Low Carb-ers Challenge Part 7 Welcome all

CALIECAT

Yes Lioness The carrots and blackeyes peas are both carb and I only get 11-20 per meal.And that is 30. So over by 10 g of carbs. But this was before I started Met B plan. The other veggies don't count on carbs. Just the starchie ones.
I am going to make it one day. I sure like the forum that they have. I have met some real nice girls and guys.
Have a nice weekend.
Marie

July24Lioness

Yes Lioness The carrots and blackeyes peas are both carb and I only get 11-20 per meal.And that is 30. So over by 10 g of carbs. But this was before I started Met B plan. The other veggies don't count on carbs. Just the starchie ones.
I am going to make it one day. I sure like the forum that they have. I have met some real nice girls and guys.
Have a nice weekend.
Marie

Well, I think you have found something that is working for YOU. That is all that matters. Just like the Primal plan is what seems to be working best for Amy and myself................

There are so many varied forms of controlling carbs, it is about finding a plan that works for the individual.

AmyNVegas

Ivy I use frozen cauliflower to make the mashed cauliflower. A little over a dollar a bag at Wal-mart.

Lioness thanks for the link!

ivykivy

Marie, your meal was nice and healthy. I'm following the insulin resistance diet which limits carbs to 30g every two hours. Sometimes I have 4g for breakfast and 46 for lunch but I usually exercise after lunch and dinner.

Today I was out with a friend and only consumed around 600 calories for the day. For some reason I feel better when I fast. I get hungry but I feel fine. When I eat I get dizzy. So there is that temptation to just not eat at all but I know that is not a good thing. Plus I like food.

Have a great night.

pickadilly2009

Hello fine ladies! Life is trucking along at a rather fast pace for me these days and I just haven't been on the computer much. I caught up on the posts. Everyone's idea's for food substitutions are so delicious sounding! I will be trying them! And congrats to everyone for the weight loss! You all rock!

I had such a awsome day yesterday. We had a Woman's Day of Dance fair yesterday in Greeley. Myself and 10 other ladies went and met for coffee and then went over to the fair. They had free exercise and dance classes that you could try. I tried Nia, which is a low impact dance and it was so much fun, it was somewhat like dancing to african music meets native american music...very cool. Then I took a salsa class. That is much easier than I thought and we even paired off and did a couples salsa dance...that was a blast! Then I did a Jezzercise class...that one just about killed me! lol Very good workout but very high impact and very high energy. Then I did a yoga class....love my yoga! Then I did a Zumba class. With all of them combined I worked out for approximately 1 1/2 hours! I felt it too let me tell you. Then last night I went midnight bowling with some friends....bending over to throw the ball was a serious challenge! lol I'm such a dork. But it was a great day and I enjoyed every bit of it!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I am going to put some laundry away, take a nap, make some dinner and go to choir practice. Sounds like a nice quiet afternoon! Which is good because I think I need it after yesterday!

ivykivy

Diana, you really danced it up. It sounds like fun. Wish we had something like that here.

Hope everyone had a happy sunday.

AmyNVegas

That dance day sounds like fun. Here they only have festivals with tons of very bad foods nothing as healthy as a dance intruction festival.

Ivy have you talked to your doctor about the dizziness?

Please keep my sister Mary in your thoughts and prayers her mammogram showed a mass and she is going to see a surgeon tomorrow. The doc who read the mammogram said it looked like cancer to him but that the surgeon would be able to biopsy to know for sure.

ClassiC

Hey guys

just popping in to say a quick hiya!!! miss y'all!! :flowerforyou:

i do hope everyone is doing well along the journey (woot! low carbers!!) !!! :drinker: Amy, i will keep you, your sister and her doctors in prayer.
sorry, i havent had a chance to click into chat in a long while (again) but i'm still here tredging along!! fighting the good fight right alongside ya'll!! dont give up on you!! (even when those sweeet treats are calling you by your full name )


dropping off a positive note for this week and to start the month off right!!!

“Getting Past Mental Roadblocks

If you don't feel motivated to achieve your goals, it is likely due to mental roadblocks that hold you hostage.
Read the following 21 Mindset Tips and prepare your mind for success:
1. Success comes first in the mind, so visualize yourself accomplishing your goals.
2. Remember, you are the only person who can hold you back.
3. Forgive yourself and love yourself despite past failures.
4. Decide what is important in your life, and focus on that.
5. Conquer each negative thought the moment it enters your mind, when it is weakest.
6. Give up the idea that things won't go right unless you worry about them.
7. If you bring the body of your dreams to the point of resolve, then you'll soon be living in it.
8. Look towards your future, if you believe the best is yet to come then it will be.
9. You become what you think about most.
10. The margin between success and failure is very small and easily bridged by determination.
11. Start your day by accomplishing your hardest task first.
12. Set small attainable goals, rather than one monumental goal.
13. Convince yourself that exercise is fun, and it will be.
14. Know your big reason why.
15. Create a motivating play list of songs to use as the sound track to your workout sessions.
16. Every decision you make leads you either closer toward achieving your goal, or farther from it.
17. If you think you're a fat person, then you'll stay fat. If you think you're fit, then you soon will be.
18. Once you've set your goal, your attitude either pushes you toward accomplishment or failure.
19. If you don't know exactly where you want to go, you will likely end up someplace else.
20. You can have the body of your dreams, but first you must give up the belief that you can't.
21. You can only have two things in life: excuses or results. “


TTYS!! have a great week:flowerforyou:
blessings!
Cas

ivykivy

Amy I will keep your sister in my prayers.

