DD Friday, what's on the menu?

[zipp2play]

cottage cheese/peaches 130c
string cheese 50c
lettuce, chicken, cottage cheese, tomato 180c
mushrooms, zucc, turkey brat, egg, miracle rice 220c

580c total! Hopefully this is how it goes!

HAPPY FRIDAY ALL!

[Avicenna]

Breakfast:
Glucomannan pudding (I made a lot because my last DD was a DD fail so I wanted to try to be less hungry; neglible calories because it was made of water, cocoa powder, stevia, and glucomannan)

Lunch: "Thai carrot soup" (bought, 200 calories)

Dinner (planned): salad, low calorie dressing, egg, egg whites, and roasted green beans (I have been roasting them with a couple sprays of cooking spray to total 300 calories

[Saxy1971]

TGIF!!

B - Coffee w/half n half and Torani. 3/4 cup of Cap'n Crunch PB cereal (brought it to work and tried to eat them one at a time to make it last, but that didn't work out so well.)

L - Cucumber slices and 2 roma tomatoes

D - Scared! We're going to our local Oktoberfest celebration, where there will be brats, beer, sauerkraut and all that other good stuff! I love sauerkraut, so that's where I'm going to start, and try to avoid the beer. (maybe a sip from my sweetie's)

[KeirasMom]

B: Got to use my new Keurig!! Black coffee
L: Probably something with shiritaki
D: Maybe a salad?

I'm not too well organized today. Trying to keep it low because I'm having a FD tomorrow.

[TryingJudd]

B- nope
L- cucumbers with vinegar dressing, maybe some broth with miracle rice
D- on the road so will try and be careful - a salad or a piece of fish and veggies

[sorenkkg]

Good Grief! I looked at the UD and DD posts and they said "friday" and I'm like, why do they say that, did someone bump the old ones? I'm clearly not with-it yet today

B: say it with me-- mango chili green tea (iced)

L: not a clue

D: the other day I had this shirataki/chicken sausage/veggie/tomato sauce HUGE bowl, that was AWESOME and I think I want that again.

not a clue on numbers, will post later.

Happy Birthday Dawn

S.

[soon]

yoggie 80 coffee this time w/ hwc(figured I should use up my cream befoere it goes bad too bad I figured that on a DD)
lunch some kind of homemade soup maybe cauliflower
dinner crab cakes
snacks: blue berries and that chocolate coconut oil candy stuff whose name my old brain cant remember

[cahira]

B - Fiber One Bar - 140
L - Egg on English Muffin w/Canadian Bacon - 190
D - Pita w/chicken, tomato & laughing cow - 270

Baked 10 dozen cookies for my son's birthday treat. You get a lot more cookies out of the dough when you are not snacking on it!

Also baked a Dr. Pepper cake today. We won't have that til his friends come over tomorrow, so I'm not going to frost it til tomorrow. Don't need to be sticking my fingers in the frosting!

[Saxy1971]

Ok, well my DD suddenly turned into something horrible! I ate my planned lunch....THEN decided it would be ok to have a couple m&m cookies. I didn't stop there--ate a bag of Cheetos from the vending machine.

I've been doing sooooo good with my down days. I really don't know what went wrong....now I feel defeated.

[stephdray]

Breakfast
DD Coffee Smoothie made with 6 oz Espresso + Ice + 1 scoop ChocoRite Chocolate Brownie Protein Shake -- this is good enough that I also sometimes drink it on up days (80 cals)

Lunch
4 oz. Chicken of the Sea Tuna on a bed of Arugula topped with FF Italian (145 cals)

Dinner
Homestyles Low Carb Chili (250 cal)

475 total

[stephdray]

Originally Posted by Saxy1971

Ok, well my DD suddenly turned into something horrible! I ate my planned lunch....THEN decided it would be ok to have a couple m&m cookies. I didn't stop there--ate a bag of Cheetos from the vending machine.

I've been doing sooooo good with my down days. I really don't know what went wrong....now I feel defeated.

