February 23, 2011

Woke up at 5:00 AM

6:30 AM – Iced FV Coffee with cream & Truvia

10:00 AM – Maria’s Chocolate Chip Cookie

12:45 PM– Dunkin’ Donuts FV Iced Coffee, 3 eggs scrambled, cooked in butter, 1/2 square Ghirardelli 86% Dark 

4:00 PM– 35 minute dog walk

6:30 PM – 1/2 pound Angus steak burger; no sugar added bread & butter pickles, no sugar added ketchup, 3 squares Chocoperfection bar

20 g Net Carbs/1380 Calories/105 g fat/70g protein

Today was much more tolerable as I made the decision to have a cookie (which is really more like a small muffin) for a mid-AM breakfast.  I felt like I was more sane and better able to focus at work.  I wasn’t dying at lunch time. 

What a difference 10 degrees makes!  I had a nice dog walk at 32 degrees versus 23 yesterday.  At the end of it, I still couldn’t feel my fingers and my eyeballs were frozen, but by then I was home.  I noticed last night that my shins were sore – which tells me that it’s time to end this hibernation and get out and walk more!  It’s sad when a dog walk makes you sore. 

After the dog walk I went to the beauty shop for a long-overdue haircut.  I was starving by the time I left there.  Dinner’s now over and I’m full.  I have been sneaking on the scale every day, though I only “officially” weigh in on Saturday…and nothing is happening.  I’m concerned, but pressing onward!

Follow the Food

I have tweaked my eating plan as an experiment to see if I can get the needle to move down on the scale.  I’m growing impatient!!  You can find my food & exercise logs here, which is also linked on the right side bar below.  Please follow with an RSS feed and feel free to comment here or on the log.

February 22, 2011

Woke up at 5:00 AM

6:30 AM & 8:00 AM– Iced FV Coffee with cream & Truvia

10:30 AM – Maria’s Chocolate Chip Cookie (s-t-a-r-v-i-n-g!)

12:45 PM– 3 eggs scrambled, cooked in butter, 1/2 square Ghirardelli 85% Dark 

4:00 PM– 20 minute dog walk

5:45 PM – Chicken Lasagna (Boar’s Head chicken sliced thick, ground beef, spaghetti sauce, mozzarella, ricotta); 1 oz Chocoperfection Bar

23 g Net Carbs/1350 Calories/97 g fat/89 g protein

I’m not sure this is working.  When getting up this early, a typical work day for me, I’m hungry by 6:30.  I can stand it, but by mid-morning I’m dying.  You can only drink so much coffee and water to quell the hunger.

I’ll give it another day or two or three, but this intermittent fasting gig might have to be for weekends only. 

February 21, 2011

Woke up at 7:45 AM
9:00 AM– Iced FV Coffee with cream & Truvia,
12:00 PM – 3 eggs cooked in butter, 10 g Chocoperfection (1/5 bar)
3:16 PM– Dog walk, 35 minutes in the FREEZING cold! 
4:00 PM– 1 Maria’s Chocolate Chip Cookie, diet root beer with cream (starving at this point)
5:45 PM – Left-over cauliflower mash, 1/3# Angus burger cooked in coconut oil, 5 sweet pickle chips (no sugar added), Planning on the remainder of the Chocoperfection bar after dishes are done and lunch packed for tomorrow.

12g Net Carbs/1320Calories/107g fat/57g protein

I’m on a  new “plan” courtesy of my friend, Jimmy Moore, who took a look at my typical diet and made some suggestions for improvement.  Hopefully one of the improvements will be WEIGHT LOSS!!!
I didn’t have much trouble skipping breakfast this morning with the iced coffee (I have not been a coffee drinker long and find the effects of the caffeine work on controlling appetite).  The late afternoon I was watching the clock waiting for dinner time.  So I caved to the cookie and was content. 
My concern is that tomorrow, when I’m up at 5:00 AM and at work by 7:00 AM and have to put in 5 hours of work before eating that it’ll be a different story.  All I can do is plan to do the best I can and if I’m starving and cannot think straight, I’ll have to eat.  We’ll see how it goes.  But for today, the 18 hour fast was moderately successful.  I have to figure out how to define success – will I feel guilty if I have 3 meals instead of two if my carb count is good?  It’s all a big experiment at this point, which I’ll have to analyze as we go!

February 20, 2011

10:30 AM

Iced Coffee - (coffee, heavy cream, Davinci vanilla syrup)
2 scrambled eggs w/cheddar
4 links breakfast sausage
1 square Chocolove 70%
2  Maria's Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 PM

1 cheese stick
1 slice of Boar's Head ham
diet Coke

5:30 PM

(Things I ate while I fixed dinner:  4 tortilla chips, handful of popcorn, 1 square Chocperfection bar)
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2 pcs steak tips from The Meat House
Cauliflower Mash
Green Beans with butter
1 square Chocolove
1 square Chocoperfection Bar

33 g Net Carbs/1750Calories/126 g fat/105g protein

Have you heard about Low-Carb Conversations??

If you’ve been around the blogosphere lately, or are one of my Facebook friends, you may have noticed some buzz about a new podcast show with this guy named Jimmy Moore.  Well, the rumors are true and I’m happy to announce that I am co-hosting the new “Low-Carb Conversations with Jimmy Moore & Friends” podcast!

Jimmy Moore is a long-time podcaster and a true champion of low-carb living who brings us the twice-weekly “Livin’ La Vida Low Carb” podcast and has interviewed everybody who’s anybody in the low-carb community and beyond.  Along with the show, Jimmy is the consummate blogger who keeps us updated all the time on all things “low-carb.”  One of his recent blog posts was about The Top 10 Podcasts Every Low-Carber Should be Listening To.  As a self-proclaimed podcast addict, I was listening to all 10!  But for a long while I had been thinking that the low-carb community needed a new podcast that was a little friendlier – one that offered advice and encouragement to people just starting out on their journey.  I wrote Jimmy, who knows everybody, and asked him if he knew of anyone who might be interested in partnering with me on such a venture.

Well, to my surprise, Jimmy said he’d been thinking the same thing recently and, long-story-short, we teamed up to start this new podcast!   The rest, as they say, is history!  We have started recording and have a website, a Twitter account, and a Facebook page to get questions from our soon-to-be listeners.  We’ve got lots of “friends” lined up to come on the show and talk about some current events in the health & diet world and to share their stories and have fun with us!  It’s really, really awesome!  (You’ll have to take my word for it for now, as it will be a few weeks until our shows are released).

I hope you’ll keep an eye on our pages and join us when we “go live” and join in the fun and the conversation!  We’re always looking for more friends to share in the fun so email us and let us know that you want to take a turn!!

Low-Carb Super Bowl Eats

As the countdown to the big games occurs, I’m taking a moment to psych myself up for the food awesomeness I’m going to be having later.  I will have to forego some “good” food that my family will be eating, as I’m on this Low-Carb journey alone in this household, but I’ve stacked the deck in my favor.  There has to be SOME benefit to doing the grocery shopping, after all!

My family will have pizza, popcorn, nachos, and ice cream.  In addition, they’ll be eating my choices of Meat House steak tips, Boar’s Head little franks, yellow and red peppers with Laughing Cow cheese washed down with Waist Watcher’s Root Beer with heavy cream.  And if that doesn’t fill me up (actually, I’m full just thinking about it!!), I may give myself the green light for a small scoop of Breyer’s Low Carb ice cream.  Or, I almost forgot that I made Dana Carpender’s Cocoa Peanut Porkies yesterday – YUM!

Seriously, with all that “approved” low-carb eating, why bother with the chips & pizza??