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Day 18
Weight 204.6 (up 5.6 lbs after feast day)
I have a feast day hangover!!! It was wonderful, it was fun, it was delicious and I am learning a lot from them. I don't think I ate enough to truly gain 5.6 lbs overnight, so I am not overly concerned about the feast day "gain" ... I have some wild fluctuations on the scale! I will trust the process and see where I am next Saturday (which will hopefully be below 199!!!)
I did exceed my calories but I did COUNT this Saturday. I consumed about 3700 calories (I know ... an awesome feat but not nearly as difficult as some of you might think) and I was supposed to consume near 3200 calories. My meals were decent. I took mom out for breakfast and that consisted of a Spanish Omelet, one slice of bacon and we split pancakes (I had two). Then no meals until dinner ... which was a chicken stir fry my hubby cooked with just 1/2 cup of rice. What did me in was the sugar. The birthday cake was incredible and very, very, very sweet. I ate much more than I should have. AND I bought myself a single serve portion of Dreyer's Birthday Cake Ice-Cream yesterday and ate that ... because I have always wondered what it tasted like (tastes like white birthday cake ... I loved it!!).
What I learned is I LOVE sugar but my body does not. Oh I did not feel very good after the cake (in fact had to fix myself a non-sugar snack because I didn't feel good), sleep was not great, more hot flashes than usual, pounding head this morning. I can do small amounts of sugar and be fine. The syrup in the morning didn't bother me in the least. It was a reasonable amount. The cake with ice-cream in the evening was over kill. I could have done a much smaller piece and been fine.
I am also amazed by how easily I can consume so many calories!!! I always knew I was a girl who could EAT!!! It gives me some insight into why it is I gain when I am not counting calories. I have a grand capacity for putting away calories ... and I need to count calories. Probably for a very long time, maybe forever.
Every feast day I learn something new!! This was only my 3rd so I'm still a newbie. Next week I am going to focus on LESS sugar and see what that does. I'm sure I'll feel better the next day ... no feast day hangover. Seriously, it feels like I drank too much alcohol!! LOL!!
Still, we had fun!!! Mom enjoyed her day I know. She liked her gift (but even if she didn't she would NEVER tell me!!!). We bought her a sweater and a couple shirts to go with it. She did say she tried them on last night and they fit and again told me she liked them so she must be telling me the truth!!
Quite frankly I don't know what is on the agenda for today. I fell asleep watching TV last night so I hope to watch the episodes I missed while on my elliptical this morning!! LOL!!! We need to get mom down our hill so she can drive to her friend's house. Our road, as I have mentioned before is quite icy and she's nervous about driving it. My fault really, because on our way home on Friday I hit an icy patch and we slid. Took me a while to get the car going again because there is virtually no traction due to the ice!! It frightened her. So now she doesn't want to drive our private road. So hubby and I will get her down the hill to the County road and she'll be fine!!!
I'm going to go with a high protein day today. Like I did before feast day. I think it will be good for my body ... might help me cleanse out some of this sugar toxicity!!!
I am grateful ...
... for learning from my feast day.
... for not being upset about the "gain" today.
... for my mom's pleasure about her special day.
... for looking forward to recording my next "new" low.
... for getting Christmas Stocking shopping all done!!!
Not quite 8 am here ... I think I'll get my exercise clothes on and get this metabolism fired up!!! No worries about kindness today. I'm feeling quite energized actually. (Perhaps I still have a sugar high?) LOL!! This is an interesting way to eat and I am learning a lot about myself. Have a great day ... be good to yourselves!!! Take care!!
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1135 千卡
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脂肪: 69.58克 | 蛋白质: 80.00克 | 碳水物: 19.77克.
早餐: Sargento Provolone & Mozzarella Shredded Cheese, eggs, bacon. 晚餐: chicken breast , marinated mushrooms, ham, hard boiled egg, shredded cheese, Litehouse Bleu Cheese Dressing, Iceberg lettuce. 小食/其他: Michelob Ultra. 更多的......
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3021 千卡
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运动:
坐着 - 4 小时, Precor Elliptical - 1 小时 和 6 分钟, 休息 - 10 小时 和 54 分钟, 睡眠 - 8 小时. 更多的......
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I have tried to follow your journals and I am just freaking out about the calories you get to consume on your Indulgence days and all the rest. I will tell you, I am scared to death to try this way of eating. I gain weight so easily and it's no easy feat for me to lose one pound a week if that even happens. I will see how you get along. LOL! It's truly fascinating. My other fear is that I am a diabetic not on meds yet. One of the reasons I have tried to stay low carb. I would imagine I could get the calories in by eating protein and not the sugar? I am just babbling out loud. You have an awesome attitude and I appreciate all you are going through and with such grace. WTG!
2011年12月11日 会员：: Mom2Boxers
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I'm amazed still how much we sometimes gain on Indulgence Day. Of course, if it was a real fat gain, you'd have to consume something like like 20,000 extra calories that one day. Don't worry about it. It'll be gone by next saturday.
I'm glad to read that you learn a lot from these days. I think that's one of the points to them. I remember my first one - I was sick as a dog the day after.
2011年12月11日 会员：: kingkeld
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Wow, Carol. Sounds like a very good day, indeed. More hot flashes than usual? Really! I had no idea there was a correlation between sugar and hot flashes. I'll have to remember that.
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Apparently there is a correlation between hot flashes and sugar ... and perhaps even between Migraines and sugar. I didn't have the classic "aura" but when I still felt like s*** this morning after ibuprofen I took one of my migraine pills and now I feel fine. That tells me I had a migraine. Weird huh? I am hoping that one of the benefits to these feast days is that I will learn how to kick up my heels without sabotaging myself. Meaning, I can find a way of eating that I can keep up over the years, without needing to gain and lose significant amounts of weight. I know it is still early for me. Kingkeld has been doing this much longer than I, but I am hopeful. I will ALWAYS love to eat ... and I want to be able to ENJOY eating but remain healthy. I'm not good at restricting myself. If something is forbidden then I'll eat it. This way there truly are no forbiddens. I feel free. I choose to eat less calories during the week. Not a diet. A way of eating. A way of taking care of myself, being kind to myself. Maybe I sound crazy, but that is what I am thinking now. Time will tell!!!
2011年12月11日 会员：: madaboutmoose
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Hey girl friend...I know what you mean about the sugar high...I am not a big fan of icing on an cake but when I do eat some I feel like I have
an hang over too...I am the same way about salt.. only salt makes my
chest hurt..like in the lungs...don't know what that is..but I don't like the feeling...and the hot flashes could be part of the sugar eating...Enjoy the rest of your day...☺
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Yes Bren ... that's what I'm thinking too ... sugar=hot flashes!!! Sure good I don't eat it often or I might melt!!
2011年12月11日 会员：: madaboutmoose
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isnt it odd how once you change your eating habits to healthier ones...you notice all the little things that you use to eat an never thought about it for a second...im sure that in a few days..that upswing will just be a memory of how good that food tasted at the time...an the results it brought afterwards...water...water...water...and in a day or 2....im sure you will be back on your downward way once again...so ....did you save me any of that cake...hahahaha
2011年12月12日 会员：: loosinisfun
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you are ONE BRAVE SOUL, doing that indulgence thing...Could it be you gained 5 pounds of guilt?? I know I would! I agree with loosin...in a day or two it'll be only a good/bad memory: good food/good fun;bad hangover, naughty, naughty scale.
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LOL about the melting..your so funny...☺
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