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[Peep_Show]

Best diet I ever had didn't involve giving up much, but you had to change the way you consumed the combinations. NEVER combine carbs and protein in a meal, so no sandwiches or steak and potatoes. You could have protein, fat and veggies or carbs and veggies or veggies and fats. You need to be aware of just what constitutes a carb (so know your sugars and starches), a protein (meat, dairy), and fat (butters, simple salad dressings). You need to be VERY strict on the carbs/protein rule...i.e., gravy has flour in it, so a no-no with meat. And then add lots of walking, great especially before a meal. If I was bored and felt like noshing, I'd take a short walk instead and reevaluate my craving upon return home. I lost close to 60 lbs in fairly short order and never felt deprived or hungry. Lunch might be a bowl of buttered noodles, dinner of sautéed spinach with chicken livers and poached eggs.

I will say it is more difficult to diet when you're cooking for a household v. solo, especially when you're married to a gravy/bacon/mayo addict.

 

[LindaB220]

i want to develop a bunch of white recessive parent stock for red sex links


I need to breed until i have a pen of 50 girls to put with red roos, and a breeder pen of the pure breds to maintain them

I'm concentrating on White Plymouth Rocks. I have one white recessive Blosl rock pullet and on the first, I'm getting the cock. I have 2 of the regular XW pullets without the recessive gene. I wonder if hatching a mixture of Blosl cock over XW pullet would result in recessive. Otherwise, I'm going to only be hatching the one pullet's eggs. Enough to get a start next year.

 

[Peep_Show]

p.s.
In the above, alcohol is considered a carb! So no steak and cabernet.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Thanks Chicki It is and I try to go with what i think it best or what I crave. I am eating lots of veggies and little meat but my weakness is pasta. About 3 times a month I can't help it I have to have some! I love it! It should not effect me at that rate but it does. ???? The only way I am going to lose this extra 40 lbs I have put on from all this is to get sick again! I want to be a size 5 or 7 again!

 

[chickwhispers]

Not sure I could do a no combo diet. I need to balance my carbs with protien. Diabetes is in the family. and a big no-no for diabetics is an all carb meal or snack. they need the protien to balance the carbs. Anyway I don't want to run the risk of inviting the diabetes genes to take over.

Well anymore than I already have.

 

[hennible]

That would describe me pretty well on a sunny day in February too. I always forget to wear sunscreen in spring - that's when you get burned the easiest, because the snow reflects about 80-90% of the light so you're getting pounded from two directions.

Hehehe

Dr. wants me to 5-6 times a day and small portions. But they have been giving me steroids for a year! you can't lose weight on steroids???? 
They put on DD2 on a new med and she gained 30 pounds in 1 1/2 months! Can you say WOW! 

I hope your supplementing calcium... Steroids rob you of calcium... A friend of mine has been on them her whole life ( complex reason ) shes 30 with the bone density of someone in their 60s.

 

[vehve]

I couldn't do a no combo diet either, I like tasty food too much...

 

[vehve]

Hennible, somehow I imagine you have a Beavis n' Butthead laugh...

 

[hennible]

It's about that bad....

 

[chickwhispers]

I refer to my 2nd ex as Butthead. And when my sister-out-law divorced his brother, he became Beavis.