2009 Drop It Like It's Hawt!!!

[Snickerdoolers]

Originally Posted by RiotGirl08

Precisely why I chose Mondays!

I don't care, i still don't like Monday weigh ins!

[beachagain]

NEITHER do I!!!!!!!!!...or Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday

I'm off to do that paper...REALLY people...you are supposed to be holding me accountable!***sigh***

[Remykins]

Originally Posted by beachagain

NEITHER do I!!!!!!!!!...or Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday

I'm off to do that paper...REALLY people...you are supposed to be holding me accountable!***sigh***

accountable for your diet, so if you dont put it in your mouth, we cant control you. And checking this board is helping making you accountable for eating

Now stop reading and do your paper!

[beachagain]

Originally Posted by Remykins

accountable for your diet, so if you dont put it in your mouth, we cant control you. And checking this board is helping making you accountable for eating

Now stop reading and do your paper!

hee, hee...you're going to fit in well here

[Snickerdoolers]

BEACH, your procrastinating, GET TO WORK!!!!!!!!

[jeepifer]

Beach, what Snix said... get goin' !!! Stop reading. We know you're doing it. Gonna send the thread police after ya!

[RiotGirl08]

Originally Posted by jeepifer

Beach, what Snix said... get goin' !!! Stop reading. We know you're doing it. Gonna send the thread police after ya!

or the Facebook police... like I just did
Teehee!!

[RiotGirl08]

-K- so I did my time, walked my one mile. FF have you done yours?

[jeepifer]

Originally Posted by RiotGirl08

or the Facebook police... like I just did
Teehee!!

Aww, add me to your Facebook!

[RiotGirl08]

Originally Posted by jeepifer

Aww, add me to your Facebook!

Me? I already did, you dope! Check your home psge and I bet you see me sending the po-po after her!

I added you, like, several days ago, BTW

[beachagain]

I swear I'm not lurking or PROCRATINATING

[beachagain]

I need to add you jeep...seen ya, but didn't yet...I'm new to this facebook thing...and man it can be addicting. We can't get on here at work because everyone here IS addicted to it big time, so they locked the site out

[2bthin4me]

Originally Posted by Remykins

Good plan! i was 'doing low carb' buti had so much stuff in my house it wasnt working (there was a bite, here, or a bite there). Then the more reasearch i did, i found how off base i was and got so mad one day, i sat there with a bottle of wine and started throwing and putting away things. I needed the wine because i am a foodie, and getting rid of some of my things was like cutting off a limb.

Now i have found my happy place, weeks later i have created a food piramid i can live with and love!

(I have a picture of it if anyone wants to see...)

I would love to see the food piramid you came up with! The way I see it, every bit of info I can get is knowledge I did not have before! Thank you!

[2bthin4me]

I wondered if someone could tell me something! I am use to Atkins starting out with 20 grams a day of carbs, but what is it when I read on here "very low carb"? How many carbs do they consume?? I did not there was such a plan like that!

[RiotGirl08]

There are lots of people on LCF who don't follow "Atkins" by the book, but rather do a LC plan that they have tweaked to work for their own lifestyle. For some, that includes Very LC, like 10g or even less, usually it's following a Meat & Egg plan, or M&E. Some other people use M&E to break a stall.

[FatFatnomore]

No walking for me yet, but I'll get to it as soon as this baby falls asleep. Ooh, maybe I'll see if she'll go in the baby bjorn and then I can do it with her. It's worth a shot. I'm gonna try now. I'll report back soon...

[jeepifer]

Originally Posted by 2bthin4me

I wondered if someone could tell me something! I am use to Atkins starting out with 20 grams a day of carbs, but what is it when I read on here "very low carb"? How many carbs do they consume?? I did not there was such a plan like that!

VLC is usually just a few, like in eggs, or some cheese, or cream in coffee. ZC is zero carb. That's usually just meat.

[2bthin4me]

RIOTGIRL
Thank you! I understand what you mean about tweaking it to suit our own needs! I stayed on 20 grams until the end then at the end advance through the stages, but in a shorter amount of time!

Thank you for letting me know, I felt a bit stupid asking, but really wanted to know just how low it is on that particular plan!

How old is your little one in the picture? Made me look at my baby and wow has she grown! She is 7 and it is so shocking as to how fast time goes by! Such a beautiful little one you have!

I am going to go and dig my old yellow atkins book out and re-read it I think. It has been so long, I remember the most part of it, but I think when I read it, it gives me that excitement of doing it once again! I loved the third day, that when my energy would spike to an exciting high and boy I would clean everything!