Amy I have several issues that cause dizziness and it's hard to pinpoint which one it is. I go to my endocrinologist at the end of the month and may ask her for a glucose meter to find see if it is my blood sugar.

ClassiC glad to see you back & that you are still fighting. Thanks for the positive words.

My body couldn't give me the 0.6 pounds I neded to no be longer morbidly obese (BMI under 40) it is exactly 40 now! Hopefully I can officially say that by the end of the week I am just obese.

Hi Marie, Diana, Lioness and everyone I missed.

Have a great afternoon

July24Lioness

Amy -

I am so sorry to hear this. Your sister is in my thoughts and prayers.

pickadilly2009

Amy, Your sister is absolutely in my prayers! You are also in my thoughts and prayers because although it is not your health that is in question, it is someone you love and that has it's own trauma as well.

CALIECAT

Sorry to hear that Amy. Maybe all is OK. Lets pray.

ClassiC love you list.
We need to read that every morning.

Ivy, I am working on being a vegetarain on this Met B plan. I have made a few mistake but will get it all work out.

Lioness, Hope your days are going great.

Diana, Oh boy , I am tickle pink that you are getting out and enjoying life.

Everyone have a wonderful night.

Marie

ivykivy

Marie, that is awesome you are trying vegetarian.

I snowed for a while today now it is gone. Spring is in 18 days. I will miss winter .

Have a good evening.

AmyNVegas

Thanks for the prayers my sister Mary, she had to reschedule for next Monday because it started pouring snow before they left to see the surgeonand dumped 4 inches so they had to reschedule. I'll keep you posted.

cherapple

Another low-carb topic to follow. Yay! I need everyone's experience and wisdom. Just getting started.

Very newb. I have a lot of research to do. What's considered a low-carb food? How many carbs in it? What's considered a low-carb day? How many carbs should I shoot for per day? Should it be a percentage of total calories, or total grams per day?

Thanks. I'm sure a lot of my questions can be answered by reading the previous posts. Will be doing that.

Cheryl

jeni26

Morning everyone
thanks for your well wishes. I have been out of my meds that keep my anxiety down, and well, I guess that has been a huge part of my problem with everything because I blew yesterday. Went and got my script filled and got a temp 2 pills strictly for anxiety and I'm still a little tense but so much better, I was actually able to eat last night without throwing up!

I started back to the gym this week and as of today, I'm back on my protein shakes for a week to get it all back on track and the swelling down around my band. Does anyone take HTC???? I just found out after 2 rounds of bloodwork with low potassium, which can cause heart attack or death, that is a side effect of HTC and I need to start drinking a serving of oj every day. I'm bruising if you touch me and am a mess. So I made my shake with a serving of oj, 1/2 svg skim milk, blueberries and protein powder.

Cas - that is a great post, I'm going to print it out

Glad it seems you are all doing well from a glance. I'm off to the gym, meeting my sister

CALIECAT

Good morning Cheryl, Everyone here has just about thier own ideal on how many carbs they have.

i am on the MetabolismB Miracle Plan and I get 11-20 gram o net carbs per meal Plus my bedtime snack And I can have one in the middle of the night if awake. For a total of 80 to 100 net carbs a day. I am in the processed of learning to be a vegetarian, The same amt. of net carbs.

Welcom to our thread.
Marie

CALIECAT

Morning Jeni, So sorry to hear you are not well. Get yourself well. But glad to hear from you.
take care
Marie

Tamie_Girl

I'm new to MFP - just started this past Monday, 3/1/10. But I also am giving up flour along this journey. I have been living a flour-free life since January, but have fallen on the wagon about 3 times.

I have noticed when I go long periods with no flour my anxiety goes away. I don't seem as anxious.

I want to lose 50 pounds.

Tammy - Baltimore, MD

Tamie_Girl

Jeni, I didn't even realize you had anxiety until AFTER I posted the first time. And here I talked about my anxiety not being so bad when I limit all flours.

