~*~ Back To Basics ~*~

[mitzimarie]

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Good Evening, All

Here's hoping that all of you had a wonderful day.

Sorry that I have been a little scarce with details for the past couple of days... and once again today, I have no details. Just too much going on. The upcoming week will be busy as well, but I WILL be recording details again starting tomorrow. It definitely helps keep me focused.

Glenda - I had a slip today, too... I went overboard with the damn nuts again. Sh*t happens... as long as we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and move forward, we should be fine.

Adena - I LOVE avocados! There are tons of them in the grocery stores around here right now. Walmart had them for only 68 cents a piece last week - cheap! I definitely took advantage of them.

PT, Betsy's mom was one smart lady! And Betsy's right... it will happen when you least expect it.

Sunny, I hope you get lots of good rest tonight.

Today my brother had a get-together for family at his house (meal at noon). *sigh* While I enjoy the time together that my family has for holidays/special occasions, I have to admit that it aggravates me that we always have Italian, Chinese, or some kind of rice/pasta main dish... more often than not, Italian. My mother's parents owned one of the best Italian restaurants in town for 52 years... All 3 of my mom's brothers are excellent cooks, as is my brother. I love the fact that most of the time, it's the men who cook the food for these occasions. What I don't like, is that they always pick stuff like lasagna, artichocke casserole, and bread to cook... Italians put breadcrumbs in everything. I guess I have no room to b*tch... that if I want to have something else, I should host a get-together myself. Alas, I am not a hostess or cook by a long shot... not my thing. Sometimes I bring my own food to these occasions, but on days like today (Mother's Day), I just don't feel like putting out the effort. What ever happened to good old grilling? Mmmm... steak, seafood, veggies on the grill My brother and uncles aren't big fans of grilling. They know that I follow Atkins, and they understand the plan, but that's not how they like to eat so they don't attempt to adapt anything to lowcarb. I feel sorry for them... my brother isn't overweight, but my uncles are terribly overweight. One of them had a quintaple bypass surgery last year, and was told to do Atkins type eating... he just can't do it. He's had to have another stint put in, since the bypass. He's only 10 years older than I am.

OK - I'm done pouting. Thanks for listening.

I have a long day in the boutique tomorrow, so I won't get home from work till about 6:00, then I'll have to deal with dinner. I hate being away from here for such a long stretch, but that's how Mondays are. I will be getting strict again, and recording details... keeps my @ss in line.

Have an awesome week, everybody.

[hopejoy]

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I'll tell you one thing, reading your posts inspire me to get back on track! Yum! Reading your eating plan Sunny made me hungry! I can't wait to start eating like that again! It's gonna be GREAT!

Mitzi, it sure sounds like you have a fabulous family in spite of all the food issues. They sound like awesome men to cook like that for their families! That's awesome! I hope your one uncle turns his diet around though, it's so hard to see people we love suffer so much needlessly.

My mom brought me a sack full of avocados today!!! they're not ripe yet, but they will be before ya know it! (and I'll be ready!)

liz

[partytrouble]

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morning yall!!

mitzi, yum!! i agree with liz, would be great to have a family full of men who cook. that is sooo far from what my traditional southern family grew up with...i don't think my dad knows how to boil water.

i had a great eating day yesterday, and worked out HARD. but not even a pound down today. but like we all say, it is not the scale but how you look, feel, and behave that counts. so check, check, check!~

[misplaced southerner]

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monday..blah! but we're all here! had a good legal mother's day. ernie grilled the BEST steaks with mushrooms, made a caprese (sp) salad...mozzerella, tomatoes and basil and a huge salad. yum! i felt like i was really being decadent! no scale movement....but that is better than GAINING!

[hrgillespie]

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Good Morning Everyone ......... confession time for me ....... I had a terrible day off plan yesterday ........ My mother's day was loverly but I ate off plan the entire day ......... it started with my children making me breakfast( something they do every year) I had forgotten to remind them I was eating differently and even though they know that they were not thinking when they followed tradition and brought mommy Breakfast in bed of french toast sausage strawberries and cream and real vermont maple syrup ........ so yes I looked into the smiling faces of my 4 children so pleased with themselves and Ate it all ......... I figured I could get my butt right back on track for lunch tilll my older girls showed up with lunch all planned ........ potato salad mac salad hamburgers on the grill and my oldest made me a cheese cake ( another tradtional favorite) and yes I looked at all they had done and Ate that too ......... now you would think this would be enough wouldn't you?????? Well Bob had built me a new patio and bought a canopy and table and chairs set and a fire pit so I could enjoy my back yard while the kids played ........ so we built a fire and sat around it with the kids last night and the next door neighbors saw us out and brought over the fixings for smores ......... so yep seeing that I had completely blown my day I ate those too ......... By the time I was done my day my stomach hurt, I had wocked heartburn and I was feeling sick ......... So I deserved the way I felt and now will suffer through several days of withdrawal and getting back on track ........... good thing the veggie challenge is underway and I can use that to sterr me right as well......... Oh lordy why oh why do I continue to do things like this to myself .......


