..... keeping to plan but kinda loose--I've been in a snit about food for the past 3 weeks.
I don't know if it's the stress of being on call for 4 weeks straight, or boredom or what but I've just been bored--bored with the food, bored with low carbing--just bored in general. So I trolled the recipe sections of this and the other forum. Pulled out my 1000 recipe chinese cookbook. I don't know if you like dim sum, but I made the shrimp filling for steamed shrimp dumplings--smelled like the real thing, tasted like the real thing--especially with a hot mustard dipping sauce and a Michelob ultra
Also made Kevin's carrot cake with a double batch of cream cheese butter icing. Quick, easy, and stomped down my craving for In & Out and an Oreo Blizzard. I don't think I've been the only one in a snit about food. Methinks there is something in the air.....
Trying to stay on plan, plus wind my way thru maintenance which believe it or not is extremely hard--because no food is really considered a "bad" food. Just testing the waters. Whenever I feel like I'm craving or getting "out of control" I just slip back into induction eating for 3 or 4 days and that always cures it.
I can't believe that I'm coming up soon on my one year annversary (Sept 8th). What an interesting time it has been. I'm thinking that from October thru the first of January I'm going to try and drop 10. There are places that still have some pudge--like on the back of the arms, the pooch, the side of the hips that I'd like to slim out some. Most people would never try and lose 10 during that time but for me, it's almost easy staying on plan then--all that crap that everybody wants to eat at Thanksgiving and during the holidays just makes me sick to the stomach to think about it
Lisa + Isomalt = one big ass farting puffer fish!!!
I ate some hard candies sweetened with isomalt--OMG, I thought I was going to die about 4 hours later. So, no more isomalt for me.
I have to rachet back on the food to clean "induction" type eating for a few days. It's not like I've been "cheating" since there is nothing off limits but I have just been overeating and craving--I wonder if it was the carrot cake?? Nahh, I was in a snit before the carrot cake. So for the next 2 weeks until my mother and sister come to visit, I need to grasp back some control. Feeling like a puffer fish is also extremely motivating.
Don't mind me....just the ramblings of a farting puffer fish
Have a wonderful, safe Labor Day!!