okiegirl1 .......how are you doing?

[Dace]

Don't worry Okie, Free uses her powers for good not evil!

 

[freemotion]

last three days diet journal.
now, don't fall asleep....

Friday
coffee, 2 eggs, 2 slice high fiber bread
pear, 1 slice rye bread
ww meal (lasagna) a whole acorn squash
stir fry with chicken breast
tea or diet soda (mostly tea)

Change to 2-3 eggs cooked in butter, no bread or one slice with butter. Better yet, omelette or scrambled eggs with veggies such as onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, brocolli
Fresh pear, thick slice of cheese
Homemade lasagna light on whole wheat noodles and heavy on sauce, meat, cheese, eggs, extra veggies like spinach, shredded carrots, zucchini
Whole acorn squash with butter
Stir fried veggies with chicken
tea with stevia (no diet anything)

Saturday
coffee, 2 slices high fiber bread, 1 egg
pear
left over stir fry, slice rye bread
can of pumpkin, 2 slices HF bread, 2 slices turkey
air popped pop corn with butter

Change to 2-3 eggs cooked in butter
Fresh pear
Leftover stir-fry
turkey sandwich
salad or veggies with dip

Sunday
coffee
2 eggs, 2 slices HF bread
yugurt
2 slices HF bread, 2 slices ham, bag of frozen mixed veggies
pear, string cheese
Big Sunday meal at friends house ( )

Change to French toast with homemade fruit sauce made with stevia
Plain whole-milk yogurt with fruit and stevia
Big Sunday meal at friends house, focus on veggie and meat dishes, take smaller servings of carbs and very small dessert serving....savor slowly......OR....eat a "feed bag" of veggies before going to reduce your hunger and get the fiber and nutrients that will keep you from over-doing in the face of super-yummy but highly refined carbohydrates that most Americans live on today!

today
coffee
yogurt with bran flakes
string cheese pear
bunch of frozen broccoli, can of tuna, 2 slices rye bread

Change to yogurt as above, fresh pear, string cheese
Lots of frozen broccoli and steamed carrots with butter
Open-face piled-a-mile-high tuna sandwich on one slice of rye bread and a slice of cheddar melted on top
Veggies with homemade onion dip with full-fat sour cream flavored with garlic and onion powder, salt and pepper.....cukes, grape tomatoes, green beans, carrots, celery, jicama, sugar snap or snow peas, brocolli florets, rutabaga sticks, red, yellow, and green pepper strips, etc.

What I did was simply reduce the carbs that will spike your blood sugar and signal your body to store everything you eat as fat, and replace it with nutrient-dense foods and protein and fat that will satisfy you and fill you and reduce cravings. You can replace my suggestions with foods you like. Notice I still let you eat at your friend's house.....

 

[okiegirl1]

aw, thanks free.

see you make it sound so easy, but it's just so .... I dunno... daunting to me.

you really should start some type of program to reteach some of us throw back dieters. The thought of eating chicken with the skin, the WHOLE egg, whole milk and real cheese is enough to make.... I don't know.... think I'm dreaming.

I can't find whole yogurt. it's all fat free, light or whatever. I live in the country, so the only grocery store is WM.

..... thought... I have eggs and whole wheat flour, I could make my own noodles...... end thought.

pleeeze - O - pleeeeze write a book or something. start a website.

 

[Dace]

Okie, why don't you see if your local library has the book Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. Excellent book and it really explains why we should re-think what we have been taught.

The food pyramid is a lie (or at the least an easy way to support subsidized big Ag...but I am rambling) I agree that after years and years of being told light FF yogurt is good for us and we should only eat egg whites, it is hard to get your head around a new way.....which is really the old way, before processed faux foods ruled our world.

The only reason you are finding it daunting is because you are not really convinced!If you were convinced you would find a way to make it work . Don't focus on the stumbling blocks! Focus on the little simple changes that you CAN make! Maybe it is not a 180 degree change, maybe it is just a little here and there.

I am going to guess just from reading what you have written about meals before that you did not include enough fruits and veg. and that is why you had a weight gain.

You don't have to give up your WW but try some of the suggestions Free made and see if you do not see a difference.

I am not picking on you so I hope it doesn't sound that way...I just want to see you feel the great success that a few of us here have been blessed with....thanks to Free's guidance. We care about you and just want to to be healthy and feel great

 

[okiegirl1]

oh, no I don't think ya'll are pickin' on me at all. As a matter of fact, ya'll are probably the sweetest group of gals I've come across on the web.

I can't incororate WW points with low carb because just eating 3 eggs with butter and a chunk on real cheese would use up half of my points for the day. What I do know for a fact is lost weight on WW, but I also put 30 of the 50 back on. I don't want to diet again. and I don't want to look like I did when I was in my 20's, I just want to feel comfortable in my skin. make sense?

I really like free's way of eating much better.

I'm sick of being on the verge of hunger most of the time. After awhile I get this "I don't freakin' frackin' care!!!!" and eat 3 brownies. then I feel guilty and the cycle starts again.

..... "next on Dr. Phil, women who whine too much"......

 

[okiegirl1]

oh and one more tib bit.

I can't spell very well. Heck,I can hardly spell my own name. Ya'll will see all kinds of spelling hack jobs, just over look my public education showing.

 

[big brown horse]

oh and one more tib bit.

I can't spell very well. Heck,I can hardly spell my own name. Ya'll will see all kinds of spelling hack jobs, just over look my public education showing.

You and I both girl!!

 

[FarmerChick]

learn to cook healthy brownies also.

I posted a recipe that takes the usual brownie of 180 calories down to (I think if I can remember) only 88 calories.....eat 3 and you are WAY LESS than eating 3 of the 180s...LOL

so cooking yourself and doing any snacks or meals healthier means YOU can have alot and still lose weight...I did.

I always ate chicken with skin on while on LAWL. They recommended no but I did cause I knew I was going to eat on the lighter end of their menu recommendation and I knew that good fats make you last longer thru the day without starving.


you will find good info on this forum ---think what WW offered, tweak a bit and you will find that good eating for life plan that suits just you!!

 

[okiegirl1]

 

[Dace]

Making any kind of a change is hard and when it comes to what we eat, it is kind of a weird emotional thing....feeling resentful and deprived. Not fun.

You just keep hanging with us Okie and take one little step at a time. Start with something you are comfortable with, a salad instead of your usual lunch or a feed bag of veggies instead of a yogurt.

We are here to cheer you on no matter which route you take