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General Discussion / Re: Day 1 Detox report
« on: April 09, 2012, 06:09:39 AM »
Hi -- I'm very happy to report today was better.  I might get lucky and only have that one serious day of detox (I hope).  I stayed on track today. 

Maddy's mom:  You are right about wendy's and I have tried the bunless hamburger -- yummmmm baconator deluxe. I think I even felt worse KNOwing I could have that chicken burger bunless, but what can I say -- a weak moment.  I was stronger today and had a lettuce wrap hamburger at carls on the way to work.   That's true what you said about your stomach having to make an adjustment to not putting out so much acid.  You know on low carb I do not take antacids and tagamet like I used to.  In fact 90% of my heartburn problems have gone away since 2-27 when i had started atkins.  I only lasted a few weeks on that and then fell off into the popcorn-pancake abyss....thanks for mentioning the bakery book.  I'm going to get that next.  And you mentioned the sausage egg dish -- definitely going to have to try that.  that will be the first recipes I try. 

Oh, and p.s. about heartburn -- I was on prevacid for ONE DECADE!!!!  I finally could not deal with a rather bad side effect that developed the last year I took it.  So I went cold turkey and the rebound heartburn was awful, but then I could control it with tums and tagamet OTC.  but I noticed when I started Low carb that the heartburn is now almost completely away -- don't even know where the tums are now, and i used to have them sitting on my desk at work and in every purse, locker, car, nightstand, etc. .....so one of the greatest gifts so far on low carb is the lack of heartburn. 

Umpa -- thanks for the suggestion about drinking lots of water (I'm doing 64 oz) and also for the heads up about 1 carb per clove.....that is something that could mess me up if I wasn't careful.  I have some peanut butter no sugar here -- i googled how to stir it up -- the oil and the clump of peanut butter, in fact, I'd better do that in the morning and I can have that with some celery....yummm.  An d you're right, 20 carbs a day can add up very fast (especially with a BUN involved like yesterday)   lol

Mouseissue-- I like what you said about "preparation is 90% of any challenge and 10% is execution".....you are right, that is so true...I'll be quoting that.  And I'll be reminding myself of that, because when you walk out of the house to go somewhere, on low carb...."FTS" you had better be prepared -- the ugly beast of temptation will take every advantage when you're not prepared.  I take cheddar sticks, celery, quacamole, ham squares, turkey or roast beef slices, etc. 

Well night all, thanks for your hand holding -- I think if I stay away from sugar that yesterday's may be the worse for me, but i'll be on guard about it for next couple weeks as I detox in case it comes up again.  Now that I'm feeling better, I'm going to head over to that other thread and encourage some newbies too.  It's amazing hos you can be so down, so desparate, and you crawl on a website after buying a book and there is HELP -- and friendliness.  Certainly, the best the internet has to offer. 

Nite....




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General Discussion / Day 1 Detox report
« on: April 08, 2012, 06:20:49 AM »
Hi everyone -- Day 1 today was hard.  I work a night shift -- 3:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.  I got up and ate bacon eggs, made some tuna salad, made sure I had all the FTS stuff I needed to get through 10 hours of work.  About 5:30 though I started feeling sick, shaky, nauseous, even had congestion, and really felt lousy.  I did eat tuna salad, and some cheese, and then around 7:00 had a chicken sandwich from wendy's and I did eat the white bun that came with it (shaking head no no no)....BUT I did notice my blood sugar got better about 30-45 minutes after that started feeling less shaky, less sick.  That lasted me through until late at night and I had some strawberries.  So, all in all, even though I do regret the chicken sandwich choice, I did not binge on anything today like I have been. 

I had been on Atkins a couple weeks back in early March and virtually no withdrawal from sugar symptoms, just immediately felt good.  My plan for tomorrow is ham and eggs for breakfast, shrimp and vegetables for lunch.  I have a salad with me and some FTS recommended LC dressing, and will have some protein snacks with me.  Oh yes, and I have more strawberries still stashed in the work refrigerator. 

On Monday and Tuesday, there is a lebanese restaurant I go to on way to work.  They have chicken breast that is grilled, and this thing called fattoush sald.....has lettuce, veggies, and a lemon and ollive oil dressing....oh and the chicken and the salad have healthy doses of garlic.....yummmmm and the chicken comes with garlic aioli......which is a mayo garlic thing.....so yum....

so that will get me through two more days without any forays to Wendys.....and then i'm off Wed. Thurs. Fri. so that should just about get me through the first week. 

Thank you for your kinds responses.  I have to tell you it was interesting and fun actually to hear from the people who i read about last night when I started the book last night.  And I think it was mouse who suggested I am addicted to sugar... oh boy howdy is that true.  Seriously addicted.  And it's not just about looks, it's about health, and being so sick of feeling sick. 

