Finally RawrGirl has been feeling better and has worked out the last 3 days in a row. Yay!
She felt like she was sick for so long, and was really starting to get depressed. Glad that is over! She's been feeling very positive lately, and is looking forward to Easter Sunday, when she is hosting a a semi-formal, Passover-inspired, 4-course dinner party. She invited her mother and two grandmother's, is using her fine china.
First Course: romaine salad with balsamic vinaigrette
Second Course: matzo ball soup
Third Course: Rack of lamb, matzo stuffing, and to-be-determined vegetable
Fourth Course: apple pecan nougatine
RawrGirl has never made rack of lamb before, but she is super excited to try it. She has invited her mother and two grandmothers, and is using her fine china.
In the meantime, she is redecorating her dining room. She bought a very pretty (and surprisingly inexpensive) mural curtain panels of a tuscany garden (her kitchen is already tuscany, with grapevine garland decor) and now the dining room matches.
But she digresses from all things weight loss, which is what this forum is about, so...
Amazingly, RawrGirl has kept her weight steady, even dropping a pound here or there. Every Friday morning she gets on the scale she expects a gain, and yet she either maintains or drops another pound, despite basically eating maintenance style, that is, she is not counting calories and eating pretty much anything she wants. That being said, what RawrGirl wants to eat is pretty much healthy in the sense that it is low carb/low sugar. Just for her own record/ability to look back on what she can eat and maintain, this is the typical diet of late:
Monday--Thursday
Breakfast: Half can/bowl of broccoli soup OR chicken salad made with light mayo eating on bed of lettuce or in half a low-carb wrap OR Atkins bar OR Protein Shake
Lunch: one of the above if she gets hungry
Dinner: 4 oz lean ground beef, OR 3-4 oz chicken, OR 4 oz fish with low-carb and/or low fat versions of sauces -- tartar, alfredo, etc.)
vegetable (usually asparagus with bacon or cauliflower with light sour cream and cheddar, sometimes a salad with a low fat or a low sugar dressing and no croutons)
low-carb biscuits
Dessert: coffee with sugar-free mocha flavored cream, and/or a half cup of low-carb ice cream with no sugar added apple pie filling (warmed up) with sugar-free caramel and oatmeal crumb (drop of molasses and sweetener and butter spray). Last night, she didn't feel like heating up apple and just had a bit of ice cream with sugar-free caramel and fudge with a small sprinkling of pecans
Friday
Breakfast -- something from above
Lunch -- usually skip
Dinner -- 3-4 slices med pizza or dinner out w/ Prince Charming
Dessert -- usually treat with a full fat / full sugar dessert if she's been craving something, or she bakes something not paying attention to calories but using her low-carb flour and baking sweetener
Saturday -- Sunday
Breakfast -- 2 slices French toast made with low-carb bread (9 carbs a slice), with cream cheese frosting (1oz WW cream cheese, 1/2 tb light margarine, few drops of liquid splenda, and a mixture of sugar-free syrup and regular syrup (the low sugar alone wasn't too great, but mixing it half and half is perfect). Prince Charming eats his w/o the syrup and instead has low-sugar strawberry preserves with the cream cheese frosting.
Lunch -- Bacon Jalapeno Cream Cheese Grilled Sandwich (2 slices bacon with most fat cut off, minced jalapeno peppers, 1oz cream cheese. The bread is either a low carb tortilla grilled with butter or one of those thin rolls, about 17 carbs (its just the top and bottom of the roll, they make bagels that way too)
Dinner -- something particularly yummy but not in the range of fast food/take-away, maybe eggplant lasagna (no pasta) with sausage and part-skim ricotta and mozzarella cheese, OR burgers with lean ground beef and all the fixings on a real bun (but small, not huge), and higher-fat veggies, such as spinach bake made with light cream, WW cream cheese, and Monterrey jack cheese, or zucchini/squash bake (made with light mayo, egg, and parmesan).
Dessert -- a low carb something or other, sometimes scones with cream cheese frosting, sometimes scones with chocolate chips and chocolate frosting, bigger portions of the ice cream apple pie filling from above made in a pie shell (made with low-carb flour). RawrGirl just bought another batch of low carb baking stuff (powdered erythritol and low-carb flour, so she will be experimenting with sweet breads, cakes, and brownies next!)
So yea, that is a typical week this past month. RawrGirl is amazed she keeps dropping a pound here or there while otherwise maintaining, esp since she's been too sick to workout. There is nothing she doesn't eat that she wants to eat, and though she uses light versions of things (mayo, cream, cream cheese, flour, sweetener), she hasn't been counting calories at all. At this point, she feels like maintenance is an absolute breeze and is very relieved.
She will say one thing though, she is never full. She doesn't leave the table hungry, but she is def only satisfied. She makes only enough for dinner that she is going to eat -- there is never any leftovers: 3-4oz meat, half a can of veggies, about 1/4 cup of sauce, 2 low-carb biscuits. Even on the weekends, as hard as it is, she only buys single servings of desserts (one slice of cake, 3 bakery fresh baked chocolate chip cookies) and for the most part never buys snacks.
Well, this post is certainly long enough, so RawrGirl will sign off for now. Happy dieting to all!