~Tammy

ivykivy

Hello Everyone,

Jeni sorry you are having such a difficult time. :flowerforyou:

Cher, welcome. The program I'm following limits carbs to max 30g every two hours. No high GI food is eliminated but portions are limited to 2 serving per meal (1 slice bread of 1/3 cup is a serving) and must be paired with protein. I have chosen to eliminate daily use of grains except oats. You may want to check this site out I find is information quite useful and well researched. http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition/how-many-carbohydrates-do-you-need.html

Welcome, Tammy

Hope everyone has a good day.

July24Lioness

Hi to everyone old and especially the new comers.

Everyone is different and is going about low carbing in different ways. A controlled carb eating plan is one where you consume NO MORE than 100-120 grams of carbs per day.

I have given up:
* Processed foods
* Most Dairy (bit of butter, little bit of cheese, lots of yogurt)
*ALL Grains (except for steel cut oats)
*ALL beans and legumes

I get my carbs from the following:
*Nuts and seeds
*Vegetables
*Fruit

There is a whole world of FRESH, earth grown goodness out there to explore. I am eating veggies I would have never touched before hand. I have more energy than I can shake a stick at again, I don't understand how I end up straying because the way I feel when I am eating all natural and whole foods is GREAT.

ivykivy

Has anyone ever tried keep a mood log for your meals? Did it help you pinpoint foods that cause you to feel better or worse?

Tamie_Girl

ivykivy, No I haven't kept a mood log, but sounds like a great idea.

I have given up all flours and I have realized by doing this you pretty much eliminate all processed/boxed foods. And that's a good thing.

Also eliminating flour gets me away from my biggest triggers foods: donuts, pastries, muffins, cookies, cakes, pie crusts, etc.


:drinker:

July24Lioness

ivykivy, No I haven't kept a mood log, but sounds like a great idea.

I have given up all flours and I have realized by doing this you pretty much eliminate all processed/boxed foods. And that's a good thing.

Also eliminating flour gets me away from my biggest triggers foods: donuts, pastries, muffins, cookies, cakes, pie crusts, etc.


:drinker:

Might want to think about eliminating white sugar along with it as sugar makes my diabetes and PCOS worse of course, but I didn't know the effect that flour and sugar (especially combined) had on my bi-polar symptoms.

Eating whole, unprocessed foods has allowed me to get off all medications and now I am trying to keep it that way...........

cherapple

93 total carbs my first day. Not bad! I can do this! I really didn't feel deprived of anything and always found something low-carb (except for whole fruits) to eat when hungry. The only thing I'm giving up is white sugar and grains. Everything else (fruit, dairy) is okay to begin with. I want to see how that goes for a while.

CALIECAT

Hello Tammy and welcome.to our group. We can learned from each other. We have some nice girls here Most of us been together for over a year now. W don't all eat the same way and count things difference.

By th way Lioness My understanding that nuts and seeds do not have any carbs in them. Now the seeds do. . Now the flaxs seeds do but the fiber off set the carbs. couldn't give up my flax muffin. No way. My morning contitions would go astray again. It is a happy camper now. So can't mess it up. My other groups clain they are 0 net carbs.

I am loving this vegetarian diet. we do get grains but the fiber make the net carbs not so bad. And we don't count the lighter veggies. Just 1/2 c corn,1/2 c. of beets.1/2 c peas and the 1/2 c cooked dry beans. So pretty easy to keep up with. I made Bulgar Chili last night and it was real good. for about 20 g net carbs.

Tammy wish you the best and glad you join us.
Here is my plan tomorrow: Breakfast 1/2 c.

scramble egg beaters o carbs, 2 pieces of butter toast 10 g net carbs, 1/2 orange, 7 g net carbs

I just found out that Sara Lee delightful bread has just 5 g net carbs, so now I can have a sandwhich and half of fruit for for less than

20 grams carbs. Now thats living .

Marie

ivykivy

Congrats Cherapple on getting the 93 and feeling good. I see you are a barefoot runner. That is awesome. I am currently on W6 of C25K and hopefully I will be a real runner by the end of the year instead of a slow jogger.

Calie, It's good that you didn't give up the flax muffins. I was doing a little research the other day on insulin resistance and found out the omega 3 actually helps your body use insulin better. I went and got more yesterday.

Have a good night.

jeni26

Good Morning all
Tammy - welcome and it is ok... seriously. I had been dealing with depression, but in my recent 6 months or so with things happening, my depression was caused by Anxiety and I am learning to deal with that. I am back on my meds and all my vitimins and with a quick fix, I'm' getting it under control.

OK lost my 7lbs I gained, back to ticker weight, 25 to go! I am back on my protein shake diet for 10 days to get back in the game. The only problem is high carb, but need the OJ -

Today is a new and better day

AMY - your sister is in my prayers

off to get dressed, was going to the gym, and then gain at 3 with my dd, but I've been screwing around and it is getting late.

CALIECAT

Good morning Jeni. You sound a lot better this morning. Keep it up/ And keep posting I missed you.

Marie