Day 5 Menu

DAY 5
222.6 this morning

7:30Am 2e, 2b, 2o chedder, 1/2c almond milk, 2Tb cream

10:30Am 3 HI choco chip cookies

.2pm ham salad, pinch of cookie

6pm 2e, 2b, 2ozcream cheese

8:30 1/8c tomato sauce, 1/2c mozzarella, carbquick breaded cube steak, 1/4c zuchinni quarters, 1/2 cookie

Drank lots of water. Walked 1.5 miles morning and afternoon.


2,312cal 199.5fat 29.8carb 111.1pro
76%fat 19%pro 5%carb

Day 5 Thoughts, Changes

Yesterday was crazy but I stuck to plan. No carb cravings.

Today, Day 5, I weigh 222.6 without E nursing yet.... but instead of estimating milk weight I decided to just record the scale reading. That is about 1/2lb lost since yesterday morning.

My definition of EggFest now means:

1. 2 eggs, 2Tb butter, 2-3 oz cheese within 30 minutes of waking.

2. no more than 12g carbs per meal

3. eggs for as many meals as I care to have

4. try to eat every 3 hours and never more than 5 hours apart.

5. no food within 3 hours of bedtime

Onward!

Day 4

Day 4 (Thursday) Menu

8:30 Am 2e, 2oz queso, 2 T butter

12:00 Carbquick Garden Impossible Pie with ham, 6g carb per serving, I ate 2

Cannot recall the rest and did not write it down :^( I'll try to do better today!
I don't think I ate enough today.

Day 4 Thoughts

UPDATE I weighed 223 this morning! I have lost 3.8 lbs since Monday. So, what I am doing is working. Had eggs this morning and see no reason why not for lunch, I am getting spoiled to how quick and easy they are!

E has not slept well at all since Monday night. I am more than a bit afraid that the eggs are affecting her...

It is hard to resist temptation especially when the temptation is low carb and would normally be ok. Like the Danishes I made for J last night and ate two of, well three... Not sure what the scale will say as I won't weigh until I get up with E later this morning. I am also sleep deprived this week which also does not help.

So my EggFest isn't so much and egg fest as Jimmy's. Bless his heart that does take some serious gumption,commitment, and passion!

I do think 6 small meals a day may work best for me while breastfeeding and keeping odd hours otherwise I am going into starvation mode. That has been an important lesson here. Also that I have broken the carb addiction. This morning I feel great, no sign of the induction flu and have tons of energy despite being exhausted. My mood is very stable, my head clear, we will see if that lasts today.

This week while not a complete success- I have broken many rules- has been very successful and well worth it. I have not gone hungry, I have satisfied cravings with low carb foods and without going over 30 carbs a day. I have also learned that I snack alot if I am hungry, even while fixing my meal, so I need to reinstitute the drink an entire glass of water and have a little almond or coconut milk if I need to while I cook. As well as to wait a mere 15 minutes before diving into dessert or more food. That is still plenty of time to work with the pre meal bolus insulin if needed. I also need to be dilligent about eating my foods in FitDay and keeping a food journal again. These were key to my weight loss in 08 but I thought I could be lazy.

Hmmm.. lazy...that is another subject but at least FlyLady is halping me out of that, I even have a shiny sink as of last night! That gives me something to obsess over, control, and be perfectionist with while I chill about everything else and learn to relax and takle things in baby steps. This not only applies to my eating, diabetes, weight loss, health gaining, housework, it also applies to my self.

So does EggFest continue today? I don't know. Maybe. I am seriously craving some eggs!!

Day 3

DAY 3

224.6, not huge loss but .2 better than up or same!

4:30 sausage ball, 1/2c almond milk w 2tb cream

8:45 2e,2b,2oz queso fresco, 1/4c almond milk, eggs were yummy- no nausea

took nap with E I was so tired!

12:00 2e,2b,2oz queso, 1/4c cream, 1/2c almond milk, 1T almond butter, 2 squares 72% Lindt, 3 sausage balls.....

20 minute walk (1.25 miles) carrying E (20lbs)

5:00 2e,2b,2oz queso, 1 T fresh made yogurt

intense housework 1 hour

8:30 2 small lc danishes...... had to make them for J......

2,295cal 200.4fat 29.6carb 97.5pro

Drinking more water today. Feel like I have induction flu. Close to miserable. Scattered thoughts, jittery, achey, tired, irritable.... bG still averaging 120-150!!! Lantus 7u am and pm....

Day 3 Thoughts

Only .2 lb lost since yesterday morning but 2lb total since Monday morning.

I have learned that I delude myself with little lies. 'I have been waiting for Carbquick for so long, they say it doesn't stall weightloss or raise bg, so a little will be ok, besides I am so nauseas'. Which leads to an equivalant of four carbquick biscuits between the cinnamon 3 minute one, the two at dinner, and the few sausage balls. Honestly, I think I would have been ok with myself if I had just 1 but eating the equivalant of 4 is addiction and symptom of that greater problem within.

Onward! EggFest struggles on...

Day 2

DAY 2

224.8!

4:30Am 1tsp almond butter and 1/2c almond milk as I was exceedingly nauseas and half asleep.... mini failure! Onward! Remember to FLY (finally loving yourself) I think I will wait until we wake up again to eat an egg since I had the almond butter? I don't know I am seriously craving an egg with every fiber of my being..... I thought 1T of butter per egg would be greasy, it is not, it is unbelievably yummy and satiating!!! ok ok on to the egg if E stays asleep, ummm nope awake now

9:30 2e, 2b, 2oz queso fresco

12:00 1/4c nuts, kitchen disaster, Ellie food first, was so weak had to have something

12:40 2e, 2b, 3oz queso fresco

3:00 1t almond butter 1 square Lindt 70% chocolate, 2 T cream in 1/2c almond breeze milk, hungry but could not stand the htought of an egg, so very nauseaus....

