Anyone up for a low-carb-a-thon?

[shawn116]

This week, I have lost 2.6 pounds and I am thrilled because I am now at my lowest point so far in about 20 years.

How exciting!!!      You are doing so great!!   

[Amber]

Way to go owensmath! 

My Thursday
Thursday 5/10

Breakfast
OMM (chocolate topped with coconut oil) (1)
Coffee (1)

Lunch
Spinach salad with turkey and pepper jack cheese with Ranch (2)
Iced tea

Dinner
Taco salad, cheddar cheese with Ranch (2)
Diet Coke

Snack
Cheddar snack cheese (0)
4 deli bite Johnsonville summer sausage (0)
Total 6!

[BigTex]

  WOW     Way to go Amber

[owensmath]

Alright, Amber!!! Way to go!

You made me hungry for taco salad, though. How do you make yours?

[owensmath]

Well, my 16 year old son made my day yesterday! I was trying on the clothes I had been given from my friend (readyforthis on the forum) about a year ago and some of them fit now! She gave them to me about 8 months ago and I threw them on the shelf near the top of my closet. My son saw me as I was looking to see how a few of the outfits looked in the mirror and he said, "Wow, mom, you've really lost a lot of weight lately!" Wooooooooo hooooooooooo............... inches have been coming off again! How  nice!

So, with that in mind, I will continue the low-carb-a-thon because it has kept me from hitting a plateau lately.

Saturday -
no breakfast

Lunch
2 sausage patties (0)
1 egg scrambled with shredded cheese (1)
Almond milk with WF chocolate syrup (0)
Total for lunch: 1
Total for the day - 1 carb

Dinner
Joseph's pita (5)
1/16 cup pizza sauce (0.75)
cheese and pepperoni (0)
(Baked it as a pizza)
Total for dinner: 5.75
Total for the day: 6.75 carbs

[Andrea]

Donna, that is so cool!  I'm not being quite as strict as you are but the low-carb-a-thon has refocused me on counting and I'm down another pound this week.  It broke a 4 week plateau.

Thanks for the inspiration!

[owensmath]

Andrea, that is awesome that you broke through the plateau! Those can be so frustrating.
I guessi need to stop posting my stuff here, but I will still be paying extra careful attention to my carbs and will try to keep them as low as possible. It looks like I am one of those people who must keep them considerably below the 20 mark.

[Andrea]

Why stop?  I think this is a good demonstration for everyone.  We all hit plateaus and I think they are important, giving our bodies time to adjust, but they are frustrating and you are giving folks a tool to use to break through them.

[BigTex]

Donna don't stop lol you are very inspiring

[owensmath]

I have to add a snack to my daily menu.

I used the cream cheese danish recipe that was posted recently, but I modified it.

I didn't have the flavor of Torani SF syrup mentioned, so I used French vanilla instead. I added a touch of sour cream, I doubled the recipe, and then I baked it in individual sized pie pans. I made 3 servings, so the carbs would be 3 (for the original recipe)  plus 2 for the sour cream times 2 (doubled the recipe), then split it into 3 servings, so 10 divided by 3 is 3.3 carbs per serving.

Therefore, my carb count for the day is now 6.75 + 3.3 = 10.05

[Maddysmom]

Donna, you are a rock star!!!  I decided to give the low-carb-a-thon a try, but was "skeered" to post it....in case I crashed & burned.       I am down a pound this morning and broke my plateau TOO!!!    Thank you Donna & ALL of the rest of you super low carbers for the inspiration!!  

[Waterlilly]

I have a question for everyone.

When you eat cheese or prepared meats such as summer sausage or anything you can buy prepackaged (Ekrich roast beef or ham or whatever) do you count the carbs in those? I've noticed there is always either "less than one" or "one or two" for the carb counts. Of course, I NEVER eat anything honey glazed. I've just noticed that even cheese has some carbs.

So if you eat meat and veggies, are you just counting the veggies?

[Andrea]

I have a big smile on my face after seeing Jan's ticker move.  Yeah!!!!

Thanks again, Donna. 

[Maddysmom]

Thanks Andrea!  I am so excited!  Hopefully I can keep this up.  Instead of snacking on roasted peanuts and eating too much whipped cream,  I have started making icy shakes in the blender.  There's some great recipes on the forum!  Strawberry is my favorite!

Waterlilly, I know that shredded cheese has more carbs than block cheese because they add corn starch (or something) to keep it from sticking together.  Back when I used the little packs of splenda, it said "less than one gram".  I counted those as 1.  I am definitely no expert, but trying to do better!  I have found this week that it pays to count EVERYTHING!   

[shawn116]

When you eat cheese or prepared meats such as summer sausage or anything you can buy prepackaged (Ekrich roast beef or ham or whatever) do you count the carbs in those? I've noticed there is always either "less than one" or "one or two" for the carb counts. Of course, I NEVER eat anything honey glazed. I've just noticed that even cheese has some carbs.

So if you eat meat and veggies, are you just counting the veggies?

 Hi Waterlilly you need to count all of your net carbs.      I try to find the ones that have the lowest or list 0 if I can.  They will add up quick if you aren't careful

Jan you are awesome girl!!!  Just look at the ticker!!   

all of you guys are doing so well...what an inspiration