Low Carb-ers Challenge Part 7 Welcome all

ivykivy

Hello everyone!

Marie, thank you for your kindness.:flowerforyou: Ginger flax bread sounds good. How many cups of flax meal did you have to use. I meant to make so muffins last night so I'd have something for breakfast but didn't so I didn't get breakfast this morning. I ending up eating too make at the repast of our church member who did. I guess it will be veggies and meat for the next few days.

Diana I know what you mean about waking up bright and early on Saturday. What I hate is waking up 45 min before you have to. I feel better today that you guys for your kind words.:flowerforyou:

You guys are big losers! I have not lost any. For some reason my weight stays stable for a month or two then goes down when I eat maintenance. I don't think I'm eating enough. Sometimes I wonder if I am still hyperthyroid.

Hambone hope you had a good trip!

Amy, Jeni, Lioness hang in there.

Have a good evening

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Here is what i dump in

the gingerbread cake in the bundt pan was delicious. I like sweet spicy stuff.
Here is my recipe:

Since this is a throw together let me know how you would make it

1 1/2 cup ground flax seeds,
3/4 c splenda
1 1/2 baking powder
2 t ginger
1 t vanalia [ I used the powder kind] because I had it on hand.
1 t. ground clove
1 t. allspice.
1 t. cinnamon
1/4 t salt
If you don't like it so spicy cut down on some of it.
Mixed well

1 1/2 c egg beaters of eggs
1/4 cup butter
1/4 c sour cream

stir well pour into bundt pan spray with pam Or I surpose a 8/8 sq. pan would do.

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AmyNVegas

Hello all!!!!

I know I have been MIA again. This week has been a busy one. I have been going to Curves and working on my thesis paper in the evenings. I got really good news for my first month weigh-in at Curves. I had only come down 2 pounds since the 22nd of December(I had gained then lost some from the beef) but I also lost an inch in my arms, legs, hips, and bust and a half inch from my waist!!!!!:drinker: Since I was down 9.5 units I got my name onthe Curves wall of dreams. I am so happy. I am going to lose more weight this month and I hope to lose more inches as well. Just need to stay on track with my modern cavewoman diet.

Marie I was going to try the flax bread this morning started measuring everything out(dry first) and we didn't have any baking powder so I went to the store today and got some. I am making it in the orning I will let you know how it comes out. Thanks again for the recipe!:flowerforyou: I am allergic to cinnamon and clove so can't do the gingerbread unless just more allspice will work.

Have a great Sunday all!:drinker: :flowerforyou:

pickadilly2009

Good Sunday morning all you fellow low carb lifestylers! It is a little gloomy outside this morning and just 23 deg but I am putting my coat on and going to go sit outside with my coffee! This is THE favorite simple pleasure in my life and it is driving me nuts that I haven't been able to go out because it has been so cold. I went out yesterday and I am going out here in just a few minutes!

Last night, a friend and I were going to go see a movie but she was really wound up so we ended up going dancing instead. I danced for like 3 hours! Can you say "OUCH" lol My knees and hips are killing this old lady! I was a good girl and didn't drink but I think from staying up so late, I still feel like I have a hangover a little bit! lol At least I wasn't the oldest person there! lol

Marie, your cake sounds good...spice cake is my favorite too and that sounds yummy. Does anyone know of a really good frosting to put on it or did you figure that out too Marie. I have to tell you I have never heard of powdered vanilla before! Interesting.

Amy, you are doing SO wonderful! Congrats on the wall of dreams! What is the modern cavewoman diet?

Ivy kivy... how are you this lovely Lords day?!

Hambone...did you make it home o.k.?

Lioness and Jeni....hope you check in soon!

O.k.....outside with my coffee I go! Have a wonderful day everyone!

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Oh Diana, I would not go out in the cold with my coffee. It would freeze before I could drink it.
we don't know how to enjoy the cold weather here. But enjoy your coffee.

Amy, You can put what you like in it I uaed just ginger the first time. I just used the 3 minute muffin recipe and left out the cinnamon and cocoa and the other spices and jut used ginger, I put some Land of lakes ready whipped topping on mine.

hello , Hambone Hope you got back from your trip and safly back in Texas In time for another round of cold wether.

Jeni, Hello to you and a great big <<<<hugs>>>>>

Lioness, Popped in soon.

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Marie

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ivykivy

Good Afternoon.

It's a good day from some nice hot coffee Diana and a wonderful piece of spice flax cake. I wish you all could email me both!

Congrat Amy and Diana on today's weight loss.

Have a wonderful day.

