EFLF in May - Page 3

[BetsyPage]

I've tried eating a blob of it, I just can't. I did take some in some Earl Gray with a touch of honey... it's like my brain needs to assign it a "flavor" of sweetness or something, just a little bit of honey is enough to make it palatable for me.

I only drank half my tea, and by mid-afternoon was hungry again. I had a 2-egg scramble with bell pepper, onion & cheese, leftover chicken sausage and a pear... and a cup of milk. Doesn't that seem like enough? Why am I not staying full? I'm trying to go 5 hours between meals, is that reasonable? Maybe I should just do the mini-meal thing? Sally and others have written that 3 meals/no snacks is better, but it is a struggle right now for me.

Anyway, it looks like I'm down another lb... I keep telling myself that there is no perfect way of doing this, even though folks have written books. I still have to figure it out for myself.

[captivatedlife]

Subbing.....

I'm trying to follow EFLF religiously. .... I'm really bad at it right now. I just took the last week off (vacation) and am getting back to doing it. I like a lot of the recipes and meal plan. I also search for comproable recipes both in EFLF, NT and other websites.

I'm driving myself crazy, but I really feel better when I eat this way!

[BetsyPage]

That's great, Kim!

I've been reading different books, like The Maker's Diet and the No-Grain Diet by Mercola, in search of recipes/meal plans more than anything. I like EFLF the best, though. The others are too restrictive for me- we do eat pork, for example. And while I'm now low-grain/no-grain depending on the day I don't think I need to be this way indefinitely though I'll always need to watch it and avoid refined stuff as a general rule.

Today I am not hungry like I have been, not sure what's going on. And I've been more active and have eaten less (had a bit of a food fiasco this morning, so ended up with Wasa Sourdhough crackers with cream cheese for lunch and an apple, then just drank a glass of milk.) It is very strange, sometimes I don't feel like my hunger corresponds to the food I'm actually eating. *scratching head*

[roostery]

I can't eat CO straight either. And I've done the vomiting to prove it.

I think that as long as I stay away from eating CO too close to anything cold I can usually digest it just fine. Otherwise it seems to turn back into a solid blob in my belly and after an hour or two it comes right back up.

I also think that I have to make sure I don't approach the 50% fat limits for my meals. That also seems to trigger queasiness. I suppose I could try some bitters but since I'm doing ACV, CO and CLO I feel like I've reached my limit on supplements.

[BetsyPage]

Just wanted to pop in. I'm visiting my IL's right now. They basically live off "bag meals" (frozen family-style meals) and processed stuff and carbs. When I'm here I typically eat MUCH worse than usual- I drink Sierra Mist, eat their junk food, etc. But my saving grace is that they will pretty much buy whatever take-out we want, so I've been suggesting/chosing places where I can buy salads and have been doing that. (Like Chopped Chicken Salad from Pei Wei. Got 2 meals out of that.)

I haven't been on the scale in a few days, but I've still been doing my eggs fried in butter and coconut oil in the morning. Then salads and such for the rest of the day. Maybe not optimal but I don't think too terrible. I haven't been more hungry than usual, so that's good.

How is everyone else doing?

[Teenytoona]

ooohhhuhhhh... That's the sound of me all this weekend at my cousin's bachelorette party. All the food was noodle this and noodle that and then chips and cake and drinky-drink to top it off... I discovered a few things 1. that eating that many carb/starches/processed food really makes me feel like yucktastic all bloated and my stomach felt wonky and I was so not feeling like partying and 2. eating in a TF EFLF, low-carb way really makes a difference for me in weight loss. I gained it all back this past weekend.

I'm calling it a lesson in "see I told you so, self!" regrouping and continuing on from here.

I also think I need to start having more informational sessions with the Mr on how I'm eating. He kind of gets it, but doesn't exactly.

[roostery]

I'm down to 140 and I'm trying out fitday.com --I'm enjoying seeing the extra nutritional breakdown of my meals. Actually, according to fitday I'm eating 50-60% fat. Maybe I'm tolerating it better, or maybe they track it differently. Who knows. I haven't thrown up so I'm happy.

