Again, I am back here again...

[meJane]

SOoooOo the last time I posted (sometime in April 2006) I had just found out I had a total cholesterol count of 319 & was to return the next week for a full lipid panel....which I did not do until last Friday (Sept 2006). Since last April I have been thru the ringer (family woes, deaths, moving, etc). All v-e-r-y convenient excuses to go straight downhill and feel justified in the process. However, I have now managed to put on 22 lbs. On a whim of guilt last Thursday, I decided the afternoon prior that I would finally go get my cholesterol checked & I fasted as prescribed. After the blood test - I went straight to Chic-Fil-A. I go back this Friday to see my lipid panel results and face the wrath of my low-carb loving doctor. Today is Wednesday. I will start back on Atkins tonight with dinner. I will pre-pack my lunch like I used to for work & will have all my breakfast fixings ready the night prior like I used to & I will stop putting this off any further as I found my old blog diary of how chipper and happy & healthy I felt when I was on Atkins. I'm not going to beat myself up for gaining this all back and then some - I am just going to push right on thru and get back on track without stalling another meal more. So, off I go to make a good dinner for a change starting tonight. I can do this. Jane

[RachelnLa]

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YES YOU CAN!

I have been putting off returning to the doctor for my cholesterol levels - which were high the last time I went. He is so sweet. He said he knew I could do it because I had done it before and that I needed to be in the right frame of mind. Never a scolding or making me feel more awful that I already felt. He's a wonderful man. I cannot wait to surprise him with my loss - whenever I get around to making that appointment!

KUDOS.. uhm.. VEGGIES to you for picking back up with a program you KNOW works We are here for you!

[Outback Jess]

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Hey Jane, YOU are so right, in a week's time, you should be feeling happy and healthy again...Good luck on the nice dinner and preparing for tomorrow. I have been here for 36 days, it's not my first time on Atkins, but it certainly is the first time I am staying totally to the plan. I feel good, very good, peaceful, happy and totally detoxed from the sugar crazies...and my gosh I had too many of the sugar symptoms...
Good luck, look forward to getting to you know here at STAC

[La_La]

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awww.. Jess I need that feeling again

Good Luck Jane...

Rachel and OB Jess are great cheer leaders!

[DragonflyMoon]

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Welcome back to STAC, Jane! I love that you are just jumping right in and starting tonight with dinner... that is just so wonderful! Lot's of us (myself included) would just say, "I'll start tomorrow..." and use tonight to have that one *last* crapfood meal. SO GOOD FOR YOU, GIRL! You rock!

Keep on posting! Looking forward to hearing more from you!

[RachelnLa]

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LaLa - good to see you!! One meal at a time, girl! You can do it. I've had to recently really study my food log. That darn scale is stuck! I'm trying not to panic.. concentrating on my water and legal foods. Always a work in progress

Last night I made tacos with all the trimmings. I was soo craving them. I was soo hungry cooking them. I scooped out 2 oz of ground meat, added salt and low carb ketchup (a fav from my childhood) and guess what?? I didn't eat supper. ACK! I was so full that I didn't get to eat my pork rind nachos that I had been soo hungry for LOL

Gotta stop letting myself get soo hungry. I'm learning...

[La_La]

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I didn't get to eat my pork rind nachos that I had been soo hungry for LOL
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pass along the recepie or when you found it.. sounds good!

Yes one meal at a time

[Outback Jess]

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LaLa, I am off to find your journal...

[Outback Jess]

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Poor jane is gonna come back and wonder what are we all doing all over her thread!!!!
We're living it, Jane, let's hear from you too.

[RachelnLa]

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Recipe for pork rind nachos? Use pork rinds in place of chips. I put some on the bottom of a plate, spoon meat on top, add cheese, lettuce, tomatoe and sour cream. Enjoy!

Sometimes I mix the meat and other stuff in a bowl and then use the pork rinds as chips to scoop up some of the meat. Keeps the rinds crunchy that way.

Sad part is.. there were no leftovers... so now I have to make my Korean meatballs to have something to eat! ack! hungry teens and hubby

[Outback Jess]

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La-La, I know you girl, you are "picture girl" always taking shots of the scales. I loved that, I found it very inventive!!!! How are you doing really...hit my journal and fill me in.
Jess

[La_La]

The Picture Girl

ROTFL I've been dubbed " The picture girl" lol ... Hi there Ms.Jess!

I went thru my journal and noticed that I started going off track when I stopped taking pics : -) ... I should pick that back up again soon...

Rachel - " Recipe for pork rind nachos? Use pork rinds in place of chips. I put some on the bottom of a plate, spoon meat on top, add cheese, lettuce, tomatoe and sour cream. Enjoy! "

I have a shopping list and making me some Pork Rind Nachos tonite!

[meJane]

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Hi gang! and thanks so much for the support. Yes I am back on track now - I didn't put off restarting Atkins "tomorrow" - I started that night for dinner and am doing well thus far. There is something to be said for not putting off til tomorrow what you can do today! Anyways, I got my cholesterol results back and WOW!! Turns out I got mighty fine lipid levels! My total cholesterol is 195 but my protective HDL's are well over the protective range & my bad LDL's are on the low side - thus I am good to go! He did "fuss" at me for getting off Atkins but was pleased to hear I am back on-board again & I was pleased to myself to honestly tell him that yes indeed I am back on track again. I also went to Costco today & stocked up on all my food staples and have dinners planned out for nearly 2 weeks in advance now. I also cleared out the pantry of the junk that has found it's way back into our home & feel a good sense of self-accomplishment thus far. Why taking any first step (in regards to damn near anything I set out to do) is such a mental ordeal for me I will never know...but once I get going - I get going. So here I go!!! Jane

[Outback Jess]

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They say, (whoever they is) that the firs step it the hardest. It's the step we take, without fanfare, without umph! without alot of motivation, other than, "I gotta get out of this place I am in." It's breaking free of a cycle or orbit and the rockets have to fire up the engines to break free of the hold of our earth's orbit...So too we have to break free of an orbit we have wound ourselves into.
Once free, things start to fall in place...Free to plan out two weeks, free to clean out the house of carbs, free to exercise and move forward...So much ground is easily step up and slowly taken, once we break free of tht orbit...
I am so free of that old orbit. I ame so beyond words thankful to be way out here in my new life...
Up early every morning, exercise done first thing, meals already stacking up in my head...All the plates up and spinning, all I have to do , is go and give each stick a shake...the spin will take care of the rest...My job is to keep my eyes on my plates...

[Elsie150]

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Sounds like you are doing great Jane!! Keep up the great work!