Thanks again for letting me know!
Vicki

[RiotGirl08]

Originally Posted by FatFatnomore

No walking for me yet, but I'll get to it as soon as this baby falls asleep. Ooh, maybe I'll see if she'll go in the baby bjorn and then I can do it with her. It's worth a shot. I'm gonna try now. I'll report back soon...

I tried that for the first2.5 seconds, and it killed me. I put her in the bassinet and let her scream while I did mine. I did the 1 mile, and it seriously killed me. There's no way I could've done the whole thing carrying her, too. Sad to think last year at this time I was doing the 4 and 5 mile dvd's daily

Originally Posted by 2bthin4me

RIOTGIRL
Thank you! I understand what you mean about tweaking it to suit our own needs! I stayed on 20 grams until the end then at the end advance through the stages, but in a shorter amount of time!

Thank you for letting me know, I felt a bit stupid asking, but really wanted to know just how low it is on that particular plan!

How old is your little one in the picture? Made me look at my baby and wow has she grown! She is 7 and it is so shocking as to how fast time goes by! Such a beautiful little one you have!

I am going to go and dig my old yellow atkins book out and re-read it I think. It has been so long, I remember the most part of it, but I think when I read it, it gives me that excitement of doing it once again! I loved the third day, that when my energy would spike to an exciting high and boy I would clean everything!

Thanks again for letting me know!
Vicki

No prob.

My baby just turned 8 weeks today.

[FatFatnomore]

I did it! She fell asleep like halfway into my mile too. LOL

[FatFatnomore]

Riot I still don't know how you did the 4 and 5 mile walks. I doubt I'll ever be able to do those because I get so bored. The 3 mile DVD is pushing it for me.

[Remykins]

Thi sis my food piramid.
I know i can live this way and be very very happy. I love low carb, but i love my fruit too, and i love good whole grains. And if i was to say i am going to give them up forever i would be lying. So i can incorporate them as long as i follow this. Also i do not consume as much fat, and my diet is low calories as well. (if i dont stay under 1000 i dont lose, even without consuming over 10g carbs).

I love my steak, i just dont eat it every day, i would rather find new and interesting ways to prepare a chicken, and cook veggies...

Also this may change depending on exercise, so if i am really pushing myself one day and i do a ton of exercise, then i can have a few more carbs because it is being burned first as fuel. So i can treat myself to that small dairy queen cone coming in at 30 carbs



Thing is, poeple will stay in ketosis, scientifically if they stay under 30g carbs usually... I try most days to have under 15 carbs, but once and awhile i may have some yogurt with fruit and granola, and i dont view it as a bad thing, and it is not considered 'cheating' because i am not doing atkins, i am just doing low carb.

But for the next 2 weeks i am on atkins induction! yeppers. But i do not believe i have to consume a ton of fat if i dont want to, i feel better often if i have a nice chicken breast rather than a burger and bacon.

[2bthin4me]

Hi again! Can someone explain to me abut yogurt? I was told and not sure if it is true or what but was told that the carbs are not equal to those lets say in bread. I guess becasue of the live cultures? Can someone explain this to me? I love yogurt and we like to know the real facts with it.

Thanks

[beachagain]

I'm back...paper is done and in

2b...I'm not sure about yogurt...I follow atkins and it's a no-no, unles it's the LC variety which tastes like butt so I don't eat it
If you follow other plans, like LC or zone or whatever, I would imagine you would subtract sugar alcohols, fiber, etc. Sorry I'm of no help...good luck finding your answer.

[Remykins]

It seems as though it should be simple: Read the label and there's the carb count. Or even, knowing that yogurt is just milk with bacteria added, figuring that plain yogurt should have the same amount of carbohydrate as the milk is was made from. This makes perfect sense, but it turns out to be wrong.

Yogurt is one of the more confusing foods when it comes to carbs. Here is part of an email I received: "I was trying to watch my carbs and also going with some other report that yogurt could help you lost weight -- specifically belly fat. So here I was eating my ½ cup of plain non fat yogurt morning and evening...come to find out there is 19 carbs per serving. I was sabotaging myself. So where does yogurt fit in? And where does 19 grams of carbs come from in plain tart yogurt?"

There are three issues when it comes to carbohydrates and yogurt:
1. Stuff is Added to Yogurt
Yes, even plain yogurt often has added ingredients that increase carbs. In the case of this reader, it was almost certainly nonfat milk powder, which is often added to thicken up nonfat yogurt. Milk has lactose, and powdered milk is going to have a greater concentration of it. Lactose is a kind of sugar, hence, added carbs. Moral: Read the label carefully.
2. The Bacteria That Makes Yogurt Dines On Lactose
But wait, there�s good news. It turns out that when you introduce the bacteria that makes yogurt (this is also true of kefir) it eats up much of the lactose, thus reducing the amount of sugar in the final product. This was confirmed by Dr. Jack Goldberg, co-author of the GO-diet and the Four Corners Diet, who has done extensive testing of fermented milk products. He found that up to 8 grams of carbohydrate are consumed by the bacteria in a cup of yogurt, kefir, or buttermilk that contains live cultures. Under ideal circumstances, this would reduce the 12 grams of carb in a cup of milk to 4 or so grams of carb.

