. Had a late breakfast of three fried eggs with butter. I don't think it was enough because I was famished about 2 hours later. We were at Disney World by then, so we stopped and I got a tasty foot-long hot dog with about 1/2 cup of sauerkraut and some mustard. That also wasn't really enough, and I was

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Today we went to Sea World, and I had a beer *burp* :-) I ate very well the rest of the day: steak and eggs for breakfast, smoked beef brisket for lunch, and pizza skillet for dinner. I wasn't hungry for snacks all day, and we did a ton of walking. Well, I did anyway, Claire did a lot of riding in her stroller. I was completely stressed out from having four generations of women in my family in

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I think today is day 19 :-)We're back on the road today after two nights in Middleburg, FL at my aunt's house. It was a nice visit, and I managed to stay on-plan for the most part.I've had a lot more caffeine than I was planning to this weekend. Right now I'm drinking a Diet Dr. Pepper. When we get to Orlando we'll go to the grocery store and I'll get some Diet Rite, which doesn't usually cause

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I had a Baconator for dinner last night. It was yummy! I had way too much diet soda yesterday. I also had a nasty craving for chocolate, so rather than go crazy I went ahead and bought some sugar-free Reese's peanut butter cups. They were good, and they tamed the craving, but I think the sugar alcohol might have done something because I'm feeling bloated and gassy today. YUCK!

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On Monday I cut out caffeine. And today I went right back to it. Waking up before sunrise is just wrong!! And to compensate for my body's rebellion, wanting to snooze, and then snooze some more, I have been sucking down caffeine. So far I've had 2 fast food diet Cokes and a bottle of the new chocolate cherry Dr. Pepper (wasn't too impressed with it). I'm fully caffeinated right now :-D I'll cut

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I'm writing this while my mother is driving us down I-95 in North Carolina. I think we're almost in South Carolina now :-) I love wireless!!I didn't get a chance to write more than my microwave pizza skillet recipe yesterday between work, packing, and dealing with a cranky kiddo. So I'm going to catch up on yesterday, and start on today. Who knows if we'll have any Internet when we get to where

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This is a variation on my other pizza skillet recipe. I cooked up about 6 pounds of ground beef on Sunday, adding only salt and pepper. I figured I could use it in other stuff later in the week. So after running out of the pizza skillet I made (also on Sunday) I decided to see how it would taste if I just microwaved all of the parts in a single serving. Not bad, and it's a lot faster to make!1

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This has to be quick, because I need to get to bed ASAP!!!I did T-Tapp last night, and... WOW!! It was a great workout. I bought the DVD from the instructor and did the basic workout again at home today, and tried doing the next level a bit. I took my measurements last night before my class, and today after doing the workout I was down an inch each on my waist, abdomen, and hips. I likey :-)Today

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It's been two weeks since I started low-carb again, and I'm down 7.2 pounds. Only 54 to go :-)Today I'm still feeling a bit bloated. My fingers feel swollen. I think it's water-retention because my time of month is coming up. The Smooth Move tea worked, but it took an awfully long time! I had the tea at about 9pm and I didn't get the urge to go until almost 11am, after I had eaten breakfast. I

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I'm totally wiped out today, and now I have a headache. I don't know if it's from the way I'm eating, or because I'm starting to come down with something. I also feel like I may be retaining a bit of water, so I'm a little worried about my weigh-in tomorrow. I usually retain some water a week or so before my time of month, so if my weight hasn't gone down much (or at all) tomorrow, I know it will

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Today I started my new "plan." I did pretty well, eating mostly meat with some cheese, butter, and a little bit of tomato. I had eggs cooked in butter with bacon for breakfast, pizza skillet for lunch, and another pizza skillet for dinner. The lunch one was leftovers from last week, and the dinner one was a fresh batch I made for this week. I'm planning to have the other three servings of it for

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I decided to experiment with the breakfast casserole I made a couple of weeks ago. It turned out pretty good.1.25 lbs ground pork0.25 lbs ground beef6 pieces thick bacon, cooked (I used uncured bacon from Costco)4 oz cream cheese, cut into small pieces (about 20)4 oz cheddar cheese, shredded12 hard boiled eggs, sliced or choppedspices to taste (I used Pampered Chef Rosemary and Italian mixes,

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I made this for dinner tonight. So yummy!4 cups cooked ground beef (about 2 pounds raw)1 cup canned diced tomatoes in sauce (I used Hunt's brand)Italian seasoning, to taste8 oz mozzarella cheese, shredded16 slices pepperoniMix the ground beef, tomatoes, and Italian seasoning in a skillet. Cover with cheese and pepperoni and cook over low heat until the cheese is melted and the pepperoni is cooked

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I had a filet mignon with a salad and some broccoli tonight for dinner. It was good, but honestly I probably would have been fine just eating the filet. I was too full from the veggies to eat the whole thing!Wayne is totally off the low-carb way of eating today. He had bread and honey French dressing at dinner. He gets pissy when I tell him what is allowed and not allowed on a low-carb diet,

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Chipotle gave me heartburn last night, again!! I guess I better not go back there again for a while :-/I was reviewing my FitDay stats for the past 10 days, and I noticed that some days I have been under 10 carbs. And you know, on those days I felt full pretty much all day. I also felt better, in general. So I think I'm going to start doing very-low-carb for a while. I doubt that Wayne will do it

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Yeah, I sneaked another peek at the scale this morning, and my weight is down a bit more (ticker's not updated, going to wait until Tuesday!). Wayne's went up a little bit, not sure why, except maybe he's still eating way too fast and not feeling it when he gets full. I wonder if it might also be that the mechanism that tells him he's full is out of whack.I've eaten OK today, but didn't get as

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I know, I know, I'm not supposed to weigh myself except on Tuesdays, but I had to take a peek. I'm down to 185.6! Wayne didn't weigh himself this morning before he left for work, but I think he will when he gets home.Let me review my "rules" to see if I followed them all:Eat at least my minimum protein (34g/meal): ALMOST got this... missed it by a few grams for breakfast.Limit my carbs to less

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So I've been thinking... Even though I love all of the science behind Protein Power, and I'm losing weight doing it, I've decided that I'm going to start doing things a little bit differently to see if it works. I'm basically going to try to combine the principles of Atkins with Protein Power. So here's what I'm going to try to do for the rest of the week (starting tomorrow, I already have stuff

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Wayne and I went to a basketball game tonight (GO TERPS!!!). I scored awesome seats in the alumni suite. They provided us with munchies and drinks, but unfortunately, we couldn't even look at the food! It was stuff like M & M's, pretzels, and chips. So during half-time I ran out to one of the concession stands and got some peanuts. Not the best choice, but after hearing Wayne complain about how

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My weight went back down a bit this morning, so my total weight loss for the first week is (drum roll, please!) 3.8 pounds. Not bad, I think :-) Wayne's weight loss for the first week was 6.6 pounds, which is also not bad.This morning after dropping Claire off, Wayne and I went to the gym to use our free 8-week memberships at Bally's Total Fitness. We signed up for the Discovery Health National

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