[roostery]

You know I was just remembering the last time I lost a big chunk of weight and got a ton of exercise. I woke up every night with enormous Charley horses. This time, none of that. Even with a lot of exercise my body seems to be taking it in stride and healing quickly, and no weird nutritional deficit cramping.

Possibly because I'm no longer on the Haagen Daz diet. (one pint a day, to be taken at bedtime)

[Millie Ivy]

lol, I feel a lot better than the last time I "dieted".

I am actually not really losing weight yet, but inches! Which is the point!

[BetsyPage]

Yeah, I'm feeling pretty good!

I was at MOPS this morning and they always have breakfast, and everything was bad... like everything... so I'm sort of wondering how I will be feeling until that gets out of my system. I was annoyed because usually I can get an egg casserole and fruit there, but everything seemed extra sugary or bready today. There were deviled eggs but they were a bit questionable too, maybe too much relish, lol.

[Etoile]

Well how did I not know this thread existed either? I am in the TF board a lot but never checked out the weight loss board.

Right now I am following EFLF down to the letter and I have lost 8 pounds in a week. (I have a LOT to lose though!) Prior to that I had been low-carb and TF-leaning--have lost a total of 35 pounds since December 1 but had been stalled for the month prior to this week.

I seem to be week-by-week adding more new TF things. This week is the first time I tried soaked oatmeal. It's good! I thought it would be gross, and I am not really very squeamish about stuff. I've been having at least 1 serving of LF veggies a day either my homemade sauerkraut or cucumber pickles. I have been CRAVING kimchi and I hope to make some soon, because the kind I can get at the asian market has MSG and the HFS store is OMG $10.00 for a little jar.

Lucky for me I have access to farm eggs and raw milk, yum.

Ordered the fermented Green Pasture CLO so that should be coming soon.

I've been tracking everything on fitday.com. I think just the advance planning and portion measuring is a lot of the weight loss I'm getting.

My goals are to a. either lose 200 pounds by December of 2010 or b. get pregnant sometime before then, and c. get enough nutrients in my diet to avoid taking supplements and d. boost my immune system and stop getting colds/bronchitis every 3 months.

[roostery]

Welcome Etoile!

So DH and I went to a friend's for dinner. It was good. Nice ribs, not too many refined carbs around, but then came dessert. Lemon tart. I hate lemon desserts. I really didn't want it, but I know that DH won't eat desserts that aren't chocolate so his was going to be sitting on the table in front of him untouched. So I ate mine to be polite. A horrible waste of calories, both because there is someone out there who would have loved it, and because I really wished that it had been anything else. Next time I think I'm going to have a talk with him about how he needs to take the occasional dessert bullet for me.

Oh well, it's done. Tomorrow is a whole new caloric day and I really didn't do too badly today (providing I get in 10 miles on the exercise bike tonight).

[Millie Ivy]

welcome Etoile!!!

Roostery, my day yesterday was hit or miss, too. I actually ate great for breakfast, lunch and dinner, yay. Dinner at my parents was pasta with garlic oil, sausages, andspinach salad. I took about a cup or spinach, half a sausage, and ateeny amount of the pasta (I honestly wanted the garlic oil more than anything else!) and chopped it all up as a salad. mmm.

Where I got into trouble was the fact that at girl scouts, for the end of the year ceremony, we had a potluck and two different mamas were sweet enough to make gluten free treats. I won't say no to someone going out of their way to make gf stuff for us and the other gf family! So I had a little brownie/blondie/banana bread dessert.

Oh, well.

I occasionally have dark chocolate for dessert at moms and we skipped that.

Workout was great, I finished week one of c25k, and felt great.

Dd's 8th birthday party is today and the only sugary thing we got was some Jelly Belly's. Instead of cake she wants tropical fruit salad!!! (It's a luau, and this girl would prefer fresh garden tomatoes or fruit to just about anything)

So fresh fruit, guacamole with just a teensy bit of chips, salad, swimming and possibly a little drink with the mama's by the pool. Niiiice day.