OK so rerererererererererestart today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I hope those of you whom the Holiday fit had a wonderful Mother's day yesterday!!!!!!

Heidi

[charks1]

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ROFLMAO!!! Heidi....my confession below

My hubby and I went out to a buffet at a nearby Casino Saturday night...well I thought I was doing good....For Dinner I had a nice rare slice of Prime Rib...some cole slaw, something green ..glazed carrotts(were yuck so only had a bite)...as I passed on the salad bar...bad bad..bad...Char --->>> straight for ----->>>> the desert bar..sampling the cheese cake, something with cramel and coconut...and strawberries and whip cream...shameful.
o.k. so they were all small little slicess..but the only inkling of a ..STOP WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING went right out the window as I put the delicious morsels..on my plate....
so as I prepared dinner tonight thinking of all that garbage I put inside me..I had to smile....
I was very good tonight
fresh garden green beans
Veggie stir fry in 2 tablespoons of virgin olive oil
with sliced up sausage..
sure wasn't cheesecake!!!

[partytrouble]

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you guys are so funny with your come to jesus moments!! hilarious!!! sounds like the basic theme is get it off your chest, and then get back to plan, i like it!

[blue996]

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Since we're confessing I need to share that I started eating peanut butter...even though I am only on day 8 of my induction. But the good thing is that I am losing. I think the big stallers for me were dairy (heavy cream) and all the berries I was eating.

I'm also travelling for the next three days and packed some peanuts and jerky for the plane. It's not perfect but you all know airports are packed with temptations. Wish me luck over the next few days. I even thought about packing the peanut butter...lol.

[mitzimarie]

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Good Evening, All!

I was here a couple of hours ago and typed out a nice, long, detailed post... and it vanished before my eyes . Ah, well...

It's great to come here after a long day of work, and see all your posts... even if some of them do involve true confessions.

Heidi! LOL... I'll bet you did feel like crap after that! You're probably actually looking forward to getting back on plan.

Liz, I hope that you enjoyed your first "back to basic" day!

PT, you're right... the family on my mom's side doesn't fit the strerotypical southern family at all. The Italian heritage overides it. I can remember running around the restaurant as a tiny kid.. hanging out in the bakery. Yeah... they baked all of their own bread and pastries... cheesecakes, chocolate eclairs, cream puffs. Yowsa... food has always been a main focus of their lives... and for taste good reasons, not health reasons.

Betsy, Ernie is such a keeper! Your food yesterday is EXACTLY the kind of thing I would have liked. I ended up eating salad.

Char, excellent job on the getting back on track! Your food tonight sounds perfect.

Blue, peanut butter is my ENEMY! LOL... I just LOVE it sooooo much, that I cannot be trusted with it. Really, nuts are my downfall. I've been able to get away with a single ounce of raw, natural almonds mixed into my MUP (never from my hand!), MOST of the time. Had that slip-up yesterday with them, so I left them out of my MUP today... had to prove that I could control them today. I will try adding them again tomorrow. Hope that your next few days goes by smoothly.

OK, I have some details today.

Pre-Breakfast (6:30am) - Atkins Chocolate Royale Shake

Breakfast (9:00am) - MUP (no almonds)

Lunch - chicken salad (I hate tuna, so I tried canned chicken with eggs and mayo... it was gross, too); 7 ounces celery

Snack - 1 cup jicama; 1 ounce cheddar cheese

Snack - 1 serving sugar snap peas

Mini-meal - 12 ounce bag of broccoli slaw fried in the dripping of some bacon I made for DH

Mini-meal - Muffin in a Minute with cream cheese

Fitday Totals:
1737 calories
48 net carbs (31 of those were net veggie carbs)
45g fiber (96g carbs - 45g fber = 48 net carbs)
68% Fat
12% Carbs
20% Protein

- Drank 80 ounces of water

- Took Supplements

- No exercise.

