Friday, January 30, 2009

Creative Low Carbing Blog

Need some recipe ideas and inspiration?
I have another blog where I post my recipe ideas and little tips. I need to up date my website with a link to it. In the mean time here is the link. http://creativelowcarbing.blogspot.com/
I am trying to post photos of some of my favorite low carb recipes. This one is for a easy breakfast bake all the info will be at the other blog. Hope you will book mark both of my blogs and check in from time to time.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

105 Days On / 64 Off /1 day back

Well I was doing really well for 105 days and I let myself get talked into taking a low carb vacation for the holidays. So I am now faced with getting back on track. I have noticed my body has a limited tolerance for high carb eating. I have now hit that point my stomach hurts, my lower back hurts, I am having trouble staying mentally focused, my clothes are on the tight side. All signs that it is time to get back on track.
Today is day one. I had a cup of coffee and regretted that, I had scrambled eggs with chopped chicken for breakfast, for lunch I had tuna with mayo and a cup of plain yogurt. (I would not normally have yogurt as part of my low carb plan but given the current up set stomach I decided a bit of acidopholis might be helpful.)
My current plan for about a week is to pretty much stick to protein. Why I do that is because when you are first starting your decision making ability is challenge because of the sugar still in your system. I find if I keep it really simple I get past the first days of feeling lousy and the sugar cravings. I also must get off the coffee which means a few days of headaches. So I will be drinking lots of water.
So my first week rules are pretty simple drink lots of water, if I am hungry eat protein. Keep it very simple. After that I will add in lots of fresh vegis and will keep my carbs at 20.

While taking a low carb vacation is not a real great idea - I am glad that I am at least familiar with the drill and know very well what I have to do. I am glad I got back to wanting to turn things around after only 64 days. In previous years it has taken me much longer.

In hind site I realize I might have been able to navigate the holidays had money not been so tight. Probably a lame excuse. There were low carb treat options that would have gotten me through and kept me quite happy baking and happy in the various holiday gatherings.
It all started as just taking off Thanksgiving day - I should have known better. Then there was a Christmas party and a pot luck and a family gathering and before you know it January has come and almost gone. Cheating leads to more cheating. So here we go again, this is not a new years resolution thing for me, it is just simply a way of life that works best for me. I feel so much better when I am eating fresh and eating low carb. I also still have weight to loose but that is more of a bonus rather than a goal the goal is feeling good.