[roostery]

Fruit instead of cake! That is pretty cool!

I am in another chocolate eating cycle. At least I'm eating ok chocolate (88%) but really, it would be better if I found another go-to snack. I should probably stick the coconut flakes back next to the computer again.

So I'm doing fitday.com and I do really well with all nutrients except iron and potassium. I haven't ever gotten 100% of those, and I'm usually beneath 50% on iron! I am really surprised by that. I guess I need to up the marrow, beef and dried beans. The potassium seems weird though. I would have thought that I was getting plenty of that. Oh well, I needed something new to obsess about anyway.

[Etoile]

Well I discovered that popcorn is not a good idea for me... I have been really strict about three meals and no snacks but I decided last night that once a week I would allow myself some popcorn with CO and butter, and a glass of red wine. Big mistake, I planned to eat 3 cups and instead I ate about six cups and even though for the day I ate aboit 300 calories less than the several previous days I gained two pounds overnight. No more popcorn as I obviously can't control it.
I got some bok choy at the farmers market yesterday, gonna make some kimchi today YUM!
How do you guys get over the grittiness of realsalt? Is there another high-mineral salt that doesn't taste like sand?

[roostery]

Originally Posted by Etoile

Well I discovered that popcorn is not a good idea for me... I have been really strict about three meals and no snacks but I decided last night that once a week I would allow myself some popcorn with CO and butter, and a glass of red wine. Big mistake, I planned to eat 3 cups and instead I ate about six cups and even though for the day I ate aboit 300 calories less than the several previous days I gained two pounds overnight. No more popcorn as I obviously can't control it.
I got some bok choy at the farmers market yesterday, gonna make some kimchi today YUM!
How do you guys get over the grittiness of realsalt? Is there another high-mineral salt that doesn't taste like sand?

I LOVE kimchi. When DH eats all the salsa and doesn't put it on the shopping list (which seems to happen fairly often) I just pile kimchi on my burritos. YUM!

Is real salt a brand name? I've used Eden's sea salt and I really like that, no grittiness in it, and I get mined sea salt at my local HFS (it's kind of got red flecks in it) and I haven't had trouble with that either. Maybe try another brand?

So I got sick from my CO again! I didn't throw up but came very very close. I didn't get much exercise yesterday or today, do you think that could be it? Or I forgot my dinner doses two days running, maybe that had something to do with it? I was just doing fine with it for weeks! I don't know what suddenly made my body rebel.

[Etoile]

I lost another pound! Well actually 3, I lost the two I had gained overnight yesterday because of the popcorn and one more! So psyched.
Yeah, realsalt is a brand-- it's the one recommended in eflf and the only one I saw at the hfs that has iodine. But blech the grit! I may have to get minerals from other sources.
The kimchi is going in the crock today! What makes it even more special is that the scallions and radishes for it came from our garden!

[Etoile]

Oh and roostery you might have said this but how are you taking your co? If I take it in tea it makes me sick but if I just force down a spoonful I do ok. I used to make that fudge but I read that stevia hurts fertility (they have actually done studies for its use as a contraceptive) and since we're ttc... The only sweetener I'll have at this point is raw honey a little in my oatmeal.

[roostery]

Originally Posted by Etoile

Oh and roostery you might have said this but how are you taking your co? If I take it in tea it makes me sick but if I just force down a spoonful I do ok. I used to make that fudge but I read that stevia hurts fertility (they have actually done studies for its use as a contraceptive) and since we're ttc... The only sweetener I'll have at this point is raw honey a little in my oatmeal.

I tend to take it in tea and usually I do fine. I've never gotten sick from taking it in fudge though. I should make some more....at least it would give me a better chocolate alternative.

This mornings CO went down fine. I'm about to do my lunch dose, we'll see how that goes.

[captivatedlife]

I've been bad lately. I'm having a difficult time with the co so I've been skipping it - and then getting hungry and binge eating.

I've been cleaning / decluttering the house over this three day weekend and just ate a cinnamon roll AND a muffin.

AHHHHHHHHH!!!!