Which reminds me - can't believe what I did today! This morning, as I was rushing around getting ready for work, I jammed my knee into the doorframe trim in my bathroom... I mean, I knocked the living crap out of my knee cap. I got through the day OK, but after standing on my feet for 9 hours straight, that knee is ANGRY now! I am walking with a limp. Hopefully, this is very temporary and I'll be back to the Couch 2 5K program soon. I was in such a groove with that... I don't want to lose it!

All righty... I'm heading to bed. Have a great day tomorrow, everyone!

[SunnySmile501]

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I am so busy that I don't have time to eat. I didn't get home from my trip to Charlottesville until 8:30 last night. I had to go to a bunch of places on the way home. Dinner was a can of potted meat, dipped up with pork rinds (7:30 pm) between picking up a prescription and going to the library to get the books I had on hold before they returned them.

Today, I didn't get home until 5 pm and hadn't had lunch yet. I had pastrami from the Amish Cheese Shop and a couple of kinds of cheese. I try not to eat processed meats very often and I know cheese does not agree with me. The pastrami and the cheese are Amish-made and really good. Sigh...It's going to be several more days until life settles back down.

I made curried chicken salad for tomorrow. Long day again and I'll have to pack dinner.

Sunny!

[mitzimarie]

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Good Evening, Friends

Ack! It's late, and I'm tired. *yawn*

But I've got nothing on you, Sunny! Holy cow, you are one busy lady... I get tired reading about your schedule. Hopefully you will get some relaxation time in after a few more days.

I didn't eat a whole lot today...

Pre-Breakfast (6:30am) - Atkins Chocolate Royale Shake

Breakfast: MUP (no almonds); 1 coffee with cream and Splenda

Snack: 130g jicama; 1 ounce cheddar cheese

Snack: 1 large, whole, yellow bellpepper (raw, cut into strips)

Dinner: Chicken Shwarma Salad I picked up from a local Greek restaurant (romaine lettuce, feta cheese, roasted chicken with an olive oil dressing)

Fitday Totals:
1304 calories
34 net carbs (26 of those were net veggie carbs)
28g fiber (62g carbs - 28g fiber = 34 net carbs)
65% Fat
11% carbs
24% Protein

- Drank 88 ounces of water

- Took Supplements

- Exercise: AB/Core workout at a health club! Yep, I officially belong to a gym now. I could never afford it on my own, but my brother's wife and 2 daughters got a family membership and it allows for 4 people on it, so they were able to include me. We're splitting the monthly fee 4 ways, so I only have to pay $25 a month to belong. I'm kinda excited, even though I wasn't crazy about the class I took today. There's lots of other things to try, though, so I'm sure that I will find something that I like.

Have a great Hump-day tomorrow, everyone!

[hopejoy]

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Hi!
I had a good 1st day... the perfectest saint/Atkineer you could imagine...

Today, they scheduled me for surgery for June 2... which is way earlier than I expected, then my cousin emailed me a long thing about Organic cures for cancer in Mexico and I got totally stressed out and ate 4 pieces of toast and some brown rice... the bread was WW but still 4 pieces! For crying out loud! I'm a nut case! What was I thinking? Oh well, tomorrow is another day! I'll start day 1 over again. Up til then I was good fortunately there wasn't anything chocolate in the house or it would be in my belly now too! In fact there is nothing sweet in the house at all... and it's a good thing too I'm telling you!
Okay that was my 'Come to Jesus' moment... I'm clean now.
liz

[partytrouble]

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Thank god it was bread and not chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[charks1]

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I don't know why I did it, but I got on the scale this morning ....what a MISTAKE...ACKK!!!

it ruined it for me..how the heck??? I do my abs, squats, miles...how many more freakin steps am I suppose to take in 9 hours I hit over 13,000 yesterday..I hate that damn scale...
why did I buy that damn thing

[hrgillespie]

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I missed checking in yesterday but here I am this morning ........ back on track and feeling good! The veggie challenge certainly makes you think about every bite going into your mouth and I love that! I'm keeping my food totals fairly consistant I tend to eat about the same things everyday in different ways but the totals are always pretty close ....... Keeping it right around 1700 calories with 18-22 net carbs ...... and the percentages are good as well. I could get my fat a little higher it's hovering between 62-65% and I think I read it should be about 70% it woldn't take much more then a bit of butter or something like that to get it up there I'm sure. I have taken off what I gained during my mother's day Blitz and am now working on getting down from there ........


Happy Wednesday to you all!

Heidi