The ups and downs of my LC Life...literally!
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Somehow I managed to do OK yesterday.
I had:
- tuna salad for lunch,
- dinner was grilled wings with my own hot sauce and blue cheese, tossed salad, whipped cream with Waldens Farms Pancake Syrup on it.
- later on, 2 servings of chocolate chips
- later on, 6 slices of bacon dipped in ranch dressing and a square of lindt 85% chocolate.
I generously estimate 50g total carb for the day.
My weight is pretty much holding steady around 145.5. Pretty bad, but it's better than going up, I guess.
Gosh I used to love that lindt 85% chocolate. Now it tastes like dirt! Maybe I just need to get used to it again. I remember it tasted like dirt the very first time I tried it, but then I started to love it. Probably b/c I've been eating sugar and have gotten used to that.
My doctor has increased my dose of Ritalin from 5mg in the AM and 5 mg 4 hours later to 10 mg in the AM and 5 mg 4 hours later. At my last appt in mid June I told her I was starting to take naps again, at the time the 2nd dose should be at it's peak, and also feeling overwhelmed (overstimulated) in the late afternoon, so she increased it a little bit. I just started taking the higher dose about 5 days ago. It has been helping me to stay awake all day and not need a nap in the afternoon and to not feel overwhelmed late in the afternoon.
I have been feeling depressed again, however. I don't know how much of it is diet-related and just being disgusted with myself. Twice yesterday, I got dressed to go out to the library or Walmart, but then I just took off my shoes and laid down on the couch.
After sleeping 11 hours last night, I feel a little bit better today--even though I can't really turn my head from an awful kink in my neck. I feel like I have "lead" or "cotton" or a "wall" inside my head (a hard to describe feeling of just being "separated" from the rest of the world), which means I'm depressed and I'll need to keep an eye on it and see if it improves if I can improve my diet and get back consistently on my fish oil, vitamin D and Magnesium.
I did some housework this AM and we're probably going to the pool this afternoon, since Mark is home today. (He was home for 2 days and leaves again tomorrow AM for 4 days, then we go to FL.) I think I may just drop all of them off at the pool and go to WalMart instead. I'm kinda "over" the whole pool-thing, myself.
I think we'll have steak and mushrooms and cauliflower puree for dinner tonight.
I had:
- tuna salad for lunch,
- dinner was grilled wings with my own hot sauce and blue cheese, tossed salad, whipped cream with Waldens Farms Pancake Syrup on it.
- later on, 2 servings of chocolate chips
- later on, 6 slices of bacon dipped in ranch dressing and a square of lindt 85% chocolate.
I generously estimate 50g total carb for the day.
My weight is pretty much holding steady around 145.5. Pretty bad, but it's better than going up, I guess.
Gosh I used to love that lindt 85% chocolate. Now it tastes like dirt! Maybe I just need to get used to it again. I remember it tasted like dirt the very first time I tried it, but then I started to love it. Probably b/c I've been eating sugar and have gotten used to that.
My doctor has increased my dose of Ritalin from 5mg in the AM and 5 mg 4 hours later to 10 mg in the AM and 5 mg 4 hours later. At my last appt in mid June I told her I was starting to take naps again, at the time the 2nd dose should be at it's peak, and also feeling overwhelmed (overstimulated) in the late afternoon, so she increased it a little bit. I just started taking the higher dose about 5 days ago. It has been helping me to stay awake all day and not need a nap in the afternoon and to not feel overwhelmed late in the afternoon.
I have been feeling depressed again, however. I don't know how much of it is diet-related and just being disgusted with myself. Twice yesterday, I got dressed to go out to the library or Walmart, but then I just took off my shoes and laid down on the couch.
After sleeping 11 hours last night, I feel a little bit better today--even though I can't really turn my head from an awful kink in my neck. I feel like I have "lead" or "cotton" or a "wall" inside my head (a hard to describe feeling of just being "separated" from the rest of the world), which means I'm depressed and I'll need to keep an eye on it and see if it improves if I can improve my diet and get back consistently on my fish oil, vitamin D and Magnesium.
I did some housework this AM and we're probably going to the pool this afternoon, since Mark is home today. (He was home for 2 days and leaves again tomorrow AM for 4 days, then we go to FL.) I think I may just drop all of them off at the pool and go to WalMart instead. I'm kinda "over" the whole pool-thing, myself.
I think we'll have steak and mushrooms and cauliflower puree for dinner tonight.
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Lindt 85% just sucks -- it has a horrible burnt taste. More than you've eaten sugar, your taste buds have recovered.
 I buy Green & Black's Organic 70% in a bag at Wally World. The bag contains individually wrapped coins. I will eat 3 of them -- comes in at about 3.5g carbs and actually tastes good.It sounds like maybe you need to start making yourself a lower carb dessert at night. Last time I looked those little shortcake dessert cup things they sell were around 18g of carbs, and make pretty good strawberry or peach shortcake. Or you might try KevinPa's pie crust recipe -- I like his zucchini pie. My only other suggestion is completely rethink what you eat on maintenance. My maintenance diet looks a lot like Zone or South Beach. I'm not saying that is perfect or right for you, but you might want to think about other approaches. Hey Liz, good to see you. I can't find that chocolate anywhere around here, I've heard it mentioned before. I'm pretty much following the PPLP hedonist approach...anything I want, count the carbs. I don't know if it will work, but 3 days now of 60-100 grams of carbs and my weight is unchanged. I *was* thinking last night about the desserts, though, as I finished off my second serving of 1/2 C of chocolate ice cream. I could have a much *bigger* serving of a LC dessert within the carbs of what I'm eating now! Too bad I can't duplicate the ice cream. I haven't really tried it, but if I had some kind of mini-ice cream churn, I would try it. I remember you gave me a recipe once. The zip-loc ice cream is good, maybe I'll try that again. I'm open to other approaches, as long as it doesn't involve eating less fat.  |
 
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