This is where the day dissolves. My brain was so foggy and it hurt to breath I was so sick and tired. I couldn't take care of E properly!

5:00pm Carbquick had come in and I made a cinnamon biscuit as I prepped E's dinner. I then had a chicken breast patty and 1 Tb mayo, and 1oz queso fresco

8pm J needed dinner tonight so I made Carbquick biscuits and ham as well as sausage balls for his dinner and meals the next day. I ate two biscuits and a bit of ham with a smidge of butter and three sausage balls.

2,142cal 180.4fat 37.7carbs 91.5pro 76%fat, 7%carbs, 8%pro

Will see what the scale brings. We also cleaned house like mad and walked a mile. What to do about the weakness, brain fog, and nausea while home alone with an active 1 year old and also breastfeeding on cue???? Was the almond butter and chocolate responsible for the nausea and tiredness? Not wishing to eat another egg..... Will see what the morning brings.

Day 1 Journal

Start weight 226.6

5:30am 2 eggs, 2 TB butter, 1oz chedder

9:30am 2 eggs, 2TB butter, 2oz cream cheese, was not hungry but ate anyway next time will fix one egg....

12:45 2eggs, 2T butter, 2oz cream cheese, sprinkle of cinammon and 2 caps DaVinci Pancake. Eggs still taste great just had a yuck moment with a potential fertile spot in my free range egg.....hence the cinammon and DaVinci's but I wish I hadn't. Should have just chucked the offending egg and moved on....Also 4 swallows of beer before deciding it was not good for the diet!

4:00 1/8c peanuts, I was starving and J had the kitchen upside down installing a new dw

7:45 so exhausted ate dinner with family, 1/4c green beans, 1 chicken breast patty, 1T mayo, 1 lc wrap, 1/2c spring greens, 2T almond butter, 2 squares 72% chocolate, 1/2c almond milk

cal 2,146, fat198.0 carb27.0 pro 71.9

82% fat, 14% pro, 4% carbs

Also wondering how this is effecting Ellie who has an egg sensitivity she still nurses frequently. She had diarrhea all afternoon....
I however had a very stable mood day! Did feel very tired and crampy. I also felt this way the last times I have cut carbs on the first couple of days. My carb addiction is very intense esp due to abusing my bodies response to it as I am a diabetic just as one would alcohol or drugs.....

I am calling today a success anyways, also because the scale said I had lost 1.4lbs. Onward!

My EggFest begins!

"You are not behind- you are just getting started!" -FlyLady

Jimmy Moore has been doing an EggFest for a month now. He just ended this past Saturday. I read about it when he started and thought about starting. But I was not there yet. I was to addicted to carbs again and had no real desire to change. The past few weeks of severe mood swings, some depression, weight gain, and lack of much joy in life has made me jump off the cliff and into LC again.

I am going to follow the plan lined out on Day 1 of Jimmy's menu blog one meal at a time and see how long it goes. One moment at a time might work best for me as I am always setting lofty goals that I think are attainable but are not. FlyLady has taught me that about myself. It's like her quote that is a favorite of mine: "The voices that you hear in your head keep telling you that you are behind and you have to get it all done now! We are going to quiet those negative voices that are beating you up constantly and replace with a loving gentle voice that tells you that you are not behind and you can do this one BabyStep at a time!"

I think that my weight loss stalled and I became so discouraged because I was not eating small meals with high fat, adequate protein and low carbs every three hours. Breastfeeding is very demanding and it changed my metabolism. Looking back I lost alot of pounds eating every few hours and drinking lots of water to get my supply established and then I started following the rules that made me lose so much weight last time and I stalled. I think this is further evidenced by the fact I have been on a carb fest and only put on 2lbs over the past 6 weeks! I am still breastfeeding on cue so I believe my metabolism has not reverted to 'normal'. I also keep odd hours irregularly due to J's schedule and necessity so I will continue to eat within 30 minutes of waking up if I am going to be up more than an hour even if I know I am going back to sleep for a few hours.

Here are my dozen guidelines, most borrowed from Jimmy as seen in the link above:

1. Must eat eggs as the primary source of fat and protein.
2. 1 tablespoon of butter or coconut oil used per egg consumed.
3. I must eat an egg no later than 30 minutes after waking.
4. The egg meals ideally should be eaten every 3 hours, but not more than every 5 hours.
5. I will follow this schedule even if I'm not hungry, however I'll only have 1 egg when that happens.
6. Cheese will be permitted up to one ounce per egg.
7. A minimum of a half-dozen eggs must be consumed daily.
8. The eggs will be local pastured eggs loaded with healthy omega-3 fats and vitamin D.
9. Egg consumption will cease three hours before bedtime
10. Diet soda will be allowed up to 3 cans daily with a goal of 1 or less. Or 4 TB or less of DaVinci a day.
11. Post my menu at the end of each day.
12. Take each moment as it comes! Love myself!

Let the EggFest begin!

218 today!

I know, I know. One shouldn't step on the scale every day. I couldn't resist the temptation.

I think the Vitamin D has made a big differance. Can't wait to see what my levels are. And probably also hearing that all is well with the Dr, I had some concerns...

Lovely day, headed outside soon!!!