Let's do some detective work! Were you unfocused? Not remembering it was a DD? Is your overall calorie count still low enough to count as a DD or should you turn this into an up day and rejoice at cookies?

[Saxy1971]

Originally Posted by stephdray

Let's do some detective work! Were you unfocused? Not remembering it was a DD? Is your overall calorie count still low enough to count as a DD or should you turn this into an up day and rejoice at cookies?

Ok Sherlock! Let's see....

Last night we had taco pizza--I stopped eating at 6. The pizza wasn't agreeing with me so I ended up going to bed around 7:30....

When I got up at 4am, wasn't hungry. Didn't even feel like drinking my coffee but I did. I brought a small container of capn crunch cereal just in case I needed "something".

Was a 1/2 hour into work when I polished off the cereal. Feeling ravenous! 2 hours later, I ended up eating my lunch because I couldn't take it anymore! I had to get something in my mouth!

So here comes 11:00, and I don't have anything at lunchtime--so I went downstairs to vending and got cheetos and the cookies.

It's a slow day--a lot of people are off work because there is a festival going on in town, some people are off work hunting, etc. I wonder if I was eating out of boredom? But then again, I was focused on eating something salty, and sweet.....so maybe it's something else?

No matter what, I'm going to continue the rotation.....I'm over on my DD cals about 150 right now.

[stephdray]

Originally Posted by Saxy1971

Ok Sherlock! Let's see....
Was a 1/2 hour into work when I polished off the cereal.

Oh no. Sugary Cereal on a DD!

I no longer believe that carbs are always evil, but on a DD, sugar has utterly destroyed me. I think it's because it triggers insulin and then b/c you had nothing else in your stomach--no fat, no protein, no nothing, it probably caused a spike! Leading to...

Feeling ravenous! 2 hours later, I ended up eating my lunch because I couldn't take it anymore! I had to get something in my mouth!

Yeah. You might be wise to save the Captain Crunch for the up day and stick with some kind of fat or protein in the mornings on DDs. That's my best guess here.

[TryingJudd]

I concur. Cereal is evil.

[Saxy1971]

Damn that Cap'n! Ok, that makes sense....Cutting out the cereal on DDs! Thanks for the feedbag--err, feedback! (haha....still freakin' hungry.)

[zipp2play]

I agree, it's the cereal. I don't ever eat it because it is like eating NOTHING , nothing that then stimulates hunger in the worst way possible for me...or a HUGE sugar crash.

Lisa, what calorie level or you at now? Depending on your plans for the weekend you could either make today an up day OR make it a mid day and still have a good up day tomorrow. Either way, can you get some protein in? The carbs in your system aren't helping the hunger at all!

[cici52]

Morning: Cafe o Lait
Afternoon: 2 slices bacon, green tea
Evening: 2 eggs
Late: herbal tea, 1/2&1/2, 1 oz Gouda
Total 499

[sorenkkg]

Originally Posted by zipp2play

I agree, it's the cereal. I don't ever eat it because it is like eating NOTHING , nothing that then stimulates hunger in the worst way possible for me...or a HUGE sugar crash.

Lisa, what calorie level or you at now? Depending on your plans for the weekend you could either make today an up day OR make it a mid day and still have a good up day tomorrow. Either way, can you get some protein in? The carbs in your system aren't helping the hunger at all!

exactly. If you're going to have carbs, go for non-refined, complex carbs and have some fat/protein with them (I don't give a da*n what the food-combiners say, that's how I do it).
Dr J recommends this in the book as well (he poo-poo's atkins, as usual, but advises to stay away from the white stuff...)

I don't think *all* cereal is evil, but ya, sugary corn stuff... I found a higher fiber, lower sugar version of multigrain cheerios (house "healthy" brand at my local supermarket chain) and I have those with some almond milk, but only on UD b/c it's still 300 cal, and I usually want eggs or cheese in addition.

[soon]

Cahira can I please have the recipe for the dr. pepper cake?