AmyNVegas

The caveman diet I use is Primal Blueprint. It's not as strict low carb as Atkins and it works. He suggests you stay below or at 100gm of carb a day to lose and between 100-150 to stay healthy after losing. No grains at all, no beans, no potatoes(except an occasional sweet potato). Mostly fruits, veggies, meats/eggs/fish/poultry, fats(oils), nuts and seeds. I like the variety I can eat better than on Atkins and I still keep my insulin in check so I process the carbs I eat instead of storing them. I have a hard time getting all my calories in but I am working on finding snacks like pork rinds to bring them up. I also work out 4-6 times a week at Curves. He suggests slow paced exercise several days a week, with heavy lifting or more intense muscle work out a couple times a week. No heavy aerobics and no lengthy workouts heart rate at 50% not 75-85% like the aerobic instructors tell you. So my Curves workout does that for me I get weight training with the resistance machines and I go slow on the recovery/aerobic squares.

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Amy this flax's bread and muffin
will fit right in with your diet plan. except the carbs are a lot lower on Step one== about 20 gr a day.
Step 2 about 90 to 100. I have not look at step 3 yet which is mantance for I have a long way to go. The plan I am on count the fiber off of cas and we go by the net carbs. So that make these muffin 0 carbs. And all the light veggies are free too,

Marie

pickadilly2009

Good happy day to all! Well it is Monday and the weekend passed without the scale going up! Wonderful! My 3 day weekends can make me backtrack if I am not careful and this weekend did not win! Ya! So I am hoping by this Friday I will have lost at least another 2 lbs...maybe more. By the end of February I want to be back to where I was in November and by my birthday in March I want to see my weight at what I got it down to in August. That means my ticker will say 33 lbs lost so far! Then I will be within 13 lbs of my goal and the work will get really hard! At that point I will be happy with at least 1/2 lb a week. But I am determined to get this 'project' done! It has lasted too long and it needs to be finished and my procrastination needs to stop!

So let's get reved up and determined and DO THIS!

Happy day to all!

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Diana I lost my lb. this Monday morning. Only 28 lbs to reach my goal.

I haven't ime to chat on my way to the thearpy and the water.

Marie

ivykivy

Congratulation on the weight loss everyone!

I'm struggling a bit but I will get over the hump. Tomorrow I will do another 30,000 aerobic steps challenge. I wanted to do it today but I need to do C25K today b/c I missed Saturday.

Have a good day.

pickadilly2009

Ivy, you have had a lot of distractions lately but you will perservere! Anything I can do to encourage you, just let me know!

Marie...I knew you would lose that 1 lb! Wooohooo!!! You are just full of vigor and loving life! Good job!

I have been doing great on the eating but not so good at getting any exercise in. I am going to try and remedy that this week.

Have a lovely day all!

Diana

ivykivy

Diana, thanks for the encouragement. You are doing great! Diet is 85% of losing weight.

Marie, hope you enjoyed your water class.

I was gonna do my 30,000 steps today but my legs are sore from the C25K yesterday so it may be 20,000 but I'll do as many as I can.

Hope everyone has a good day!

AmyNVegas

Marie I finally got to make the bread I made the focaccia type one and it is delicious! I added a bit of onion powder think next batch I will add sauteed onion too. It is really good. It has a very cleansing effect though. :laugh: Especially with the veggie soup I made this week with the ground chicken that was on sale. Who needs a colon cleanser. Sorry if that was TMI ladies.:laugh:

Congrats on all the successes so far this week. Keep it up we can all do this together!

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Good Amy now you can make a sandwich. I got to get me some more baked.

Marie

ivykivy

Good Afternoon,

It is windy here. I wonder if I run against the wind will I burn my calories. Well that ain't happening anyway.:laugh: I got 20,000 steps in yesterday so maybe my body will know I mean business.

Amy the flax bread is a colon cleanser. I made the mistake of eating too many one day.:laugh:

Diana and Marie how are you today?

Hope everyone has a good day.

ivykivy

I decided to try on my mini goal skirt (a size 14 from the 80's) and I actually got in it and zipped it up AND can sit down in it! WOOT!. So I am losing inches just not weight but I'll take it!

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yes yea IVY.WOOT --TOOT SIZE 14 That is just fantastic. So keep on going girl.20,000 Steps that if just great.

Good morning Ivy, Diana, Jeni, Hambone,Llioness, and Amy. We are Marching on to victory.

Marie

ivykivy

Thank you Marie. I think I'm gonna finally pack up those size 32's and 28's and give them away. I've made up my mind I won't be needing them anymore. :bigsmile:

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yes yea IVY.WOOT --TOOT SIZE 14 That is just fantastic. So keep on going girl.20,000 Steps that if just great.

Good morning Ivy, Diana, Jeni, Hambone,Llioness, and Amy. We are Marching on to victory.