For years docs have said they suspect I could be diabetic and then they have me take a fasting blood sugar which comes out fine.  But I suspect if I had a glucose tolerance test the results might be different.  I was googling DIabetes 2 symptoms tonight, and I have all of them except for "unexplained weight loss."  I have the fatigue, headaches, thirst, sick feelings, and have complained about those for years. 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh but I'm rambling.  I do believe -- and I do so appreciate your encouragement.  I do expect these next couple weeks while I detox may be much harder than when I did this in early March, and by only making this a FTS will this be the last time i have to detox from sugar.  Looking at the book, I do see getting into the recipes will help me with success.  Between now and next Saturday (first day back at work -- in essense "my MONDAY") I need to have tried out some of the recipes to take good, nourishing, FTS safe INTERESTING meals to work with me.  That will help me stay on track as a FTS Lifestyle versus a "diet" that I go on and go off.  because seriously, today I was sick enough at one point I wanted to go home.  I work in public safety where attention to detail is essential for my safety and others, and going home was not an option.  I do not want to go through detox again. 

Oh, thank you kind souls for listening.  Thought of you all during the work shift.  I really do want this to be my lifestyle change, and I do want to be healthy and sugar-free. 

Nite Nite -- Ohhhhh Happy Easter.!

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General Discussion / Re: Today Show recommends surgery for fat teens!
« on: April 07, 2012, 06:42:36 AM »
This is a tragedy.  My 21 year old son has a friend from college spending the night -- the kid is from Germany, and I was asking him about his impressions of America.  He said he's amazed by our access to fast food and junk food.  And I thought of that when I read the beginning of this thread.  Now kids eat fast food, junk food, sugary foods, and play video games instead of playing out doors....and now doctors are pushing surgery on them as a "magic cure-all" for their obesity.  What a travesty....

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CJ -- and Margie (and others who responded. 

Thank you for sharing CJ and Margie -- I agree that gastric bypass is not the wonder cure it has been touted to be.  And I have endured countless family members (well that was ONE -- not countless), but friends, and especially co-workers who have brought me their paperwork and talked to me about having the surgery done -- and they have all gained back their weight.....except for two co-workers who are no longer with us.....

So I have this endocrinologist who PUSHES this surgery on me -- I have been going to him for extreme fatigue and he keeps insisting on two things:  #1 he says I'm depressed and need three kinds of meds to improve (wrong) and #2 he insists I should have the gastric bypass.  I finally told him the last visit I would have the surgery in January 2012 if I haven't lost the weight (I need to lost 148).....

But I will not have the gastric bypass.  I just won't....but I really have to take this weight off.  Your stories -- especially what you shared CJ about it being the low carb eating that took off the weight -- and by the way, I do know about "sugar dumpgin"...that happens to me whenever I drink say a large soda, or large glass of orange juice, etc.  Sugar in food form rarely ever causes that, but my personal physician (now retired) told me a long time ago if I already had a problem with "sugar dumping" that for sure I would have an ever worse problem with that after gastric bypass and she said for me to never consider it.  She also told me she had a patient who had had the gastric bypass and her problems with "sugar dumping" were so bad that she had to sell her car and purchase herself a little motorhome to do all her traveling in because without the motorhome and its ahemmmm ahhh "facilities" the poor woman could not even be able to leave her house!!!

I won't have the surgery -- NO WAY....but that doc keeps pushing it.  And the co-workers, friends, and the brother-in-law who pushed it on me so much during about 8-5 years ago they were all having the surgery????  They don't have anything to say anymore because they have all gained it back...(which I always do feel sad but not judgmental about that -- I'm sorry they are still having to struggle). 

I know they mean well, and hey, probably the endocrinologist means well also, but there has to be a better way, and when I put down this laptop tonight and start reading this book (bought Fat to Skinny book at bookstore tonight)....I just hope and pray this is a "weigh out" for me. 

Best wishes, and thank you so much for posting your story.

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General Discussion / Hi -- just bought the book
« on: April 07, 2012, 05:41:03 AM »
Hi everyone -- I went to the bookstore in my pancake and popcorn induced haze (almost a drunk) and looked at books on Wednesday night.  I looked through the Fat to Skinny book but didn't buy it.  Well tonight after still more popcorn and 2:00 a.m. forays into the kitchen to prepare pancake binges, decided I needed to get back to the bookstore to buy the book and figure out what I'm doing wrong -- binging on sugar.  While at the bookstore tonight I also saw William Duffy's Sugar Blues book -- and you know I read that book way back when it first came out and it has always been tugging in the sugar-hazed corners of my mind that sugar is my real problem. 

So today is the day I start eating however this book recommends......because what i'm doing on my own for sure isn't working.....

Have a great day. 

Elizabeth

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