How much carbohydrate can we subtract? Two factors are involved in how much lactose gets eaten by the bacteria. First, you must determine that live cultures are in the yogurt. This does not mean that the yogurt was "made with" live cultures; by definition all yogurt is made that way. If the yogurt says on the label that it was "made with" live cultures, you can bet that those cultures are not living now. After the bacteria are killed, the carbohydrate level becomes stable. So you want the label to say that the yogurt "contains" live cultures, with the names of at least two kinds of bacteria (and the more the better), such as lactobacillus acidophilus, bifidus, or l. casei.

The second factor that makes a difference in this process has to do with how long the yogurt is left to ferment. Although the process continues slowly after chilling, the vast majority happens in the stage where the yogurt is kept warm. Most commercial yogurt does not ferment long enough for the maximum amount of lactose consumption by the bacteria. Dr. Goldberg says that most commercial yogurt with live cultures has 7 to 8 grams of carbohydrate per cup, but that that amount will continue to slowly diminish over time, even after purchase. He also says that by the time the carbohydrate decreases to about 4 to 5 grams per cup, the amount stabilizes because so much lactic acid has been produced that the bacteria go dormant. If you make your own yogurt, it may take as long as 20 hours to get to this point (depending upon temperature). Dr. Goldberg tells me that when he sees the whey start to separate, he stops.
3. Straining the Whey
More potentially good news for low-carbers: It turns out that most of the lactose in milk and yogurt is in the whey. Furthermore, it is easy to strain much of the whey out of yogurt, and at least one company, FAGE, sells strained Greek-style yogurt. To strain the whey out of yogurt yourself, put a coffee filter in a strainer or colander and put that over a bowl in the refrigerator overnight. What will be left is sometimes called "yogurt cheese", which has a consistency that can reach the thickness of soft cream cheese if enough whey drains off. This can be eaten any way you want or mixed with other ingredients for foods such as dips. How many carb grams can you deduct for straining? There's no really great way to tell for sure, but FAGE Classic Greek yogurt claims it has 6 grams of carb for a 7-oz. serving. Another advantage to straining yogurt is that the concentrated yogurt has more protein per cup.

[2bthin4me]

Thank you for the info on the yogurt! I love it but really it is not something that I eat everyday! If I do have it in the fridge my youngest two girls eat it! They love it so much they are 10 and 7! I think I will just leave it be for a while!

[hellsbelles]

Riot........204.4
Beach.....149
FF..........222.2
Snix........240.2
Jeep.......219
Ollamo....141.6
Talons....160
Belle.......168
OU.........
Wyte......265.2
Drae.......
Jas.........
Remy......129
Mouse.....160
Wayless...354.9
Kami.......178
LCinAZ......219

[hellsbelles]

BTW - Monday weigh ins are the PITS, the PITS I say! Are you guys trying to kill me?!?!?!? LOL just kidding! I'm with beach - I hate weigh ins any day of the week lately....

So who all is on facebook around here? I know Riot is cause she added me !

snix - you're doing better than me.... I took off working out for a week about 9 months ago and never started again. Whatever you do, get back in it as soon as you can, that's what happened to me (well that and eating whatever I darn well please lol).

welcome to all the new people ! I'm shooting for 20 pounds this challenge and I'm going to reach it if it kills me! I did really well on plan today and have stocked up on some good stuff to eat and some shakes to drink so hopefully that will be good.

[2bthin4me]

Originally Posted by hellsbelles

Riot........204.4
Beach.....149
FF..........222.2
Snix........240.2
Jeep.......219
Ollamo....141.6
Talons....160
Belle.......168
OU.........
Wyte......265.2
Drae.......
Jas.........
Remy......129
Mouse.....160
Wayless...354.9
Kami.......178
LCinAZ......219

How do I go about getting my name added to the list? I stated I can not start till next monday, do I have to wait until then?
Thanks

[Snickerdoolers]

Riot........204.4
Beach.....149
FF..........222.2
Snix........240.2
Jeep.......219
Ollamo....141.6
Talons....160
Belle.......168
OU.........
Wyte......265.2
Drae.......
Jas.........
Remy......129
Mouse.....160
Wayless...354.9
Kami.......178
LCinAZ......219
2BeThin....230

i went with what you had in your siggy, if you want that wgt removed just say and we can remove it.