Marie

pickadilly2009

Ivy!!!!! WooooHooooo!!! And you know what? A size 8 isn't so crazy and it isn't that far from a size 14 either! I know for a fact! I started at a size 14 and now wear an 8. I am only 5'4" so while that may sound like I don't need to lose any more weight....trust me, the belly is still there to the tune of about 20 lbs. I am not saying this to brag, I am saying this to tell you how truely close to a size 8 you really are! For me, the difference between a 14 and a 8 was only 28 lbs! It isn't much further girl! Yes...give all the big cloths away, that way as soon as the current ones get a little tight, you know you have to back up and watch your food or you wont have anything to wear! lol That is another thing I did. There is nothing in my closet larger than a size 10 and I only keep those around for those girl days when my stomach feels like it is big enough to produce another child! lol YOU ARE SOOOOO CLOSE!! You have done amazing....seriously that is a lot of weight to lose! April is definately doable!

Marie...yes we are going to find our victory!

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I am so proud of our little group. It sure helps having you all here and doing our own thing.and helping one and another. It is so nice to have a place to vent. I feel like I can bring my problems here and the support I get from you all really helps. Its fantastic. Love ya'all.

Marie

ivykivy

You guys are awesome supporters. We love you too, Marie. Thank you for reminding me of this quote.

"Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken." Ecc 4:12

If we stand together we can be this monster.:flowerforyou:

Gidget86

Marie,

Thank you for posting these recipes!
I'm going to try them this weekend.

Gidget

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Gidget, Good hearing from you. And how are you doing. I also like to quilt. I have an embroidery machine, But Have not uaed it much. How ever My daughter Step daughter is having a baby girl in march. And we are going to make a pink ladybig baby quilt. I am to make a block today to see how it looks. I have an ideal I will be doing the most of it. She will pick out the favric tho., this weekend.
I don't do too much quilting now but I used to. I like making baby quilt for it is easier to handle.
Are you on a low carb diet.?

Do come back often love having you.
Marie

Gidget86

Ohhh Marie I love to quilt! I'm still pretty new at this but I am really enjoying it.
My husband loves to write, so now we each have our own hobby and dont feel bad
doing our own thing in the evenings.
Do you do your own quilting? Machine or hand? Mine are machine I can't imagine finishing on by hand! impressive.
I am in the process of quilting one that is about 70 x 82 whew! Way to big for my small machine.
Smaller quilts are so much easier to handle, I am making a baby boy quilt next for my new nephew.
LOL I do love to quilt....

The only thing better would be if quilting would count for excersize!
Gidget

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Gidget., I do it all by machine. On a bigger quilt I send it out and have it quilted. I did make a sunbonnet Sue quilt and did it in fourths and then sew them tobether Thats is my quilt that I sleep under. My husband does too. I just love sunbonnet sue
quilts. I guess it is my faverite. It is a 10 by 10 Perfect for these cold winter night.Keeps me out of the fridge too.

Marie

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Texas Sheet cake for Low carbers
Don't know how many for we just count net carbs and it is less than 5 gram for 1 serving And son't know the calories for the plan iam on don't count calories

TEXAS FLAX SHEET CAKE

1/2 STICK OF BUTTER
1/4 C Of WATER
2 T COCOA

1 c ground flax seeds
1 c. splenda
3 eggs or 3/4 c egg beaters
1/4 c light sour cream
1/2 t soda
dash of salt
1 t vanilla
1/2 c chopped nuts
1 /4 c. of the chocolate chips.==80 chips ==1/4 c. chips

I think this would make 9 servings easily Hope it will still be less than 5 grams of carbs

In a sauce pan Bring the first 3 ingedients to a boil remove from heat
then add the remaing ingredients Mix well
Pour into a 8/8 pyrex baking dish coated with butter or pan spray I did add some unsweetem coconut and some more chpped nuts on top , since i can't put the regular icing on itand bake at 350 degrees for 22 minutes It was real good. Made me happy. But rich I will be saving this for special occason for me.

Last edited by rieriecat (Today 3:17 pm)

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Marie [rieriecat]
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July24Lioness

Hey everyone. Sorry I am not online much anymore. With commuting back and forth 2 hours each way and working, taking care of house, etc............I barely have time to have a shower and get a bit of sleep!!!

Figured I would stop in and say HI to everyone while I am getting some work done too. Finally getting my eating on track and starting to feel a bit better.

I made a roast in the crock pot with green beans and onions in it and it is very good. Will have left overs for tomorrow work too.

We are supposed to get a snow storm starting tonight and through Saturday...............so I might have lots of time to post over the weekend!!!

Marie - I am going to try some of those recipes. I have a bag of ground flax that I have been wanting to do something with.

Amy - I am doing Primal Blue Print too. Do you frequent Mark's Daily Apple?? I love that site too.

ivykivy

Hello everyone,

I know you guys are tired of the snow but Monday is ground hog's day so hopefully that will bode will for the North. We have not seen a lick of snow or ice (well we had some frost).

I made it through my daily shopping w/o candy so hopefully yesterday candy super indulgence was enough.

Have a good afternoon.

Gidget86

ivykivy, I'm with you I live in Washington State and we have had very little winter weather this year!
Kinda nice for a change, just not what we are accustomed to. Feeling guilty enjoying our unusually tame
winter.