Trying again

I got married last year, and I knew that low carb would be a challenge. It was harder than I expected even though I knew that my sister had struggles and can honestly say I have appreciated those issues.

Still, in trying to please my husband and my daughter, and yet myself also is a tough one. My daughter and I have learned to work around our respective likes and dislikes. Adding a third person made that a challenge.

Part of the problem is the fact that with some of the stronger dislikes between the three of us, food boredom can be a problem

Not specifically for me mind you. I lived for a year successfully on a meat only diet and did just fine. But I married a real meat and potatoes guy, who likes corn, green beens and peas. Period. By the same token, he gets bored, not matter how patient he is with things, more often than I think he even notices.

He is not demanding, but because I love him I want him to be happy, even with simple things like meals.

But I am trying again. It is a challenge to come up with what I can eat and yet still feed the two people I Love the most.

Breakfast is easy; we each take care of our own. Lunch is easy; we again take care of our own. It is that dinner snafu and snack at night that Randy likes that somehow or other mentally shakes me up.

However I am trying to work through it. My goal is actually to cut down the protein intake to about 3 ounces a meal, but up the fat in a major way.

I know I have been suffering low carb blues the last few days- and I don't mean mood. That has been great. I mean bouts of diarrhea, just feeling nauseated but not sick (if that makes sense) and not eating a lot of the food the good company I work for offers on a regular basis.

But the problems I have been having with my left knee, and just general pain at night have gone away. Yes, just in three days. Now I know some might think I just mentally "thought" them a way, but I honestly thought I had pulled my knee and that the sciatic nerve was driving me crazy because of that. But it is just going away. I sleep without pain and am starting to be able to get up out of chairs without discomfort.

I was honestly moving like an old woman
You think I would learn, but here I am .. trying it again.
I just need to believe the commitment and forgot the other periphery stuff around me.

Two things that help. Making coconut bark and this interesting egg bread I found on a site of a polish Dr. Atkins. He isn't exactly a like but has a lot of good suggestions for rations of carts-protiens-fats, and a couple of cool recipes like that.

The egg bread

10 egg yolks
10 egg whites

Beat the egg whites till stiff peaks form
Beat the egg yolks, and add salt to them for seasoning.
fold those together
Fold in 1/2 of carb quick or even white flour and two teaspoons baking powder and 1 stick of melted butter. I also added some grated Parmesan cheese. I baked in a pan coated with melted butter and the Parmesan cheese. It makes a large loaf and lots of servings! oh.. bake it at 325 for a hour and then turn off and let cool in the oven.

I eat this in the morning with 4 egg yolks and white beaten together and scrambled, and some yogurt (plain full fat) and liberal butter.
It definitely keeps me going till lunch that is usually a little meat, and avocado and one dark chocolate coconut bark treat I have made. (basically 90% dark chocolate, 1/4 cup coconut oil and 4 tablespoons butter melted together. I stick a little in the bottom of cupcake cups and freeze them. )

I hope Tanya comes back with her ideas.. she is smarter than I am :)

Update

Today my weight was at 199! I'm below that horrible 200 mark for the first time in about 3 1/2 years. I'm sure the last time I saw that was shortly after I had Abbie!

204 this morning!!!!!!!!! 4 more pounds to my goal, deadline is the middle of June!

Woosh Fairy!!!!!!!!!!

I had a visit from the Woosh Fairy last night. After seeing my weight bounce around from 208 to 212 the past three weeks, I saw a weight of 205 this morning!!!!!! Yahoo, my persistence paid off, cutting down on the cheese, (not that I was eating much to begin with), and cutting down on the amount of sunflower seeds I was eating seemed to do the trick. I even ate more carb yesterday than I have for about a week, eating two very small avacado's, one for breakfast and one for lunch. Now I only hope I will make my goal to 200 by the middle of June and the family reunion!

What a difference

I ran out of my Coconut oil Supreme and had to open one of my jars of Tropical traditions gold label oil and what a difference. YUCK! I can barely stand drinking the stuff. I don't remember it tasting this bad before. I don't know if it is an off batch (It could explain why I got it for 50% the normal price), or if before I had taken a break between using the oils. I could smell the difference when I opened the jar. I don't think most people would notice, Michael can't tell the difference, so maybe my woman's nose is more adapt at it.


All I know if it is this different, I will not buy the gold label oil again, just stick to Coconut-oil online for my good stuff.

Today the scale said 210! 12 pounds down. Of course I didn't feel well yesterday, but I'll take it. Downward motion is downward motion and incentive to keep on going.

Update and new idea for chicken.

I'm still sitting at about 211 pounds.
Cravings are still very, very high, but I haven't given in yet. I should probably invest in some macadamia nut butter. :)

Saturday dinner, I came up with a creation for chicken that needs a bit of tweaking, but the family seemed to enjoy it.

I cut up 3+lbs of chicken breast in small pieces, and cooked them in my cast iron pan in a bit of olive oil and miniced garlic. after they were browned, but needed a bit more cooking time I added about 1/2 cup of water and simmered until they were cooked. Then I removed the chicken from the juices, and slowly added 1 cube frozen butter, bits at a time to make a sauce, when that was all encorporated I added about 2 ot 3 oz of cream cheese (not sure just used what was left from a package), and after that was melted in I added about 1/2 cup of cheddar cheese, I didn't measure that but my guess it was about 4 oz of cheddar cheese I shredded. After that was all melted I added some pepper, and poured it over the chicken. There was plenty of sauce for that amount of chicken, no flour or cornstarch needed to thicken. We ate it with broccoli and the family had some pasta to go with it.

I think the sauce would be good with a chopped shallot, and perhaps some dried mustard, or a bit of hot pepper sauce.