Diet update

[Akasa]

I think I mentioned the dr put me on a diet. I've been REAL GOOD.
The new house helps too. I have a cabinet for my food stuffs, and fiance has a cabinet for his. So I don't see the junk food unless he's actually eating it.

I miss fruit tho. That's my main craving.

Anyway!

Fiance and I have some identical shorts, only his is a size smaller.(I bought mens because they go by measurements. I didn't want to play the "what size will fit?" game in womens)

I pull mine out of my drawer and look at the label. L
Well, I think they're his, so dig his out of his drawer and put them on. They're a little tight so I start thinking the diet isn't working.

Then later I'm on the pot, look down at the label... M

I fucking fit in a size smaller!!!!

[csquared]

Way to go Akasa!

[Food Lady]

I'm assuming you're watching your carbohydrate level? Totally worked for me, except weight loss wasn't my aim. It was a nice side effect. I think for most people going down a size means 10-15 lbs, so good on you!

[Akasa]

I admit I weighed myself on a different scale than my Dr's.

So far I've dropped 7lbs!

[Deserted]

Congrats on the loss! (That has an oxymoron-ish feel to it...)

I've actually been gaining weight lately. I topped out at 190 a week ago, but have dropped back a bit. I haven't been this heavy in over a decade. (My target weight is around 160. I know, big whoop... but I graduated high school weighing ~140.)

[Food Lady]

I feel like I'm gaining but given how emotional I've been lately it's something else...

Anyway, if you have a craving for sweets you can make peanut butter cookies with 1 cup p.b., 1 egg, and 1 cup sugar sub like stevia or monkfruit, or whatever you like/are comfortable with. I do like to add a tablespoon of molasses, which adds 16 grams sugar to the whole recipe. It's not that bad.

[Akasa]

I feel like I'm gaining but given how emotional I've been lately it's something else...

Anyway, if you have a craving for sweets you can make peanut butter cookies with 1 cup p.b., 1 egg, and 1 cup sugar sub like stevia or monkfruit, or whatever you like/are comfortable with. I do like to add a tablespoon of molasses, which adds 16 grams sugar to the whole recipe. It's not that bad.

I might do that after a bit...

I have to buy cookie sheets

[Nunavut Pants]

Hints:
- If your Mom gives you her recipe with the peanut butter doubled, don't forget and double it yourself. The cookies will actually melt into your hand if you do... (They'll be yummy though!)
- Don't forget the egg. Because you will have beautiful-looking confections that will crumble into yummy sand the instant you look at them cross-eyed.

[Food Lady]

I've also made Betty Crocker's recipe with almond flour instead of the wheat and of course substitutions for the sugar. It's good, too. But almond flour is expensive so sometimes I just do the flourless one. I don't bake as much as I used to when I started this. Sometimes I get Archer Farms dark chocolate salted almonds from Tar-ghay. Each almond has only 1 gram of carb and they kill chocolate cravings. I find I have more cravings for savory foods than sweet now. My taste has changed.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Hints:
- If your Mom gives you her recipe with the peanut butter doubled, don't forget and double it yourself. The cookies will actually melt into your hand if you do... (They'll be yummy though!)

That won't happen if you cover them with a thin candy shell. Instead, they'll melt in your mouth, not in your hand.

[AccountingDrone]

Grats! I have dropped 90 pounds in just under 2 years - my doc added victoza [effects how your digestive tract moves, it slows it down or something] and invokana [makes you pee out excess glucose] which have me dropping between .5 and .75 pound per week. The medical study lab I guinea pig for $$ for did a study recently on using invokana for nondiabetics to aid weight loss, so it is probably in the process of getting approved by the FDA. Something to talk to your doc about ...

[wolfie]

That won't happen if you cover them with a thin candy shell. Instead, they'll melt in your mouth, not in your hand.

Only if you're listening to Eminem while eating them.